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Liberation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
  • (2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (3) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
  • (4) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (5) The bacterial strains did not liberate free patulin from the adduct mixture present in the growth medium.
  • (6) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
  • (7) CCK-OP and PMA activated phospholipase A (PLA) which liberated lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and free fatty acids from membrane phosphatidylcholine.
  • (8) Yet it is liberal Muslims such as Sadiq Khan who are best placed to challenge extremist views within their own communities.
  • (9) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (11) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
  • (12) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
  • (13) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (14) ), like phenoxybenzamine, blocked responses to field stimulation, but failed to modify release and subsequent metabolism of NA liberated by field stimulation.8.
  • (15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (16) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
  • (17) The kidney KGA activity was compared with the urinary KGA activity, and the following properties were found to be the same: molecular dimension, pH optimum, effect of inhibitors, and ability to liberate kinins from kininogens.3.
  • (18) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (19) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (20) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.

Maccabees


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.
  • (n. pl.) The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since the millennium, wave after wave of privately educated rock and pop acts have come through, Coldplay, Lily Allen, Jamie T, Jack Peñate, Florence Welch, the Maccabees, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons being just a few prominent examples.
  • (2) Actually, iTunes suggests that Bastille fans also enjoy the music of Alt-J, Gabrielle Aplin, Bombay Bicycle Club, the Maccabees and Charlie from Busted, which isn't a mile off what one might expect, though Bastille's music is the most interesting of the lot.
  • (3) Burnham, a passionate Stone Roses fan who boasts about seeing the Fall at Manchester’s legendary Hacienda and whose last gig was the Maccabees at Manchester’s Albert Hall, has also pledged to make Greater Manchester “the unrivalled music capital of Europe, if not the world”.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gentlemen of the Road 2015 festival trailer Some of the acts confirmed include Foo Fighters, Primal Scream, the Flaming Lips, Lianne La Havas, Alabama Shakes, the Maccabees and Jenny Lewis.
  • (5) Effects on motor and sensory systems of the brain are described including magnetic perceptual suppression in the visual cortex and other pioneering work of Amassian, Cracco and Maccabee at SUNY Health, Brooklyn.
  • (6) Music journalist Simon Price, for example, has written of the "poshification of pop" , with the privately educated now exercising a "growing stranglehold" over this cultural form: "Since the millennium, wave after wave of privately educated rock and pop acts have come through, Coldplay, Lily Allen, Jamie T, Jack Peñate, Florence Welch, the Maccabees, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons being just a few prominent examples."

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