interrupters

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Those characteristics include the same number of exons, which encode the protein, and phases of introns, which act as interrupters to stop or start splicing of the RNA molecules transcribed from the gene.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

Tyrone Parker, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance of Concerned Men, said the District’s ecosystem of violence interrupters and other support programs aren’t collaborating with each other to squash the blood feuds.

From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2023

Violence interruption works: There was a 31% drop in homicides and 19% in shootings in two Chicago districts where interrupters worked.

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022

Hall added that any violence interrupters or community intervention should be run by a different department or third party because “credibility erodes” if people are working for the police.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022

He seldom interrupted interrupters, finding it more effective to let them speak and then to deal with them in his own special manner when they had finished.

From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Dilnot, Frank