(v. t.) To press back or down effectually; to crush down or out; to quell; to subdue; to supress; as, to repress sedition or rebellion; to repress the first risings of discontent.
(v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back.
(n.) The act of repressing.
Example Sentences:
(1) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
(2) Cellulase regulation appears to depend upon a complex relationship involving catabolite repression, inhibition, and induction.
(3) The sexual dimorphism in hepatic drug metabolism found in Crl:CD-1 mice is due to the normally repressive effects of testicular androgens on the activities of hepatic monooxygenases.
(4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(5) Transcription studies in vitro on repression of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli show that partially purified trp repressor binds specifically to DNA containing the trp operator with a repressor-operator dissociation constant of about 0.2 nM in 0.12 M salt at 37 degrees , a value consistent with the extent of trp operon regulation in vivo.
(6) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
(7) The direct physical interaction of p300 with enhancer elements provides a biochemical basis for the genetic evidence linking the E1A-mediated enhancer repression function with the p300-binding activity of E1A.
(8) In contrast, BTEB repressed the activity of a promoter containing BTE, a single GC box of the CYP1A1 gene that is stimulated by Sp1.
(9) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(10) Evidence is presented in support of a model for catabolite repression of the operon which involves a negative-acting transcriptional regulator which binds to the promoter region of the operon and prevents transcription.
(11) The paper postulates that 'anal or sphincter defensiveness' is one of the precursors of the repression barrier.
(12) Thus, the T cell-dependent suppression of IgE synthesis in B53 cells correlates with a specific inactivation of the immunoglobulin heavy chain enhancer, strongly suggesting that T cell-mediated suppression of Ig synthesis can normally occur through specific repression of Ig enhancer function.
(13) For example, it appears that homeotic genes expressed in posterior regions of the embryo (such as abd-A and Abd-B) repress the expression of those homeotic genes expressed in more anterior regions (such as Antp and Ubx).
(14) Although B12 supplementation results in a 10-fold repression of metE-lacZ expression, homocysteine addition to the growth medium overrides the B12-mediated repression.
(15) The cells show a repressed phenotype for IE expression but can be induced by inhibition of protein synthesis.
(16) Russia has no national museum of Stalin's repression but Moscow has two Gulag museums.
(17) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
(18) With glucose as a substrate, 2-deoxyglucose showed a strong permanent repression of M protein synthesis, whereas both glucose and 2-deoxyglucose caused temporary repression when sucrose was the substrate.
(19) It postulated that this competition is effectuated through the repression of the B cell function by the T1 lymphocyte killer effectors of the DH committed to the same antigen against which the "blasts" or the plasmoblasts (subsequently transformed into MC) were produced.
(20) Thus, constitutive expression of specific cytochrome P450 genes is repressed or activated in senescent rats.
Upheaval
Definition:
(n.) The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(2) It is clearly painful for her to keep talking about Larsson's death, and the ugliness and upheaval that has come since.
(3) During previous upheavals in relations, such as over the Syrian crisis, conversations have taken place between diplomats.
(4) Every now and again a leader would promise to reform the system, but it survived, even after upheavals as great as that represented by the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
(5) In its half-yearly health check, the Washington-based fund said the global economy remained fragile and stressed that high unemployment posed risks of social upheaval.
(6) Continuous expert nursing care must be provided to ensure that the patient survives life-threatening events and to facilitate optimal adaptation of the patient and family during this enormous emotional upheaval of their lives.
(7) What these constitutional amendments add up to is a cross-party agreement that the comprehensive health service will continue, a solid foundation for the health service after the upheavals and uncertainties of recent years.
(8) He said: "While GPs and other clinicians support the concept of clinically led commissioning, they do not believe that this expensive upheaval of the health service is needed to achieve that.
(9) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
(10) Less than a week after the fall of Mubarak, the professor received a phone call from the head of Egypt's national archives asking him to oversee a unique new project that would document the country's dramatic political and social upheaval this year and make it available for generations of Egyptians to come.
(11) He was 28), but it predicted – and I’m sorry to mention this – that “the relationship will have initial problems, and later, when in his early forties, a pattern of emotional upheaval emerges.
(12) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
(13) Terry adds that these hostile black recruits were "veterans of the civil rights movement or the urban upheavals, the riots in the streets.
(14) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
(15) This independent assessment also puts paid to Ed Miliband’s myth that the reforms were about privatisation, and highlights why both the public and the health sector should be wary of Labour’s plans for upheaval and reorganisation”, he added.
(16) Julie Bishop remains deputy Liberal leader and a ministerial shakeup looms after the leadership upheaval.
(17) Scientists confidently predict that the worst upheaval we humans face at the end of this, and indeed any other calendar, is the need to get a new calendar.
(18) Excuse me,” the hardliner says, “do you have a course handout?” Iranians often make jokes to digest political upheaval, and Trump’s rise to power has drawn comparisons with that of a leader closer to home – one whose eight years in office marked a deterioration in Iran-US relations.
(19) Scott Morrison has said he was “offended” and “disappointed” that his friend the broadcaster Ray Hadley pressed him to swear an oath on the Bible to prove he was telling the truth about his actions in the Liberal leadership upheaval.
(20) And they reflect a broader exhaustion: after two referendums and two national elections within 18 months, Scottish voters have minimal appetite for further upheaval.