(n.) A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Officers Garrett Miller and Edward Nero are charged with assault.
(2) This includes a pledge to significantly increase paper cup recycling rates by 2020, which has been signed by 30 companies, including Caffè Nero, Costa, Starbucks, McDonalds, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Greggs and Pret a Manger.
(3) This study compares the recorded kilovoltage peak (kVp) on the control panel versus actual kVp measured by the Photon Physics instrument and Non-invasive Evaluator of Radiation Output (NERO) System.
(4) • Among the four models Del Nero dated before facing multiple corruption claims : Sexy Magazine’s Carol Muniz , 28 – who told local press last year their love was real.
(5) But on this day of days not even a tiresome intervention from John Bercow could draw a frown from Nero's brow.
(6) Rogers, who once accused Ofcom of a "Nero approach" to regulation – fiddling while Rome burned – this week praised its "positive response" to calls for change and said the future holds "huge opportunities" for the commercial radio sector.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photo provided by the Baltimore police department shows, top row from left, Caesar R Goodson Jr, Garrett E Miller and Edward M Nero, and bottom row from left, William G Porter, Brian W Rice and Alicia D White.
(8) Nadia Amato, an Italian economics graduate, arrived in London 10 days ago and is trying her luck at Pret and rival Cafe Nero.
(9) The cost of these essentially trivial events would shame the Emperor Nero.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Qatar blames prejudice for 2022 World Cup bribe allegations Ronaldo and Romario are among the former Brazilian players who have called on Del Nero to quit.
(11) In the natural focus of leptospirosis at the lake Nero (Yaroslav region, USSR) 630 samples of soil were investigated for the presence of leptospires.
(12) Nero is also bringing separate litigation against Mosby contending that Gray was arrested lawfully.
(13) "This is exactly comparable to the emperor Nero playing his harp and everyone having to cheer," said Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was sacked after exposing the Karimov regime's torture of political opponents.
(14) I remember watching Rose [Gray, the restaurant's co-founder] cooking cavolo nero.
(15) The measured kVp on photon physics or NERO system was always greater than the recorded kVp on the control panel.
(16) It’s evident the kind of relationship he (Del Nero) had with Marin,” said Ronaldo, who was an ambassador for the 2014 World Cup organising committe.
(17) Polypeptide profiles generated by the mutants in Nero cells were qualitatively similar to that of wild-type virus.
(18) Rice, Nero and Miller saw their potential prison terms reduced by five years each.
(19) Ali Mohsin, the wayward general whose troops are fighting the loyalists, lashed out at Saleh in a statement on Saturday calling him a "sick, vengeful soul" and comparing him to the Roman emperor Nero, wasting time as his city burns.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photographs of six Baltimore police officers charged in relation to Freddie Gray’s death (L-R: top row: Alicia D White, Brian Rice, William Porter; bottom row: Edward Nero, Garrett Miller, Caesar Goodson).
Susceptible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
(a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(4) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(5) Cytolytic T lymphocytes lysing virus-infected and uninfected myocytes and heart-reactive autoantibodies occur in both myocarditis-susceptible strains.
(6) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(7) Peptidoglycan of MRSA grown in the presence of cefazolin was susceptible to lysis by respiratory mucus.
(8) Characerization of further parameters such as relative susceptibility to tolerance induction and relative degree of specificity was not possible with the use of KLH as the antigen.
(9) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(10) An in vitro bioassay was used to examine [14C]glucose incorporation into polysaccharides in albumen glands (AGs) of susceptible M-line Biomphalaria glabrata infected with the NMRI strain of Schistosoma mansoni.
(11) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
(12) From 1983 to 1986 more than 2000 non-penicillinase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam were auxotyped and screened for susceptibility to 10 antibiotics by MIC determination.
(13) The effect of modifying the periodate-susceptible methionine residues in chicken ovotransferrin was small but significant.
(14) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
(15) A large number of recently isolated bacterial pathogens were tested for susceptibility to cephalexin and cephaloglycin by the replica inoculating method.
(16) In general, enzyme activity was less susceptible to HA during the first week after birth than at later ages, some brain areas such as the hypothalamus showing significant alterations in some enzymes throughout development, and in all enzymes at adulthood.
(17) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(18) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
(19) However, the average age at onset of lymphoma varied considerably among the different AKXD strains, suggesting that they have segregated several loci that affect lymphoma susceptibility.
(20) This model of protective immunity in a Brugia-susceptible small rodent may provide a useful system for identification of molecularly defined filarial-protective immunogens.