(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.
Moat
Definition:
(n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
(v. t.) To surround with a moat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
(2) When you read of such sentences, remember that this is the same country in which – just a few years ago – over 300 parliamentarians were found to have claimed expenses to which they weren’t entitled; hundreds of thousands handed over to some of the richest people in the country for duck houses, moat repairs and heating their stables.
(3) Bars and cages are out; moats and discreet electric fences are in.
(4) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
(5) It is believed that they went across the small moat to the north of the centre, and got as far as the car park, where they shouted "Our world is not for sale" before being arrested.
(6) An Englishman's home is his castle, and that castle now includes a moat to keep the peasants out.
(7) He informed the housing association retrospectively, and Moat says it "reluctantly" gave permission for the sub-let to run its two-year term, which ends on 13 February.
(8) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
(9) Douglas Hogg , who was ordered by the Tory party leadership to repay the £2,200 cost of clearing his moat, politely declined.
(10) Missing correspondence between MPs and Commons officials must have given most of the game away regarding Tory expense claims for moat cleaning and duck houses.
(11) Yet I recall influential voices – including in cabinet – arguing that rather than confront the problem (under IMF supervision), Britain should pull up the drawbridge behind the moat of the English Channel.
(12) Facebook, which still has sites eulogising murderer Raoul Moat and Holocaust deniers, said it drew the line on groups that attack others, a bold move considering the site's WikiLeaks page boasts more than 1.3 million supporters.
(13) We get lost on our way out and end up standing in the darkness, trapped by a maze of brutalist architecture and a large moat, laughing at our inability to navigate one of the most iconic structures in London.
(14) Minimal bodily adjustment was necessary for free foraging, whereas discrete food presentations on land (DFP-land) and in a moat (DFP-moat) promoted a gross reorientation of the animal's entire body.
(15) "Is it really true that a Romanian side once built a moat filled with crocodiles to stop the crowd from invading the pitch?"
(16) And they have dug a legal moat around the charmed circle, criminalising, for example, the squatting of empty buildings and most forms of peaceful protest.
(17) Activists tried a variety of methods to enter the conference centre, approaching in large groups from several directions and, at one point, sending several hundred people running with seven giant lilos to bridge a moat next to the centre.
(18) Elizabeth Austerberry, the chief executive of Moat, said: “These people are not going to go away.
(19) The couple can't understand why Moat won't allow them to continue sub-letting for a further period.
(20) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.