To others it is a blot on the landscape - ugly, arrogant and inappropriate.
Its continued meanness to East Timor is a blot on its otherwise shining foreign-policy record.
The key item in the UConn report is that Das repeatedly manipulated western blot images.
Unemployment remains the single biggest blot on the economic landscape: it still runs at 10.5%.
The western blot test was only one of many tests used to draw scientific conclusions in published studies.
Israel's assault in January on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip has failed to blot Hamas out of the equation.
To add to the charm of Al Ain, height limits on new buildings ensure that no skyscrapers blot out the skyline.
The biggest blot on Turkey's human-rights record has been the prevalence of torture in prisons and police stations.
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Concentration of power production confines its viewscape blot to a small place (although it spreads out emissions, accidental and otherwise).
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One blot on this otherwise happy picture is that Pakistani and Bangladeshi men are still concentrated in a few jobs.
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As the problems mounted up they became too much to bear and she had used alcohol to blot them out.
The attack was strongly criticised by West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan who called it "a blot on India's cherished democratic values".
If they need to blot out an industry or hand it over to another country for their own purposes, they will.
Western blot tests are frequently altered to remove backgrounds, enhance contrast and increase dots-per-inch resolution so they are suitable for publication.
He proposes, for example, axing the alleged connection between reporting mirrored images in a blot and the viewer's level of egocentricity.
Think about it--from the cute Honda CRX with the pullout tailgate table to the climb-anything-anywhere Jeep Liberty to the blot-out-the-sun Chevy Avalanche.
Deaths in custody are a terrible blot, and clearly a lot more needs to be done to protect the lives of inmates.
This was later thrown out by the US military authorities and replaced with an administrative reprimand, essentially a blot on his record.
The only blot on his copybook was an arrest for using heroin in the mid 60s, which forced him to kick the habit.
For Ancelotti, the only blot on another polished display was a rib injury to John Terry, which forced him off after 82 minutes.
Perhaps the manner in which half-naked women do appear regularly in the UK press is something which is a blot on our society.
Somebody out there wants you to design websites, board dogs, run errands, write blot posts, do laundry, deliver packages, be a virtual assistant.
When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man, we found common cause with your struggles against oppression.
Nothing has dogged this pontificate so much as the tragedy of child abuse, and it will continue to blot its reputation for decades to come.
Dr. Das explains that editors at scientific publications commonly request researchers enhance faded images of western blot tests so they can be duplicated in their publications.
On the other hand, Mexico's governments have often seemed embarrassed by living Indians, whose backwardness is seen as a blot on the country's record of modernisation.
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