How To Use Midas In A Sentence
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The life of Howard Hughes cannot fail to remind us of the fable of Midas.
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A century on King Midas of Lydia was the first to mint coins of silver and gold and in the same century the Athenians added the refinement of having devices on both sides.
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Some of America's top company builders - spotless reputations on the line - are trying to apply the entrepreneurial Midas touch to the problems that beset this cobwebbed corner of the economy.
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Pavarotti is a unique performer with the Midas touch.
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In addition, they found that PEA -- also present in foods like eggs and peanuts -- is deactivated by a protein called N-acylethanolamine-hydrolyzing acid amidase, which is an enzyme that breaks down molecules controlling cell inflammation.
Undefined
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For all its foolishness, though, the Midas myth contains neither death nor destruction.
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The fable of King Midas is one of the prettiest admonitions in classical mythology against the dangerous allure of gold.
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She used the word `gold" with the kind of respect King Midas would have appreciated.
FOOLS GOLD
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The acetamidase enzyme encoded by the amdS gene allows growth on acetamide as a carbon and/or nitrogen source by producing ammonium and acetate.
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Kajimura J, Fujiwara T, Yamada S, Suzawa Y, Nishida T, et al. (2005) Identification and molecular characterization of an N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase Sle1 involved in cell separation of Staphylococcus aureus.
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Eight primates are found here including the bearded saki (Chiropotes albinasus), red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas), and tiny titi monkey (Callicebus moloch), which is found in few other places.
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests
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As befits the son of a satyr, Midas was a king who loved the pleasures of this world.
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Examples include the oscar, Jack Dempsey, jewelfish, convict cichlid, Midas cichlid, and spotted tilapia; and livebearers, such as swordtails, platies and mollies, and armored catfishes.
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At this moment one of the popular party answered him factiously that they would not go out and did not want a war, and for thus answering was dragged by the arm and knocked about by Polydamidas.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Profile pieces have him as the man with the Midas touch, wearing watches so chunky that they could double as gym apparatus.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Capello wants to remind his England players that he has the Midas touch, or to show them the meaning of mental fortitude, he could not do much better than show them the video of that game together with an explanation of how he outthought a Barça team packed with fluidity and flair.
Cornered Fabio Capello knows precisely how to square the circle
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- acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase, inhibits the dissemination of daughter cells and thus could affect the spread of the bacteria during infection.
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You know, Bob really has the Midas touch. He sold his slow business for a good profit and has started another one that's already doing incredibly well.
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Eryxidaidas; of Corinth, Aeneas the son of Ocytus, Euphamidas the son of Aristonymus; of Sicyon, Damotimus the son of Naucrates,
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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There was some difficulty about funds until Laxmidas, Mohandas' elder brother and a lawyer, undertook to supply them.
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Sed Hiempsal, qui minimus ex illis erat, natura ferox et jam ante ignobilitatem Jugurthae, quia materno genere impar erat, despiciens, dextera Adherbalem assedit, [65] ne medius ex tribus, quod apud Numidas honori ducitur, Jugurtha foret.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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The preachiest book to make our cut is King Midas and the Golden Touch (Morrow. $16), but Charlotte Craft's simple, elegant retelling doesn't actually spell out a moral and K. Y.
Nothing Here But Kid Stuff
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Further simulation calculation was done by MIDAS software , and construction monitoring was done during tension.
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Midas repented his wish, and Bacchus took away the gold touch, but later Midas found himself in trouble again.
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Midas soon repented of his wish because he could not even eat because the bread he tried to put in his mouth became gold.
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[A fumigant called MIDAS] was approved by EPA during the Bush administration despite the protests of many independent scientists, who sent a petition citing significant health concerns. ...
Nancy Chuda: As TSCA Collapses, Toxic Baby Fights Back (VIDEO)
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The bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas), howler monkey (Alouatta belzebul), and red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas) are all eastern Amazonian primates.
Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests
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STUNNINGLY successful and devilishly handsome, Jose Mourinho is the manager with the Midas touch.
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She is happily married to an Irish nabob, Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.
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Há passadiços de madeira semelhantes às pontes pênseis do Afeganistão, mas estão húmidos, as cordas estão humidas e cobertas de fungos verdes.
A inclemência da distância.
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An old legend has it that King Midas hunted a long time in the woods for the wise Silenus , companion of Dionysus, without being able to catch him.
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During the early modern period ancient myths, like that of king Midas, began to take on a specifically modern resonance as they were used to allegorise the European quest for gold in the Americas.
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The pdb-codes of the proteins are as follows: endonuclease III - 2ABK, dihydrodipicolinate synthase - 1DHP, blue copper oxydase CuoE - 1KV7, threonine dehydratase - 1TDJ, penicillin amidase - 1PNK.
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Lyly's play uses the myth to present a political allegory of Philip of Spain, by giving Midas and his courtiers what was considered by a contemporary English audience to be a specifically Spanish characteristic: the desire for gold.
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Mycenas" is of course a lapsus calami for "Maecenas" ( "Mecenas" in the original), which I unaccountably failed to correct, and which a puzzled American editor or printer has mistakenly changed to "Midas.
The Joke
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Projects include bashment collaborations with the likes of Mr Midas and the up and coming Knowledge, will add more to his already impressive arsenal of beats.
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The decomposed body of King Midas, lying in state in his coffin, might be viewed as the just reward for his over-indulgence.
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Yesterday I "jetted" off to Manchester to speak at an event sponsored by the MIDAS group.
Eightbar
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The Dow continues to head south, with Alan Greenspan, the one-time wizard with the Midas touch, experiencing a torrid time.
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If the tales about old King Midas have a thruppence worth of truth in them, it might be his father's meanness that's ailing him.
Seven Miles to Arden
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Midas cichlids have biparental care; both father and mother fish watch over the fry.
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The Bush administration fanaticized about using shock and awe to "decapitate" the Iraqi regime, and then -- King Midas-like -- touching the country to make it prosperous, civil, and — most important for the Bush administration — compliant.
Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
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In addition, they found that PEA - also present in foods like eggs and peanuts - is deactivated by a protein called N-acylethanolamine-hydrolyzing acid amidase, which is an enzyme that breaks down molecules controlling cell inflammation.
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It was as if the money was blessed with the Midas touch, because it had once belonged to the Osbornes.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Midas' mom, who has had my oxtail and my stew peas, told me to open a restaurant!
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Also having a birthday at almost the same time is Midas, Seven's husband and one of the zaniest brothers-in-law that I have ever come across!
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The Bush administration fanaticized about using shock and awe to "decapitate" the Iraqi regime, and then -- King Midas-like -- touching the country to make it prosperous, civil, and — most important for the Bush administration — compliant.
Lew Rockwell: Iraq and Moral Corruption
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Based on the static load test results, the stress and displacement fields of the new-type prestressed pipe-pile with rib were analyzed by MIDAS/GTS at different load case levels.
