(n.) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
(n.) Activity; powerful agency.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
(2) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
(3) "She's very agile as a performer, and is able to deliver again and again so it's a very joyful watch."
(4) Joe Roberson, a digital consultant who co-managed Innovation Labs believes the charity sector is still a far way behind other sectors when it comes to developing apps and this is due to a lack of understanding of how business and lean or agile design thinking can help them move forward digitally.
(5) Therefore it is reasonable to consider the described model as a simple, agile and economic instrument adaptable to other cases, although still to be perfected.
(6) Paul Golby, chief executive of E.ON in Britain, said: "We had to undertake a deep and rigorous review of how much money we spend in order to ensure we keep costs as low as possible for our customers, become a more agile organisation and build a sustainable business in the UK.
(7) A spokesman for the producers said viewers of the semi-final had seen that winner Jules O’Dwyer’s act involved several dogs who participated alongside Matisse to help perform her “unique mixture of dog agility and storytelling”.
(8) Now, I think that Corbyn’s parliamentary and political past is integral both to his appeal and his problems and, as a phenomenon, he’s quite different to Podemos , who are agile and flexible.
(9) By streamlining its governance, the Premier League was more agile than its predecessors.
(10) New site-specific endonucleases LplI and AagI have been isolated from the Lactobacillus plantarum and Achromobacter agile cells, respectively.
(11) It is a compelling argument, which – as the referendum that will make or break him looms – Mr Cameron should be agile enough to make.
(12) Act more like a lobby group – an insider rather than outsider – recruit people of influence inside the chamber to support your bill, have a fantastic website and a responsive, well-managed Facebook page, invest in research and polling, make story-telling central to your message, be bipartisan, make friends with corporate Australia, and have a movement that is agile but built for endurance.
(13) The Home Office regards “operational agility” and problems of setting a precedent for judicial involvement in executive decisions as main considerations in the new regime.
(14) "Malcolm was a fantastic raconteur, with a brilliant and agile creative mind.
(15) The group of public-minded cybersecurity volunteers proposed a “hippocratic oath” for connected medical devices last week, suggesting that manufacturers of the devices (which pose tempting targets and can cause huge personal suffering if hacked) abide by a set of principles including supporting “prompt, agile and secure updates” and working with third-party researchers to ensure potential security issues can be safely reported.
(16) But although some surgeons stop operating as they get older, aware that they are not physically as agile or alert as they once were, nobody knew how long their period of excellence lasted.
(17) The developer promised “more varied gameplay” and a greater degree of experimentation on this sequel (the opportunity to take safer, longer routes for example, in favour of the quicker, more perilous options) but the same projectile-like sense of agility and rapidity that defined the original seems to have been retained.
(18) The remaining four Baltic Sea species, "A. agile," "A. kieliense," "A. luteum," and "A. sanguineum," could not be placed in the new subdivision of Agrobacterium.
(19) The world is full of savvy, agile competitors who know quality makes a difference."
(20) Labor sources say Turnbull’s talk about “agility” and “innovation” goes down like a lead balloon in these electorates.
Legerity
Definition:
(n.) Lightness; nimbleness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Philophthalmus gralli (Mathis and Leger, 1910) was introduced into the San Antonio, Texas area within the last 25-30 years from an unknown foreign source.
(2) The study quite specifically deals with histamine-legeration provoked by the direct pharmacodynamic action of drug substances, in particular those which are used in anaesthesiology.
(3) beauchampi Leger and Duboscq, 1917 was studied from the ventral digestive epithelium of the hepatic region of Glossobalanus minutus (Enteropneusta).
(4) Only an exclusive cadre of women can pull off a Herve Leger bandage dress on the red carpet without looking like a lumpy frosting tube, and it would seem that Lululemon ascribes to the same goal in the yoga studio.
(5) The St Leger at Doncaster, which is owned by ARC (formed recently by the merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing), the only obvious omission.
(6) There exists, in the anterior part of the intestine (pancreas, duodenum, stomach, ileum) a system of neuro-humoral cells derived embryologically from the neural crest (Weichert 1967, Gorin and Leger 1969).
(7) The primary hosts of its species, the best known of which are C. simplex Leger 1904 and C. bigenetica Wacha and Christiansen 1982, are carnivorous reptiles and birds of prey.
(8) Since the 2014 conference is being held this year in Ed Miliband’s backyard, on sun-soaked Doncaster racecourse, the development is doubly tragic: Ukip activists sober a few feet from where the world’s oldest classic horse race – the St Leger – was run just days ago.
(9) In conclusion, it must be recognized that, as Lucien Leger (39) wrote, "by creating a new physiopathology, portal decompression raises as many questions as it solves."
(10) This paper describes a new species of trypanosome, Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) heliosciuri, from Heliosciurus gambianus gambianus, and gives a detailed description of T. (Herpetosoma) xeri Leger and Baury 1922, from Euxerus erythropus erythropus, all from Senegal, West Africa.
(11) In order to validate the "Maximal Multistage 20 Meter Shuttle Run Test" by Leger and Lambert (1982) (20-MST) as an estimate of maximal aerobic power (VO2max) and to compare the results of this test with the results of a 6 min endurance run, 82 subjects (41 boys and 41 girls) aged 12-14 performed the 20-MST and the 6 min endurance run, and had their VO2max directly measured during maximal treadmill running.
(12) These problems are illustrated by replication and re-analysis, using new data, of the well known study by Cochrane, St Leger and Moore.
(13) An oblique pelvis is a certain, a reduced angle of Leger a probable influence of lumbosciatic pain.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duque-Gonzalez family will meet with Pope Francis in New York on 25 September 2015 Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Duque said his family is in the US now, and in Mexico he would only find unemployment and poverty.
(15) Douglas unleashed another off-color remark, telling the audience that when Steven Soderbergh first talked to him about playing Liberace during the filming of another movie, “I thought maybe I was mincing a little bit in the part that I was doing.” I can't tell if Twitter is really mad at him or not, but here's an unscientific roundup of the opinions I've seen floating around the ether: Stewart Legere (@StewartLegere) Mincing around my apartment thinking about Michael Douglas .
(16) Subspecific designations are given to distinctive populations parasitizing different host species: P. minasense minasense is recognized from the type host, Mabuya mabouya of Brasil; P. minasense carinii Leger and Mouzels, 1917 from Iguana iguana of coastal South America; P. minasense anolisi subsp.
(17) Sell in May and go away, don’t come back until St Leger Day.
(18) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Finally, after a further round of screening, the family was accepted as refugees by the US – a country they knew little about.
(19) It looks a bigger gamble than a flutter on the St Leger.
(20) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Abdishakur Mohamed Noor, a homeless 55-year-old from Mogadishu, said he had been sleeping at the mosque at the time the men were arrested.