(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.
Woon
Definition:
(n.) Dwelling. See Wone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The executive council convenor, Lam Woon-kwong, insisted the Monday deadline was not an ultimatum, but urged protesters to disperse.
(2) That leaves the youngest, Kim Jong-woon (also known as Jong-un).
(3) As police tear gas rained down on student protesters, Chan Tsz-woon grabbed his Canon 50D camera and raced to the frontline.
(4) Subs: Woon-Jae Lee, Oh, Hyung-il Kim, Nam-Il Kim, Bo-Kyung Kim, Ahn, Seung-Youl Lee, Dong-Jin Kim, Yeom, Dong-Gook Lee, Kang, Young-Kwang Kim.
(5) Photograph: Chan Tsz Woon In an email to The Guardian, one of Hong Kong’s biggest cinema chains, UA Cinemas, said it had not been approached about screening Yellowing and said it would not “perform any political censorship at all”.
(6) I think independent film producers have the responsibility to document what mainstream media failed to report on.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chan says of the film: ‘I think independent film producers have the responsibility to document what mainstream media failed to report on.’ Photograph: Chan Tsz Woon But on the eve of the protests’ second anniversary, Chan claims all of Hong Kong’s major cinemas are refusing to show his film, the result, he suspects, of creeping self-censorship as businesses shy away from offending Beijing.