Sentence examples for raft does from inspiring English sources

Life of Pi seems happy to have the same loosely tethered relationship with western dramatic norms and values as Pi's raft does with the lifeboat, whether it's consciously or not in Yann Martel's original novel, or the rhythms introduced by Lee and screenwriter David Magee over a reported 170 drafts.

You can actually feel the ground "rolling" in the same fashion as a bobbing raft does on water.

Everyone received another invigorating dousing but the raft didn't flip and nobody fell in.

The returns — carried out at dawn and under heavy security — were intended to send a powerful message to others considering the journey from Turkey to Greece via a smuggler's rubber raft: Don't even bother.

Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't.

Splashin' Safari water park at Holiday World in Indiana uses a walk-on scale to ensure the maximum weight on the six-passenger Mammoth rafts doesn't exceed 1,050 pounds.

Distribution of TGF-β receptors in lipid rafts does not simply promote receptor degradation, it is also required for TGF-β-mediated MAPK activation [ 95].

These findings suggest that L1 adhesion is not reduced when L1 is localized to lipid rafts and that EtOH-induced translocation of L1 into lipid rafts does not underlie EtOH inhibition of L1 adhesion in NIH/3T3 cells.

Impacts to maritime transportation have not been considered in detail in relation to thickness, as most ash types (with the exception on pumiceous material, which can form pumice rafts) do not accumulate, or are readily dispersed, on water and are thus difficult to monitor.

Apart from the lack of appropriate markers to detect MAM, one of the reasons that MAM was overlooked as a detergent-resistant membrane, and as the region in which PS's, APP, and γ-secretase activity are enriched, may be that most methods used to isolate rafts do not separate the PM from intracellular membranes (Macdonald and Pike, 2005).

In support for the involvement of raft alterations in the aberrant molecular phenotype we observed that, although raft abundance does not appear to be significantly affected since the raft bona fide marker flotillin is not altered, the presence of RhoA in raft domains is reduced in ASMko synaptosomes compared to wt (Supplementary Fig 6).