(n.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
(n.) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
(n.) Coming; any important arrival; approach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(2) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(3) The advent of transgenic technology, in which foreign genetic information is stably introduced into the mammalian germ line, has dramatically enhanced our basic knowledge of physiologic and pathologic processes.
(4) With the advent of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), molecular biology is at last poised to enter the clinical microbiology laboratory.
(5) The advent of cyclosporine A provides the dermatologist with a new therapeutic strategem in the management of psoriasis, although the long-term safety of such interventional therapy remains to be discerned.
(6) Accurate reproducible measurements of the rate of gastric emptying have only been possible since the advent of external radionuclide detection techniques.
(7) However, the advent of the polymerase chain reaction, coupled with a boom in funding for human immunodeficiency virus research have moved retroviral research apace, raising questions as to whether novel contributions would be realized.
(8) With the advent of advancing methodology and monoclonal antibodies the new models support nuclear localisation of the receptor, the clinical significance of this in cancer treatment is far from clear.
(9) The advent of what is called the chemotherapy of mental diseases goes back to the early fifties, when a series of clinical observations led medical research to reconsider this field, that at the time was not particularly developed.
(10) Since the advent of modern methods of neonatal care, intracranial hemorrhage in premature infants, which is usually intraventricular, is probably not as uniformly fatal as generally admitted and the survivors are likely to develop post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus.
(11) With the advent of colour coding in electro-optical displays, the need for a detailed quantification of focusing responses to chromatic stimuli is particularly important because of the influence of the chromatic aberration present in ocular optics on the focusing response of the eye.
(12) The latter has been used infrequently since the advent of antibiotics, except recently for treatment of cancer.
(13) Two technical developments, the advent of supercomputing as a routine tool in quantum solid-state material science and molecular dynamics on the one hand, and molecular biology on the other hand, have created--perhaps for the first time-the possibility of directly linking a more realistic description of the radiation field to observable events at biomolecular level.
(14) Breakthroughs in the areas of serology (e.g., removal of IgM antibodies and the use of CLL cells for serum screening), strategy (use of a calculated cumulative probability of transplantability to determine the necessary donor pool size), and therapy (the use of Staph A immunosorbent columns to remove IgG from the patient's serum and the advent of recombinant erythropoietin) are rapidly evolving to the point where there is promise of substantially improving the chances of transplanting highly sensitized patients.
(15) According to these criteria, cholecystectomy (removing not only the stones but also the offending gallbladder)--in particular with the advent of the laparoscopic approach--is the therapy of choice.
(16) The advent of electron microscopy has repeatedly confirmed Whipple's original postulate that bacterial infestation might be the cause of intestinal lipodystrophy (Whipple's disease).
(17) However the advent of computer-based image analysers offers a more straightforward, although less direct, method of making such measurements.
(18) The advent of stroboscopy has proved to be a breakthrough for the laryngologist studying the voice.
(19) The recurrent crises explain why a range of figures, from Blake to Gandhi , and Simone Weil to Yukio Mishima, reacted remarkably similarly to the advent of industrial and commercial society, to the unprecedented phenomenon of all that is solid melting into thin air, across Europe, Asia and Africa.
(20) Prior to the advent of liposuction, there were a number of reports in the medical literature about significant complication rates from facelifting, ranging in frequency from 1 to 8%.
Advert
Definition:
(v. i.) To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Carlsberg made adverts for football scouts ... Scott Murray Martial, who could potentially cost Manchester United £58.8m, had quite a bit to prove.
(2) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
(3) • MPs heard that payday lenders are targeting young children with their TV adverts.
(4) Republican hopeful Donald Trump has launched a US presidential campaign advert attacking Barack Obama for supposedly prioritising Star Wars over the battle against terrorism.
(5) 'No social housing' boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors Read more Only by rebalancing housing provision can we avoid another bursting property bubble.
(6) His committee had spent only $75,000, which included adverts in media outlets read by members of Congress and their staff.
(7) It's also the first of two adverts in this week's collection featuring the classic song My Way.
(8) The advert provoked a backlash from pro-EU campaigners and MPs, as well as claims of Islamophobia from Twitter users, some of whom said they were planning to report the party to Ofcom.
(9) A new advert from department store BHS has prompted debate over the way it portrays working women.
(10) "Every parent's worst nightmare," begins the advert.
(11) Now broadcast globally to 200 countries, the Premier League is considered a great advert for Britain, with the prime minister, David Cameron, inviting the league's chief executive, Richard Scudamore, on several of his trade trips.
(12) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
(13) In a letter to Field, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that more than 352,659 job adverts might be in breach of the Universal Jobmatch website's terms and conditions.
(14) In Dublin, the general mood was summed up by the Evening Herald headline, referring to a slogan from an car advert featuring Henry: "It's Va Va Gloom".
(15) In 2007, Eurostar ran adverts in Belgium for its trains to London depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup.
(16) is exactly the kind of ridiculous army recruitment advert of a chant that you would expect from our cousins across the Atlantic.
(17) On launching the app for first time an advert fills the screen; tapping the cross to close it releases a second advert promoting other games made by the same developer.
(18) The stunning Mattmark lake above Saas Almagell The scenery is like I'd imagine a TV advert for anti-depressants.
(19) The animated advert cost £1m to make and features a hare and a bear created by some of the artists behind Disney's Lion King.
(20) Steve Hilton, a former ad man responsible for the Conservatives' disastrous "demon eyes" advert, and now the special adviser to Lord Saatchi, is the final member of the set's inner circle, though he lives in north London.