Sentence examples for is poised in a from inspiring English sources
Mr. Wein is in the center of the picture, and everyone is poised in a mixture of bonhomie and anticipation.
When the light falls, Ms. Diederichs is poised in a slow-motion run beside a man (Simon Feltz) who has been standing entirely still, his back to the audience, since the start of the piece.
Damien Hirst's polka-dotted Mini car is poised in a nose-dive on the grand columned entrance stairway, which is flanked by marble plaques with gold-leaf inscriptions of the baronesses, field marshals, dukes, earls and viscounts who served as lords lieutenant to the County of London.
One of them occurs when Adonis is poised in a mirror readying himself to shadowbox.
Molecular modeling of QL47 using the reported crystal structure of BTK kinase (PDB id: 3GEN) suggests that the electrophilic acrylamide is poised in a suitable position to allow for covalent bond formation with Cys481.
Where everything in Vermeer's masterpiece is poised in an enchanted moment of stillness, in paintings of the explosion the perfect world has shattered.
In the Elegies ideal and real are poised in a perfect conjunction.... when she sinks into sleep, wakeful and thoughtful I lie.
Rachel Peters, 28, the granddaughter of the composer Irving Berlin, was poised in a banquette between a young man dressed as Hunter S. Thompson with mirrored aviator sunglasses and another who was channeling the band Devo with a plastic red flower pot on top of his head.
The bivalent epigenetic modifications raise the possibility of age-associated genes being poised in a bipotential state, which may be resolved differently in various cell lineages.
Stewart et al. established that many developmental regulatory genes involved in fin regeneration are poised in a bivalent H3K4me3/H3K27me3 chromatin domain, and that the demethylation of H3K27me3 enables activation of expression of these genes in response to injury.
In ESCs, the combination of both marks (bivalent domains) allows for loci to be poised in a state awaiting differentiation signals that either rapidly repress or express the underlying gene.
