Sentences with word «abortive»

I was immediately reminded of abortive attempts from the early days of home videophilia, when The Criterion Collection came out with LaserDiscs of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Bram Stoker's Dracula containing instructions for using that format's rudimentary chapter - programming to create different edits on the fly.

However, efforts made by DAILY POST to get the reaction of the State Police command proved abortive as of the time of filling this report.

We have shown that most CD4 T cells die as a result of an innate immune response launched against cytoplasmic viral DNA accumulating as a result of abortive infection in these «bystander» CD4 T cells.

Obilo, who started off at Radio Nigeria as a sports reporter, contact was not reachable to comment on the story as Nigeria Politics Online try to reach him but all efforts proved abortive as at the time of filling this report.

Both open with abortive space - docking action set - pieces, both involve brief explorative sections aboard the alien Derelict cruiser, and both tread the same hallowed ground of their source films with reverence that is sometimes so close to the films that it can be like playing someone's fan - fiction, in which they insert themselves into the story of the game as a way to replay the movie with themselves in the lead.

Thatcher, Major (especially), Blair and Brown were all undermined by rebellion, abortive coups and plots.

If he wants to find common ground with pro-life Christians why are the fines for refusing to pay through premiums for abortive drugs (read the FDA label on Ella) double that of the fines for companies like Enron who destroyed the pensions of thousands of employees?

As revealed in the Nature paper, this repetitive cycle of abortive infection, cell death, inflammation and recruitment of additional CD4 T cells to the infection «hot zone» ultimately destroys the immune system and causes AIDS.

Involved in such abortive efforts, we become more frustrated.

Given his spectacularly abortive run at the England job, being in control at Everton is arguably the closest the former Bolton man has got, or will get, to a big job in football.

There are still some who do succeed — if that's the right term — in keeping their figures down, especially if they have high levels of conditional fee work, or contingency work such as conveyancing where no charges are made on abortive work, and so only files with exchanged contracts are counted.

Formation of the network must occur in the transition from abortive initiation to promoter escape.

As one senior Labour figure declared, a Lib - Lab agreement would be «the ultimate fulfilment of the New Labour mission»: Tony Blair's abortive project to overcome the century - old Labour - Liberal schism under a reformed electoral system.

The researchers felt this reaction was «an incomplete or abortive form of penile erection.»

The MID and LOW populations gave rise to some of these stem cell colonies, but formed more mixed or abortive colonies that were partially positive for GCTM - 2 than did the HIGH or NEG fractions.

However, a government lawyer said that the pill is not abortive and that — while religious organizations are exempt from the mandate — secular, for - profit businesses are not.

Thoughtful piece but it neglected to draw the crucial distinction between abortive and non-abortive methods of birth control.

In 2012, when the Obama administration first proposed the so - called HHS mandate, requiring employers to provide insurance coverage that included free access to contraceptive and abortive drugs, it provided an exceedingly narrow religious exemption from the rule that echoed some of the distinctions first made in these earliest incarnations of the English tradition of toleration.

Despite the many distorted and self - destructive forms that drive takes, therapists who interpret these often abortive efforts as inadequate expressions of this basic drive can affirm them and build upon them.

by Walter Chaw Its title too easy a condemnation of the film itself, the otherwise - talented Carl Franklin's High Crimes is a sickly, by - the - numbers member of a proud lineage of films that includes such abortive boondoggles as The Presidio, A Few Good Men, The General's Daughter, True Crime, and eventually What Lies Beneath.

The Commons» leading civil servant has sent a clear signal he backs abortive plans to give more power to backbench MPs, in an unusual break from his silence on the issue.

It forms a conurbation with Preston and Leyland and in the 1970s there were abortive plans for the towns it to form part of a new Central Lancashire new town.

He added that all efforts by the community to control the river back to its normal channel proved abortive due to huge financial involvement.

Demonstrated that unsuccessful HIV infection of «bystander» CD4 T cells results in an accumulation of abortive HIV reverse transcripts that elicit innate antiviral and inflammatory responses and cell death in non-permissive cells.

There's Sam's abortive suicide attempt and agonizing writer's block; Joe's failing kidneys, unfair prison sentence, poverty and fatherlessness (he's inspired by a real person, but even so); a child's traumatic mutism, a caregiver's alcoholism and more.

These issues need to be addressed at the very outset to ensure that occupiers are not disappointed by final outcomes and that time is not wasted during the design process on abortive work or in trying to make a budget work to an un-affordable brief.

Near the threshold, you may sometimes see abortive responses, rather as you may step back onto the curb several times before finally running across the busy street.

After several abortive attempts, and at least three completed earlier novels, I found a buyer for the Spanish thriller, Semana Santa, which appeared in the UK in 1996, won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for first - time novelists, and went on to be published in several different languages around the world, then turned into a movie.

Yes, it's true that people do sometimes lose money during the selling and buying process, but it's only a small problem when we consider the much bigger picture — in over thirty years as a conveyancing solicitor I have not seen a huge amount of abortive transactions.

Protein — nucleic acid contacts help explain DNA and RNA strand separation, the specificity of RNA synthesis, «abortive cycling» during transcription initiation, and RNA and DNA translocation during transcription elongation.

Still stunning, those scenes of townsfolk looting every conceivable thing of value from the newly dead in The Wild Bunch's abortive opening bank heist — not unlike zombies perching on fresh meat.

The thing to note about this kind of abortive experiment is that it's not all that expensive.

The judicial trump card has given the American tramps and harlots, their rights to kill children at will without physical ailment being the souled culprit for abortive reasoning.

Are you going to force us to provide contraceptives that we consider to be of abortive factions?»

The Fall itself resulted from» man's abortive endeavor to seize godhead for himself.

Indeed, indigenization is a poisonous strategy stranded between the ethnocentric African myths and abortive westernization.

Any attempts to revive it, such as I myself am making, are likely to be abortive unless they can avoid some dangers into which the image has fallen in the past.

Everyone is supposed to be tolerant, yet government thinks it can force Catholics to perform abortive procedures to end the life of a living being.

This will show that Abraham's own initiative, although successful (for Ishmael is born), is definitely abortive and sterile.

Even if Gnosticism in its distinction from Christianity is recognized as finally abortive, the critic might argue that the rise of Christian existence as such presupposes Gnosticism.

midwestrail I know the President of Hobby Lobby and he would not invest in a company that manufactures or supports abortive services.

Saul's abortive attack on Jonathan anticipates the main plotline, his later assaults on his son - in - law, David.

Having declined two successive suggestions for husbands after a previous abortive engagement, she had said she would consider Amsdorf — or Luther.

a legacy of about # 2,000,000 to the emperor ensured the preservation of his treasures, while after long disputes and abortive revolts the.

The attempt by a minister who is new in a church to introduce the distribution of leadership principle quickly is usually abortive.

Mark Reinfeld: The seeds are bitter and spicy and you wouldn't want to eat too many of them, and also an interesting tidbit is they could have a slightly abortive effect also so definitely if you're expecting or pregnant you wouldn't want to have them.