(n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
(n.) An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also playing their part are increased mobility of populations, particularly moves from rural to urban areas, increased affluence, increased alcohol comsumption and leisure time together with greater personal freedom.
(2) Other ‘norm’ areas, for example Trafford, will have extremes, ie, areas of affluence against areas of deprivation, which is normally shown in findings like this.
(3) None of the students attributed AIDS to mystical forces, while some associated it with affluence.
(4) The rise was greatest in the areas of most affluence.
(5) Bercow says the commission will need to ask "searching questions about the digital divide, the haves and have-nots of the internet and the smartphone, not least because of the accumulating evidence that the Berlin Wall which undoubtedly exists in this terrain is no longer about age but relates to affluence and the lack of it".
(6) The considerable adult male mortality appears to be related to the rapidly acquired affluence and the ready availability of motorcycles, cars, imported foods, tobacco, and alcohol.
(7) One of the first guests was the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith , best known for his critique of private affluence amid public squalor.
(8) Recent attempts to portray the relative affluence of the current generation of older Americans as causing economic hardship for younger generations are examined in this paper.
(9) To test this belief I have assessed the exposure of Black people, in time and degree, to the following CHD risk factors: affluence, age, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, dietary excess, smoking, physical inactivity, diabetes, obesity, hyperuricaemia and hyperinsulinism.
(10) Affluence and a rising standard of living were taken for granted, and Britain's political and constitutional system was widely admired as a symbol of stability and ordered progress.
(11) Ernst von Weizsaecker, an environmental scientist who co-chaired the panel, said: “Rising affluence is triggering a shift in diets towards meat and dairy products - livestock now consumes much of the world’s crops and by inference a great deal of freshwater, fertilisers and pesticides.” Both energy and agriculture need to be “decoupled” from economic growth because environmental impacts rise roughly 80% with a doubling of income, the report found.
(12) The data indicated a successive decline in the duration of breastfeeding with increasing affluence, and late introduction of weaning foods to rural children.
(13) A 100-strong "affluence team" is being drawn from 2,250 newly-recruited tax inspectors expected to be in place within weeks.
(14) With the overall affluence of the society, health care in terms of immunization has improved dramatically and more than 90% of all children are covered.
(15) Many in the outside world argue that political liberalisation will follow automatically with increased affluence.
(16) As the government must know, the growing affluence of the population will only increase the pressure for civil liberty in China.
(17) Modernization of this society through the affluence acquired by the mining of phosphate has led to serious public health problems relating to non-communicable diseases so that the mortality trends now mirror those of developed societies.
(18) Most foreigners were struck by the affluence, vivacious commerce and great manufacturing capacity of the Georgians.
(19) Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the summit , warned: 'No place on the planet could remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.
(20) This however, is not the case with weight variability where, in addition to the mean, there is evidence of independent effects of affluence, altitude, and especially latitude.
Plethora
Definition:
(n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
(n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
Example Sentences:
(1) By univariate analysis, each echocardiographic sign was associated with both cardiac tamponade and the combined end point (p less than or equal to 0.01 for comparisons with size and right-sided chamber collapse; p less than or equal to 0.07 for comparisons with IVC plethora).
(2) Brown will argue that the digital revolution will be especially vital in job centres, schools, hospital records and ensuring that, when people move home, they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(3) Histopathological rearrangement in the small intestine wall is demonstrated as edema of the mucous membrane, as plethora of the vessels, as lymphoid infiltration and as changes of the villi forms.
(4) The work analyzes macroscopical (weight, volume, specific gravity) and microscopical (qualitative -- plethora, content of lipids, foci of cytolysis, mosaity etc.
(5) Peptic ulcer is a common and chronic problem with a plethora of drug treatments available that accelerate healing in the short term.
(6) The widespread usage of ventriculoperitoneal shunts has been followed by a plethora of complications.
(7) Childs also oversaw the launch of a plethora of new BBC Worldwide channels in 2006, such as BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Knowledge, which are now available on several continents, including Asia, Europe and South America.
(8) Vascular changes were expressed as congestive plethora, perivascular edema and microfocal hemorrhages.
(9) There is a plethora of receptions at conference and Corbyn is expected to drop in on most of them.
(10) Despite the plethora of models and strategies for addressing issues that surround the chronically mentally ill, there remains a paucity of literature that addresses the specific implications of deinstitutionalization on racial minorities.
(11) "The plethora of indigenous highly pathogenic and virulent agents naturally occurring in India and the large Indian industrial base – combined with weak controls – also make India as much a source of bioterrorism material as a target," diplomats warned.
(12) The plethora of beta blockers that subsequently became available for study led to considerable improvement in both the design and implementation of large clinical trials.
(13) In the control, after ischemia (without radiation) in 45 days venous plethora of the vessels in the intermuscular plexus of the intestinal wall is kept.
(14) More recently, physiological findings have directed investigation toward a plethora of humoral substances and their possible role in disturbances of the secretory processes in CF.
(15) Despite the plethora of information provided by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging that allows differentiation of some substances that are indistinguishable at computed tomography (CT), there are diagnostic problems.
(16) Since 2001, when the Bush administration bluntly told Islamabad it must take sides, be either "for us or agin us" in the newly declared "war on terror", Pakistan has struggled under a plethora of imperious American demands, démarches and impositions that are at once politically indefensible and contrary to the perceived national interest.
(17) I would suggest that we must be innovative in dealing with the plethora of health legislation.
(18) Brown argued that the digital revolution will be especially vital in jobcentres, schools, hospital records and to ensure that when people move home they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) Obama will unveil a plethora of new legislative proposals, together with 19 executive actions that he can introduce without congressional approval, at a White House event on Wednesday morning.