How To Use Known In A Sentence

Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
Spending on a perennial effort to expand gambling at race tracks, known as "racino," increased four-fold to about $620,000 in 2010. StarTribune.com rss feed
The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The Yellow Wallpaper is the masterpiece of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a wellknown American feminist pioneer and writer.
Howie is a well-known writer and clown.

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The causes of asthma are not fully known but it is partly an allergic condition.
Norman Neal Williams had been a transient, they learned, an itinerant vitamin salesman with no known relatives. MORE TALES OF THE CITY
In some parts, the infection is popularly known as "pinkeye" because it turns the whites of the eyes pink. Dealing with Conjunctivitis
This type of political perversion of the law was well known during Hitler's fascist dictatorship.
Helen Hunt Jackson was a known activist who campaigned for the rights of the Native American Indians.
Qiao Gong Fang Gems is a professional supplier of high-quality jewelry gemstones in Wuzhou which famous known as "the capital of artificial gem in the world".
Both were well known in this close-knit community and deepest sympathy is extended to their families.
Could the hearts of kings and the counsels of cabinets be known with that literal exactness which is so desirable in politics, and yet so unattainable, we should probably find that Prussia's apparent readiness to lead Germany was owing to her determination that German armies should be led nowhere to the assistance of Austria. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.
In an attempt to thwart piracy of its music, the label equipped a collection of 52 album releases with a type of software known as a rootkit. ITnews Australia
Our friendship is a triumph of overcoming every known barrier.
Yet, some studies have suggested some kids with ADHD benefit from an elimination, also known as a hypoallergenic, diet. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
As it stands, Earle is today probably best known more as a radical than as a rocker.
The voluntary muscles are regulated by the parts of the brain known as the cerebral motor cortex and the cerebellum.
In other words, he was responsible for formal receptions - known as levees - and dinners.
Calcification of a part of the brain known as the falx cerebri Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.
But a tiny, naturally-occurring steviol glycoside constituent (about two to four percent of a whole leaf) of the plant, called rebaudioside A (also known as reb A, rebiana, stevia extract), was passed into Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) status by the FDA in 2008. Pooja R. Mottl: Can Stevia Solve Our Obsession With Sweetness?
Secondly, the other direction, that is, the completeness part, is proved by what is really known as the Lindenbaum-Tarski method. Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic
The youth he rescued, known only as a Mr Thorpe, was treated in the casualty department at Middlesbrough General.
Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching. 2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
Northampton was another elegant county town and regional market centre and was known far and wide for its horse fairs.
It is well known that if a trait is heritable, the easiest and most practical way to change the trait in a herd of cattle is through selection of the sire.
For perciform fishes, the pectoral fin and tail are known to play important roles in propulsion and there is now a substantial literature on the function of these fins.
Meteorologists have known since 1946 that dry ice sprinkled on clouds can cause rain to fall.
By the term contracted foot, otherwise known as hoof-bound, is indicated a condition in which the foot, more especially the posterior half of it, is, or becomes, narrower from side to side than is normal. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
They claim the vermin-annoyers show no consistent success or, sometimes, no success at all. They're not approved for use by commercial pest-control companies because not enough is known about potential side effects.
When women give up their souls to the ultimate colonization known as heteronormative existence, they lose their shot at greatness. Women's Space
A pupa covered by the hardened 3rd larval skin is known as a coarctate pupa..
The helicopter then touches down so that the same man, known as a mugger, can dash in and use a syringe to administer a mild sedative to the animal. Craigdailypress.com stories
There were times in my life when I didn't feel known or understood. The Sun
Boschi, who trained with Passignano in the late 1580s, is known today principally to specialists, but he enjoyed a considerable degree of popularity in the early seicento.
Dr. Kristina Durante of The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues found that young women felt more attractive when they had high levels of an estrogen known as estradiol, and they acted on those feelings. Whoar.co.nz
Fashion outlets, also known as discount warehouse stores, are large shopping areas often located on a city's outskirts.
Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formulæ, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
Although, the protein utilized a number of fatty acids as substrate such as propionic acid, hexanoic acid, decanoic acid, lauric acid, palmitic acid, stearic acid and oleic acid (data not shown) as is the case with many other known Fatty Acyl-CoA Synthetases PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
similar to the tangerine"; kalamansi, meanwhile, also known as calamondin orange, is a naturally-occurring hybrid between a type of tangerine and a type of kumquat. FoodNavigator RSS
They found striking similarities between Argonaute structures and proteins that happened to exhibit a particular kind of "cooperative binding" known as allostery. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
The moon passing through the outer region of the Earth's shadow, known as the penumbra, will be visible from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia's west coast at Stars and Stripes
The panic I felt was the risk of fact obliteration, or an inversion of truths, all the truths I had known. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Whoever seeks to export such a system has to be aware of the unforeseeable consequences this model can have in an unknown environment.
This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
The masseuse said she'd never known anyone with such knotted shoulders.
Pfizer emphasized the halt was limited to patients participating in clinical testing who suffered from a joint disorder known as osteoarthritis, although the company is slated to meet with the FDA later this week to assess any implications for other programs. Pfizer Suspends Trials of Pain Drug After FDA Request
We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed". Country diary: Malvern Hills
Books in digital format, also known as e-books, can be read on devices lacking the power and screen space to afford a regular Web browser.
I've known Chastity since she was young, and this girl was a total tomboy.
Several questions ran through our heads as we made our way past the numerous coffee shops and bundled up against the swirling winds the port city is known for.
In 2004, when Merck's brand of simvastatin, known as Zocor, was about to go off patent, Merck teamed up with Schering-Plough to produce a new patented product called Vytorin, a combination of simvastatin and Zetia. Zetia: Down for the count?
With the theme of "One Asia, new economic order and recovery", the World Knowledge Forum, also known as Asia's Davos Forum, was unveiled in Seoul Wednesday.
Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Those qualities were instead projected on to a father he had barely known and a figure he invented in fiction. Times, Sunday Times
Copper is known to be taken into solution as copper sulphate at the surface, and to be redeposited as chalcocite where these sulphate solutions come in contact with chalcopyrite or pyrite below. The Economic Aspect of Geology
A disintegration per second is also known as a Becquerel (Bq).
Chandler said the surf got enormous on a weekend, bringing in the monster numbers of moon jellyfish (technically known as aurelia aurita). Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast
What has become the largest event in Camarillo, the Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival welcomes a prestigious line up of well-known musicians and artists that will entertain and delight visitors over the entire weekend period. Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival August 10th – August 12th
At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted, an effect known as organic overload, allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive.
The first hand-held phones, affectionately known as "bricks", were still big and bulky, only made voice calls, and cost more than $4000.
Following his study of the game of dice, he became known as the founder of the theory of probabilistics.
Scented candles, especially the industrial strength and size that many people light around the holidays, give off more than fragrance-studies show they produce tiny bits of pollution known as particulates that can inflame the respiratory tract and aggravate asthma, Dr. Sublett says. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
This is common and in most cases the cause is unknown. The Sun
Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity. From This Beloved Hour
Bond No.9, the perfumer known for naming their scents after various New York neighborhoods, is about to get high...lined. Now You Can Smell Like The High Line!
Had I known my ample posterior would have caused such a stir I would gladly have done anything to be less brazen.
The first is the back-and-forth meandering pattern known as boustrophedon.
Topographic and geological maps are the next stop to identify likely areas based on physical features such as sinkholes, known outcrops of cave forming rocks, and known cave locations.
I was studying a phenomenon known since 1908 as the phototaxy of chloroplasts: the property of some algae living at the surface of ponds to orient their large unique chloroplast according to the intensity of light; if the light was too intense, the chloroplast turned inside the tubular cell to present its edge. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
The Australian Alps are also known for the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) which aestivate in the mountains each summer. Australian Alps montane grasslands
Its name commemorates Voli Voli Cave (one of the discovery sites) and Atholl Anderson, well known for his many contributions to the prehistory and palaeoecology of south-west Pacific islands. The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific
When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
It is known as the substructure of B generated by X, and we find it by first adding to X all the elements cB where c are individual constants of K, and then closing off under the functions First-order Model Theory
The final episode of this hard-hitting series delves into little-known horrors behind history. The Sun
But nothing prepared them for life in this squatters' community of Tijuana, a city of three million souls that is known as the Wild West of Mexico's northward immigration.
Alkaline relatively stable sodium hypochlorite solution, commonly known as An Ti Ming.
Madame Grès, born Germaine Krebs, was once as well-known as her contemporary Coco Chanel, but while Ms. Chanel sold mass-produced ready-to-wear, Ms. Grès designed only hand-made haute couture that sold first as the label "Alix" and later as "Madame Grès. Collecting Vintage Dresses Like Art
It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers.
The cause of arteritis is unknown in many instances, but parasitic invasion and contiguous involvement of vessels in some inflammatory injuries are etiological factors. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
Also well known is hydrophobia, literally ‘fear of water ‘, as a name for rabies, which sometimes appears to cause such a sensation in sufferers because it makes the throat swell and so it becomes difficult for the victim to swallow.’
Additionally, FDA officials decided the drug must carry a warning on its label stating, "An increased rate of stroke was observed following Xarelto discontinuation in clinical trials" in patients with the faulty heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation. FDA Approves Anticlotting Drug
'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
Sitting astride it is the string of small islands known as the Andamans.
It is a well-known fact that our cities are being overrun by foxes. Times, Sunday Times
There is no known cure for hebephilia and no effective initial screening mechanism, says psychologist James Cantor, who leads a team of researchers from Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and other hospitals in studying the role of the brain in causing pedophilia and hebephilia. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Slide 52: Arginine vasopressin (hypothalamus) - formerly known as antidiuretic hormone, stimulated by changes in effective circulating volume. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Talking to BBC Leeds, Mr Silverman said that every Friday morning Sir Jimmy held what was known as the FMC, or Friday Morning Club, at his flat. BBC News - Home
For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
One of the hospitals said that some of the people that had stuff either left or accidentally placed inside them became 'unwell' as a result, but it is not known to which objects, or patients, they were referring. TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
The congested, hypertense crossing point of the River Jordan, between Jordan "proper" and the Israeli-held West Bank, is to this day known as the Allenby Bridge, after T.E. Lawrence's commander. The Perils of Partition
Certain heat treatments alter the fine-scale structure of steel, creating a "phase" known as bainite - which has been known about since the 1930s. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
The good seaman is known in bad weather.
Formerly called Stanleyville, it was once known across Africa as a vibrant meeting spot for diamond runners, gold miners and foreign businessmen. ANC Daily News Briefing
Hence the letter collection was known as futhark, futhark, futhorc, or futhork. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 3
He is known for bringing a lawsuit against Japanese corporations for forced labor during WWII.
Killer whales - known as the wolves of the sea - are top Arctic predators, eating prey that includes fatty animals like walruses, seals, sea lions, and even other whales.
The radio is tuned to KOTR, known Locally as the Otter.
In fact some of today's most well-known teachers were skipped one or two dans during aikido's early years.
It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.
Also known as a ‘parrot lizard’ for its parrotlike beak, the herbivore was a strong, agile dinosaur that walked on its two hind legs.
Nonetheless, the multistep process has worked well for several cholesterol drugs — including Lipitor and Zocor, which are in a class of drugs known as statins.
A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain. Neth Space
IT'S a well-known fact that footballers have embarrassing tastes in music. The Sun
The chemical toxicity of uranium is also well known, though somewhat less well understood.
Words have now been written to that well - known piece of music.
Along with the grunion, these are the only marine fish known to fully emerge from water solely for the purpose of spawning.
Koité, from Northwestern Mali, is a member of the hereditary Mande caste of musicians and craftsmen known as jalis.
These waves of films - and previous attempts at 3D-television broadcasting - used what's known as the anaglyph method of imaging. The Engineer - News
The hotel is owned by well-known Democratic activist Joe Cesare.
The industry is highly vertically integrated, with poultry production companies (known as integrators) contracting with farmers (referred to as growers) to raise the birds prior to slaughter Number of broilers and other meat-type chickens sold in the United States, 2007 (Source: USDA Census of Agriculture, 2007). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The variation of the game known as petanque was played using a 2,000-euro Chanel game set. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
As is known, the ergonomic norm for continuous operation by command staff at a command and control station is five to seven hours.
He is known to be a control freak and something of a clean freak. Times, Sunday Times
This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
The best-known dressing-up dish is kimchee, vegetables pickled in sweetish but mostly hot red chili paste touched with garlic and ginger.
It is not only a powerful antioxidant, but it's also known as a skin healer.
Here's the thing that comes along to complicate any strict feminist criticism of objectification in the images of Prommenschenckel lying prone: She has a condition known as spasmodic torticollis. Miss Ability lays down on the job
Williamson is well known to have been a highly successful spy, and high up in the apartheid regime's disinformation network.
It is well known that diabetics and people with glucose intolerance have impaired calcium metabolism. The Family Nutrition Workbook
The result of the strike ballot will be known tomorrow morning.
Our programmes were of the highest order, the voices pure and full without this abominable tremolo which is unknown to a person who knows how to sing correctly and naturally. Sixty Years of California Song
It is attributed to Joseph Henry Remmey, who is known for similar elaborately incised cobalt blue decoration, especially of stylized birds.
I know enough about this issue to know that ESEA is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the main federal law authorizing federal financial assistance to schools whose most recent instantiation is also known as No Child Left Behind. Matthew Yglesias » The Pointlessness of Reading Bills
The patient, priorly known only as "Patient Zeta," came forward Tuesday and called for mandatory condom use in the porn productions. Derrick Burts, HIV-positve porn actor, calls for condom use in industry
We believe that modern-day Hitlers have deliberately adulterated the oral polio vaccines with antifertility drugs and … viruses which are known to cause HIV and AIDS," prominent physician Datti Ahmed told journalists at the time. Scientific American
Viewed from Machu Picchu, the constellation we call the Southern Cross, which was also known and of some importance to the Inca, rises on east and sets on west of Salcantay, and at its highest point is directly above the mountain. Exploring the Inca Heartland: The Mountain Gods
These are: ground-level ozone, particle pollution also known as particulate matter, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. John B. Townsend II: The Long, Hot Summer And Code Red Days
The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
The row of cottages below and behind you, is known as Irish Row, named after some of the men who worked the mines.
This model is known as the hierarchy of needs and is shaped like a pyramid. Business Studies Basic Facts
Traced downward, it covers the antero-superior surface of the stomach and the commencement of the duodenum, and is carried down into a large free fold, known as the gastrocolic ligament or greater omentum. XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
The third thing to her discredit was her living in the land of Canaan, whose inhabitants were known to be harsh and evil. Rahab: Midrash and Aggadah.
The 16th century palace in south-west London is well known for alleged supernatural activity, but nothing suspicious has been caught on film before.
How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet
Autopsies on deceased people with autism also show chronic neuro-inflammation and activation of the same brain cells, known as glial cells. David Kirby: Dr. Bernadine Healy: Don't Dismiss Vaccine Link
Teflon is a fluorocarbon polymer known by the chemical name polytetrafluoroethylene.
At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!” What I Remember
Their elaborate fabrics, woven on looms from cotton and alpaca wool, are known today because they were used in a type of mummification process.
Cooperation and Development (OECD), Bermuda, Israel, South Africa, and the European ministates; also known as the First World, high-income countries, the North, industrial countries; generally have a per capita The 2007 CIA World Factbook
The calcified matrix of bone consists of cavities known as lacunae that are connected via a network of canals known as canaliculi, which carries interstitial fluid through the skeletal system. News from The Scientist
The now not-so-young British artist is best known for his macabre installations, business savvy and yobbish personality. Damien Hirst's Birthday: June 7 (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Initially known for drum'n'bass-driven club bangers, they have since headed into tamer territory. Times, Sunday Times
Known as chemurgy, the science lost much of its ‘reason for being’ after WWII when the petroleum industry redirected its attention from the war effort to commercial products.
The 'disappearing ink' is not ink at all, but a temporary discolouration of light-sensitive molecules known as photochromes. Times, Sunday Times
Code Unknown is therefore a movie that requires a considerable investment of attention.
SNOW (voice-over): With his wife Silda by his side, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, the man once known as Mr. Clean, addressed his fall from grace. CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2008
They were reintroduced but for an unknown period only one vessel was available. Times, Sunday Times
This loveable rascal is probably best known for the Jamaican ska beat that is the signature of much of his song-writing.
The area, which is also known as Ogaden, borders Somalia. Ethiopian Troops Kill 15 Rebels, Arrest 2 Journalists
From the dark streets of the city, whether lit by a single streetlamp or brazenly flashing neon signs, to the desolate coastline, where Marlowe is first blackjacked by an unknown assailant, there is no safe haven from disorder and danger. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
Thoughts on "philosophy otherwise known as sophistry [philosophy] otherwise known as sophistry
The toothwort in your picture is broadleaf toothwort, also known as crinkleroot toothwort.
Having savored victory, the ruffians moved on to attack the homes of well-known abolitionists in the neighborhood.
The film also uses actors not known for quality feature film acting or stage roles.
One of the distinctive characteristics of the adjutant, or "argala," as it is better known to the Indians, -- and one, too, of its ugliest The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
Of the many known kinds of cannibalism, five are now attested in archaeological remains.
Also known as Endi or Errandi, Eri is a multivoltine silk spun from open-ended cocoons, unlike other varieties of silk. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
To our dismay, unknown to us there was a motel only three kilometres down the road.
Nowadays, the standard unit of frequency is known as the hertz, abbreviated Hz. Thus, 1 Hz.¼ 1 cps, 10 Hz.¼ Recently Uploaded Slideshows
My favourite variety of thresher is miscanthus, otherwise known as elephant grass. Times, Sunday Times
Some postal workers specifically avoided the World Trade Centre because its upper floors were known to creak and sway in stiff winds.
That's even more striking when considering that Bolivia's known gas reserves have grown ninefold since privatization.
President Nixon devalues the dollar, journeys to Peking and Moscow; the future remains unknown.
She had a rather nice voice and was also known for whistling. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
He is also known for applications of the kernel function to conformal mappings.
The second module, which we call the adaptation module, is known to maintain the intracellular signal at Naturejobs - All Jobs
The majority of the oxygen supplied to the cell is utilized by the mitochondria to make a chemical known as adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Forever Young
In truth, she could not have known she had fallen into this realm as the mere awareness of self and location whether spatial or otherwise would negate the very nature of the state itself.
They are propelled by a 5m pole known as a quant. Times, Sunday Times
The books written by Richardson and his followers accordingly became known as moral or didactic novels.
The green flagellates known as ‘the volvocine algae’ constitute a happy exception to this general rule.
Known usually for somewhat opaque public statements, he ended his comment on the incident with a simple declarative: ‘Let the kids play.’
Unbeknown to you the real motive is to question you in order to undermine your position.
The letter is believed to be the first which appeared signed "ATTICUS," and was written many months before the author became known as Junius, and before any necessity had arisen for the exercise of that habitual caution which he afterwards evinced in the mention of any circumstance at all likely to lead to his detection. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
Instead, they are trying to demonstrate that potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables can be grown in only water-a process known as hydroponic growth. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Another amino acid, L-citrulline, known as citrulline, has been researched for its potential benefits as a workout recovery supplement and to help boost immunity after exercise. Leo Galland, M.D.: How to Boost Immunity After Exercise
Though best-known for his fantastic novel " Lanark, " Mr. Gray worked for many years as a portraitist, and provides a typically distinctive and opinionated account of his life, times and acquaintances in words and pictures. Books to Furnish a Coffee Table
The countries laying claim to this bounty have all been building up their navies, notably China which this week officially confirmed long-known plans to deploy its first aircraft-carrier.
Is it strange that I became known as the wildest tantivy boy that rode with the King? The Tavern Knight
So I have what is known as an imprint, it's an arm of a publishing house.
Poor female alpacas are pregnant for nearly 12 months and have no sooner had a baby, known as a cria, than they are keen to breed again. IcBirmingham
The darkest side of our adventurism is our global network of military prisons (authorized by the Secretary of Defense and Pentagon) where physical and mental torture are practiced even though it's known no useful information comes from it. A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic
Another timid miscreant, just before he is sent off to prison, has so far stepped out of reality and into legend that he asks to be known hereafter as ‘The Lonesome Kid’.
The Cavendish Street gallery is showcasing the work of 10 artists, including both well-known painters and non-professionals.
The entire process is known as the gelatinisation of starch and is very important in cooking.
The projection of future demand, normally to supply the independent portion of demand such as customer or interplant orders, based on past history and known market changes.
As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
It is known that over 5,000 Sarmatians from this area came to Britain after the Marcomannic wars in AD 175; but it is unlikely that the people at Brougham were Sarmatians, as the latter inhumed their dead.
Another tomb of interest (and of which we will speak in extenso in the next instalment of this series) is the tomb of the Pope Clement II, the only pope to be buried north of the Alps. The statue, sculpted by the same (unknown) sculptor as the Horseman, was originally the slab of the tomb, which remains on the west choir, behind the cathedra: Catholic Bamberg: The Cathedral
It may be a well-known fact, but I didn't know it.
This ought to have been fine - if Phaethon had not been like a rock-star's child with a new red Ferrari, scorching off the track, shrivelling crops, turning forest to desert, doubtless melting ice-caps if the Greeks had known about ice-caps, and only stopping when Zeus called a halt with a well-aimed world-saving thunderbolt. Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
He was known for his poor grammar and punctuation.
A big-jawed and relatively small-brained hominid known as Paranthropus consumed mainly nuts and other hard foods, causing it to die out as these resources became scarce in African habitats.
In a sweeping half-moon behind me, the rugged, unspoiled Inishowen Peninsula rolls out across this little known spear of North West Ireland.

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