What's the difference between adversity and battler?

Adversity


Definition:

  • (n.) Opposition; contrariety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There fore, the adverse effects may be induced by such quartz or silicon compounds.
  • (2) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
  • (3) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
  • (4) The AL plus EA produced significantly greater adverse effects than with SFO plus EA.
  • (5) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (6) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
  • (7) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
  • (8) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
  • (9) The prognosis was adversely affected by obesity, preoperative flexion contracture of 30 degrees or more, wound-healing problems, wound infection, and postoperative manipulation under general anesthesia.
  • (10) One thousand singleton low-risk pregnancies were cross-sectionally studied at 36-40 weeks gestation with continuous-wave Doppler ultrasonography in order to assess its usefulness as an antepartum monitoring technique for the identification of fetuses at risk of developing an adverse outcome.
  • (11) The relatively high concentrations of desethylchloroquine and bisdesethylchloroquine found during chronic treatment show the need for more information about the therapeutic value and adverse effects of the metabolites.
  • (12) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
  • (13) Long-term treatment with agents that stimulate the beta-receptor (prenalterol and pirbuterol) has not proved to be useful in the treatment of chronic heart failure; moreover, prolonged treatment with beta-agonists (dobutamine and pirbuterol) may adversely affect survival.
  • (14) Since ASA has a greater potential for adverse effects, paracetamol is increasingly preferred to ASA, particularly in children.
  • (15) When a product is selected for a patient, consideration should be given to necessity, efficacy, adverse effects, and cost-effectiveness.
  • (16) The presence of prostatic invasion either into the stroma or involving prostatic ducts and acini only had no adverse effect on outcome.
  • (17) Oocytes obtained by laparoscopy were compared with those obtained under ultrasonic guidance to determine whether CO2 exposure had any adverse effect.
  • (18) It is mentioned that the lack of a valuable status for industrial physicians may adversely affect the evolution of training programs in Switzerland.
  • (19) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
  • (20) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."

Battler


Definition:

  • (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hence the appeal of Ridgewell, who went from out-of-contract at a relegation battler in the Premier League to a Designated Player in Major League Soccer.
  • (2) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
  • (3) I’ve always been a battler.” He remains a shareholder in the company “at the moment”, he told 3AW.
  • (4) Howard and Crosby used a Queenslander, Pauline Hanson, to assist during the 1990s when "battlers" felt threatened by Aboriginal gains of land and other rights.
  • (5) But PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
  • (6) The former prime minister John Howard has warned media and politicians not to treat Pauline Hanson like a “scorned species” because isolating or attacking her will add to her battler appeal.
  • (7) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the Abbott government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
  • (8) After this, a couple of new franchises – the long-awaited Crytek battler Ryse: Sons of Rome , the trailer for which managed to re-depict the Normandy beach landings as a battle of the ancient world.
  • (9) His hair wasn’t long, he was wearing shoes – he looked like he could be a real Aussie Battler in a couple of years.
  • (10) This was two points dropped rather than one gained for Sunderland, but at a ground where they suffered the humiliation of losing 8-0 last season, it was revenge of sorts and defeats elsewhere for fellow relegation battlers Newcastle United and Norwich City made it a little sweeter.
  • (11) Deaf for most of his Westminster career, he was an inspiration to people with disabilities, a battler on their behalf and a relentless pursuer of justice for underdog causes.
  • (12) Both campaigns (based on what they are saying in terms of their topline messages) look like they think the big bulk of 'undecideds' resides in the "battlers" demographic.
  • (13) The Manchester United manager said he had no words to describe the disappointment of the past week, going out of the Champions League, going down at Bournemouth and so on, so imagine his dismay when Alex Neil’s relegation-battlers took a first-half lead here and held on for three points.
  • (14) There’s a long way to go but, without Ofsted being there, I’ve no doubt standards will fall and we would go backwards, not forwards.” In his sometimes turbulent time at the inspectorate, he suggested parents should be fined if they do not turn up for parents’ evening; he said teachers who leave at 3pm should be paid less; he has backed schools that ban “inappropriate wearing” of full-face veils and issued a call to arms for maverick school leaders who are “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes” who will not put up with mediocrity.
  • (15) In Australia, it was former prime minister John Howard’s “Battlers”, those all-important aspirational voters of the largely white working class, who live on the fringes of our capital cities and in our regional centres.
  • (16) In criticising the 2012 budget, Abbott said Labor's plan “deliberately, coldly, calculatedly plays the class war card” by abandoning company tax cuts and replacing them with means-tested payments “because a drowning government has decided to portray the political contest in this country as billionaires versus battlers”.
  • (17) Xbox One thrills – and spills Ryse: Son of Rome: beachhead battler.
  • (18) You have to recognise that people voted for her.” Howard warned that in public debate in the late 90s the more Hanson was attacked “the more popular she became because those attacks enhanced her Australian battler image and she plays off that”.
  • (19) A self-described “battler” from Sydney has had the cost of his Domino’s Pizza order refunded after 18 months and a successful court battle.
  • (20) From an early age Silva was considered a guerreira, a battler, overcoming numerous episodes of tropical diseases such as malaria, and later mercury poisoning.