(n.) A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.
Example Sentences:
(1) Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically.
(2) It’s Berezina,” one leading Socialist said, referring to Napoleon’s defeat while retreating from Russia.
(3) The only time he came near to directing a Hollywood movie was a projected film about Napoleon with Al Pacino .
(4) But Napoleon had stolen the treasures of Italy, and some are still in Paris.
(5) It wasn't until the peninsular war that Britain actually deployed ground forces against Napoleon.
(6) It is not, however, always a bad thing – some historians have credited the season with stopping advancing armies from Napoleon to the Nazis.
(7) Someone who says "I take inspiration from Napoleon.
(8) What seemed to me to be clearly anti-Jewish discrimination has never been regarded that way in France; it was always accepted by Jews as an integral part of the Republican model, echoing back to the emblematic Napoleonic contract that gave them citizenship.
(9) What is the evidence that Napoleon was afflicted with thrombosed hemorrhoids?
(10) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(11) The loss of titles such as 3rd Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, with a history dating back to the days of Napoleon, when it was formerly known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, will be painful.
(12) But its real claim to fame was because it was the Duke of Wellington who bought it from Napoleon's sister with all the stuff that was in it."
(13) When France was close to bankruptcy during the Napoleonic wars, the US government snapped up Louisiana at three cents an acre, in what is still regarded as the best real estate coup in history.
(14) Movies like Napoleon , J'Accuse!, La Roue are extraordinary.
(15) Hair powder was taxed to pay for the Napoleonic wars.
(16) History of proctology is illustrated by some important figures and events: St. Fiacre, Felix the surgeon who operated on King Louis XIV's fistula and the acutely thrombosed hemorrhoidal prolapse of Napoleon.
(17) In France and every other European country with a Napoleonic code, you cannot access public services or find work without a card.
(18) Unsurprising when you consider that Napoleon was wrong about lots of things, such as being really tall, invading Russia and speaking clearly on his deathbed so that those in the vicinity could make an accurate note of his comments for posterity, but in this case he was dreadfully, spectacularly wrong.
(19) Mike Duggan, a onetime hospital executive, led by a comfortable margin going into the polls over his African American rival, Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon.
(20) As part of the tsarist army the Cossacks pursued Napoleon's forces across Europe , finally camping on the Champs Elysées in 1814.
Pam
Definition:
(n.) The knave of clubs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood acid-base status, serum electrolytes, and urine pH were examined in 64 infants and children with phenylketonuria (PKU) treated with three different low phenylalanine protein hydrolyzates (Aponti, Cymogran, AlbumaidXP) and two synthetic amino acid mixtures (Aminogran, PAM).
(2) This resulted in PAM and peritoneal macrophage lysosomal enzyme activity similar to control activity.
(3) [Tyr22] glucagon and [desHis1, Tyr22] glucagon were synthesized by an improved solid phase procedure on a Pam-resin.
(4) The role of IL-3 in the regulation of pulmonary alveolar macrophage (PAM) production was investigated.
(5) The mean size of human PAM was statistically greater than that for all other species evaluated, including nonhuman primates.
(6) Unlike bone marrow stem cells, PAM are unipotential and in vitro gave rise to only mononuclear phagocytes under the influence of IL-3.
(7) She really should have kept a dream journal, that Pam.
(8) The Lyt-2+ T-cells, and not the L3T4+ T-cells, were also found to be important for the ability of the intact L-PAM-cured MOPC-315 tumor bearers to reject a challenge with MOPC-315 tumor cells.
(9) The characteristics of the PAM hydroxylation process in vitro appear to reflect the efficiency of the extrarenal production of 1,25-(OH)2-D3 and the therapeutic efficacy of glucocorticoids in patients with sarcoidosis and disordered calcium metabolism.
(10) Similarly, PAM recovered from patients suffering from nonneoplastic interstitial lung disorders, i.e., sarcoidosis and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, were shown to be susceptible to the cytotoxic function provided by LAK cells.
(11) Routine electron microscopic examination on the same portion where SPLS were confirmed by PAM electron microscopy revealed amorphous, partially fibrous structures.
(12) Single-drug therapy did not significantly decrease numbers of PAM in lavage fluids, but combined therapy led to a 60 per cent (P less than 0.01) decrease in numbers of PAM.
(13) Similar dramatic cytotoxicity of L-PAM was apparent in time-dependent SCE response studies.
(14) The results demonstrate that a PAM is present in secretory granules of anglerfish islet tissue.
(15) We found that the chemotactic activity of the culture media supernatants from PAM recovered from oxygen-pretreated rats given E was 80% higher than that of media from PAM recovered from air-exposed rats given E. Neither PAM from air-exposed rats nor those from oxygen-exposed rats spontaneously released chemotaxins selective for other PAM.
(16) Insertion of either the entire 2.13-kb EcoRI-HindIII fragment or a 0.73-kb EcoRI-DraI subfragment encoding only the resolvase into the pAM beta 1-based cloning vector pMTL500E causes a significant enhancement of segregational stability (from 6.5 X 10(-2) to 3.0-4.0 X 10(-3) plasmid loss per cell per generation).
(17) The KFr cell line proved to be 3.1-fold resistant to L-phenylalanine mustard (L-PAM).
(18) The effects of 5-(3,3-Dimethyl-1-triazeno)imidazole-4-carboxamide (DTIC), 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-(4-methylcyclohexyl)-1-nitrosourea (MeCCNU), and L-phenylalanine mustard (L-PAM) have been compared by using three i.p.
(19) In the present studies, high levels of peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM), which catalyzes the formation of bioactive alpha-amidated peptides from their glycine-extended precursors, have been found in particulate fractions from bovine and rat heart atrium; only low levels of PAM activity were present in soluble fractions.
(20) PAM-A was still heterogeneous based on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.