sequestration

sequester | American Dictionary

sequester
verb[ T ]
 lawus/sɪˈkwes·tər/
to keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case:
The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.

sequester | Business English

sequester
verb[ T ]
uk /sɪˈkwestər/us
LAW, PROPERTY (alsosequestrate)
to take temporary possession of someone's property until they have paid back the money that they borrowed in order to buy it, or until they have obeyed a court order:
You sign the acknowledgement of debt now and a few months later your property will be sequestered.
LAW
to keep a jury together in a place so that they cannot discuss the case with other people or see or hear news reports about it:
He is expected to rule on a motion to sequester jurors during the trial.

Examples of sequester

sequester
In previtellogenic oocytes the ankryin-like protein is sequestered in spherical bodies (a) surrounded by a perinuclear localisation of p58 (b).
A large part of the l-reduction results from sequestering a redox center from the aqueous solvent environment.
Consider first the marginal effect of changing the price per unit of carbon sequestered.
The estimates for number of hectares to be planted and additional carbon sequestered are based on approved but not necessarily guaranteed funding.
The process whereby royalist property was sequestered has long been attacked both by contemporary observers and by modern historians.
When considering other crops, environmentalists and economists should emphasize similar systems that are capable of sequestering carbon and emerging as a sustainable agricultural system.
What could become a model for approaching childhood disturbance of all kinds is sequestered into a circumscribed set of categories.
The recurrent infections of the respiratory tract were probably related to the sequestered lower lobe of the right lung.
In either case, it may have been sequestered in the cave to mitigate or increase its power and effectiveness.
In addition to revenue from agricultural output, farmers can earn money for sequestering carbon in the soil.
Increases in the discount rate unambiguously decrease the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil.
The effect is more pronounced with molecular beacons which are sequestered into a stable hairpin loop when displaced [5].
Calcium microinjection in both cases caused a local increase at the site of injection that subsided gradually as the injected calcium was sequestered.
Possibly, hatchling keelbacks remain inactive or sequestered until it begins to rain.
Migration via the systemic route also implies that schistosomula are sequestered within the hepatic portal system by losing the ability to negotiate capillary beds, in this case the hepatic sinusoids.
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