(1) In the end, I settled on having his career related by his long-term, and long-suffering, secretary, Tiro: another real historical figure who wrote a biography of Cicero that is, fortunately for my purposes, lost.
(2) Marcelo Amigo S (@conejosanchez23) Y Pinilla se tatuó el tiro al travesaño.
(3) Tiro is credited as one of the inventors of shorthand – he is said to have been the first man to record a session of the senate verbatim – and it seemed plausible that he would be on hand to record Cicero’s speeches and might also have attended his master’s private meetings with all his great allies and rivals: Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Caesar, Clodius and – at the end – Octavian.
(4) Tiro’s fictional biography spans more than a quarter of a century and draws in scores of characters.
Tyro
Definition:
(n.) A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence tyrO, tyrA, and aroF constitute an operon regulated by tyrR.
(2) When I first moved to Glasgow and was very much a tyro writer, I would occasionally wander off to Kelvingrove and potter.
(3) The radioligand [125I-Tyro]ovine CRF [( 125I] oCRF) was used to identify, characterize, and localize CRF receptors in a crude homogenate of mouse spleen.
(4) We have used PCR to identify 13 novel protein-tyrosine kinase genes (tyro-1 to -13), six of which (tyro-1 to -6) are preferentially expressed in the developing vertebrate nervous system.
(5) However, with 125I-Tyro-oCRF(34-41) as the radiolabeled ligand and Tyro-oCRF(34-41) as the standard, serial dilutions of CRF(1-41), CRF(36-41), and CRF(37-41) generated parallel displacement curves, and the molar cross-reactivities were 90%, 45% and 10% respectively.
(6) The rank order of potency of the unlabelled atrial natriuretic peptides for competing with specific 125I-ANF (101-126) binding sites was rANF (92-126) greater than rANF (101-126) greater than rANF (99-126) greater than rANF (103-126) greater than Tyro-Atriopeptin I greater than hANF (105-126) greater than rANF (1-126).
(7) In vitro receptor autoradiography, utilizing 125I-Tyro-ovine CRF, revealed correspondence between CRF binding sites and CRF-immunoreactive fibers in the cerebellar cortex.
(8) Rat, chick, and human CGRP and their synthetic analogues inhibited label binding in a dose-dependent manner with relative potencies as follows; chick greater than rat greater than human greater than [TyrO]rat CGRP.
(9) Yet the tyro managed to gather himself at two sets down, perhaps heeding the exhortations from his box to “Keep your head up Nick” (they might have omitted the up), and raced into a 3-0 lead in the third.
(10) 125I-Tyro rat CGRP binding sites were demonstrated throughout the rat central nervous system.
(11) But then Eriksen, the most understated of high-grade attacking midfielders, has always tended to operate by stealth, a gloriously talented 22-year-old who in his midweek post-training kit looks less like one of Europe's select band of tyro millionaire sportsmen and more like a trainee quantity surveyor just back from a lunchtime game of squash.
(12) Tyro-oCRF(34-41) was digested with trypsin and the reaction products were identified by amino acid analysis.
(13) The binding of 125I-[TyrO]rat CGRP to rat liver plasma membrane was time dependent, saturable and reversible.
(14) Rat CGRP and rat [Tyro]CGRP caused half-maximal effect at 2 nM, and were threefold more potent than human CGRP.
(15) In a pilot study, six postabsorptive young men received either 12- or 4-h infusions of [2H2]Phe and [1-13C]Tyr or [1-13C]Phe and [2H2]Tyro.
(16) The tyro-1 to -6 genes are all expressed during central nervous system neurogenesis and exhibit distinct and highly regionalized patterns of expression in the adult brain.
(17) Arya finally pitched up in Tywin Lannister's fastness, where she has become not just a poppet of a renegade tyro swordswoman but her dad's enemy's trainee cupbearer.
(18) The azide radical N3 reacts selectively with amino acids, in neutral solution preferentially with tryptophan (k (N3 + TrpH) = 4.1 X 10(9) dm3 mol(-1s-1) and in alkaline solution also with cysteine and tyrosine (k(N3 + CyS-) = 2.7 X 10(9) dm3 mol-1s-1) and k(N3 + TyrO-) equals 03.6 X 10(9) dm3 mol-1s-1).
(19) The nonhydrolyzable guanosine analogue guanosine 5'-(beta,gamma-imido)triphosphate was equipotent in causing a decrease in binding of 125I-[D-Tyro]NMB due to decreased receptor affinity in both cell types, without a change in receptor number, demonstrating that the NMB receptor remained coupled to a guanine nucleotide-binding protein in both native and transfected cells.
(20) In the present work, we have characterized by film radioautography the effects of divalent cations and guanine nucleotide on specific receptor for somatostatin (SRIF) using 125I-TyrO-DTrp8-SRIF14 (125I-ToD8-SRIF) as a ligand.