(1) Yaya Touré, a holding midfielder pressganged into centre-back, hinted at his shortcomings as he body-checked Anderson in bewilderment after a minute.
(2) With new recruits lured or pressganged along the way, it has captured five oilfields and three cities, an 800-mile stretch of border with Syria.
(3) There have been increasing reports of conscripts having been pressganged or tricked into taking part in a covert war in Ukraine, and the Rusi report says enforcer units have been deployed to stop them fleeing the frontlines.
Pressman
Definition:
(n.) One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
(n.) One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.
(n.) One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.
Example Sentences:
(1) The release by glycyl-L-phenylalanine 2-naphthylamide (Gly-L-Phe-2-NNap) of endocytosed invertase associated with the MLP fraction (sum of the M, L and P fractions [de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux & Appelmans (1955) Biochem.
(2) Three different experimental approaches have been used to study the subcellular localization of the enzyme: (a) conventional differential centrifugation (De Duve, C., Pressman, B.C., Gianetto, R., Wattiaux, R. and Appelmans, F. (1955) Biochem.
(3) The Preston keeper saw his long kick take a bounce over the stranded Pressman and roll into the back of the net, securing his side a 1-1 draw.
(4) The portly Pressman later claimed he had been distracted by the sun; we'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
(5) The prostaglandins PGB2, PGE2 and PGF2 alpha were found to translocate calcium in a modified Pressman cell.
(6) The ionophoretic capabilities of phospholipids have been examined by direct measurement in a Pressman cell of the phospholipid-mediated translocation of cations across an organic phase separating two aqueous phases.
(7) When submandibular-gland homogenates were fractionated by the scheme developed for liver by de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux & Appelmans (1955), all the enzymes assayed, except cytochrome c oxidase, were found to occur partly in the soluble fraction and partly in the particulate fractions.
(8) The Na+ ionophoretic capability of various purified phospholipids and the modulating effects of bile acids and phosphatidylcholine was examined by: (a) measurement of 22Na+ partition into the organic phase (chloroform) of a two-phase system and (b) direct measurement of the translocation of 22Na+ across a bulk chloroform phase separating two aqueous phases in a Pressman cell.
(9) "Asked by a pressman if he would say a few last words to the American public before he left for his home, Coolidge replied: 'Yes — Goodbye'".
(10) 2) The fastest sending in British football is held by Sheffield Wednesday keeper Kevin Pressman - who was sent off after just 13 seconds for handling a shot from Wolverhampton's Temuri Ketsbaia outside the area during the opening weekend of this season.
(11) Family therapy theorists have been criticized for emphasizing shared responsibility and obscuring the seriousness of the violence (Bograd, 1989; Pressman, 1989).
(12) In 7 patients with true positive findings the Pressman Specificity Index, as measured from biopsied material, ranged from 1.5-3 in 4 patients and from 5 to greater than 100 in 3 patients.
(13) After differential centrifugation by the method of de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux & Appelmans [(1955) Biochem.
(14) The transport model initially proposed by Pressman and co-workers (Proc.
(15) As I once said to a pressman who observed that we were winning, but without firing on all cylinders, 'What do you want ...
(16) And the most recent to score from his kick-out is Andy Lonergan, who, since this fine piece of knowledge was originally published, managed to fire one past hapless Kevin Pressman at Leicester earlier this season.
(17) Anatomically the supraglottic larynx has been shown to be self contained as regards its boundaries and lymphatic compartments which tend to limit the spread of cancer arising within the region until it reaches the margins of the supraglottis (Pressman and Simon, 1961).
(18) The calcium translocation in a Pressman cell by this protein is selectively driven by a hydrogen ion gradient.
(19) We have investigated the distribution of several substances endocytosed by rat-liver, after isopycnic centrifugation in a sucrose gradient of the MLP fractions (de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux and Appelmans (1955) Biochem.J.
(20) Homogenates were fractioned by differential centrifugation, according to de Duve, Pressman, Gianetto, Wattiaux and Appelmans [(1955) Biochem.