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Mullen


Definition:

  • (n.) See Mullein.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Mullet


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe, and M. cephalus which occurs both on the European and American coasts.
  • (n.) Any species of the genus Mullus, or family Mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.
  • (n.) A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.
  • (n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Protein synthesis in mullet was measured by use of pulse injections of 14Cleucine into the hepatic portal circulation and by 4-hr continuous infusion of 14Ctyrosine into the dorsal aorta.
  • (2) Three female mullets received a priming injection of carp pituitary homogenate followed by a resolving injection of an LHRH analogue 24 hr later.
  • (3) Mullets and rabbitfish caught at the same site caused no harm.
  • (4) The Km of 20 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase of mullet ovarian tissue was similar to the value reported for mammalian gonadal tissue, but the constant for 17 beta-hydroxy-steroid dehydrogenase in the carp ovary was different.
  • (5) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
  • (6) You could toss a mullet net over any park bench between Key West and Pensacola and drag in two people who’d be more inspiring.
  • (7) Minced fish (mullet) sausage mixes containing added sugar, salt, nitrate, nitrite and spices were fermented (48 h, 30 degrees C) by indigenous flora or by a starter culture (Pediococcus acidilactici) and the microbial ecology and behaviour of various bacteria was monitored.
  • (8) These results are in concordance with results of a cluster analysis based on the mixture compositions, which indicates that shrimp and crab mixtures are compositionally similar, while mullet and oyster mixtures are compositionally distinct from the shrimp mixture.
  • (9) After watching Kinnock slide to defeat in the 1987 general election, he recalls standing at the Welshman’s shoulder the morning after “ a half-blubbing, mullet-haired 20-year old ”.
  • (10) The first type was most evident in the grey mullet Mugil sp., being characterized by the decrease of the level of the activity at night time.
  • (11) It’s a small, unassuming restaurant where even the queue to get in is exciting – order a cold beer and watch one of the owners grill fresh sardines and red mullet by the door as you wait.
  • (12) According to the aversion index, animals conditioned to shrimp mixture perceived crab mixture as being more similar to shrimp mixture than were mullet and oyster mixtures, but all three nonconditioned mixtures were perceived as being significantly different from the shrimp mixture.
  • (13) More limited metabolism was observed in mullet when n-alkanes were taken up via the gills.
  • (14) Glycogen phosphorylase purified from muscle of mullet (Liza ramada) has been kinetically characterized.
  • (15) White mullet fingerlings (Mugil curema) occur together with freshwater species, of the Poeciliidae and Characidae, in a pond neighboring the beach at Pontal do Sul (Parana, Brasil).
  • (16) were diagnosed in the municipality of Registro (São Paulo State, Brazil) by stool examinations, in patients who ate raw mullet (Mugil sp.).
  • (17) The striped mullet (Mugil cephalus) exhibits a restricted spawning season and matures only once per spawning cycle.
  • (18) The endocrine cells in the gut of Mugil saliens Risso, 1810 (leaping grey mullet) were investigated by immunocytochemical and electron microscopic techniques.
  • (19) If you were of drinking age in the early 00s then you may well have had a mullet in this genre's heyday, and, complete with ironic sweatband, gotten sweaty to Fischerspooner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Felix Da Housecat.
  • (20) 11) If you're Kanye West, you can rock a mullet and no one will say anything Of course, it's not like your crew will have much room to criticise, but if anyone was going to try to stop the party around the back of Kanye's bonce, it clearly didn't do any good, as it was there, bouncy, fresh, and mullety.

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