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Example sentences for: hook

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To study in greater detail how the presence of nonhomologous DNA at the end of one of the hooks reduces gene capture efficiency, we constructed a set of TAR vectors with different lengths of nonhomologous DNA next to the hook.
Columbine had the great hook: kids, especially the unfortunate girl who professed her belief in God and became an instant martyr.
Although he doesn't want to blame U.S. policy-makers for fomenting and maintaining the Cold War or for failing to seize supposed golden opportunities to make a deal with Stalin, he doesn't want to let them off the hook either.
(He insinuates on many pages that the Big Media suffer from Mediaphobia, but he mostly leaves them off the hook.)
But, the story points out, nobody can prove that the brass' SSNs weren't gotten directly from the Congressional Record . None of the brass are on the hook for the money cadged but the story points out a more serious angle: Since service numbers are now just SSNs, if a soldier is captured, as things stand now, he is required to provide his SSN to his captors, which they could use to find out all about his family, finances and personal background.