(a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(2) Although lorazepam and haloperidol produced an equivalent mean decrease in aggression, significantly more subjects who received lorazepam had a greater decrease in aggression ratings than haloperidol recipients; this effect was independent of sedation.
(3) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(4) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(5) Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma has distinctly different clinical behavior compared to serous carcinoma and should be regarded as an aggressive epithelial histologic type.
(6) Carcinomas exhibiting atypical behavior are characteristically undifferentiated and aggressive.
(7) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(8) This excess in diagnosis comprises, in particular, the ductal type, primarily its most aggressive forms.
(9) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
(10) In the total sample, PEI factors and negative nominations were more stable than positive nominations, and PEI Aggression and Withdrawal scores were more stable than negative nominations.
(11) However, the typically deep invasion of the former tumors and their histologic features indicate that they are highly aggressive neoplasms.
(12) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
(13) This experience, comparable to that reported by others, suggests that aggressive treatment in the terminal phase of CML is justified only as part of a prospective and well-controlled study.
(14) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(15) These changes in the isozyme pattern of PK in aggressive fibromatosis may act as another argument to place them in the category of malignant fibroblastic tumors.
(16) Response to a single, 5-mg dose of methylphenidate was compared in aggressive and nonaggressive attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children using objective measures of inattention, impulsivity, and activity level.
(17) Factors contributing to a more aggressive form of carcinoma are unclear and require further study.
(18) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
(19) By and large, male and female rats react similarly to treatment with serotonergic drugs stressing the consistent role of 5-HT in different forms of aggression.
(20) These findings suggest that community differences in levels of violence are perpetuated as Zapotec children learn community-appropriate patterns for expressing aggression and continue to express these patterns as adults.
Mosh
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I used to love jumping into the mosh pit, then climbing back on stage with red claw marks all over my body."
(2) They “loved to travel, especially around Christmas time,” said Moshe Egoz, a longtime friend.
(3) Israeli defence minister Moshe Yaalon, while siding with Netanyahu, acknowledged the problematic handling of the event.
(4) The Israeli defence minister, Moshe Yaalon, told Israeli TV he felt for the bereaved families but that the decision to free the prisoners came from a "responsibility to guide the state of Israel according to a long-term strategy".
(5) The former Israeli president Moshe Katsav has entered a minimum security prison to begin a seven-year sentence for rape.
(6) The couple's son Moshe, two, was rescued by his nanny.
(7) Ahead of a meeting with Israeli defence minister Moshe Ya’alon, Carter said the two countries would “work together to maintain our safety and security in this troubled region”.
(8) Defence minister Moshe Ya'alon , an ally of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, dismissed Kerry's efforts to pursue a peace deal in private conversations with US and Israeli officials which were reported in an Israeli newspaper.
(9) Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) HEARTBREAKING: Rosh Yeshiva Kollel Toras Moshe Rabbi Moshe Twersky HY"D killed in todays Jerusalem terror attack.
(10) Earlier this week the defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, said Israel could not afford to allow the new system to become fully functional.
(11) The defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, is running the government in the prime minister's absence.
(12) So Moshe Kasher, Michelle Wolf and Nikkie Glaser got together to name the worst jobs in America, including “bathroom attendant at a Gathering of the Juggalos” and “Iggy Azalea’s blaccent coach”.
(13) Photograph: Reuters The injured police officer, Moshe Chen, said he gestured for her to stop the car and she then yelled “Allahu Akbar”, a phrase in Arabic meaning “God is great” and sometimes used by Islamic protesters, and detonated a bomb in her car.
(14) Moshe Ya'alon , an ally of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, had dismissed Kerry's efforts to pursue a peace deal in private conversations with US and Israeli officials, which were reported in the Israeli media.
(15) The Israeli defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, said Israel needed to carry out field trials of its defence systems.
(16) Some of the baby-doll dresses were couture pieces, blending the cultures of the salon and the mosh pit.
(17) Moshe Ya'alon, the Israeli vice prime minister, has turned down an invitation to a fundraising event in London.
(18) As part of a study of status epilepticus in children (Maytal J, Shinnar S, Moshe SL, Alvarez LA.
(19) Dr Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, said it was "sickening that such a well-known footballer would make such an abusive and hateful gesture in front of tens of thousands of spectators".
(20) Soon after, he and the other medallists, Staale Sandbech of Norway and Mark McMorris of Canada, were hugging, body-slamming and turning their sport’s “Kiss and Cry” zone into a mosh pit.