(v. t.) To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
(v. t.) To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
(v. t.) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
(v. t.) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with.
(v. i.) To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
(2) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(3) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(4) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
(5) The guy upstairs, I heard he was maybe affiliated with Islamic Jihad, but he wasn't there.
(6) Belaïd was an outspoken critic of these groups, whom he accused of being affiliated to Ennahda.
(7) In view of recent reports demonstrating that illicit cocaine use may cause rhabdomyolysis, we reviewed the collective experience of a university-affiliated medical center to identify patients with cocaine-induced rhabdomyolysis.
(8) To examine the relationship between stress and upper respiratory tract infection, 235 adults aged 14-57 years, from 94 families affiliated with three suburban family physicians in Adelaide, South Australia, participated in a six-month prospective study.
(9) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
(10) In order to assess the most important predictors of practice behavior, the authors conducted a survey of 163 junior and senior medical residents at five training hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
(11) Immunocytochemical tests with eight monoclonal antibodies against either bovine or human insulin and seven polyclonal antibodies against bovine insulin were carried out to determine the presence of insulin-like neuropeptides in the brain and affiliated neuroendocrine structures of the insect Leucophaea maderae.
(12) Sometimes it helps when an enterprise can point to the success of an affiliate in another country.
(13) Research laboratory of a metropolitan, university-affiliated medical center.
(14) When the mirror gave subjects visual access to neighboring animals, facial expressions, sexual, and agonistic behaviors increased, whereas affiliative behavior decreased compared with when no mirror was present.
(15) An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, reiterating the gunmen’s call to kill those who insult the prophet Muhammad.
(16) Results indicated that the clients' family relations improved, as did their leadership and affiliation skills.
(17) CtW works with pension funds sponsored by unions affiliated with Change to Win, a coalition of US unions representing nearly six million members.
(18) The aim is to: make people aware and encourage prevention in the work environment; situate the hand in a preventive context; show the importance of the hand as a work-tool; present the quantitative and qualitative extent of diseases and accidents of the hand; make the interest and difficulties in collecting information known (especially about professional diseases and workers not affiliated to the CNA); stimulate continuing search of information about prevention in the work environment.
(19) University hospital-affiliated physicians rated clinical and hospital pharmacists significantly higher than community pharmacists for six subject areas, and they also ranked clinical pharmacists over hospital pharmacists on four subject areas and considered them more reliable than other pharmacy drug information sources.
(20) Now let me be clear: we are indeed at war with al-Qaida and its affiliates.
Subsidiary
Definition:
(a.) Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a subsidy; constituting a subsidy; being a part of, or of the nature of, a subsidy; as, subsidiary payments to an ally.
(n.) One who, or that which, contributes aid or additional supplies; an assistant; an auxiliary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(2) magazine as well as adult TV channels through subsidiary Portland .
(3) Even as those words were being published, lawyers and senior executives from News International's subsidiary News Group were preparing to run to court to gag Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who was suing the News of the World for its undisclosed involvement in the illegal interception of messages left on his mobile phone.
(4) None of Coventry’s subsidiaries recognised trade unions.
(5) It comes two years after the BSC stripped another Vedanta subsidiary of a safety award after the Observer drew its attention to the firm's involvement in one of the worst industrial tragedies in India's recent history.
(6) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(7) It was set up as a Thames subsidiary in 1971 to specialise in high quality mainstream drama and built a reputation for shooting on film and on location, unlike much production of scripted TV output at the time.
(8) In contrast, subsidiary pacemaker recovery time was correlated with both rate and duration of ventricular overdrive pacing.
(9) When present, the rule specified the locations of a subsidiary figure in each symbol according to the pattern top-right, bottom-left.
(10) The anti-piracy measures will be introduced across Google's main online search service, but not its subsidiary YouTube.
(11) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
(12) Among the finance directors on it were: Ken Hanna of Cadbury Schweppes, which was locked in a battle at the European court over its use of a Dublin subsidiary; Richard Lapthorne of Cable & Wireless; and AstraZeneca's Jon Symonds, embroiled in a multibillion pound "transfer pricing" dispute.
(13) The film-maker Michael Moore has suggested that the phone-hacking scandal at News International may spread to US subsidiary Fox News while speaking at a film festival event in New York.
(14) But, as it is currently drafted, it does not require companies in the UK to report on all the supply chains in their groups overseas, such as those of wholly owned subsidiaries abroad.
(15) In 46% of cases where diabetes should have been recorded as a subsidiary diagnosis, it was not.
(16) In January, West Coast Capital (USC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sports Direct, entered a “pre-pack” administration whereby the business was shorn of some staff and debts and then immediately bought back by another division of Sports Direct.
(17) However, the company was forced to cancel after its members were denied visas by Puspal, a subsidiary licensing arm of the Malaysian information, communication and cultre ministry.
(18) Lebedev intends to make the Standard fresher and younger, and possibly more progressive, and move the paper away from the direct influence of Paul Dacre, the powerful and opinionated editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, the DMGT subsidiary that publishes the paper.
(19) Clothing from its factories makes its way across the world, supplying big name brands in the west – from WalMart – the world's largest retailer (Asda is a subsidiary) – to high-street names like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and H&M.
(20) The bank had allowed narcotics traffickers and others to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through HSBC subsidiaries.