(1) During this evolution the interior of the core blocks evolved as a homogeneous repetitive structure, while ancestor repeat units remained as sequence relicts in the terminal parts.
(2) Postoperative irradiation and chemotherapy effected relict of neurological symptoms.
(3) Biogenous sulphate reduction and accumulation of secondary H2S were caused by the action of pumping waters with a low content of mineral elements on carbonate collectors with a high concentration of relict H2S during long periods of time.
(4) The macronucleus may provide an important clue to early ciliate phylogeny, since we still have, among extant species, groups of distinct "karyological relicts" exhibiting the very features expected in hypothetical forms corresponding to postulated stages in macronuclear origin and evolution.
(5) In the North Bohemian region and East Bohemian region, only minor separate relict foci of tick-borne encephalitis were found.
(6) R751 shows no trace of the mercury resistance region, but contains a short relict of Tn501, derived from an independent insertion event.
(7) Though their genepool has been modified to some extent by immigrant genes, it is suggested that the Orcadians represent the remains of a relict population, in the same way as, but different from, those of the Gaelic fringe.
(8) This host-parasite association may represent an ecological-historical relict.
(9) In the beginning age of the intellectual evolution mutations have become a pruely negative relict of the declining phase of the biological evolution.
(10) There is evidence that the Shetlanders retain an element of an ultra-European population extreme in some gene frequencies and so, like the Orcadians, may be regarded as much diluted relict of an ancient population.
(11) The major hemoglobin component Hb A of the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, a relict of the rhynochocephalian reptiles that lived 200 million years ago, was investigated in the light of the apparent contradiction inherent in an effect of organic phosphate cofactors on the oxygen affinity of hemoglobins exhibiting hyperbolic oxygen equilibrium curves.
(12) The results of this study suggest that development and involution of the eye of Proteus are controlled by genetic factors which are not greatly influenced by environment, and one can, therefore, consider the microphthalmy of Proteus as a relict characteristic which is the result of a specific development with disturbance of the normal ontogenic process.
(13) Macaque distribution in the High Atlas is restricted to the Ourika valley where only a small relict population survives.
(14) Some more adults are infected very likely in coffee plantations or in the relict forest where the same vector species abounds and bites in daytime.
(15) The relationship of the groups of "relict" species to the predominant polyploid-macronucleate forms, with a direct impact on the classification system as well as ciliate evolution and phylogeny in general, is discussed in some detail.
(16) If Oklahoma insists on continuing the relict, needless, and barbaric practice of paralyzing executions, it should promulgate protocols and procedures that explicitly require that the medical practitioners who obtain IV access are certified, competent, and proficient in obtaining IV access and providing anesthetic monitoring.
(17) The Yungas primary forest may be also considered as a relict focus.
(18) In these cases, tooth extraction, removal of dental deposits, interrupted pulp treatment, apical periodontitis, or a relicted root were identified as causes of the development of erythema nodosum.
(19) Whenever it occurs there is a relationship with rain forest and this relationship is apparent in Gippsland, Australia which is not tropical but which contains isolated pockets of relict warm temperate rain forest.
(20) Infectious puma lentivirus (PLV) was isolated from several Florida panthers, a severely endangered relict puma subspecies inhabiting the Big Cypress Swamp and Everglades ecosystems in southern Florida.
Widow
Definition:
(n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
(a.) Widowed.
(v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
(v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
(v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
(v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of.
Example Sentences:
(1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(2) I thought she had been put out of her misery by marriage but now she is a widow.
(3) In the court of appeal, an agreement was arrived at between the widow of the deceased and the third-party insurance of the person responsible for the accident.
(4) Those with lower knowledge of AIDS were more likely to be separated, divorced or widowed, older, and more personally concerned about AIDS.
(5) Randall, a former banking computer analyst and a widower with two grownup daughters, learned on Wednesday that charges of "trafficking obscene material" had been dropped and he was to be deported.
(6) In his article, Adams also hits out at the controversial history archive in which ex-IRA members name Adams as the commander who gave the order for the widow to be killed and buried at a secret location.
(7) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(8) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
(9) The qualities of daughter versus same-sex friend relationships were described by 151 married and widowed elderly women.
(10) While companies such as Fidelity, Scottish Widows, Standard Life and Aviva will open for business, Royal London, Zurich, Axa and the Pru will not take calls until Tuesday.
(11) The mortality from tumours of the gastrointestinal tract in the Canadian population in 1970-72 was 16% higher in single than in married men (on the basis of age-adjusted rates), 25% higher in widowed men and 28% higher in divorced men.
(12) This is a right that EU citizens have been campaigning to protect as it accommodates the future care of widowed parents.
(13) Today we are starting a new series called ‘Facing my fear’, launching with an essay from a young widow who had to return to the city where she first met her late husband .
(14) Lloyds Banking Group, which includes the pension provider Scottish Widows, said it had received between 300 and 400 calls before 3pm.
(15) War widows and those on disability living allowance will be exempt from the cap.
(16) 'It seems that God punished him already,' said Hajra Catic, of the association representing the mothers and widows of 8,000 Muslim men and boys massacred by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica.
(17) Ben Emmerson QC, the lawyer acting for Litvinenko's widow, Marina, said Hague and David Cameron were "dancing to the Russian tarantella" and seeking to "cover up" evidence that the Russian state was behind Litvinenko's polonium poisoning in 2006.
(18) The long piece of cloth bearing the image of a man's face and body which is kept in Turin dates from at least 1357 when it was first displayed by the widow of a French knight.
(19) Demented patients were more liable to be placed in an institution, as were unmarried or widowed persons and people unable to prepare their own meals.
(20) Univariate comparisons showed that in both sexes undesirable life events and social problems were associated with emotional distress; in men the presence of physical symptoms and widowed, separated or divorced status also showed such an association.