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Wong


Definition:

  • (n.) A field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AT1 receptors appear to mediate the major cardiovascular effects of angiotensin II, whereas no known physiological properties appear to be coupled to AT2 binding sites (Wong PC, et al, J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1990;255:584-592).
  • (2) Boey and Wong suggested that omental patch closure is indicated for "acute ulcers associated with drug ingestion or acute stress" in addition to those that occur in patients who are considered to be poor risk, while proximal gastric vagotomy should be added in the remaining patients with perforations of acute ulcers.
  • (3) People are criticising what we are doing as pointless and saying we won’t achieve anything, but history has shown us that is not the case,” student leader Joshua Wong told the crowd last week.
  • (4) Labor’s Senate leader, Penny Wong, argued it was up to the Senate to act because of the failure of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, to act.
  • (5) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
  • (6) Binding of fluorescent labeled anti-HMG-T to these subunits clearly supports the notion that this protein is associated not with the nucleosome core but rather with the internucleosomal linker regions, and previously suggested (Levy W., B., Wong, N.C.W., and Dixon, G. H. (1977) Proc.
  • (7) Joshua Wong, the teenage activist who was one of the most recognisable faces of Hong Kong’s umbrella movement protests, has been found guilty of “illegal assembly” by a court in the former British colony.
  • (8) A., Ma, D.-P., Wilson, R. K., and Wong, J.F.-H. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (9) Wong says he has been shocked by its silence at critical moments and is scathing overall: “It just focuses on trade deals.” And that, perhaps, is the subtext of the new documentary’s title.
  • (10) The meeting ended in chaos after even longer periods of sleeplessness than Kyoto, with then climate change minister Penny Wong looking close to collapse at a 4am press conference.
  • (11) Joshua Wong, a 17-year-old student in Hong Kong , had a problem.
  • (12) Two of the pro-democracy leaders Benny Tai, a co-founder of Occupy Central, and 17-year-old student activist Joshua Wong urged their supporters as the clashes broke out to leave Mongkok for their own safety and concentrate on the protests around the government complex in Admiralty.
  • (13) It is understood Robb and Wong have already had talks.
  • (14) Refusing to enter trade agreements will allow our competitors to gain market share at Australia’s expense.” Wong uses the example of the Korean free trade agreement (Kafta), which will cut tariffs on beef, now projected to increase Australian beef exports by 57% in real terms by 2029.
  • (15) 11.28pm GMT Kolten Wong As mentioned in the preamble, Wong apologised on twitter after the game, after holding back tears describing how he slipped getting back to first base.
  • (16) Wong, 19, and fellow activist Alex Chow, who is 25, had been convicted last month of unlawfully entering a fenced off area outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters on 26 September 2014.
  • (17) I’m working up to the second I go to sleep.” Law says – with affection – that Wong is a robot, without a second life: “His growing-up time was in politics.
  • (18) Mr Newman’s public comments go well beyond what would be regarded as acceptable debate in this country,” Wong said.
  • (19) Prof John Wong of the University of Sydney, an expert on Sun's life, said he had no knowledge of such wards.
  • (20) So, I hope this doesn’t preside some kind of understanding about preferences in House of Representatives elections between the Coalition and the Greens.” On Tuesday Labor’s leader in the senate, Penny Wong, spoke vociferously against the changes.

Wont


Definition:

  • (a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
  • (n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
  • (imp.) of Wont
  • (p. p.) of Wont
  • (v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
  • (v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
  • (2) Atlético are sitting deep, and Real have no space to release Ronaldo or Bale into, as is their wont.
  • (3) Tennyson was wont to stride out over the downland, with its dramatic sea views towards the Needles.
  • (4) Meanwhile, as is apparently his wont, Slutski has allowed a few minutes of a half to go by before making a substitution.
  • (5) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
  • (6) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
  • (7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
  • (8) you just contact us Assange: 2010 03 17 22:57:52 but don't disappear without saying why for an extended period or I'll get worried;) Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:03 i wont Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58:16 you'll know if something's wrong Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:39 ok Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58 57 you can just tell me "all the ships came in" The bank documents Early on in the chat logs, Assange mentions getting hold of data for a major American bank.
  • (9) Unlike income, which has been vigorously taxed since the mid-19th century and therefore recorded, personal wealth was, after 1979, the subject of a half-hearted cat-and-mouse game in which the cat and the mouse were wont to share yachting trips to the Aegean on a regular basis.
  • (10) Many are ill-trained and poorly disciplined, wont to shoot randomly into the sky in frustration at bombing raids, but their courage and dedication is not in doubt.
  • (11) He wont leave a venue – ignoring my frantic watch pointing and finger across the throat signals — before everyone has had their book signed and their photo taken with him.
  • (12) Fronting a forum like this and just repeating a tired mantra wont fool anyone – it actually just damages our international credibility.” But she welcomed the federal government’s “commitment to ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, which will ensure that many state laws, such as those governing adoption, will be improved over the coming months”.
  • (13) Turkey's PM erupted, as he is wont to do, and put the squeeze on Milliyet .
  • (14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
  • (15) They put in a number of safety measures: you wont find any manoeuvres over crowds, they’re done at a distance so that if a plane does come down it won’t come down on other people.
  • (16) Updated at 9.06am GMT 9.02am GMT Roux draws attention to, but then says he wont deal with, a message about Steenkamp's supposed drug use , as it is a "reflection of the deceased not the accused".
  • (17) Just as South Africa opened their World Cup with a goal that will be remembered forever, so England, as is their wont, contrived to open theirs with a goalkeeping blunder that will never be forgotten.
  • (18) Skrtel wrote: “After all rumours going around, I want to say the time I will spend on sideline wont be 3 months.
  • (19) Morrison, in her late 60s then, was at the height of her powers, a Nobel laureate with a famously low tolerance for journalists and critics, and a personal style as distinctive as her prose: silver dreadlocks, sharp, unwavering eye contact and a manner of speech – when she did speak – that, to her annoyance, people were wont to call poetry.
  • (20) Republican candidates for president are also wont to criticize the Federal Reserve, but for the opposite reasons from Sanders.

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