(n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There would not have been too much negotiating to be done, even, in 2001 or 2002, because the Taliban's senior leadership made their approaches in a conciliatory manner, acknowledging the new order in the country," said Alex Strick von Linschoten, author of An Enemy We Created.
(2) Alex Strick van Linschoten, a leading analyst of the Taliban, said an announcement was unlikely in the near future.
(3) Using cDNA 48-1 in a simplified version of the protocol with which we had previously characterized the LR gene as a member of a retrogene family in mammals, we show in the present paper that the gene of this new transcript exhibits phylogenic, expression and amplification features that strickingly recall those of the LR gene.
(4) by falling sick of an uncomplicated irritation erythema, strickly localized.
(5) The most stricking finding of this study was the high percentage of additional psychopathological syndromes associated to alcoholism.
(6) Strick protein-sparing modified fasting is not without risk of sudden death even with close medical supervision.
(7) In this paper, it is demonstrated that superficial d. c. potentials detected on the skin of an amphibian are strickly correlated to the well-known skin ionic active transport mechanism and are quite independent of deep innervation.
(8) By strick adherence to indication, adequate preoperative preparations and very careful performance of the procedure, the complications of TBLB could be reduced to minimum.
(9) Taliban leaders have already rethought many of their notorious policies of the 1990s, Strick van Linschoten said.
(10) "In addition to this, their rethink of the official relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaida has been among the more significant developments," Strick van Linschoten said.
(11) Alone or with visceral involvement, cutaneous lesions frequently simulate periarteritis nodosa: circumscribed to abdomen, thighs, legs, dorsum of the feet, the livedo reticularis is the most stricking feature associated or not with cutaneous nodes, purple toes, ulcers and gangrene.
(12) This effect is strickly caused by diet used during pregnancy and is quickly reversible from one pregnancy to the following one in the same females.
(13) The histological examination of the lymph nodes shows a stricking relation between the T. and the N. This confirms the clinical conclusions.
(14) A stricking diminution of nocturnal desaturation and of the disorganisation of sleep was seen in responders to UPPP.
(15) Stricking differences were observed in the mechanism of interaction between staphylococcal serine proteinase and surface of human granulocytes or lymphocytes despite the fact that incubation of this enzyme with both types of cells leads to analogical decrease of proteinase activity.
(16) At present the tuberculosis sanatoria for children are not considered any more to be strickly uniprofile.
(17) Thus, our observations support the concept proposed by Schell and Strick (J. Neurosci.
(18) This protection was found to be strickly confined to the homologous sequences potentially implicated in recombination.
(19) Whereas the motor cortex is the primary target of cerebellar output (Asanuma et al., '83b), and the premotor cortex is the target of pallidal output (Schell and Strick, '84), the SN output appears to be directed more anteriorally--to the prefrontal cortex.
(20) Alex Strick van Linschoten, a Dutch academic who lives in Kandahar, said turnout in the city had been "extremely low".