Sentence examples for the luk from inspiring English sources

Well, the halfway house is the luk kreung" -- a Thai phrase meaning "half-children".

The luk thep is then believed to bring its owner good fortune.

Whatever you do, just don't ask where the nearest subway is or request to swap LCD Soundsystem for the luk thung (country music) drifting from the speakers.

But as she worked the room at the Luk Yu Tea House the other day, putting even the notoriously surly waiters in line, Ms. Tam looked every inch the hardened Hong Konger.

Yet the Luk Kwok's current general manager, long-time hotel industry executive James Li, has dreams of his own about the future of Hong Kong's all-important hotel and travel industries.

The Luk Kwok itself remains in the hands of the same family that opened it in 1933, the Chans, whose Luk Hoi Tong Co. also owns the Nathan Hotel across Victoria Harbor in the city's Kowloon District.

The Luk-PV plasmid was made by insertion of the luk-PV operon onto the L. lactis vector pOri23 [33].

The luk-PV operon (including promoter and transcriptional terminator) was amplified using primers phi262 and phi2815.

All isolates were assayed for the presence of PVL genes by PCR using the luk-PV1 and luk-PV2 primers as previously described [42].

The only differently expressed genes were the luk-homologue blhB and the adhesin eap, which were more highly expressed at the second sampling (Fig. 4).

We also included isogenic strains made by allelic replacement of the luk-PV genes (lukS-PV and lukF-PV) in PVL positive strains.