(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.
Yaw
Definition:
(v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
(v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.
(n.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
Example Sentences:
(1) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(2) Primary care services had been hampered in controlling yaws by difficulties with transport, isolation, community resistance and the lack of skilled personel to diagnose yaws and arrange prophylactic treatment.
(3) Active and latent evidence of yaws was found only in the black race.
(4) Renewed programs for yaws control are under consideration.
(5) VOR was fairly well predicted by a current model, but our experiments revealed perceived change in attitude (roll, pitch, yaw tilt position in space) and perceived angular velocity in space that was not reflected by parallel changes in the plane or magnitude of the VOR.
(6) A full field (360 degrees) flight simulator projection system was used to investigate the sensations resulting from pitch, roll, and yaw stimuli at various head orientations.
(7) Since 1980, the annual reported incidence of yaws has declined.
(8) Positive treponemal serology, from yaws infection in childhood, was found in the serum in 92%, and in 19% also in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
(9) From 1950 to 1957, major programs for the eradication of yaws were implemented throughout the region, and yaws rapidly ceased to be a threat.
(10) Analysis of blood groups of the 81 patients reactive to the Treponema pallidum immobilisation (TPI) test, who were considered to have latent or inactive yaws, compared with a control group of 552 healthy Balinese, showed that the ratio of MM to MN and NN phenotypes was 2.25 times higher in the patients than in the controls (chi 2(1) = 10.2, p less than 0.005).
(11) Yaw eye in head (Eh) and head on body velocities (Hb) were measured in two monkeys that ran around the perimeter of a circular platform in darkness.
(12) The campaign staff compiled detailed information on the epidemiology of yaws in Ghana.
(13) Single units that responded to yaw rotation were recorded extracellularly in the caudal inferior olive (IO) of barbiturate-anesthetized cats.
(14) It was performed concurrently with a survey and selective mass treatment campaign for yaws which has reappeared in the area for the first time in 20 years.
(15) However, the curtailment of yaws control activity allowed the reservoir of untreated yaws to grow unchecked, and the number of reported cases of active yaws has increased in certain parts of Africa, especially in West Africa.
(16) The conflict sickness symptom score in the pitch plane was significantly higher than that in the yaw plane for the initial exposure session (p less than 0.01).
(17) Yaws and pinta are continuing to decline to very low levels in the Americas.
(18) This proportion indicates that clinical screening alone is not sufficient to evaluate the endemic yaws level in a population.
(19) The thesis of this paper is that yaws programs have been deficient in failing to aggressively seek and contain yaws cases and contacts after mass treatment campaigns reduced yaws prevalence to low levels.
(20) Yaws was a significant health problem in Papua New Guinea until the nationwide total mass treatment campaign, which took place from 1953 to 1958.