(1) She is credited with bringing a softer, more feminine image to the party, founded in the 1970s by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose notorious leitmotifs were xenophobia and support for the death penalty.
(2) A superb, dangerously over-worked, standing self-portrait, Painter Working, Reflection 1993 portrays the ageing artist wearing only unlaced boots, holding a palette and knife (he was left-handed), addressing the viewer like a silent actor; invariably paint applied imaginatively to the planes of walls and floor reads as though a leitmotif for the prevailing mood.
(3) Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset, I’m sorry.”) In 2010, though, Obama felt comfortable enough to let a little loose on a theme that would come to be leitmotif of this weaponised political comedy.
(4) As Private Eye’s Ian Hislop said in his recent Orwell lecture, suppressing truth and suggesting falsehood have been leitmotifs of politics since time began.
(5) Treating immigrants with compassion – a leitmotif of his visit – left many Latinos lining his route to the parkway hopeful about the future, regardless of xenophobia from Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner.
(6) The other constant leitmotifs of the Milosevic career were treachery and betrayal on a grand scale.
(7) The final musical analogy must be the hope that the first page of the score can be found, so that we may discover the main theme, the leitmotif, of the rheumatoid-specific antigenic peptide.
(8) Relative decline was a leitmotif of the 1960s and 1970s when even Italy claimed sorpasso .
(9) Semi-wakefulness is clearly a leitmotif here – third track Longing for the Night is another one about being half awake in the morning, dreaming of sleep and, perhaps, an escape from his overactive imagination and the problems of the day.
(10) In an exclusive interview with Le Nouvel Observateur to be published on Thursday, Hollande addresses the term, already set to become a leitmotif of his beleaguered administration.
(11) Devolution and integration are wonderful leitmotifs, but are unlikely to be achieved at the stroke of a pen.
(12) "The leitmotif which I recognise in Galileo's work is the passionate fight against any kind of dogma based on authority.
Motif
Definition:
(n.) Motive.
Example Sentences:
(1) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
(2) We have generated a series of mutants in the two copies of this motif present in human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
(3) An additional 14 leader peptides in this collection (all of those that contain an arginine at -10) conform to this motif.
(4) In addition, region III has some structural features similar to a conserved motif found in complement receptor 1, the human C3b receptor.
(5) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
(6) The same RNA-protein motif is used, through iron-dependent degradation of transferrin receptor mRNA, to decrease synthesis of the receptor and cellular iron uptake.
(7) Comparison of the human and mouse repeats revealed a highly conserved Glu-Asp core in each unit, implicating the functional significance of this motif.
(8) The three-dimensional solution structure of a zinc finger nucleic acid binding motif has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
(9) Sequence comparison programs suggested the presence of domains related to the RNA recognition motif found in other RNA-binding proteins, and deletion analysis revealed that the carboxyl-terminal 195 amino acids of the recombinant PTB was sufficient for specific binding to pre-mRNAs.
(10) Since similar loop conformations form similar "words", the structural sequence facilitates the search for common structural motifs in a family of loops.
(11) A new repetitive DNA region was identified in the non-transcribed spacer of human rDNA, namely a long (4.6 kb) sequence motif (Xbal element) was present in two copies.
(12) X-ray analysis of these crystals will permit direct visualization of the specific structural motifs and chemical features that underlie phospholipase neurotoxicity.
(13) Information about the three-dimensional structure or function of a newly determined protein sequence can be obtained if the protein is found to contain a characterized motif or pattern of residues.
(14) For PPD-specific TCCs, a possible biased usage of V beta 8, as well as possible preferential usage of a CDR3 motif, were found.
(15) This phenomenon was observed by using wheat-germ RNA polymerase II and a series of double-stranded template polymers containing palindromic repeating motifs of 6-16 bp, with regulatory alternating purine and pyrimidine bases such as d[ATA(CG)nC].d[TAT(GC)nG], with n = 1, 3 or 6 referred to as d(GC), d(GC)3 or d(GC)6, respectively.
(16) A sequence between residues 302 and 320 homologous to a metal-binding "finger" motif is therefore not required for origin-specific binding.
(17) In this report, we examined the functional significance of these six motifs for the UL9 protein through the introduction of site-specific mutations resulting in single amino acid substitutions of the most highly conserved residues within each motif.
(18) These sequences have a number of similar motifs at, or immediately following, the end of the coding regions, motifs that may be involved in their S mRNA transcription termination processes.
(19) The TV campaign, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, uses imagery and motifs more closely associated with Christmas than summer.
(20) Interestingly, the helical motif prefers to assemble parallel to the wall, whereas the beta-barrel, predominantly assembles with its principal axis perpendicular to the wall.