(1) Speaking as the debate was going on earlier in the day, Paul Spinks, the manager of a day nursery, explained that he and his partner were waiting until the gay marriage law was passed to commit to one another legally.
(2) Jack said Muhammad Ali and Leon Spink s, for the heavyweight title.
(3) In February 1978, he lost the title to the workaday Leon Spinks and regained it once again that September – but tiredly, for now the feet were flat, the reflexes dull, the senses dimmed.
(4) Two months earlier Mike Tyson had knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
(5) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
(6) Spink had made only one previous appearance in the first team but went on to excel, keep a clean sheet as Villa beat Bayern 1-0.
(7) Spinks advocated centralized coordination of policy, an approach deliberately rejected in 1981 by the Government in favour of continued pluralism, with each of the scientific research councils and various ministries 'doing their own thing'.
(8) The industrial progress and dissemination of biotechnology has been slower than Spinks implied, but we have a clear understanding of the importance of such contributors to the climate for investment as balanced regulation, training and public perception.
(9) Three years later, Aston Villa's rookie goalkeeper Nigel Spink was summoned from the bench after 10 minutes to replace the injured Jimmy Rimmer.
(10) There's no way they'll let Spinks win – the fight business won't make a dime.
(11) October 3, 2012 Updated at 8.42pm BST 8.07pm BST Shaun Spink with the University of Denver vacuums on the stage prior to the first presidential debate at Magness Arena at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, October 3, 2012.
(12) You can limit palm oil, you can be careful about how you produce it, but I think it’s quite wrong to prevent it.” Rosie J Spinks is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in GOOD Magazine, Marie Claire, The Ecologist, Sierra Magazine, and EcoSalon.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emily Spink: ‘If there’s one thing that has come out of this whole sorry tale, I will not hear a word against the NHS.’ Photograph: Jim Wileman for the Guardian My partner stabbed me in the back Emily Spink never dreamed her then partner would hurt her.
(14) * This name has been changed Rosie Spinks started the Three Course Story project in 2013, interviewing attendees at North London Action for the Homeless (NLAH), a Hackney-based charity that serves a meal twice a week to anyone who needs it – most are homeless, socially isolated, mentally ill, immigrants or those struggling with addiction.
(15) Retired In 1978, after winning the title for a third time by avenging a loss to Leon Spinks, Ali retired.
(16) The establishment of a research-orientated biotechnology company was one of the recommendations of the Spinks Committee.
(17) Jayne Spink, the director of policy and research at the MS Society, said: "There is still a long way to go before the palliative and end of life care offered to people with MS is the best it can be.
(18) With possibly two more golds to come, Robert McCracken's excellent squad are poised to become the best British boxing team of modern times, better even than the heroes of Melbourne, 1956, when Terry Spinks and Dick McTaggart each won gold.
(19) A previous Essex defector (remember Bob Spink anyone?)
(20) Government policy towards biotechnology has come a long way since the Spinks Report.
Spiny
Definition:
(a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.
(a.) Like a spine in shape; slender.
(a.) Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.
(n.) See Spinny.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that: (1) catecholaminergic (mainly dopaminergic) and prefrontal cortical terminals in the nucleus accumbens septi dually synapse on common spiny neurons; and (2) dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area receive monosynaptic input from prefrontal cortical afferents.
(2) The responses of a population of 30 olfactory receptor cells from spiny lobsters to 8 behaviorally relevant complex types of stimuli at 0.005, 0.05 and 0.5 mM were analyzed using multidimensional scaling to evaluate their potential for coding quality and intensity.
(3) Extracellular responses to complex biologically relevant stimuli were recorded from 30 primary olfactory cells from excised antennules of spiny lobsters.
(4) Earlier studies identified purinergic chemoreceptors in the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.
(5) We speculate that in the adult neostriatum, the protein may be important in the remodeling of synapses onto medium spiny neurons that involve, in part, the corticostriatal pathway.
(6) Tissue from the digitiform rectal gland of the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, was fixed briefly by formaldehyde perfusion and studied for the specificity and localization of p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (NPP'ase) activity.
(7) Type 2 multipolar cells are large neurons endowed with numerous primary spiny dendrites constituting a wide round dendritic field and with a thick axon.
(8) Spiny seahorse lives among a rare marine plant called eelgrass, which only grows in shallow sheltered seas in south-west England.
(9) The axon of the spiny type II neuron is long and has collaterals which are poorly arborized in comparison to those of spiny type I cells.
(10) Neurons of medium size with spine-rich dendrites (spiny type I) are the most frequent type.
(11) When taken together these cases show that just over 50% of the degenerating terminals are presynaptic to spiny appendages and are located within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli) described previously (King, '76).
(12) The external surface of the hypostome possesses cnidocils, possibly sensory hairs, and small spiny protrusions surrounding the mouth; the internal surface has cylindrical microvilli, free flagella and adherent flagella.
(13) Finally, they are at variance with the classical concept which subdivides cortical neurons into projection neurons (pyramidal and spiny stellate) and interneurons (non-pyramidal, local circuit neurons).
(14) Leishmania braziliensis panamensis has been isolated in culture from one spiny-pocket mouse (Heteromys dermarestianus) out of 43 examined, proving that rodents of this genus can be reservoirs of Leishmania of the braziliensis complex as well as of mexicana in Latin America.
(15) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
(16) The naturally occurring dynamics of presynaptic axon terminals were investigated in the dentate gyrus and stratum lucidum of the spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) during maturation, adulthood and aging.
(17) Light and electron microscopy showed intense and extensive labeling of immunoreactive calbindin-D28k in the cell bodies, dendrites, and spines of medium-sized neostriatal spiny neurons and in their axon terminals which end in the globus pallidus.
(18) The SFGS was seen to contain pyramidal neurons with spiny dendrites in the SM, together with fusiform, multipolar and horizontal neurons.
(19) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
(20) This is a report of experiments which provide evidence in support of the existence of an electric sense in the echidna, or spiny anteater Tachyglossus aculeatus.