(1) Powell told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference in Liverpool on Monday: “I think my approach to these issues in parliament is going to be about making and winning the argument rather than a sort of ‘yah-boo’ traditional political discourse, because I don’t think that is going to enable us to develop that broader alliance.
(2) He had to do more than opt out of the yah-boo , smug sixth-form wordplay of the House of Commons.
(3) And as the only one in my flat of eight without a 'gap yah' behind me or a private school on my personal statement, perhaps I would have fitted in better in the cheaper halls – the boys were better looking there anyway... "Also, freshers' fairs are there to steal your student loan.
(4) You’d perhaps expect such a long trip to attract kids on a gap “yah”, funded by wealthy parents.
(5) What’s worst, however, is the bit when our girl and her boyfriend, a waistcoated, blond lump of “Yah”, go shopping for vinyl.
(6) It is this that will help restore confidence – not a sterile yah-boo about statutory this, that or the other.
(7) Hostile comments are mostly of the “yah boo sucks” abuse variety which are just water off a duck’s back.
(8) Log and timed reactivities corrected by baseline Grs did not differentiate the YAL from the YAH but showed a significant difference between the YAH and OAH.
(9) Switching back into that plummy voice again: "'Yah, you're very, very clever, mate, but there's more to life than being clever.'
(10) You’re not Jamaican.” Indeed he is not, but Morgan knew enough to reply referencing an old Jamaican proverb : “Mi cum ya fi drink milk, mi no cum yah fi count cow” – or mind your own business.
(11) "My intelligence is like a machete in the jungle," yahs PhD toff Jason.
(12) Two rat tumors, Morris hepatoma 7777 (MH) and Yoshida ascites hepatoma AH130 (YAH) were compared, and the influence of systemic inhibition of prostaglandin (PG) synthesis on muscle protein metabolism was evaluated.
(13) Treatment of rats with naproxen inhibited tumor PGE2 production and muscle protein loss in rats bearing YAH.
(14) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
(15) But beneath the yah-boo froth of politics, what is the truth of comparisons across the UK , and what does it mean for the future of the NHS?
(16) He hopes that the voters will "strip away the yah-boo" and see AV for what he believes it to be: "a pretty simple and relatively modest change" that offers an evolutionary improvement.
(17) For the sake of a brief partisan victory, for the chance to shout: "Yah boo sucks" at the hated tabloids, they are inviting political regulation of the press at a time when the web revolution allows not only newspapers but also large blogs and the websites of campaign groups to be "significant news publishers", to use the ominously vague phrase Labour and the Liberal Democrats are offering to the Commons tomorrow.
(18) A study is reported in which simple YAH maps were used to test the hypothesis that errors with misaligned maps would fall into categories predictable from the application of inappropriate cognitive operations to the misaligned maps, as demonstrated earlier by Rossano and Warren.
(19) "Late night politics, and the yah boo that goes with it, puts off a lot of potential women candidates, and the wider public.
(20) Patricia Hewitt, the women's minister in cabinet, yesterday warned that pressure was building across government and among Labour MPs to revert to what she describes as a form of late-night, hard-drinking "yah boo" politics that would leave the public even more disengaged from parliament.
Yam
Definition:
(n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(2) Yam 1B SN also inhibited DNA synthesis by human T and B lymphocytes and immunoglobulin generation by normal B cells as well as by Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B lymphoblastoid cell lines.
(3) The inhibitory activity of Yam 1B SN was inactivated at 56 degrees C and at pH 10 but was relatively stable at pH 2.
(4) TBTA exhibited a significant effect in vitro and in vivo on four yam rot fungal isolates tested.
(5) Fake meat diet Facebook Twitter Pinterest Impossible Foods’ plant-based mixture of potato and wheat, coconut fat, Japanese yam, vegetable broth, xanthan gum, sugars and amino acids is a dead ringer for the real thing.
(6) Yam, the staple food in several tropical countries, is a good source of the steroid used in the manufacture of the pill and other sex hormone preparations -- saponin diosgenin.
(7) In the early days of production of oral contraceptives (OCs), most yams were gathered from the wild in Mexico.
(8) In China, where Western corticosteroids are regarded as too expensive for the barefoot doctors, several species of yam are used.
(9) The classification of the YaM-55 strain with HAV was verified by specific serological studies and by molecular hybridization with cloned cDNA of HAV.
(10) To our knowledge only five cases have been reported (Chang-Lo, Yam & Rubenstone 1967; Chang-Lo et al.
(11) The complete amino acid sequence of acidic chitinase from yam (Dioscorea japonica) aerial tubers was determined.
(12) On July 25, the Jamaican Ministry of Health (JMH) contacted CDC for assistance in investigating the continued occurrence of THS; the collaborative JMH and CDC epidemiologic investigation focused on characterizing the epidemiology of THS in Jamaica and assessing the role of ackee fruit, renta yams, and other factors.
(13) A staphylolytic F2 enzyme from S. griseus S-35 and a chitinase [EC 3.2.1.14] from yam, both of which were completely inert toward M. lysodeikticus cell wall, passed through the adsorbent column.
(14) Zinc protoporphyrin levels, low in non-anemic infants, were slightly higher in 1st graders from all three neighborhoods; higher levels were found in both 3rd and 6th graders from Kiryat Yam, but only in 6th graders from Neve Shaanan.
(15) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
(16) The difference between London and a lot of other places is that London has been through it.” Neighbouring the Olympic stadium is Stratford indoor market, where West Indian yams sell alongside Polish sausages, cockles and whelks.
(17) The buffering capacity of some Nigerian local food substances was investigated using a modification of Toveys method (1974), Beans (red, and white), maize, rice (unprocessed with hull) and rice (unpolished) appeared to have high buffering capacity while yam, cassava and polished rice all showed weak buffering capacity.
(18) The First Section is a review of available data on molecular properties of the purified inhibitors from cereals, legumes, colocasia and yam.
(19) Yam glue was applied on the subjects' dorsal forearm.
(20) In Kiryat Yam, Pb(B) was higher in 31 children with ZPP greater than or equal to 40 micrograms dl-1 compared with 13 with ZPP less than 40 micrograms dl-1.