(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.
Mom
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, welcomed Target’s shift in policy.
(2) This modification of DNA is controlled by the Mu modification function (mom), which acts in conjunction with the dam (DNA-adenine methylation) function of Escherichia coli.
(3) A ngelina Jolie sends young women all sorts of messages: that you can both be a mom and successful businesswoman, that it’s important to take a stand on issues you care about, and that making a healthy choice “in no way diminishes [your] femininity”.
(4) Findings are surprising in that the SES was more actively involved in all forms of OM than had been thought, especially in MOM and COM.
(5) I was crying ‘ I don’t want to walk, Mom.’ And so she carried me,” said Maria, now 29.
(6) When my mom found crack, that’s when the walls started coming in on me.
(7) And that’s the thing about substance abuse – it doesn’t discriminate.” Authorities report 74 heroin overdoses in three days in Chicago Read more “It touches everybody, from celebrities to college students to soccer moms to inner-city kids – white, black, Hispanic, young, old, rich, poor, urban, suburban, men and women.” Among the Obama administration’s proposals were to improve training among prescribers for opiate painkillers and to expand access to medication-assisted treatment.
(8) In those pregnancies uncomplicated by either fetal exomphalos or neural tube defect the midtrimester maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (MSAFP) levels were markedly reduced, the median value for 38 such pregnancies being 0.6 multiples of the median (MoM).
(9) Insept Mom" (a notice attached to her five-year-old grandson's door), a short inventory of clubs she'd encountered that wouldn't allow girls or women.
(10) "My mom had just died, which had been incredibly traumatic," Mills recalls, "and a few months later, my dad said to me: 'Tomorrow I'm going to throw you a ball and I want you to catch it.'
(11) "We are grateful for what he and my mom have done for us," Rafael says.
(12) According to her, she is just a mom – a mom forced to defend the decision to save her daughter’s life.
(13) Such imaginary groups, when compared to the sum as a whole, are about as worrisome as America's hockey moms turned out to be.
(14) If anything, the danger to Trump’s ambitions is coming from inside the house, with his frothingly deranged spokesperson Michael Cohen, a man 30 years out-of-date on spousal rape laws who sounds like a Queens mook in a tracksuit who traps a mom in her car in the Stop & Shop parking lot because he thinks she took his space, beats on the hood and screams, Do you know who my uncle is?
(15) Whether he was helping a mom with a carriage or bringing someone to their seats, he did it with so much love and so much vigor and so much joy,” Castillo said.
(16) AFP base and limiting values (2.5 MoM and 0.5 MoM) are found.
(17) A bit like Godfather II, only with mom's apple pie for tea.
(18) "They are the ones who sign my cheque Mom, they are the ones who help me support my family."
(19) Michelle Obama, once a distinguished lawyer, calls herself a "mom-in-chief" and does not shy away from schmaltz.
(20) The good news for Tigers fans is that they are out of that big hot mess of a ballpark and are back home in the Motor City, where mom makes porridge for breakfast and everybody is nice.