Sentence examples for rat line of from inspiring English sources
American military officials have said there is "a rat line" of insurgents flowing north.
Reports were cited that MI6 had cooperated with the CIA on a "rat line" of arms transfers from Libyan stockpiles to the Syrian rebels in 2012 after the fall of the Gaddafi regime.
In assaults last week, American troops zeroed in on what they described as a "rat line" of houses and sympathizers stretching south toward Baghdad, a line that assisted militants in traveling north to Mosul.
For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit.
The researchers said two cloned females had produced normal pups, "demonstrating the potential of the technique for development of fertile rat lines of both sexes".
Ever since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Americans have accused Syria of letting infiltration chains ("rat lines") of fighters operate with impunity.
Articles on the New York Times from 24 March and 21 June 2013, gave further details and an article in the London Review of Books from 14 April 12014, implicated MI6 in a "rat line" for the transfer of arms from Libya.
The raid was conducted, he said, on the strength of intelligence on a route, which he called a "rat line," suspected of being used by foreign fighters entering Iraq.
For each probeset its estimate of background variability was then compared to the difference in the mean response of the rat lines to assess whether these differences were larger than we would expect by chance.
A mixed model ANOVA was fitted to the data to estimate the effects of rat line, cohort and labelling batch.
The apomorphine-susceptible (APO-SUS) rat line displayed many features of psychopathology, with similar disturbances at the behavioural, physiological, endocrinological and pharmacological level as seen in schizophrenics (Ellenbroek and Cools 2002).
