(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%.
Ardent
Definition:
(a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.
(a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes.
(a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
(2) Long regarded as the most ardently pro-European party in British politics, the Lib Dems have pledged to do everything they can to campaign for Britain to remain in the EU and hope to win support from voters who regret the result of June’s referendum.
(3) He was as ardent as any Democrat to see the back of George Bush, but was never swept up in Obamania.
(4) Those same countries which are most resistant to immigration are often the most ardent proponents of the free market which has created this situation and the same countries that are profiting out of the opening up of their eastern European neighbours.
(5) For Tories, it's no problem – they ardently want to cut the state back as hard as they dare.
(6) Elizabeth Wallschlager, a Panamanian immigrant and a Catholic, said: “I don’t think the pope said that.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ardent Trump supporter from Kiawah Island, she added: “I think that it’s a misunderstanding.
(7) Even the most ardent Republican supporter must realise that historically the party has tended to boost the wealth of the few rather than the many.
(8) But Trump’s performance seemed to ease the concerns of attendees who represented some of the most ardent cultural warriors in the party, a group that has long been uncomfortable with the party’s nominee, and preferred other candidates like Ted Cruz during the primary.
(9) He must have been one of the few children who noticed that an animating crisis in Mary Poppins was a run on a bank; less surprising is his memory of rats in the streets after the rubbish collectors' strike in the 70s, which engendered an enduring scepticism about the Labour party (though, "like any intelligent teenager" he was briefly an ardent Labour supporter and briefly a Scottish nationalist - "I'm promiscuous that way").
(10) Even the most ardent Kobe apologist cannot deny that he committed an aggressive act of infidelity and made himself look terrible in his initial statements to police, where he lamented not simply paying off his alleged victim.
(11) These ardent conservatives are also challenging the conventional wisdom – and testimony from the US Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, that the US would be at high risk of default once its borrowing authority expires on Thursday.
(12) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
(13) Although ardent strides have been made in the realm of diagnosis and follow-up with the advent of ultrasonography, mortality and morbidity have not changed appreciably over the past 20 years.
(14) On one side were the “ardent internationalists”, “comfortable Europhiles” and “engaged metropolitans”, while “strong sceptics” and “EU hostiles” occupied the other pole.
(15) Zlatan’s many ardent supporters, those who are fans as opposed to curious neutral observers, might not like it.
(16) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(17) Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, “people” were suggesting that “precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying.” Turnbull replied that it was Jones who was undermining the Abbott government and “doing the work of the Labor party”, a charge not usually levelled at the Sydney announcer who is an ardent supporter of the prime minister.
(18) Not even the most ardent Brexiteer would want to rush into a notification under article 50.
(19) Luckily, many of Prop 187’s and SB 1070’s most ardent supporters are now either eternally vilified ( Governor Pete Wilson ), politically irrelevant ( Governor Jan Brewer ) or in massive legal problems ( Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ).
(20) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).