(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) This was due to the fact that stale bread was fed ad lib, rather than concentrates.
(3) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
(4) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(5) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(6) And would all Labour cabinet ministers be as willing to work closely with Lib Dem ministers of state, as happens now, though with some spiky exceptions?
(7) #kflead May 21, 2014 The King's Fund IKS (@kingsfund_lib) Hope you enjoyed @GregSearle2012 's #kflead workshop!
(8) On the mothers' internet forum Mumsnet, 44% of women who voted in a post-debate survey said they were now thinking of voting Lib Dem, compared with 23% three weeks ago.
(9) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
(10) In order to clarify the development of mandibular movements associated with growth and development of the stomatognathic system, we compared the mandibular movements of children with normal occlusion at different Hellman's dental age between IIA and IIIB, during tooth tapping movements using the following 7 different kinds of frequency; ad lib.
(11) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(12) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
(13) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
(14) Nick Clegg sounded exasperated, but it is Lib Dem convention to let members make the party’s policies by democratic vote.
(15) Rather than challenging the Lib Dem policy on Trident, Miliband chose to criticise Cameron's comments about the renewal of Trident in last Thursday's leadership debate.
(16) Labour and, sotto voce, some Lib Dems, counter that Clegg did not need to cede this much ground – there is no clear evidence that the markets will impose higher interest rates if the deficit is not tackled more quickly than Labour planned.
(17) You have got the trade unions, Greens, the Lib Dems, Labour, a Conservative government.
(18) James, who is an MEP for south-east England, was responsible for one of Ukip’s great near-misses, coming within 2,000 votes of unseating the Lib Dems at the Eastleigh by-election in 2013 in a result that shocked political observers.
(19) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
(20) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
Lif
Definition:
(n.) The fiber by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.
Example Sentences:
(1) Removal of T cells with anti-T-cell serum eliminated LIF activity, indicating that in humans it is probably the T cell that produces LIF.
(2) Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) are multifunctional cytokines with many similar activities.
(3) Similarities between the LIF spectra of atherosclerotic plaque and collagen and normal aorta and elastin were noted.
(4) LIF inhibits differentiation under several conditions which lead to endodermal and mesodermal cell lineages including skeletal and cardiac muscle.
(5) In both actively growing and growth-arrested rat osteoblasts, LIF stimulated [3H]thymidine incorporation in a dose-dependent manner.
(6) Binding of activation protein (AP)-1 and NF-IL-6, also known to transcriptionally activate the IL-6 promoter, was not inducible by LIF.
(7) The 4.0-kb LIF transcript from TE cell-derived total RNA corresponded in size to the LIF transcripts in PMA-activated T lymphocytes.
(8) A hypothesis is formulated that Concanavalin A-induced release of LIF may reflect the competence of suppressor T-lymphocytes in man.
(9) alpha-N-benzoyl-L-arginine ethylester (BAEE), a typical trypsin substrate, and bis-p-nitrophenyl phosphate (BNPP), a phosphodiester, were the only esters capable of retaining LIF activity in the presence of PMSF.
(10) The site of the most abundant LIF expression is the uterine endometrial glands, specifically on day 4 of pregnancy.
(11) The variation of the sensitivity of radiochromic film with photon energy is considerably less than that for silver halide film and similar to that for LiF TLDs, but in the opposite direction.
(12) Both T and B lymphocytes are known to produce leukocyte migration inhibitory factor (LIF) after appropriate activation.
(13) Preliminary characterization of these mediators by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration suggests that they are similar to antigen- and concanavalin A-induced MIF and LIF, eluting in the 25000 m.w.
(14) -- Cord blood lymphocytes show a normal capacity to elaborate the two lymphocytes LIF and LMF.
(15) Recombinant LIF improves the development of murine and ovine blastocysts in culture although there is some species specificity with respect to the type of LIF that is bioactive.
(16) Only one, the thrombin- and trypsin-specific benzoyl-phenylalanyl-valyl-agarine-p-nitroanilide, possessed high affinity for the LIF molecule and may therefore prove to be a potent substrate for this lymphokine.
(17) B cells might store presynthetized LIF in lysosomic granulae which will be degranulated very early after activation.
(18) The ovine and porcine LIF genes were cloned, sequenced and compared to the previously published murine and human LIF gene sequences.
(19) Leukemia inhibitory factor, LIF, is a glycoprotein with multiple activities in both the adult and the embryo.
(20) Biologically active LIF is present in synovial fluids from patients with osteoarthritis and at higher titers in samples from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.