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Regarding Omagh, Britain's Sunday People said that last year's bombing by the splinter group Real IRA could easily have derailed the peace process, but "the desire for peace was too strong for one breakaway IRA group to torpedo it.
I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
If you join the Old Guard aboard the "torpedo Content before anyone's even read the piece in question" bandwagon, it's less salutary for you.
For example, the Torpedo acetylcholine receptor and the Shaker K +channel protein differ in the fractions of protein glycosylated, the composition of the oligosaccharide chains, and the degree of protein maturation when expressed in Xenopus oocytes as compared with channels in native tissue or other expression systems [ 7 8 ] . Differences in glycosylation patterns can influence the binding of external blocking agents.
It's a torpedo bomber.