Sentence examples for mmp- from inspiring English sources
Mr Peters, who formed his own party after being sacked from National's parliamentary group in 1992, has said he firmly believes in MMP and that people voted for it in a 1993 referendum "knowing full well that the outcome was liable to produce coalition government to ensure moderating influences in New Zealand politics".
A "Vote for MMP" campaign has set up an office in Toronto and claims a dozen chapters in the province; its opponents have managed to raise just C$500 $4700) to print a leaflet.
Then, on August 28th, Miss Clark admitted that she had spoken to Mr Glenn about the money in February.The affair highlights the trickiness of New Zealand's mixed-member-proportional (MMP) political system.
No party has won an absolute majority since MMP was adopted in 1996.
They also say that MMP would produce unstable minority governments.Yet Canadians seem in no hurry for a new election to eject their federal minority Conservative government.
A recent opinion poll found support for MMP had dropped from 42% at the time of the October 1996 election to just 29% now.
The only dye molecules that remain are those whose hairpins have been severed by MMPs, thus separating them from their negatively charged partners and allowing them to stick to the tumour cells whose enzymes liberated them.And it works—at least in mice.
To do so, Dr Tsien took advantage of enzymes called matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which cancer cells use to chew their way through connective tissue and other material.
This is a sequence of amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) that is particularly vulnerable to the cutting action of MMPs.
These enzymes are known as 'matrix metalloproteinases', or MMPs for short.
When the Manchester team looked at mixtures of the red and green tumour cells in zebrafish, they also relied on MMPs to spread, and the researchers believe that the green cells may be using MMPs to clear a path for the red cells to follow.
