Sentence examples for firmly bound to from inspiring English sources

Western Europe evolved from a "Community" to a "Union", and its states became less firmly bound to American protection.

Actually, that is a good description of how Lib Dems used to behave: now they are firmly bound to painful cuts and other policies in their coalition agreement.

Like the laboratory catalysts, enzymes frequently have activators coenzymes, which may be prosthetic groups (firmly bound to the enzyme itself), and inorganic ions.

"The die is cast in Canada: there are two main ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture to engulf the other.

A cofactor that is firmly bound to the apoenzyme and cannot be removed without denaturing the latter is termed a prosthetic group; most such groups contain an atom of metal such as copper or iron.

Their initial efforts, in which they used a technique called liquid-liquid countercurrent distribution, failed to give them adequate separation; they conceived, therefore, of an alternative method, in which one liquid was firmly bound to a finely granulated solid packed in a glass tube and a second liquid, immiscible with the first, was percolated through it.

This mutant was previously characterized for its failure to firmly bind to FKN, most likely because of the inability of phenylalanine to be sulfated, a modification that enhances the binding to this chemokine.

RON2 inserts into the host cell PM and bridges the two cells during invasion: while it firmly binds to the zoite surface-exposed AMA1 protein, the role of this partnership has been controversial [ 23, 42, 43] and will only be resolved with a full understanding of the junction function(s).

In some cases the biceps tendon lay in a mesh of fine, filmy, hemorrhagic adhesions, while in others the tendon was firmly bound by tough adhesions to the groove and to the undersurface of the fibrous capsule.

At times it is bound to act firmly, even severely.

When cumulus-free oocytes were introduced to sperm suspensions in medium T6, copious numbers of spermatozoa from heterozygous or WT males associated with the surface of zona pellucida, and a large proportion of them appeared to be firmly bound after removal of loosely attached sperm by washing through a wide-bore pipette (Fig. 5 A ).