(1) Labour will then be challenged – remorselessly, day after day – to back these measures or face that most familiar of charges: that it is planning a tax bombshell (with the added piquancy that this time the increase is needed simply to pour money into what will be billed as a broken welfare system).
(2) It will also add piquancy to the second stage of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry that reconvenes at the end of this month and will examine "the relationships between the press and police and the extent to which that has operated in the public interest".
(3) This determination to acknowledge other people's existence is not unique to France, though it does gain piquancy from British moans about the "rude" French.
(4) What's more, it has the added piquancy of righting a Labour wrong – drawing attention to the past just when Miliband will want to be focused on the future.
(5) Otto Rehhagel, the German coach who led the Greek side to a surprise victory at Euro 2004 and says "part of my heart is still Greek", added to the piquancy by declaring that when "Greeks have faith, they fear no one.
(6) There is a delicious piquancy to her act of rebellion – cue Twitter fantasies that her wayward son faces a maternal dressing down over Sure Start cuts, and might even be sent to the “naughty step”.
(7) Airborne chemicals can stimulate the CCS through the ocular, nasal, and respiratory mucosae, evoking different pungent sensations, for example, stinging, irritation, burning, piquancy, prickling, freshness, and tingling.
(8) The row has added piquancy because Iran Street in the Yemeni capital was originally given the name in honour of a visit by Mohammad Khatami, the two-term reformist president who preceded Ahmadinejad.Sana'a city council gave in to popular pressure because of Iran's alleged support for the Houthis – which is denied both by the rebels and by Tehran.
(9) Will the leadership debates take on a new piquancy when politics suddenly looks like the only answer?
(10) For sure, the day's main conversation, here as elsewhere, may have been on the all-German ascendancy of Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, and the opening of a new front in Europe, but locally (and for New York, the local is the global), the exhibition game had been given added piquancy by the news this week that City had teamed up with the Yankees to form New York City FC .
Tang
Definition:
(n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
(n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
(n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
(n.) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
(n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
(n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
(n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
(n.) The tongue of a buckle.
(n.) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
(v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
(v. i.) To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been postulated that mammalian aspartic proteases, which contain two structurally homologous lobes, are derived in evolution from a homodimer enzyme by gene duplication and fusion (Tang, J., James, M. N. G., Hsu, I.-N., Jenkins, J.
(2) But the Wu-Tang leader went on to speak about it anyhow: “[The album has] been handed over to an auction house, and they plan on doing something,” he said.
(3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
(4) Ins(1,3,4)P3 was dephosphorylated to two InsP2 (inositol bisphosphate) isomers, one of which is Ins(3,4)P2 [Shears, Parry, Tang, Irvine, Michell & Kirk (1987) Biochem.
(5) Wu-Tang Clan have already started taking pre-orders for A Better Tomorrow – which should not be confused with their "single-sale collector's item" Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – and have released a new single, Keep Watch .
(6) R u ok kumamon?” “Are Kumamon and his friends safe?” wondered Eric Tang, a college student.
(7) Eric Tang, 21, a student at Open University of Hong Kong, said he was turned away this month while trying to shop with his girlfriend in Shenzhen.
(8) The Wu-Tang Clan's last album, 8 Diagrams , was released in 2007.
(9) Tang is a Shanghai businesswoman in her 30s and began to blog on opera in 2005.
(10) A region common to all the active fragments (amino acid residues 97-178) is 70% homologous with the corresponding region from a second member of the lipocortin family which recently was cloned (Huang, K-S., Wallner, B.P., Mattaliano, R.J., Tizard, R., Burne, C., Frey, A., Hession, C., McGray, P., Sinclair, L.K., Chow, E.P., Browning, J.L., Ramachandran, K.L., Tang, J., Smart, J.E., and Pepinsky, R.B.
(11) Tang responded that they were not the only African country with a bad reputation.
(12) & Fischbach, G. D. (1989) Neuron 3, 209-218; Tang, C.-M., Dichter, M. & Morad, M. (1989) Science 243, 1474-1477] that receptor desensitization governs the strength of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain.
(13) These data suggest that Wen-Jing-Tang induces LH release from the pituitary through hypothalamic LH-RH.
(14) Relatively high levels of TNF activity were noted in the groups given Angelica radix, Bupleuri radix, Cnidii rhizoma, or Cinnamomum cortex, very low activities in the groups given Xiao-chai-hu-tang, Zhu-ling-tang, or Krestin, and no TNF activities in the groups given Polyporus or Hoelen.
(15) In this paper, the long-term effects of the ancient Chinese formula of San-Huang-Hsieh-Hsin-Tang on patients with essential hypertension were reported.
(16) Solutions of methadone were prepared in (1) orange-flavored Tang, (2) grape-flavored Kool-Aid, (3) apple juice, (4) grape-flavored Crystal Light, and (5) grape-flavored Crystal Light plus 0.1% sodium benzoate.
(17) Raekwon has rejoined the Wu-Tang Clan, performing with his hip-hop compatriots on The Daily Show.
(18) Our previous studies on carbohydrate structures of purified porcine spleen cathepsin B indicated that there are two cathepsin B isozymes, each containing a different carbohydrate (Takahashi, T., Schmidt, P.G., and Tang, J.
(19) The city's Communist Party chief Tang Jun and mayor Li Wancai attempted to mollify the crowd with a promise to move the polluting project out of the city," according to the Xinhua news agency.
(20) If the city wall was largely executed as planned, Tange’s more ambitious “city gate” was a failure from the start.