Sentences with phrase «called cacophony»

A forward genetic screen in Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) identified mutant copies, or alleles, of a gene called cacophony associated with defects in autophagy and cellular homeostasis.

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I was in the Somali capital two years ago and every night, just before the call to prayer signaled the breaking of the fast, we'd hear a cacophony of mortar rounds and gunfights.

For seekers, believers, and skeptics, Collins has gathered flowers of prose — classic and contemporary — that quietly display the harmony between reason and faith, in contrast to what he calls «the cacophony of extreme voices dominating the microphones, bookshelves, and airways.»

The harmony of spirituality was transformed into a cacophony because each religion sought to overpower the other's call.

What provoked the howls was a cacophony of these sounds: gobbles and clucks, whines, purrs, waddles and putts, and Kee - Kee runs, all of them turkey calls, all failures.

While some teams practice amid piped - in cacophony, to simulate the din of a loud arena, Miami coach Dennis Erickson has always eschewed «the noise thing,» as he calls it.

But amidst the plethora of substantial, legitimate information, there is also a cacophony of foreboding, judgmental voices: «lactivist» blogs that compare formula feeding to child abuse; public message boards with calls to action - «I automatically feel sorry for the baby sitting in the cart in the formula aisle as their parent loads up on cans of the stuff.

The rest of the documentary descends into a cacophony of regulation - bashing, establishment figures criticising establishment figures and a healthy dose of name - calling.

Westchester Congressman Eliot Engel has joined the cacophony of area officials and residents calling on Con Edison to make some sort of restitution after some residents have been «literal...

Cameron defended the plan to include an elected second chamber in the Queen's speech despite the cacophony of calls from his own backbenchers to drop the bill: «I wouldn't for a moment say that this is the most important thing the government is doing.

Tel Aviv University researchers studied 15,000 Egyptian fruit bat calls over 75 days and pinpointed specific vocalizations in the cacophony for the first time.

Awake to a cacophony of bird calls and enjoy a delicious English Breakfast on the patio, with the sun filtering through the trees.

Alex Williams had an interesting story in the Styles section over the weekend examining whether the cacophony of messaging from environmental groups and leaders in recent years has resulted in meaningful change or amounts more to a sonic barrage that dulls as much as it inspires — what some call «green noise.»