Sentence examples for with a pest from inspiring English sources

I was beginning to develop some skill at ad-libbing, and my dealing with a pest of a heckler impressed her.

"Although we're confident this is an isolated incident, we've taken immediate action including working with a pest control company and jet washing the area where we store our online deliveries.

In a separate development, the UK's National Farmers Union (NFU) has applied for an "emergency" lifting of the moratorium for some oilseed rape to deal with a pest beetle, but campaigners say rape yields have actually increased since the neonicotinoid ban.

Chromatic threshold was established with a PEST procedure and was defined as the least variation from yellow that subjects could reliably distinguish at an 80% confidence level.

In addition, the half-life of FPs can be shortened to about 2 hr by tagging them with a PEST domain for protein degradation.

To develop dermal-transfer coefficients for young children, we conducted this study in a child care center that had a pre-existing contract with a pest control service for regular monthly pesticide applications.

Timothy Wong, a managing partner with M&M Environmental, a pest control company on the Lower East Side, said rat complaints began to soar after the hurricane and have not let up yet, partly because the wintry weather is driving the rodents indoors.

However, the authors were able to detect an Elm1 fusion protein that was tagged with GST at its N-terminus, leading them to speculate that Elm1 normally has a short half-life and that the GST tag interfered with recognition of a PEST motif found at residues 24 50, which is proposed to serve as a signal for rapid intracellular proteolysis [26].

Then the Protection of Badgers Act was passed, which achieved nothing as now we have all these problems with them; they're a pest.

"Eradication is "tougher than rocket science," he added, "because with a biological pest, there are a lot of gray areas.

The intervention in this study compared the impact of IPM with a traditional pest control approach.