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Lockup


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The report specifies nothing about Freeman’s time at the secretive compound save for a seeming arrival at 4.10pm, only to note that he arrived in nearby district 11 lockup at 10.32pm.
  • (2) Inquests are yet to be held into the deaths of Maureen Mandijarra, a 44-year-old Aboriginal woman who died in Broome lockup on 30 November 2012, and Jayden Bennell, a 20-year-old Aboriginal man who died on 7 March 2013.
  • (3) Hayes needed to pay $854 to the court to avoid a jail sentence; because he had no money except a $730-a-month disability check, he was thrown in Richmond County lockup.
  • (4) Booking isn’t happening or is happening sporadically and inconsistently, which leads to the whole find-your-client game Craig Futterman, University of Chicago Law School “They’re not given access to phones, and the CPD’s admitted this, until they get to lockup – but there’s no lockup at Homan Square,” he said.
  • (5) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup,” he said.
  • (6) But he got into trouble again in both Alice and Darwin, and spent a few months in Darwin’s adult lockup.
  • (7) As my Canberra colleagues decamp to the budget lockup room you're with me for the next few hours as we await what will no doubt be a heated and revealing question time.
  • (8) Project staff from the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) gathered information from all jails (county and city) and police department lockups throughout the country regarding the incidence of jail suicides during 1985 and 1986.
  • (9) Dhu was taken into custody at the police lockup in South Hedland three days before her death after failing to pay a $1,000 fine.
  • (10) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup Chris Christie, New Jersey governor For Christie, who has placed his emphasis on New Hampshire while facing an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, heroin has been a key tenet of his campaign and was the subject of his first two television ads.
  • (11) The issue recently gained wider attention after the death of a 22-year-old Indigenous woman at a Port Hedland lockup .
  • (12) As I’m still down in the budget lockup, the opening couple of posts tonight are just going to help us set the scene without breaching any state secrets.
  • (13) During lockup other subsystems may be examined but action on them is delayed.
  • (14) Ms Dhu, whose first name is withheld for cultural reasons, was arrested for more than $1000 in unpaid fines and placed in the lockup of the South Hedland police station, 1640km north of Perth, to “cut out” her fines.
  • (15) Early investors in Chinese online giant Alibaba are set to sell $8bn worth of shares Friday morning, escaping the “lockup” that usually requires them to hold their shares for several months.
  • (16) The figures do not include people who died in police custody, like 22-year-old Yamatji woman Ms Dhu , whose name is not used at her the request of her family, who died in the South Hedland lockup in August 2014.
  • (17) Evidence for 'cognitive lockup' and for a preference for serial fault management were found.
  • (18) He twice escaped prison: first in in 2001, when he was wheeled in a laundry cart out the front door of a Guadalajara lockup, and again in 2015 as he slipped through a shaft connecting the shower in his cell with a mile-long tunnel built during his detention by associates.
  • (19) The issue attracted national attention when a 22-year-old Yamatji woman, Ms Dhu, died in Port Hedland police lockup after spending three days in custody to “pay down” overdue fines.
  • (20) This would address concerns that the end of a six-month lockup on share sales by major institutional investors timed for this Friday – and scheduled to free up an estimated 1.2 trillion yuan worth of shares for sale next Monday – would result in a massive institutional evacuation from stocks.

Null


Definition:

  • (a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
  • (n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
  • (v. t.) To annul.
  • (n.) One of the beads in nulled work.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
  • (3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
  • (4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
  • (5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
  • (6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
  • (7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
  • (8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
  • (9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
  • (10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
  • (11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
  • (12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
  • (13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
  • (14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
  • (15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
  • (16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
  • (17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
  • (18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
  • (19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
  • (20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.

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