What's the difference between praetorian and scorpion?
Praetorian
Definition:
(a.) See Pretorian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anna Jefferson Brought into the CQC to stiffen its spine, media manager Anna Jefferson gained a reputation as being part of the management's praetorian guard.
(2) They are surrounded by a praetorian guard of public relations and project consultants hired with £253m of taxpayers' money .
(3) Danny Alexander is the boy who stands on George Osborne's burning deck and Vince Cable is the self-appointed captain of David Cameron's praetorian guard.
(4) The biggest transgressor seems to be the education secretary, Michael Gove, who has assembled a praetorian guard of sympathisers.
(5) As Gordon Brown gathered with his praetorian guard of New Labour inside No 10 this afternoon, there was an intense frustration – with the Liberal Democrats , with sections of his own party and, lastly, with the Queen.
(6) He set about co-opting key institutions left behind by the Americans; the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, which was soon stacked with officials from his Dawa party, and Iraq's elite special forces unit, which soon became his praetorian guard.
(7) And unlike the government's praetorian guard in the media, ministers like Francis Maude , who declined to join the attack on the union movement, understand that it may yet prove to be a dangerous opponent.
(8) A statue of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard, is pulled down after his fall.
(9) Fiona Hill, formerly Cunningham, who lost her official role in May’s praetorian guard as a result of their last major public clash with Gove, is now back by May’s side.
(10) David Bogle, chief executive of Hightown Praetorian HA , argues that social landlords could make considerable savings if more of their bank borrowings were at floating rates of interest.
(11) He just could not help himself.” Caligula told a captain in the Praetorian guard that he sounded like a girl.
(12) Supporters of David Cameron are contacting loyalists to ask them to form a “praetorian guard” to take to the airwaves in support of the prime minister immediately after the general election if the Tories fail to secure a decisive lead in parliamentary seats.
(13) In interviews, Bundy had used the language of the "sovereign citizen" movement as a rallying call, beckoning passionate support from members of the Oath Keepers, the White Mountain Militia and the Praetorian Guard.
(14) Stewart Jackson, the MP for Peterborough, wrote on Twitter : “Fallon absolutely right to use the word ‘swamped’ about ‘some’ immigration hotspots despite what teenage spin doctors at No 10 might say.” Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, told the Daily Mail: “What the Old Etonian praetorian guard around the prime minister have done shows how out of touch they are, and how in touch Michael Fallon is.
(15) Along with Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna, Alexander has formed a kind of corporate praetorian guard around Miliband to pacify the City and CBI and rein in the Labour leader’s instincts for building a new economic model in a post-crash world.
(16) But Maude insisted measures had been put in place to prevent the development of “Praetorian guards” within departments where officials were loyal only to their political bosses.
(17) An MP contacted by Cameron loyalists One well-placed MP who has been contacted by the Cameron loyalists told the Guardian: “There is an attempt to form a praetorian guard round David.
(18) Pirie's report became the central charter of the doctrine we now call Thatcherism, whose praetorian guard called itself the No Turning Back group .
(19) As Ken Clarke did in 1990 when his colleagues ummed and ahed and allowed themselves to be browbeaten by Margaret Thatcher and her praetorian guard, so Purnell has said the previously unsayable - that the prime minister must go.
(20) IRGC, the Islamic Republic’s praetorian guard, is suspicious of US military activity near Iran’s borders and appears to be sticking to a familiar posture in the Gulf that predates last year’s nuclear accord between Iran and six world powers, including the United States.
Scorpion
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
(n.) The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).
(n.) The scorpene.
(n.) A painful scourge.
(n.) A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.
(n.) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Veratridine and the sea anemone toxin on one hand as well as veratridine and the scorpion toxin on the other hand are synergistic in their action to stabilize an open and highly permeable form of the sodium channel.
(2) We have previously shown that the [3H]saxitoxin binding site of the sodium channel is expressed independently of the [125I]scorpion toxin binding site in chick muscle cultures and in rat brain.
(3) The labelled peptide is bound to mouse diaphragm from where it can be displaced by ATX II and, even better, by scorpion neurotoxin but not by other basic peptides, e.g., histone or aprotinin.
(4) A graded depolarization accompanied by nerve impulses can be recorded from the scorpion lateral and median eyes in response to light.
(5) We found that HIV Nef shares sequence and structural features with scorpion peptides known to interact with K+ channels.
(6) Although the insect-directed toxin has one atypical disulfide bridge, the general structural features of the scorpion toxin family, including the presence of a "conserved-hydrophobic" surface, seem to be well-conserved.
(7) To study the site of interaction, the effects of lidocaine, carbamazepine and another anticonvulsant drug, phenytoin on scorpion venom-enhanced specific binding of [3H]batrachotoxinin A 20-alpha-benzoate to the sodium channel gating complex were examined in vitro in a rat brain hippocampus preparation.
(8) The complete amino acid sequence (64 residues) of the AaH IV toxin from the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector was determined by automated Edman degradation and was compared with the sequences of other Androctonus toxins.
(9) 62 patients who had been stung by a red scorpion were admitted from January to December 1990: 18 with hypertension, 15 with supraventricular tachycardia, 11 with pulmonary oedema, and 18 with local pain at the site of sting but no systemic involvement.
(10) We claim that periodic waves mark the activity of a suboesophageal pace-maker and we propose a system of two pace-makers to explain the visual and locomotor circadian rhythms of scorpions.
(11) Three epitopes have been localized by immunoelectron microscopy on subunit Aa6 of the 4 x 6-meric hemocyanin of the scorpion Androctonus australis.
(12) Charybdotoxin isolated from the Israeli scorpion venom (Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus), also displaced [125I]-DpI binding, with a Ki of approximately 3 x 10(-9) M, although the displacement curve was shallower than with native DpI.
(13) We conclude that myocardial toxicity is a common and serious complication of scorpion stings in children.
(14) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
(15) We note the absence both of microtubules in the sperm of Centruroides and also of the centriole adjunct, which is present in other scorpion spermatids.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of toxin XI of the North African scorpion Buthus occitanus tunetanus has been elucidated by automatic sequencing of the reduced and alkylated toxin and of the peptides obtained after tryptic cleavage restricted to arginyl bonds.
(17) 22Na+ uptake through voltage-dependent Na+ channels is induced by veratridine and scorpion venom, and is inhibited 50% by 5 X 10(-7) M-tetrodotoxin and greater than 98% by 5 X 10(-6) M-tetrodotoxin.
(18) A seven-year-old girl, stung by a scorpion, was hospitalized in a confused state with signs of myocarditis and pulmonary edema.
(19) The observation that two classes of neuronal depolarizing agents (veratrine and scorpion venom) cause TTX-sensitive inhibition of basal ion transport establishes that NaCl absorption in flounder intestine is subject to regulation by enteric nerves located in the submucosa.
(20) The effects of the major neurotoxic fraction isolated from scorpion venom of Tityus serrulatus, TiTx gamma, on peripheral nerve membrane of Xenopus laevis were studied under current- and voltage-clamp conditions.