(n.) Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.
(n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.
(n.) Connection in the way of descent.
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.
Confederation
Definition:
(n.) The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.
(n.) The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthew Fell, the Confederation of British Industry's director for competitive markets, said: "The government has made absolutely the right decision not to adopt the European FTT in the UK.
(2) The NHS Confederation – backed by the British Medical Association and the royal medical colleges – issued a strong warning that healthcare would suffer as a result of the reforms.
(3) The president of the Confederation of British Industry used his opening address to repeatedly make clear that it regards EU membership as being beneficial to the UK economy and warn against ending the principle of free movement of labour, as opposed to free movement of benefits.
(4) The confederation is grouped around 10 tribes across the north.
(5) These 40 young women were interviewed by one confederate of each sex.
(6) Subjects were induced to interact with a confederate who in all cases revealed something quite personal about himself.
(7) Nigel Edwards of the NHS Confederation, which represents 95% of the health sector, said that there were now trusts considering "closing down services and selling off" hospital wings.
(8) Retail sales have held up surprisingly well , according to the Confederation of British Industry's August survey published on Thursday, suggesting that momentum continued into the early part of the third quarter.
(9) Late last night, al-Ahmar, who is also the head of the Hashid confederation, accused Saleh's troops of not observing the ceasefire.
(10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
(11) The study was designed to test whether men and women identifying with a masculine stereotype differ in their perception of a confederate (adversary) who displays either an empathetic or aggressive role in resolving a disagreement over social issues.
(12) Kevin Green, chief executive at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Without a doubt, the retail sector is having a difficult time.
(13) Students initially expected the confederate to display traits similar to those of a typical former mental patient.
(14) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
(15) Organized into same sex dyadic pairs, 64 students (32 male, 32 female) were divided into two groups (high- and low-eye contact) and assigned to either a positive or negative condition defined in terms of the verbal content of the confederate.
(16) Before a cross-party political summit on the local NHS to be held at Stormont this month, a report by the Northern Ireland Confederation – a body that represents 50 health and social care organisations – has warned of additional pressures on the health service.
(17) An earlier version of the article said the Financial Times reported that the Confederation of British Industry had attacked the scheme as "highly discriminatory and very unfortunate".
(18) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
(19) Now, a European champion for club and country , twice Chelsea’s player of the year, the most expensive signing in Manchester United’s history, and a starter in last summer’s Confederations Cup final here, he might have expected to play a central role four years on.
(20) So in June, Fifa banned the instrument from stadiums for the Confederations Cup.