Kerr was attempting to breed a strain of bees that would produce more honey and be better adapted to tropical conditions ( i. e., more productive ) than the European subspecies of honey bee used in South America and southern North America.

Every new bee strain or bee race was first crossed with the existing Buckfast Bee.

His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

for she knew and we knew that it was cowardice that had made one more radish that night just too impossible a strain.

She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

He also created the first bluetongue vaccine, which was developed from an attenuated BTV strain.

They noted a glycerin-bile-potato mixture grew bacilli that seemed less virulent, and changed the course of their research to see if repeated subculturing would produce a strain that was attenuated enough to be considered for use as a vaccine.

It was subsequently discovered that the BCG administered had been contaminated with a virulent strain that was being stored in the same incubator, and led to legal action being taken against the manufacturers of BCG.

Pacis ® BCG, made from the Montréal ( Institut Armand-Frappier ) strain, was first marketed by Urocor in about 2002.

The strain used in the 2001 anthrax attack was identical to the strain used by the USAMRIID.

The expenditure for this war was extensive and put the economy under severe strain.

Their unhappy marriage and bitter divorce was a great strain for the star.

" Four normal distribution | Gaussian distributions in statisticsThis unproved statement put a strain on his relationship with János Bolyai ( who thought that Gauss was " stealing " his idea ), but it is now generally taken at face value.

However, even here the value of cavalry was overrated and the maintenance of large mounted formations at the front by the Russian Army put a major strain on the railway system, to little strategic advantage.

The Sapir household was largely run by Eva Sapir, who did not get along well with Florence, and this added to the strain on both Florence and Edward.

A lack of cash, complicated by Vermont's currency problems, placed a strain on Fanny's relatively free hand on spending, which was further exacerbated by the cost of publishing Reason, and of the construction of a new home near the mouth of the Onion River.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

A common form of food preparation was to finely cook, pound and strain mixtures into fine pastes and mushes, something believed to be beneficial to make use of nutrients.

Another cause was the state's effective bankruptcy due to the enormous cost of previous wars, particularly the financial strain caused by French participation in the American Revolutionary War.

Griffith concluded that the type II-R had been " transformed " into the lethal III-S strain by a " transforming principle " that was somehow part of the dead III-S strain bacteria.

After its discovery in 1896 in imported rabbits in Uruguay, a relatively harmless strain spread quickly throughout the wild populations in South America.

While it is unclear whether it was imported from the New World or a more virulent strain of an Old World disease, the first known epidemic of syphilis had broken out in the city.

The strain was developed from 300 Iberian mares imported from Spain in 1747.

Historial evidence suggest the Saprolegnia species affecting Australian freshwater fish may be an introduced strain, imported in the 1800s with exotic fish species.

This was in response to the 1973 oil crisis, as the Middle East oil embargo had put a heavy strain on the Philippine economy, and Marcos believed nuclear power to be the solution to meeting the country's energy demands and decreasing dependence on imported oil.

He nevertheless succeeded in introducing an acerbic ideological strain into French Catholic mentality.

As a strain comes onto the rode, the stock will dig into the bottom, canting the anchor until one of the flukes catches and digs into the bottom.

Hence the fatalistic strain of the poems, and the earlier settings, foreshadowed responses to the universal bereavement of the First World War and became assimilated into them.

This development has muddied the waters somewhat as it could be argued that the strain of apostolic succession has been re-introduced into Anglicanism, at least within the Church of England.

A chemical linker synthesized with an alpha-1, 3-gal-gal bond on one end and a DNA aptamer devised to bind specifically to the strain of influenza you have on the other end will link anti-alpha-Gal antibodies to the influenza virus and presto !-- you have fooled your immune system into attacking the new virus.

Although this change in cross-section may be hardly noticeable, and thus involving moderate stresses within the elastic range of easily workable materials, the strain of the material of the tube is magnified by forming the tube into a C shape or even a helix, such that the entire tube tends to straighten out or uncoil, elastically, as it is pressurized.

#: Because the Allied Occupation Zones in Germany were under great strain, the Czechoslovak government, the Polish provisional government and the control council in Hungary were asked to submit an estimate of the time and rate at which further transfers could be carried out having regard to the present situation in Germany and suspend further expulsions until these estimates were integrated into plans for an equitable distribution of these " removed " Germans among the several zones of occupation.

By understanding the constitutive relationships between stress and strain in rocks, geologists can translate the observed patterns of rock deformation into a stress field during the geologic past.

) Take 5 or 6 dashes of gum syrup. Juice of a small lemon. 1 large wine-glass of gin. 2 or 3 lumps of ice ; Shake up well and strain into a large bar-glass.

" Professor Paul Smith argues that, " into the ‘ progressive ’ strain of modern Conservatism he simply will not fit.

An epidemiological investigation into the outbreak revealed that the strain of E. coli O157: H7 isolated from nine animals on the farm was indistinguishable from the strain isolated from human samples.

Breeders of domesticated species discourage crossbreeding with wild species, unless a deliberate decision is made to incorporate a trait of a wild ancestor back into a given breed or strain.

This mouse strain recapitulates many of the features of the human disease and promises to provide insights into the pathogenesis of the disease.

He moved into Fruchter's family home in New Jersey and stayed there for five years, but this, however, placed a great strain both on her marriage and her friendship with Moore, and she later set him up in the house next door.

There was concern that growth would necessitate the construction of a second bridge across the river into the town, thus putting further strain on the wooden town.

However, the strain was incorporated into the early published ragtime number " St. Louis Tickle.

After an intervention by Animal Man, Hayden, seemingly happy, fades away into nothingness due to the strain from releasing all the forgotten characters, removing him from reality and heading into Limbo, where DC characters go when not being written about.

This strain was developed during the 1950s by Lawrence D Hills, the founder of the Henry Doubleday Research Association ( the organic gardening organisation itself named after the Quaker pioneer who first introduced Russian Comfrey into Britain in the 1910s ) following trials at Bocking, near Braintree, the original home of the organization.

After the cricketer's death, a collection of personal letters written by Bradman to his close friend Rohan Rivett between 1953 and 1977 was released and gave researchers new insights into Bradman's family life, including the strain between father and son.