(adv.) Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.
Example Sentences:
(1) If industry worked collaboratively in this area and set up incentive schemes in conjunction with each other, this practice would become consumer habit rather than consumer exception.” Plans are now afoot to assess the size of the remanufacturing market across Europe, a move that should benefit the UK.
(2) He said a broader range of music would be broadcast on Radio 2 under the proposals, in which there were "big changes afoot".
(3) Plans are afoot to set up a Treasury in Cardiff and control of the police and legal system could follow.
(4) When corporate feminism starts to sound like 1970s socialist feminism, something is afoot, and we need to build on it.
(5) We have exciting plans afoot, including new launches – this business is just getting started."
(6) Both have been stocked in the past with the more common rainbow trout, but there is a movement afoot to end the practice and keep these waterways pure for the native goldens.
(7) But Fawzi denied a report that plans were afoot to send a 3,000-strong UN peacekeeping force to Syria , drawn from an existing UN contingent in south Lebanon.
(8) Meanwhile, something’s afoot in the wind at Víctor’s old club, as Barcelona are looking at renewing the contracts of Leo Messi and Neymar , having shrewdly spotted they’re both decent.
(9) Change is afoot at Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) Nottingham Law School.
(10) Hold on to your hats and gird your loins, ladies and gentlemen, because there is life-changing news afoot: older dads have uglier children.
(11) Currently, a movement is afoot to limit sharply the amount and kind of treatment offered to schizophrenic patients and their families.
(12) Filing for "iWatch" trademarks, as it has in Europe and Japan, is a good sign that something's afoot.
(13) But Ala'a Shehabi, of Bahrain Watch , the group leading the international #stoptheshipment campaign, told the Guardian that legal moves were afoot to try to reclassify teargas as a chemical weapon.
(14) "Now that these countries know that change is afoot, they are pre-emptively trying to put their house in order – less humiliating than being forced into it.
(15) Plans are now afoot to open a further four canteens and every day, free bread is distributed to old people on the street.
(16) Short of stamping it with sealing wax and delivering it on a velvet pillow, the government could hardly make it clearer that something important is afoot.
(17) A quiet constitutional revolution is afoot,” said his friend and biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby.
(18) Michael Gove then appointed a former head of the Met's counter-terrorism unit to investigate the allegations and, with his characteristic emollience, talked of the need to "drain the swamp" – whereupon tensions flared between his department and the Home Office and there were credible suggestions that the DfE had known about what was afoot in Birmingham since 2010.
(19) Diaries of these tricky days in the bunker will show despair, but they could also show whether the inhabitants understood the fact there is a broader shift afoot.
(20) And there was something afoot in the sleepy Burgundy town of Auxerre.
Progress
Definition:
(n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
(n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
(n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
(n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
(n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
(n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
(n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
(v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
(v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.
(v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.
Example Sentences:
(1) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(2) The fine structure of neurofibrillary tangles in the hippocampal gyrus, substantia nigra, pontine nuclei and locus coeruleus of the brain was postmortem studied in a case of progressive supranuclear palsy.
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(5) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(6) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(7) (ii) A progressive disappearance of the immunoreactive hypendymal cells.
(8) DNA in situ is progressively denatured when the cells or nuclei are treated with increasing concentration of acridine orange (AO).
(9) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
(10) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
(11) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
(12) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(13) The risk of recurrence and progression in 170 patients presenting with pTa urothelial tumours of the bladder has been estimated so that follow-up can be rationalised.
(14) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(15) Progressive sporadic myopathy in association with Down's syndrome has not been reported previously.
(16) After local injection of sodium iodoacetate osteoarthritic reactions will progress within 2-4 months.
(17) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
(18) These observations indicate that lipoprotein Lp(a) concentrations can be altered pharmacologically and that the progression of cardiovascular disease may be altered through changes in lipoprotein (a) levels.
(19) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(20) Serial measurements demonstrated a good correlation between enolase and NSE serum levels and the progression of the disease.