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Woe


Definition:

  • (n.) A curse; a malediction.
  • (a.) Woeful; sorrowful.
  • (n.) Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
  • (2) If I’m the bad guy because I’m not the guy they want me to be, then so be it.” Over the last year he resolved his promotional woes in court and has since signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports – along with Miguel Cotto the nascent sports agency’s highest-profile signing in boxing.
  • (3) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
  • (4) Asked if Aamer would talk publicly about his experiences, Crider said: “I think he will make up his own mind about it, and really, woe betide the person who tries to silence Shaker Aamer.” She added that it would be up to him “how much of his story and the terrible things he witnessed that he wants to tell”.
  • (5) Plummeting oil prices only added to economic woes in a country with the world’s fourth-largest oil reserves.
  • (6) To add to their woes, the cost of their dollar-denominated debt is rising; the US Federal Reserve said December’s rate hike is just the start of a “gradual” tightening cycle .
  • (7) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
  • (8) The aluminium magnate's British-related woes do not stop there: a former business partner, Michael Cherney, is suing him for $4bn in the high court.
  • (9) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
  • (10) The woes of British industry were ­echoed right across Europe in November, as firms slashed production amid plunging demand from consumers in all the world's major markets.
  • (11) Clinton said her woes over her email server had been a “drip, drip, drip” that was impacting her.
  • (12) In an otherwise assured performance on Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show , Douglas Alexander – when urged to address Ed Miliband’s woes – resorted to the words of Harold Wilson.
  • (13) Buhari has presented himself as a born-again democrat who possesses the experience to steer the country through instability, currency woes and rampant corruption.
  • (14) Creative diplomacy is still much required in the Middle East, where it is hard to see how a dominantly military strategy against Islamic State can in itself, and even over time, bring a solution to the region’s woes.
  • (15) The unrest over rising petrol prices is only further adding to Nigeria's security woes: Jonathan already declared a state of emergency over the weekend in parts of the country hit by a growing Islamic insurgency that is fuelled in part by widespread poverty.
  • (16) But that may be the least of Ukip’s woes as it sups the bitter draught of victory.
  • (17) 7.31pm BST Nick Kyrgios's legs have gone to jelly and his heart is full of woe.
  • (18) It is not the cause of Spain's economic woes, but think of this: if everybody paid their dues, Spain's deficit would be zero.
  • (19) The result in some richer countries has been a political movement that blames globalisation for all woes and seeks somehow to wall off the economy from global trends rather than engage cooperatively with foreign nations.
  • (20) Probably... April 23, 2013 11.42am BST Analysts see little relief for Europe The continuing fall in Eurozone output this month ( see 9.19am ) led by Germany's shrinking private sector seconomy, shows that there's no improvement in Europe's woes.

Wye


Definition:

  • (n.) The letter Y.
  • (n.) A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results are broadly consistent with a more homogeneous environment for the Wye base in the presence of Mg2+.
  • (2) Then, in October 1998, as the newly appointed foreign minister, he astounded his acolytes by signing the Wye River agreement, facilitated in Maryland by President Bill Clinton, which granted Palestinians control over another 13% of the West Bank.
  • (3) After attending Rose Hill school, Tunbridge Wells, and Durham school, he dropped out of Wye Agricultural College in Kent in order to study acting at the Old Vic.
  • (4) They knew they had to go west, because the storm-troopers would be coming from the east; they got as far as Ross-on-Wye, where their passports and cameras were taken away.
  • (5) By way of escape, David headed for a hotel in Ross-on-Wye with an old lover, George Lassalle.
  • (6) An examination of the frameshift signals or proposed signals within published sequences of retroviruses and other genetic elements from higher animals shows that each site utilizes a tRNA which normally contains Wybutoxine (Wye) base or Queuine (Q) base in the anticodon loop.
  • (7) Work undertaken within the Wye basin, central Wales, demonstrates a complex distribution of fallout at the catchment scale, with the bulk of the deposition concentrated in a narrow north-south band, situated in the west central areas of the basin, which contained in excess of 1500 Bq m(-2) of (134)Cs.
  • (8) The complex conformational states of the anticodon loop of yeast tRNA(Phe) which we had previously studied with relaxation experiments by monitoring fluorescence of the naturally occurring Wye base, are analyzed using time and polarization resolved fluorescence measurements at varying counterion concentrations.
  • (9) Sky Arts has made a number of profile-raising deals, including sponsoring the Hay on Wye festival since 2007, backing English National Opera, and giving coverage last year to people occupying the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
  • (10) Rodney Mace Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire • With the new wall being built in Hungary ( Work begins on border fence to block migrants , 14 July), I am reminded of a conversation I had with a woman whose family has owned, since the 1920s, the apartment where I spent the night a few years ago.
  • (11) Phenylalanine transfer RNA (tRNAPhe) of mammalian tissues contains the hypermodified guanine derivative Y (Wye) adjacent to the 3'-end of the anticodon and two O-methylated bases in the 5' portion of the anticodon loop.
  • (12) Under pressure from the Clinton administration, he signed the Wye River Memorandum in October 1998, which included a pledge for an Israeli withdrawal from 13% of the West Bank as a step towards a final status agreement with the Palestinians.
  • (13) When [methyl-3H5methionine is added in the presence of actinomycin D, which blocks new RNA synthesis, label appears in the wye base of tRNA2Phe.
  • (14) Measurements of the Wye base fluorescence demonstrate that the isolated anticodon loop of tRNA(Phe) (15 nucleotide residues) has a binding constant K = 75 M-1 for Phe-amide, which is only slightly lower than that observed previously for the complete tRNA(Phe) (K = 100 M-1).
  • (15) Although the reactions of lithiated 7 with electrophiles gave the 2-substituted derivatives 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, and 22, lithiation of 1-benzyl-7-bromo-2-chlorowye (23) followed by treatment with Me2CHCH2CHO (13) successfully introduced a side chain at the 7-position to afford 1-benzyl-2-chloro-7-(1-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)wye (24).
  • (16) It could generate up to 8GW - 5% of the UK's energy needs • Shoots barrage - a scheme further upstream which would generate around 1GW, equivalent to a large fossil fuel plant • Beachley barrage - an even smaller scheme, just above the Wye River, which would generate around 625MW • Bridgwater Bay lagoon - a proposal which would impound a section of the estuary on the coast between east of Hinkley Point and Weston-super-Mare, which could generate 1.36GW • Fleming lagoon - a similar scheme which would generate the same amount of power from a section of the Welsh shore between Newport and the Severn road crossings.
  • (17) A fluorescent base wye (Yt base) was isolated from Torulopsis utilis tRNAPhe.
  • (18) Marks & Spencer, however, which claims to be the only UK supermarket selling only British asparagus, says it has 100% availability in all its stores, grown in Herefordshire in the Wye Valley under polytunnels .
  • (19) The NHS's Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) on Wednesday said that those three, plus Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS foundation trust, Aintree University Hospital NHS foundation trust in Liverpool and Wye Valley NHS trust in Herefordshire, all had unusually high death rates in 2012-13, as judged by the summary hospital-level mortality indicator ( SHMI ).
  • (20) A relaxation effect with a time constant of approximately 100 microseconds, indicated by the Wye base fluorescence, is attributed to a conformational change of the anticodon loop and is very similar to a corresponding transition observed previously for the whole tRNAPhe molecule.

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