(n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.
Example Sentences:
(1) As someone who had a chance to talk to him in the past, I really feel heartbroken to see how he has been treated,” said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based Amnesty International activist.
(2) The proposed activation mechanism is based upon several key concepts, including the "S"-structure for the folding of the C1r2C1s2 tetramer among the C1q arms [Poon, et al., J. molec.
(3) Poon said Beijing was attempting to shift the focus on to how much medical attention Liu was receiving to shirk responsibility for its “cold-blooded” treatment of the democracy activist.
(4) It has been shown previously that in this paradigm older adults are differentially inhibited by semantically related primes (Bowles & Poon, 1985a).
(5) Patrick Poon, an Amnesty campaigner who also knows Liu, said Beijing was preventing the dissident’s friends from visiting him to avoid embarrassment over the fact that a man it portrayed as a “convicted criminal” still enjoyed popular support.
(6) A previous optimal chemical-mechanical model (C.-S. Poon.
(7) "If even people like him are taken away, it gives a very bad sign to other human rights defenders and netizens," said Patrick Poon, executive secretary of the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group.
(8) Beijing had repeatedly rejected calls for Liu to be treated abroad, Poon pointed out.
(9) Adding injury to insult, Liu Xiaobo has been diagnosed with a grave illness in prison, where he should never have been put in the first place,” said Patrick Poon, a researcher at Amnesty International in Hong Kong.
(10) Still, when older adults become aware of memory problems, they typically become quite alarmed (see Poon et al., 1980).
(11) Poon's optimization model may give a key to integrate complicated and coflicting experimental results in a unique concept.
(12) In 2012 Poon donated £20m to the law school at King’s College London, which has been renamed in his honour.
(13) The Chinese authorities should immediately ensure that Liu Xiaobo receives adequate medical care, effective access to his family and that he and all others imprisoned solely for exercising their human rights are immediately and unconditionally released.” “The authorities should immediately and unconditionally lift all restrictions on his wife Liu Xia and let the two reunite as soon as possible,” Poon added.
(14) The increased exercise sensitivity in hypercapnia is qualitatively consistent with the hypothesis that VE is controlled to minimize the conflicting challenges due to chemical drive and the mechanical work of breathing (Poon, C. S. In: Modelling and Control of Breathing, New York: Elsevier, 1983, p. 189-196).
(15) But I hope that President Xi will see that it’s in China interests to not be viewed as not only silencing a man but wilfully and intentionally shortening his life.” Patrick Poon, another Amnesty International activist, said Chinese authorities could no longer justify preventing Liu from leaving China.
(16) A hamster protein (termed IBF) which binds to IES2 and stimulates transcription in vitro has previously been purified and was found to have a subunit molecular mass of 40,000 (Karnitz, L., Poon, D., Weil, P.A., and Chalkley, R. (1989) Mol.
(17) It adds injury to insult that Liu Xiaobo, who should never have been put in prison in the first place, has been diagnosed with a grave illness,” said Patrick Poon, a China researcher at Amnesty International.
(18) The application of this relative memorability analysis to previously reported data dealing with the immediate recall of spoken sentences (Stine, Wingfield, & Poon, 1986) revealed that although older adults show qualitative recall similar to younger adults when informational density is low, they show less discrimination among text elements when informational density is increased.
(19) This finding is consistent with the demonstration that stage VI oocytes contain a store of B-type cyclin polypeptides (Kobayashi, H., J. Minshull, C. Ford, R. Golsteyn, R. Poon, and T. Hunt.
(20) Poon said another one, Liu Zhengqing, was taken away from his home in Guangzhou on 24 March.
Poot
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Example Sentences:
(1) Poots added: "The only safe advice is not to use them."
(2) More than 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for Poots to resign because of his intransigence on gay rights, and assembly members from the Ulster Unionist party and Sinn Féin have criticised his stance.
(3) The presence of religious zealots such as Poots in government is a direct consequence of the peace process.
(4) The nicknames have helped build his "regular guy" image, but Pootie-Poot sounds more like a throwback to the preppy vocabulary of his father, who was famous for such phrases as "I'm in deep doo-doo".
(5) At a historic summit in Moscow this week, President George Bush will mark what he claims is the final putting to rest of the cold war, by shaking hands with his new best friend, Pootie-Poot.
(6) The fact that Poots can face criticism for his views from both unionists and nationalists may be progress in itself.
(7) Poots added: "Over the past couple of years there has been growing concern about what have been inaccurately labelled as legal highs.
(8) Hence Poots, a man born and raised in the Ulster Free Presbyterian church, a man who believes Ulster should be British, deserves credence.
(9) Critics of the minister from the political world and gay rights campaigners in Northern Ireland have claimed Poots' maintenance of the ban is due to his born-again Christian beliefs and the DUP's longstanding hostility to gay people and other sexual minorities.
(10) • Interview: Sean Ellis The Bifa winners Best international independent film – Blue is the Warmest Colour The Raindance award – The Machine Most promising newcomer – Chloe Pirrie for The Shell Best British short – Z1 Best supporting actor – Ben Mendelsohn for Starred Up Special jury prize – Sixteen Films and Friends Best technical achievement – Amy Hubbard for casting on The Selfish Giant Best supporting actress – Imogen Poots for The Look of Love Best achievement in production – Metro Manila Best British documentary – Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer The Variety award – Paul Greengrass Best actor – James McAvoy Best screenplay – Steven Knight - Locke The Douglas Hickox award – Paul Wright for For Those in Peril Best actress – Lindsay Duncan for Le Week-end Best director – Sean Ellis for Metro Manila Richard Harris award – Julie Walters Best British independent film – Metro Manila
(11) Imogen Poots and Dominic Cooper go along for the ride.
(12) Poots' rivals in the Ulster Unionist party have challenged him to reveal what legal advice he received from Northern Ireland's attorney general John Larkin over his stance on the ban.
(13) The Democratic Unionist minister Edwin Poots and Northern Ireland's attorney general, John Larkin, have won an information rights tribunal that allows them to keep the information secret.
(14) Edwin Poots, Northern Ireland's health minister, is almost comically unsuited for his position.
(15) Poots also ended up in court for upholding a ban on gay men giving blood and, in a separate case, objecting to gay couples adopting.
(16) Poots is against gay couples adopting, and is attempting to maintain a ban on gay men giving blood .
(17) That does not bode well for the weeks ahead and, despite an appealing cast of Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper and Imogen Poots, the feeling remains that the marketing could have done with a little zest.
(18) But Poots is still special: there's almost something admirable about his open stance on his views in a time when even his spiritual leader Ian Paisley was willing to put a lid on it for the sake of power.
(19) Matthew McDermott, the policy manager at the Belfast-based Rainbow Project, said the tribunal's decision was "hugely disappointing" given that the high court in Northern Ireland had ruled earlier this year that the ban had been imposed without lawful authority and that Poots was guilty of breaching the ministerial code at Stormont.
(20) At times of tension between the two countries, we are told, Mr Bush is known to tell his staff: "Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone."