(1) Built in 1955 with a capacity of 40,000, the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida – the principal patroness of Brazil and a unifying figure for many in the nation's Catholic Church.
(2) The introduction of MR into the genome, whether patro- or matroclinously, resulted in dramatic and proportionately equivalent enhancements in the activities of DMN, both with respect to the induction of larval lethality and somatic sectoring.
(3) Co-host Yelena Sever, a relative unknown recently put forward as the fund's "patroness", awkwardly introduced Bocelli to two blind Russian girls who performed at the event, which the fund presented as a means of raising "awareness" of children with cancer and sight problems.
(4) After Tilda Swinton's ancient patroness bequeaths them a priceless painting, the unlikely pair become embroiled in a noir caper that could not be more Wes Anderson if it tried: nostalgia-tinted, gently charming yet unfolding at a breakneck pace, as if the miniature figures of an ornate doll's house have been brought to life and instructed to undertake all sorts of forgotten fun, from jail breaks and pistol fights to vertiginous chases down a mountainside on the back of a rickety bobsleigh.
(5) A circannual modulation of the 3-h amplitude (A) or MESOR of systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) was seen mainly in prematures with a positive family history of high BP on the father's (f+) side or with both a patro linous and matro-linous history (f+m+), the circannual modulation of HR ultradian A was statistically significant only in "f- m-" infants.
Sponsor
Definition:
(n.) One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.
(n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.
Example Sentences:
(1) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(2) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(3) That’s why we’ve sponsored the World Cup globally for more than 20 years.
(4) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
(5) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(6) There followed a sponsors’ event at which Wayne Rooney , Ander Herrera and Henrikh Mkhitaryan were present, along with James Reigle, the club’s Asia Pacific managing director.
(7) Jonathan's party and the biggest opposition coalition have traded accusations about who is sponsoring and arming Boko Haram, but none have provided any proof.
(8) The research programme, sponsored by the National Research Council of Italy, was completed in 1988 and focused on (1) acquisition of technology by hospitals; (2) assessment of performance evaluation and preventive maintenance procedures for biomedical equipment; (3) cost analysis of high-technology health services; (4) analysis of clinical engineering activities in Italy.
(9) We tested nine (cadmium chloride, chloral hydrate, colchicine, diazepam, econazole nitrate, hydroquinone, pyrimethamine, thiabendazole, thimerosal) of the 10 known or suspected spindle poisons of the coordinated programme to study aneuploidy induction sponsored by the Commission of the European Communities using Saccharomyces cerevisiae D61.M (mitotic chromosomal malsegregation system).
(10) Karen Fletcher, Sheffield • So it's a "government sponsored scheme".
(11) It is hoped that international collaborative research studies such as that on the effect of differences in nutrition or diabetes control in children, between our clinic and the Valle Hebron Children Hospital in Barcelona (sponsored by the Child Health Foundation) will generate knowledge on how to prevent premature atherosclerosis in childhood diabetes.
(12) An economic evaluation of the self-help program was conducted from the perspective of the sponsoring HMO.
(13) We discuss the tasks and present data on financial planning, on putting financial plans into operation, and on monitoring progress toward financial independence for a set of ten demonstration projects sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(14) While it is not a household name in the UK, its blue and green logo is familiar site on high streets across Asia and Africa and the bank sponsors Liverpool football club.
(15) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(16) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
(17) As a sponsor, they gain exclusivity in their sector," he said.
(18) This issue boils down to the question whether the ballot sponsors are more like citizens with strong policy views about a law (who normally cannot defend a law in federal court) or, instead, surrogate public officials who can act as the state for purposes of this lawsuit when the state itself refuses to do so (who would be permitted to defend the law).
(19) These data were the empirical basis for a clinical definition of AIDS in adults drafted in a Caracas, Venezuela, workshop sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization.
(20) By further tapping into the expertise of the independent sector – which has already resulted in many independent schools sponsoring or co-sponsoring state academies – he will say that England's state schools can become the best in the world.