(n.) The Balance; the seventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters at the autumnal equinox in September, marked thus / in almanacs, etc.
(n.) A southern constellation between Virgo and Scorpio.
Example Sentences:
(1) A simple test of the positive connection between renal disease and the sign of Libra was undertaken by studying the birth dates of consecutive nephrology in-patient admissions.
(2) The first, Gliese 581d, is among several that circle one of Earth's nearest stars, a cool red dwarf around 20 light years away in the constellation Libra.
(3) Luscious Libras Luscious Libras Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is our walkabout performance – we're a Mexican-wrestling thumb-war team.
(4) Catton, a Libra, admitted she had not checked her horoscope but there was a significant astrological aspect to her winning, as the last New Zealander to win was 28 years ago, an important astrological number – "it is the time that Saturn takes to orbit around the Earth."
(5) He is turning 60 in October (taking advantage of this milestone to release a 25-year retrospective box-set of CDs and DVDs) and so, to break the ice, I ask him if this makes him a Libra, believing that my feigned interest in astrology will doubtless appeal to his "spiritual" side.
(6) In Brazil, BG’s assets would give Shell a further foothold in one of the lowest cost basins in the world, and could add potential synergies with Shell’s Libra assets.
Libre
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) by S-adenosyl-L-methionine (AdoMet)-dependent methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) has been recently characterized in rat heart sarcolemma obtained by hypotonic shock-LiBr treatment method.
(2) The results obtained will allow to test experimentally the theoretical predictions made by A. Goldbeter (1973) PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on the distribution of carbamoyl phosphate and the oscillation of its intracellular concentration.
(3) The elastic modulus is determined as a function of water content for untreated stratum corneum, and stratum corneum treated with urea and LiBr.
(4) Transmission electron microscopy of an alpha gamma delta complex isolated after incubation of the holoenzyme with LiBr shows only small particles approximately one-fourth the size of the holoenzyme.
(5) He is very good at plunging into the most technical issues, but he always understands the political dynamic,” one former colleague said, adding that he doubted Seeuws would play hardball with the UK: “He understands the task will be very difficult, but he will certainly try to get a good compromise.” La Libre Belgique newspaper described Seeuws as a “fine intellectual machine”, citing a Belgian source as saying he was “tactically very strong.
(6) Libre emerged from a post-coup political resistance movement, bringing together an eclectic mix of trade union and LGBT activists, human rights defenders, campesino and indigenous organisations, youth and feminist groups, teachers and intellectuals, former Liberals who opposed the coup and many others mobilised in an unprecedented grassroots base.
(7) This component has been identified as glycogenin, following dissociation of the subunits in 2 M LiBr and their separation on Superose 12.
(8) The indictment alleges that Mr Bikindi consulted with President Juvenal Habyarimana over song lyrics before passing the compositions on to Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), a privately owned station set up specifically to broadcast anti-Tutsi propaganda.
(9) We took inspiration from Nacho Libre , made all our own costumes and got booked to be here.
(10) In the letter, published on La Libre Belgique , he asked for his unborn child’s forgiveness.
(11) There is undoubtedly a radical socialist element within its ranks, but despite rightwing scaremongering that Castro de Zelaya is a new Hugo Chávez , Libre is also explicitly pro-business and US friendly.
(12) Red and white are the colours of the Freedom and Refoundation party, known by its Spanish acronym Libre, and the young people are part of an army of activists who have changed the political landscape in Honduras since 2009.
(13) The high-molecular-mass form is converted into the low-molecular-mass form by incubation with 1.4 M LiBr.
(14) Just hours after its online launch, the Libres e Iguales manifesto had gathered more than five hundred signatures.
(15) "Mr Arnault came to see me at the end of last year, wanting to be domiciled here, to live here," Mayor Armand de Decker told the newspaper La Libre Belgique.
(16) After batch washing, the enzyme, devoid of lipids (apoBDH), is specifically eluted at pH 8.05-8.15 with a 0.1 M Tris-1 M LiBr buffer under reducing conditions (5 mM dithiothreitol).
(17) Instead in the cardiac sarcolemmal fraction, isolated by hypotonic shock LiBr-treatment method, the activity was over two times higher in 10-day old neonates than in adult rats.
(18) With names such as Americans for Prosperity, Generation Opportunity and the Libre Initiative, the brothers have the ability to help frame the terms of the political debate.
(19) ATP-independent Ca2+ binding, sialic acid and phospholipid content, Ca2+ ATPase, Mg2+ ATPase and adenylate-cyclase were not altered in membranes isolated by the hypotonic shock-LiBr treatment method from hypothyroid hearts.
(20) Using our preparative methods, the LiBr fraction may contain predominantly sarcolemma while low-salt sucrose light membranes may be enriched in T-tubular elements.