Sentence examples for of spate from inspiring English sources

Beijing is financing the Orange line, reportedly worth more than $1bn, as part of spate of big-ticket infrastructure investments that Pakistan hopes will rejuvenate its stalled economy.

Generally, these dikes were built 5 to 8 miles (8 to 13 km) apart, parallel to the river's banks, to give the river plenty of room to flow in time of spate (flooding), but instead the load of silt slowly spread within the confines of the dikes, building up the riverbed through the centuries, until today it lies above the surrounding countryside.

In conclusion, the data suggest that minor alterations in the exposed Domain 2 are critical for the autotransport phenotype of SPATE proteins.

Taken together, these results suggest that the interaction of the globular Domain 1 with the β-helical stem mediated by loop 165 is an overall conserved structural feature of SPATE proteins essential for the efficient secretion of the passenger domain.

Although the general process of SPATE secretion is understood, the details of many events in SPATE biogenesis (chaperone function in the periplasm, mechanism of β-barrel insertion into the outer membrane, translocation pathway across the outer membrane, proteolytic release of the mature protein from the outer membrane, etc).

The kidnapping was part of a spate of abductions of Afghans and foreigners in recent weeks.

So claim the authors of "Oil Factor", one of a spate of gloomy new books about energy.

The case, one of a spate of "sex grooming" incidents, was being tried in Liverpool.

And that keypad, in turn, would inform the design of a spate of other everyday objects.

That came on top of a spate of fatal shootings in late March and early April.

The $39 billion deal was the largest of a spate of mergers and acquisitions.