Tom has a scar on his face.

Sami's dog got nasty.

Cells called myofibroblasts, which contribute to scar tissue in a diseased liver, also appear to secrete proteins that prevent the breakdown of the scar tissue.

When she was 14, the scar tissue was removed.

Poverty is a curse and a scar for any society.

Sami sent the bank a nasty letter.

The confrontation between Greece and Germany has been particularly nasty.

French Finance Minister Thierry Breton recently warned the ECB about nasty surprises.

Guinea, with a nasty military junta in power, is on the brink of disaster.

At that point, we'll start romanticizing the future again, instead of the nasty, brutish past.

So that's another way in which something that is quite positive can have a nasty kickback.

Their father, Ehab, is recovering from the open heart surgery he underwent the month before, a healing scar visible on his chest.

Arunachalam Muruganantham The thing I saw in my wife's hand, Why are you using that nasty cloth?

The logic seemed clear suppress the asymptomatic but nasty looking arrhythmias, and you will reduce sudden death.

Further procrastination on interest rate normalization by the ECB could well lead to a nasty bout of inflation.

It's time to pay attention to Bosnia again, if we don't want things to get nasty very quickly.

I step off, I'm standing on the platform, and I feel my index finger in the first scar that I ever got, from my umbilical cord, and then around that, is traced the last scar that I got from my surgeon, and I think that, that chance encounter with those kids on the street with their knives

And before long, our bodies were covered head to toe with these nasty wounds inflicted by the terrified penguins.

This is a flower that really, really smells pretty nasty and is designed, again, evolved, to look like carrion.

Much of America is in a nasty mood, and the language of compassion has more or less been abandoned.

A particularly nasty example was the case of Fatty Arbuckle, a great comedy actor in Hollywood s silent movie era.

But nasty politics is nothing new to the US its founding era was hardly an idyll of dispassionate deliberation.

Egyptian blogger Lasto Adri , deplores how what was supposed to be a sporting event, degenerated into a nasty confrontation.

Sino North Korean relations have borne a significant scar since 1991, when China recognized South Korea without insisting that the US formally recognize the North.

Most people in the US know that if you talk back to the police, they will get nasty very fast.

But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

They say, Well, it's got to be something that's nasty enough that people don't want to be hit with this weapon.

Recently, Chuvashov defied personal threats made against him and sentenced members of a particularly nasty Moscow neo Nazi group to prison.

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

The unbelievable crimes. Our history grips us like a nightmare, for the crimes of the past scar the present and induce yet more crimes in the future.

An event like this leaves a scar on the memory, much like a piece of alien technology that has been inserted into your buttocks by a Portuguese doctor.

In the words of David Victor, of the University of California, San Diego, the coming Heat Age will be nasty, brutish, and hot.

Perhaps that befits creatures whose lives are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short, to recall Thomas Hobbes description of the state of nature.

Right from the beginning I heard nasty remarks from people who would openly say that I shouldn t be there, for the following reasons

And so as soon as I saw this drop into my inbox, I dispatched it hastily to the recycle bin and spared myself a very nasty infection.

But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit.

If nothing nasty happens losses on mortgages, commercial real estate, business loans, and credit cards the banks might just be able to make it through without another crisis.

Exchange rates have a nasty habit of overshooting their equilibrium values, then knifing back on countries, especially those who have been spending too much based on inflated income valuations.

The question of whether to meet with nasty but powerful people has dogged diplomacy since its inception, and both ends of the question have been argued endlessly and inconclusively.

It basically wants to fight off infection, and seal itself, whether it's organs inside your body, or your skin, the first reaction is for scar tissue to move in, to seal itself off from the outside.

Unfortunately, however, hyper rationality does not always produce attractive outcomes when social , rather than individual , choices are concerned. Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, nasty, or both.

In particular, nobody wants an operation with tools like these through large incisions that cause a lot of pain, that cause a lot of time out of work or out of school, that leave a big scar.

Then, when it was discovered that certain chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were causing the depletion of ozone in the atmosphere, the same groups launched a nasty campaign to discredit that science, too.

If the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread in the skin, but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean for it is the scar from the burn.

I couldn't resist, and I got a nasty email from some environmental group saying, This is too serious and solemn to make fun of. You should be ashamed, please apologize on our website.