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Stein


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Steen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (2) The relationship of this component to the recently reported rod-outer-segment inhibitor protein [Yamazaki, Stein, Chernoff & Bitensky (1983) J. Biol.
  • (3) Within the period from 1959 to 1984 the development of diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities has been demonstrated in 68 cases of women with a Stein-Leventhal syndrome.
  • (4) Seven of these ten patients exhibited the clinical characteristics of Stein-Leventhal syndrome; of these, three had evidence of polycystic ovaries.
  • (5) Two distinctive patterns of discharge were observed which were similar to those reported for static and dynamic gamma-motoneurones during locomotion in the same preparation, but without paralysis (Murphy, Stein & Taylor, 1984).
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artwork by feminist Linda Stein adorns the waiting room of Choices Women’s Medical Center in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New York.
  • (7) At the Tokyo motor show, Herbert Diess, who runs the Volkswagen brand, and Sven Stein, the head of VW’s Japanese division, also apologised for the scandal.
  • (8) The diagnostic value of LRF was assessed by measuring the response of plasma levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) to a single iv injection of synthetic LRF in 29 normal subjects, 12 women with Stein-Leventhal syndrome, 8 patients with primary gonadal failure, 7 women with Sheehan's syndrome, 20 patients with pituitary tumors, 10 subjects with idiopathic gonadotropin deficiency, and 5 patients with hypothalamic tumors.
  • (9) The diagnosis was established by bronchoalveolar lavage associated with appropriate steining.
  • (10) So I’m just really optimistic.” A Morning Consult poll released on Sunday put the four-way split at Hillary Clinton at 39%, Donald Trump at 37%, Johnson at 8% – he was at 9% in the same poll earlier in August – and the Green party candidate, Jill Stein , at 3%.
  • (11) But no campaigner has gone as far as Stein, who said Obama was "another climate denier who basically sold out with just a little bit of window dressing".
  • (12) Prolactin and aldosterone secretion and renin activity in the plasma were measured in the course of thyroliberin (TRH) test in women with various endocrine diseases, both connected with the water-salt metabolism disturbances and without these--with the idiopathic edemas (n = 11), hypothyrosis (n = 16), Stein-Leventhal'syndrome (n = 6), and obesity (n = 8).
  • (13) She is perhaps more aggressive politically than Bernie and she is perhaps, some would say, less afraid, or less intimidated – or whatever it is, she has what Bernie has and perhaps more.” Stein is set to be confirmed as the Green party’s nominee on Saturday and is openly courting the seemingly large number of Sanders supporters who are reluctant or refusing to heed his call to support Clinton.
  • (14) The very people Corbyn and Stein condemn at home for their racism, they tacitly endorse abroad.
  • (15) They don’t want places where, as Gertrude Stein famously said of Los Angeles, “there is no there there”.
  • (16) Sections were steined with the avidin-biotin peroxidase complex method for keratin, vimentin, desmin and S-100 protein, the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method for lysozyme, and the direct immunoperoxidase method for IgA and secretory component.
  • (17) Tracheitis was incited by Ind-C, Stein, T-8, and A-2 at 5 days PI; the lesions were minimal to marked in severity.
  • (18) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (19) Acanthosis nigricans was diagnosed in the patient's second year and the syndrome of Stein-Leventhal at the age of 15.
  • (20) Stein Maternity Blues Scale and Beck Depression Inventory were used to collect data.

Stern


Definition:

  • (n.) The black tern.
  • (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
  • (v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
  • (v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
  • (v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
  • (v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
  • (a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (3) Quenching of intrinsic fluorescence of (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase by acrylamide, performed in the presence of Ca2+, gave evidence for a single class of tryptophan residues with Stern-Volmer constant (KSV) of 10 M-1.
  • (4) The death of your battery is now one of the factors that will push you to upgrade.” As Joanna Stern put it in her review of the iPhone 6s in the Wall Street Journal: “The No 1 thing people want in a smartphone is better battery life.
  • (5) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
  • (6) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
  • (7) Professor Lord Stern of the London School of Economics, the author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change for the Treasury in 2006, warned that if the pattern continued, the results would be dire.
  • (8) The influential economist, Lord Nicholas Stern, welcomed the proposal as "strong and reasonable" and "with the interests of developing countries at its heart".
  • (9) Tryptophanyl fluorescence of the lipoprotein assembly was quenched as indicated by a reduction in the effective Stern-Volmer constant.
  • (10) "There's funding that was agreed to as part of the Copenhagen accord, and as a general matter, the US is going to use its funds to go to countries that have indicated an interest to be part of the accord," the state department envoy, Todd Stern, told the Washington Post.
  • (11) 3.43am BST Spurs 57-56 Heat - 6:15 remaining, 3rd quarter And some thoughts via email from Daniel Vazquez-Paluch: I can't help wondering if LeBron is a victim of Stern's rule changes more than his own tendency to disappear.
  • (12) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
  • (13) Treatment with chymotrypsin to block the E1 to E2 transition results in a new set of quenching parameters which are unchanged with Na or K. Even after detergent denaturation (1% sodium dodecyl sulfate for 30 min), Stern-Volmer plots are nonlinear, and a significant fraction of tryptophan residues remain inaccessible to quencher.
  • (14) (At the time, he told shockjock Howard Stern on the record that he approved of it.)
  • (15) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
  • (16) At low quencher concentrations, the quenching follows the classical Stern-Volmer law.
  • (17) A couple of times I’ve raised my voice, been stern and they’ve responded.
  • (18) Quenching of pyrene fluorescence emission of labeled ATPase by acrylamide and cesium chloride gave linear Stern-Volmer plots.
  • (19) In a wide-ranging news conference at the end of the G7 summit in the Wetterstein Mountains in Germany, Obama issued a stern warning against Russia, accepted praise for the work of US prosecutors at confronting corruption in world soccer, gave the US supreme court advice on how to rule in an upcoming healthcare case and defended his immigration policies.
  • (20) Orthodontic treatment in those days, like life in general, was simple and stern.

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