(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.
Reflex
Definition:
(a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
(a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.
(n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
(n.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.
(v. t.) To reflect.
(v. t.) To bend back; to turn back.
Example Sentences:
(1) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(2) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(3) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
(4) It is concluded that TRH is a specific activator of enteric excitatory pathways and that duodenal inhibition seen in control animals is a consequence of gastro-duodenal inhibitory reflexes.
(5) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
(6) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(7) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(8) Our experience shows that the most accurate indications are provided by acoustic stapedius reflex, brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and vestibular investigation.
(9) These reflexes can function to limit forces applied to a leg and provide compensatory adjustments in other legs.
(10) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(11) However, H2-blocking agents, such as cimetidine and ranitidine, given either intravenously or intraspinally had a scarcely measurable effect on the spinal reflex.
(12) The H reflex response was found in the anterior tibialis muscle, at least unilaterally if not bilaterally, in eight of nine subjects with Huntington disease and in five of eight persons at risk.
(13) Tendon (T) and Hoffmann (H) reflexes were analyzed during static stretching (SS).
(14) From the results presented it appears that morphine produces a reciprocal change in the activity evoked in extensor and flexor reflex pathways.
(15) The poststenotic ischemia induced by sympathoexcitatory reflexes can also be prevented by blocking the sympathoexcitation at the central nervous level by clonidine.
(16) Furthermore, CV1% and DV6% have proved to be valid parameters in finding differences in the light reflex in non-age-matched study groups.
(17) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
(18) Investigations in normal subjects demonstrate that the LLR is a reflex mediated by fast conducting muscle and cutaneous afferents.
(19) It was also established that the right-left differences in the H-reflex latencies were directly related to the degree of the right-hand preference in the female subjects.
(20) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.