What's the difference between military and moa?

Military


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
  • (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
  • (n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (3) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
  • (5) The incidence of antibody to exotoxin was highest in the age groups ranging from 26 to 32 years, where the positive rates were higher than 40% and 30% for military personnel serving in Sarawak and Sabah, respectively.
  • (6) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
  • (7) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
  • (8) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
  • (9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (10) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
  • (11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
  • (12) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
  • (13) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
  • (14) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
  • (15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (16) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
  • (17) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
  • (18) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
  • (19) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
  • (20) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.

Moa


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I always think of that child, whenever I hear about the numbers who are dead.” He added that he did not think people should see organisations like MOAS as the answer to the crisis.
  • (2) Moas was planning to act under the instructions of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Rome, which covers the zone crossed by migrant boats from Libya and can order any vessel to undertake a rescue.
  • (3) Here’s my story of fleeing Libya – and surviving | Hakim Bello Read more As he attempted to raise funds for Moas, Catrambone found donors sceptical.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Guardian spent five days with the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) meeting its crew and the people it saved.
  • (5) This experiment did not demonstrate any carcinogenic effect of MOAS in mice at levels up to 1.0% in the drinking-water.
  • (6) The authors hypothesized that the two groups would have similar Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) scale scores at Times 1 and 3, but would differ substantially at Time 2.
  • (7) The Moas team quickly found itself involved in the simultaneous rescue of two migrant boats, including a wooden fishing vessel with 350 people – many of them families from Syria – that was slowly sinking.
  • (8) In an attempt to improve detection of macroscopically invisible tumour spread, intraoperative scintimetry (IOSM) with a hand-held gamma-probe was performed in addition to SPET 24-30 and 41-48 h after injection of the technetium-99m carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA MoA) on 12 patients with colorectal carcinoma and 3 patients with different neoplastic and inflammatory diseases.
  • (9) That is why I am saying you really have to focus in on saving people’s lives first.” Catrambone says he would close Moas’s Mediterranean operation if Europe had something better to offer, but that does not seem likely to happen soon.
  • (10) Based on the Yudofsky scale, a Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS) with upgraded psychometric properties was developed to assess the nature and prevalence of aggression in a psychiatric population.
  • (11) That may seem fantastical - but it is no more so than the idea of MOAS seemed less than a year ago.
  • (12) We have enzymatically amplified and sequenced approximately 400 base pairs of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene from bones and soft tissue remains of four species of moas as well as eight other species of ratite birds and a tinamou.
  • (13) Under the influence of Sydnocarb, Mephexamid and Maprotiline the value of MOA, CR, TS, TV remained unchanged.
  • (14) The reversible inhibitors of monoamine oxidase A (RIMAs) are a group of drugs that, by producing inhibition selectively of monoamine oxidase A (MOA-A), still allow metabolism of tyramine by MAO-B.
  • (15) #HumanityIsBack #MOAS #HumanityWashedAshore September 3, 2015 “People are saying they don’t want to be bystanders anymore.
  • (16) Morpholine oleic acid salt (MOAS) was administered to groups of 50 male and 50 female B6C3F1 mice in the drinking-water at levels of 0, 0.25 and 1.0%.
  • (17) The male mice given 0.25% MOAS had a significantly reduced incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in comparison with the control group and this trend was indicated also in the 1.0% group.
  • (18) In particular, point mutations recently described in MOA-inhibitor-resistant mutants can no longer be taken to affect necessarily the ubihydroquinone binding site.
  • (19) This result is interpreted as a support for the inhibitory mechanism based on the model of a 'catalytic switch' proposed recently for the E-beta-methoxyacrylate inhibitors (MOA-inhibitors (Brandt and von Jagow, Eur.
  • (20) The enzyme lacking iron-sulfur protein showed almost unchanged, tight binding of the E-beta-methoxyacrylate inhibitors oudemansin A and MOA-stilbene, whereas binding of the chromone inhibitor stigmatellin was almost completely abolished.

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