Samuel Beckett, a tall, gaunt figure, knocked on the door of Grove's Richard Seaver in Paris, handed him an envelope and said, "Here's 'Watt.' " Seaver answered, "What?" thinking he'd become part of an Abbott and Costello routine.
At the beginning of his second year, a potentially transformative and historic president finds himself a diminished figure knocked around by Republicans and trapped by his own overly grandiose goals.
I suspect there are fairly detailed figures knocking around somewhere - is it a possible subject for a reality check?
Chattering brass figures knock against the saxophonist's tart, winding paths in "Day One," and a lilting polyrhythmic groove works up to marvelously balletic cacophony.
I figure — knock on wood — I'll have a long career, and at the end of it the assessment will be whatever it is.
Although the degree of CLCa depletion detected by western immunoblotting was similar in cells transfected with CHC and CLCa siRNAs (Figure 4J), knocking down CLCa failed to induce constitutive IκBα degradation (Figures 4J and 4K) and IL-8 secretion (Figure 4L).
Adelina Sotnikova, center, used a boost from the crowd to become the first Russian woman to win gold in singles figure skating, knocking Kim Yu-na, left, off her perch at the top of the sport.
10.7554/eLife.04316.005 Figure 3. Knocking down RFRP during stress completely prevents stress-induced reproductive dysfunction.
As shown in Figure 4a, knocking down ULK1 was sufficient to attenuate autophagy induced by p53 ectopic expression.
As shown in Figure 8E, knocking down p/CAF gene expression significantly impaired TGFβ-induced cell invasion.
