Example sentences for: tied

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  • Some abandoned their legacy systems all together and turned to stateoftheart integrated architectures, while others used wellfunctioning legacy systems and tied them together with a data warehouse.

  • Late yesterday the Justice Department released a statement saying that the grandmothers had made "a very compassionate and heartfelt plea" to be reunited with Elian but that the matter is now (read "tied up") in federal court.

  • Regional extinctions and replacements seem to be tied to climate change and competition with the much larger short-faced bears, the authors argue (Figure 2).

  • Nonetheless, E2F is inactivated and/or downregulated upon progression to S phase, a regulatory feature that appears critical as E2F overexpression or ectopic activation induces apoptosis both in mammalian cells and in flies [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] . Inactivation of the DNA-binding activity of E2F-1 by the cyclin A/Cdk complex has been shown to be critical for proper S phase progression [ 16 ] . In mammalian cells, E2F-1 is also subject to proteasome-mediated degradation [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] and recent evidence indicates that E2F-1 degradation occurs in S phase [ 20 ] . Control of E2F-1 stability has also been linked to its association with the F-box protein Skp2 [ 20 ] but this has not been tied to a specific phase of the cell cycle.

  • But while he's thinking it over, Osmin goes into a paroxysm of bloodthirst, demanding that the four be first decapitated, then hanged, then impaled, then burnt at the stake, then tied up and drowned, and then flogged:


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