What's the difference between adversity and spartan?

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."

Spartan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
  • (2) They built spartan, concrete residential blocks on their remaining property, subdivided them into scores of tiny rooms and rented them out to migrant workers from the countryside.
  • (3) Simultaneous measurements of biochemical and physiological events of compensatory renal hypertrophy were made in groups of white Spartan rats.
  • (4) The very first inkling of what would be dubbed the Bristol sound was the Wild Bunch's spartan treatment of Bacharach and David's classic The Look of Love , released in 1988 on 4th & Broadway.
  • (5) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
  • (6) Gaskill’s Spartan staging of Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret in 1966, received dreadful notices that led to a ferocious tussle with the London critics.
  • (7) Opened last year by the Irish Youth Hostel Association ( anoige.ie ), its somewhat institutional architecture, utilitarian concrete floors and Ikea furnishings may be too spartan for some, but the bright interiors and views of Glencree valley more than compensated.
  • (8) Alfred Parsons (1864-1952) was noted for his vigour of mind and body and Spartan habits and his dramatic teaching.
  • (9) Nevertheless, again, unusually "normally" for a royal, he attended school, even if it was the notoriously spartan Gordonstoun.
  • (10) George Jameson, rallying with Reclaim Australia in a replica Spartan military outfit, said they weren’t racists and had come together to stand up for freedom of speech.
  • (11) There's a suggestion the player will also take control of another Spartan investigating the series hero – more on that later.
  • (12) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
  • (13) The episode is illustrative of Sontag's emotionally spartan childhood, which produced a self-contained but not insular child.
  • (14) Orwell's letters were bucolic - lots of stuff about horses, flowers and fishing - but the references to the house suggest that 'spartan' may be too generous a description.
  • (15) For now, Halo spin-off Halo: Spartan Assault remains exclusive to Windows-powered device.
  • (16) *** Five hours before the People’s PPE meeting, I pitch up at a grim-looking office block next to Euston station, buzz the entry phone and go up a couple of flights of stairs into a warren of spartan rooms.
  • (17) 10.10am: Barry Glendenning's paper view has arrived to round up the Fourth Estate's perspective this morning: In the Mirror, Oliver Holt is busily fighting John Terry's corner, claiming that the former skipper deserves credit, not opprobium, for being the only England player prepared to speak out about the "spartan regime they have been living under for the last five weeks".
  • (18) Apart, perhaps, from Skipper's spartan office which looks out over a car park and the windowless neighbouring building of the department of work and pensions.
  • (19) It was here that he refined his incomparable talent for drawing, but in his early years he was drawn to history painting – young Spartans , Semiramis – and the dreamy style of symbolists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau .
  • (20) It portrays the heroic endeavours of 300 Spartans, under King Leonidas, who are shown resisting an invading force of 120,000 Persian troops led by Emperor Xerxes.