(a.) Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
Example Sentences:
(1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
(2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(3) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(4) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(6) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(7) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(8) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(9) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(10) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(11) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(12) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(13) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
(14) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(15) The correlations between the objective risk estimates and the subjective risk estimates were low overall (r = 0.089, p = 0.08); for women rejecting (r = 0.024, p = 0.44) or accepting (r = 0.082, p = 0.12) amniocentesis.
(16) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(17) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
(18) The feedback I have had reveals how accepting people are of different cultures and religions.
(19) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
(20) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
Edgy
Definition:
(a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
(a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
Example Sentences:
(1) Garfield has a history of making interesting choices and a knack for using his edgy watchfulness to steal scenes from some of the best actors in the business.
(2) With the unprecedented riches offered by next season’s top tier television deal at stake, it proved a slightly strange, decidedly edgy, game.
(3) And his art is always edgy – a bit worrying, getting a bit under your skin.
(4) The softly-spoken but determined champion, born in Bow and raised in Limerick, brought quiet menace and the threat of a dramatic finish; Saunders, the challenger, all energy and edgy aggression, had come for a night of educated boxing.
(5) A taxi driver called a tipoff line after he recognised a group of difficult clients from that morning, unusually edgy about handling their large suitcases.
(6) The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
(7) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
(8) Fodi’s liberal audience pay to hear career radicals speak about “dangerous” subjects during “edgy” debates, but turn a blind eye to the unethical practices that events such as the Fodi and the Biennale inevitably cover up.
(9) Barclays bankers were engulfed in a culture of "edginess" and had a "winning at all costs" attitude which raised tensions with regulators and damaged its reputation, according to a review into the ethics of the embattled bank.
(10) Or some edgy comic business relating to abortion, or menstruation?
(11) We got a little bit edgy in the second half, that’s probably more down to the situation we find ourselves in.
(12) Capaldi admitted that a little of Malcolm Tucker, his foul-mouthed political aide in satirical series The Thick of It, had crept into his Doctor, meaning he was a little more "edgy, volatile and dangerous".
(13) It surely helped her reputation as much as her life that she was brave, robust, loyal, edgy, and a survivor.
(14) When Scotland got their goal back it could have been a bit edgy, but we responded fantastically and it was very special for me to score two goals for England in Scotland at Celtic Park.” Gordon Strachan admitted his players had been “spooked” by England’s energetic opening as they slipped to only a second defeat in 11 games to douse some of the optimism generated by Friday’s victory over the Republic of Ireland .
(15) "The comics who are more surrealist, abstract, or edgy – that's never going to work on Live at the Apollo," says Perrin.
(16) The influence of the Forest Fringe – the festival's free, even more eccentric wing – could be discerned in the rise of edgy new venues such as Summerhall , the space curated by Battersea Arts Centre .
(17) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
(18) Their 'hipster' children who have only ever lived through the era of neo-con politics find these environments stultifying and conventional and long for something more edgy, urban and cool-'authentic' places where poor folk live, that make them feel daring and adventurous.
(19) Nor is there any dispute that this is dark and edgy TV.
(20) The old failings were becoming sorely evident and Tottenham fed off the edginess.