How To Use A.k.a. In A Sentence

  • Fats render at one temp, water evaporates at another, collagens melt at another, sugar caramelizes at another, the Maillard reaction (a.k.a. browning of proteins) occurs at another, and carbonization (a.k.a. charring or burning) occurs at yet another temp. Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: The Most Important BBQ Concept For Backyard Cooks
  • Best of all, the mouthpiece of the U.S. administration — a.k.a. the New York Times — is writing that Mr. Obama has abandoned the goal of a denuclearized Korea in favor of “containment,” which in effect means renewed engagement. Being Kim Jong-Il
  • The CCR (Consumer Confidence Report) a.k.a. the "glossy brochure" is a highly regulated document we are required to produce on an annual basis by the EPA. Atrazine update (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Jung wrote an essay called "Wotan" and in it, he tried to understand developments under Hitler, in terms of the mythology of the god Odin, a.k.a. the Germanic god Wotan. The Existentialist Cowboy
  • As a result, many of us have thousands of old, unneeded files -- a.k.a. "cruft" -- cluttering our hard drives. PCWorld
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  • Steve and I travel to the bottom of the Americas to board a ship and cross the Drake Passage a.k.a. the Drake Shake, stormiest sea patch in the world to The White Continent, Antarctica. Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers
  • Not long ago I was wading a local river for smallmouth and mixed in with the day's catch were a bunch of chunky rock bass (a.k.a. redeye, goggle-eye and rock perch). Does Anyone Care About Rock Bass?
  • MotherJones. com around the question: Is organic and local so 2008? in the mid-'80s, an atmospheric physicist named Carl N. Hodges predicted that the key to saving the planet was to make the desert bloom-with a spindly saltwater plant known as salicornia, a.k.a. sea asparagus. MoJo Blogs and Articles
  • However, a service coordinator (a.k.a. orchestrator or choreographer) may want to invoke multiple services in a single transaction (ideally through a specified interaction like WS-AtomicTransactions).
  • Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock. Bird Cloud
  • Without the middleman (a.k.a. your employer) you can charge significantly more for your services — along the lines of what your employer was charging for your work.
  • Polypterus senegalus a.k.a. Senegal bichir a.k.a. Gray bichir a.k.a. "dinosaur eel", a "living fossil" fish, for its potential applicability for developing more advanced military body armor, vehicle armor Defense Review
  • Here over thirteen hundred footprints of the plant-eating apatosaurus a.k.a. brontosaurus and the carnivorous three-toed allosaurus, ripple marks, a few clams, a palm frond and some horsetails, fish bones, ooids have all solidified into solid rock. Bird Cloud
  • Quintanilla, a.k.a. Carnovsky, for Italian wallpaper company Jannelli & Volpi. Unplggd
  • There are ways for us to fight the office food demons - both food and people a.k.a. saboteurs (listed below) - but there is abigger problem at play here. Janice Taylor: The Obese Office: 39.3 Million Workdays Lost
  • MoondogAvant street-sound composer and multi-instrumentalist Moondog a.k.a. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 159
  • On the basis of the first volume, at least, there appear to be two basic psionic types - "teeps," a.k.a. telepaths, and "teeks," otherwise known as telekinetics - though one suspects that the currently imprisoned Colin has a little something extra. All articles at Blogcritics
  • Eric Schlange of the Banjo Hangout happily announced the launch of a Hangout for resonator guitar (a.k.a. "dobro") players. Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • EVOO, a.k.a. extra virgin olive oil, gets its title not because there is more oil in the bottle, rather, EVOO is in the least processed form and is the least acidic of the olive oils. FOXNews.com
  • The pile of fur we glimpsed through our binoculars was a sleek jumble of six or eight African painted wolves - a.k.a. the African wild dog - lying just 10 yards away in the dappled shade under the low-hanging scrub trees. ABC News: Top Stories
  • As a military member I am EXTREMELY offended that Hillary continuously "misrepresented" the truth (a.k.a. LIED) about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. NY Times slams Clinton's 'negativity'
  • Some well-understood examples of these sorts of mutations include the single base pair changes that lead to cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia or other, rarer hereditary diseases like familial dysautonomia or acid maltase disease (a.k.a. Glycogen storage disease type II or Pompe disease, as was featured in recent Harrison Ford flick Extraordinary Measures). Dr. Elaine Schattner: An Educated Medical Consumer: On Personal DNA Testing
  • If anyone other than a lib group "heckled"'the chosen one' (a.k.a. Baracula) we would have libs in the street gouging their eyeballs out with fear and outrage, screaming for someone's head on a platter. Obama Heckled over Don't Ask Don't Tell
  • One morning in late 1996, Taylor, a research scientist who worked at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (a.k.a., the Brain Bank), awoke with a sharp pain behind her left eye, and soon enough — as her speech and motor functions failed her, as she melted into what she called a euphoric stupor and lost all sense of where “Dr. Jill” ended and the rest of the universe began — she realized this was no ordinary headache. Hemorrhaging Nirvana
  • They are apt pupils of his bible, a.k.a. the F.A.Q. section of his Web site.
  • Central to Ensler's work is the idea that the tension between the sayable and the unsayable is created by the powers that be, a.k.a. patriarchy, hell-bent on suppressing what Ensler dubs the "girl cell. Jill Di Donato: It's My Fault; Or Is It?: A New Play Explores Rape As More Than a Four Letter Word
  • For use of frequencies in the 4960–4980 kilocycle range to overcome radio interference by solar storms a.k.a., the Dellinger effect, see SRH-355, pp. DAY OF DECEIT
  • That's one of the kookiest things I've ever heard from that googly-eyed cookie monster, a.k.a., Huckabee warns Palin: Don't leave GOP
  • These included the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development a.k.a. the World Bank, meant to provide aid for European reconstruction; the International Monetary Fund, meant to police and manage a new system of fixed exchange rates; and the International Trade Organization, meant to oversee a new international commercial order based on freer trade. How Wars end
  • Is Barack Obama getting ready to appoint Chicago fundraiser and former Citibank executive Louis B. Susman (he retired February 1 as vice chairman of Citigroup Global Markets) to the plumiest of ambassadorships: the U. S Ambassador to Britain (a.k.a. The Court of St. James's)? Carol Felsenthal: Ambassador to the Court of St. James's: Louis Susman
  • But wedding planners are taking the obsession to new heights as they prepare to face legions of lovebirds a.k.a. commoners looking to emulate the lavish affair. Boston.com Top Stories
  • Order a couple of c-(hili) dogs “all the way” (a.k.a. with onions) and an order of (onion) rings, chase it down with the F.O. and then drive yourself over to Grady Memorial Hospital to be treated for the heart attack and brain freeze forthcoming. Tuesday, August 18 – The Bleat.
  • This was my fourth trip in three decades to Benares (a.k.a. Varanasi), the holy city where the Varuna and the sacred Ganges Rivers join, gaining spiritual momentum as their currents rush to meet their destiny in the Bay of Bengal. Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India
  • He states that the varieties of beryl are aquamarine, emerald, morganite, and red beryl, but he does not mention heliodor (a.k.a. golden beryl) and goshenite.
  • Earlier today, Paul Preston, a.k.a., "pacified," posted a note on SoapBlox. net calling an end to the service, as Politico's Ben Smith reports: SoapBlox Burnout Points to Vulnerability in Left's Infrastructure
  • The two al-Qaeda members in Abu Sayyaf camps on Sept 12, 2001 were identified as Faisal al-Domlab a.k.a. Seeds of Terror
  • The snot otter, a.k.a. hellbender, is a giant salamander that oozes a slightly toxic slime. Green Movement's New Mascot: the Slimy Snot Otter
  • But our champagne coupes runnethed over when the taut-bodied café-crème-skinned new Josephine Baker, a.k.a. Brian Scott Bagley, leapt onto and around the stage in his J.B. wig and skirt made of a string of artificial bananas, as Ms. Baker once had in her famous Danse Sauvage. Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)
  • She needed to live a little all she ever did was hide behinnd school and books she was young let her live. jess got her into a car accident. and don't get me wrong jess is one of the best looking boyfriends rory has ever had, but he left her with no explanation and then tried to come back and tell her to runaway with him away from her mom a.k.a. her bestfriend besides lane. anyway rory and logan are so cute together and he didn't mess around on her they were broken up he didn't know they were on a break cause he never been in a real relationship before. GILMORE GIRLS SHOCKER! | the TV addict
  • And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection. FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
  • Here's my view of alliums, since you brought them here: First, despite being in the same family, your example of chives and bear garlic (a.k.a. ramson) are different plants inhabiting different ecologies and facing different selective pressures. A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
  • The surfer most falsely enamored of Autumn, Arran a.k.a. Shrimp
  • Austin, Texas-based funk-rock soul octette Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears are Black Joe Lewis, Sugarfoot Watkins, Big Show Varley, Wild Bill, Rooster Andrews, Slyder, McKnight (a.k.a. The Night Train), Zach Erlich, and Sleepy Ramirez. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-One
  • Late winter is the time for the annual courtship display of the American woodcock, a.k.a. timberdoodle. Undefined
  • Lottie Kimbrough, a.k.a. Lottie Beaman, was a Kansas City blueswoman nicknamed "Butterball. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty
  • In word-final position, it has been noted that there is a tendency of neutralization of stop contrasts, favouring aspiration a.k.a. "fortis". Archive 2008-01-01
  • Greg Roberts (a.k.a. "Fokker") is a research trader for a based hedge fund. Minyanville
  • This view is known as epiphenomenalism, a term coined by Thomas Henry Huxley, a.k.a. Darwin's bull-dog for his defense of evolution, though by the way while Thomas Huxley is a good name to know, I don't know how similar his views are to those of the contemporary guys we'll be talking about, and you'll only be tested on the modern guys. Planet Atheism
  • Blueberries (very close relative of huckleberry) and bakeapple berry (a.k.a. cloud berry). Favorite wild berry?
  • Last year, Wavves (a.k.a. Nathan Williams) emerged from the crowded, static-filled indie-rock underground thanks to an abundance of pop hooks that fought through the fuzz of his lo-fi home recordings. Getting Up Guide: Spoken-word showcase; Sly Fox brew tasting
  • The smaller drum, played with the dominant hand, is sometimes called dayan lit. "right"; a.k.a. dāhina, siddha, chattū but is correctly called the "tabla. Archive 2009-10-01
  • The paste is made from sugar, water and lemon and is rolled into a ball, which the technician (a.k.a. sugarer) rolls over the area where the hair is to be removed and flips it up sharply to remove the hair. Meg Hemphill: The Newest Oldest Form of Hair Removal
  • Some well-understood examples of these sorts of mutations include the single base pair changes that lead to cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia or other, rarer hereditary diseases like familial dysautonomia or acid maltase disease (a.k.a. Glycogen storage disease type II or Pompe disease, as was featured in recent Harrison Ford flick Extraordinary Measures). Dr. Elaine Schattner: An Educated Medical Consumer: On Personal DNA Testing
  • Without the middleman (a.k.a. your employer) you can charge significantly more for your services — along the lines of what your employer was charging for your work.
  • This is a picture of BushCo signing the "Partial-birth abortion ban" a.k.a. late-term abortion ban, if you're one o' them evil scientific "facty" types into law in 2003. Archive 2006-01-01
  • The first brakemen hired by the new company were drifters (a.k.a. boomers) off the railroads.
  • The smaller drum, played with the dominant hand, is sometimes called dayan lit. "right"; a.k.a. dāhina, siddha, chattū but is correctly called the "tabla. Archive 2009-10-01
  • For the record, since I'm starting this carry-over thread, keiths has just refuted the entire paradigm of evolutionary biology and indicted the whole 'culture war' being carried on by posers cloaking themselves in the mantle of science in order to pretend that their consensus theoretic is some kind of OBJECTIVE truth (a.k.a. per this argument 'absolute') about biological evolution. Carry-Over Thread
  • Locale codes (a.k.a. locale names or locale IDs) are based on locales as implemented in the underlying Java Internationalization framework.
  • And like my ancestors of the African diaspora, the Irish were once enslaved, a.k.a. Irene Monroe: St. Patrick's Day Parades, Black Church Share History Of Being Anti-Gay
  • When Stéphan (one door to the right) prepares scampi in coconut milk, he will prepare a plate for you and hand it over through your respective kitchen windows, a.k.a. the service hatch.
  • The kings were the biggest, handsomest fish and definitely the main event, but I also liked the chums a.k.a. dog salmon for their unlikely hideousness. Fool’s Paradise
  • They tend to think in images rather than words, focus on the big picture rather than the details, and go through life in a somewhat seat-of-the-pants a.k.a. scattered way. CNN.com
  • Luckily (or not), I don't qualify for the dread impot sur les grandes fortunes -- a.k.a. the "wealth" tax -- since my net worldwide assets are well under 732,000 euros. CASH IS KING
  • The judicial mind (a.k.a. bull-sh*t sensor is on high alert after reading this). Discourse.net: UF Law Professor Files Sex/Race Discrimination Lawsuit

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