(n.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus.
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Mullen
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(n.) See Mullein.
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(1) Mullen said earlier this week there is a "proxy connection" between Pakistani intelligence services and the Haqqanis, meaning the militants are secretly doing the Pakistanis' bidding.
(2) To elucidate the role of malnutrition in postoperative complications in hepatobiliary surgery, the nutritional status of 73 patients was evaluated with the Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI) devised by Dr. Mullen.
(3) Immunocytochemical analysis of aggregation chimeras made using either of the mutants, Lurcher or Purkinje cell degeneration, previously showed that only Bergmann glia close to surviving Purkinje cells expressed an apparently normal level of the enzyme, glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) (Fisher and Mullen, 1988).
(4) That’s the tragedy.” But even if Anderson had been assessed as mentally ill, the best treatment for him – up to three months of inpatient hospital treatment – would never have happened because of a lack of resources, Mullen said.
(5) In his final congressional testimony before retiring next week, Mullen said success in Afghanistan is threatened by the Pakistani government's support for the Haqqani network of militants, which he called a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
(6) My dad was holding five fingers up halfway down the 17th and I put two and two together finally and realised I was five ahead [of Mullen]."
(7) The US defence secretary, Robert Gates, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, and other senior Pentagon figures have been in regular contact with their Egyptian counterparts all week.
(8) Taking part in the security discussions will be the defence secretary, Robert Gates, who did the same job for Bush; Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff; General David Petraeus, the top military commander for the Middle East; and other members of the security council.
(9) Here's Niall Mullen: "As a Liverpool fan who can barely buy his own groceries I am going to be outraged, outraged I tell you, if we fail to procure a player I've never heard of, who plays in a position in which we have a surfeit of players, for a club I've never seen play."
(10) Repeating a charge he made earlier this week, Mullen said that, with Pakistani support, the Haqqanis were behind not only the 13 September embassy assault, but also a recent truck bomb that wounded 77 US soldiers, and a June 28 attack against the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, as well as "a host of other smaller but effective operations."
(11) The original referred Admiral Mike Mullen as chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff.
(12) Cancer 45: 3069, 1980; M. H. Torosian, J. L. Mullen, E. E. Miller, et al.
(13) "Suarez is Liverpool's bad boy boyfriend," suggests Niall Mullen.
(14) Mullen changed his story and said a message had been received and ignored.
(15) Testifying alongside Mullen, US defense secretary Leon Panetta also decried Pakistani support for the Haqqani network, and he said Pakistani authorities have been told that the US will not tolerate a continuation of the group's cross-border attacks.
(16) The excitation of piriform cortical neurons by iontophoresis of N-acetyl-L-aspartyl-L-glutamic acid (NAAG) isolated from rat brain is frequently cited as major support for the possible neurotransmitter role of NAAG in the CNS [ffrench-Mullen, J. M. H., Koller, K., Zaczek, R., Coyle, J. T., Hori, N. & Carpenter, D. O.
(17) The conformation of the staphylococcal nuclease-bound metal-dTdA complex, previously determined by NMR methods [Weber, D.J., Mullen, G.P., Mildvan, A.S. (1991) Biochemistry 30:7425-7437] was docked into the X-ray structure of the enzyme-Ca(2+)-3',5'-pdTp complex [Loll, P.J., Lattman, E.E.
(18) Zardari's government was accused of treachery over the proposal, which was made in a memo delivered to the US military chief, Admiral Mike Mullen.
(19) Haqqani managed to defuse the resulting furore and Mullen, whose intervention was viewed by some US officials as not entirely helpful, stood down shortly afterwards.
(20) Intriguingly, Mullen was the recipient of the disputed memo appealing for US help to forestall an army coup that precipitated Haqqani's forced resignation.