(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.
Toon
Definition:
() pl. of Toe.
(n.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Toon, on the other hand, are in a wee spot of temporary bother.
(2) Toon attempted to dissuade him from boxing by explaining its dangers.
(3) After pleading guilty to an unspecified lesser charge, Toon was sentenced to 75 days in jail.
(4) Texas pool party incident raises questions about wealth and race Read more Toon’s brother, Matthew, was quoted as telling reporters that his brother was innocent and had been at a cinema at the time of the incident.
(5) On the former front, the company's Angry Birds Toons channel launched in March within developer Rovio's various games, and by September had notched up more than 1bn views of its short cartoons and trailers.
(6) Photograph: Supplied Sean Toon was sentenced to more than nine months in jail after pleading guilty to killing and maiming prize farm animals and covering them in paint, according to court records in Texas .
(7) Yet according to court records, Toon pleaded guilty to felony criminal mischief and was sentenced in August 2000 to 285 days in jail and fined $300.
(8) Freddy Shepherd and the ‘Toongate tapes’, 1998 Mahmood won Reporter of the Year in 1999 after he revealed that the Newcastle United chairman and his deputy had described women from Newcastle as “dogs”, mocked ex-manager Kevin Keegan for being like Shirley Temple and laughed at loyal supporters, known as the Toon Army, for buying expensive replica shirts.
(9) What stands out for me was that “Toon, Toon” song going on for twenty minutes.
(10) This represents from one-fifth toone-third of the need for services from organized programs among this groups.
(11) The head of the National Crime Agency, Donald Toon, notes that “the London property market has been skewed by laundered money.
(12) The home fixture between Newcastle United and Chelsea, at St James’ Park, was not a good Saturday for black Geordies to hit the Toon.
(13) As a teenager, Toon had two serious encounters with the criminal justice system.
(14) A Dallas County court clerk confirmed details of the case on Wednesday but was unable to confirm how long Toon served in jail.
(15) Meanwhile, children’s broadcasters from the BBC and Disney to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are finding new digital ways to deliver their shows to children alongside their traditional channels, while startups like Hopster and Toon Goggles have launched mobile apps to deliver shows.
(16) The Toon get the ball rolling, then sailing through the air.
(17) The Toon need you.” Such messages were backed up an incessant two-word soundtrack set to the tune of La Bamba.
(18) The shadow home secretary welcomed the fact that May had bowed to the political pressure applied by Labour, including its decision to raise the issue at prime minister's questions and to call an opposition Commons debate toon Wednesday.
(19) Carroll was reported in today's Daily Star to have sent texts to Steve Wraith, editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, claiming he felt he had being forced out of the club.
(20) Luckily for the Toon, who had sent the big defenders upfield, City misplace their passes and Williamson eventually snuffs the move out.