(1) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
(2) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(3) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
(4) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
(5) With the aim of evaluating the role of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D in the pathogenesis of osteoporosis, this hormone was studied in 90 subjects.
(6) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(7) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(8) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
(9) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(10) The aim of the study was to describe and evaluate background factors, with special regard to psychosocial characteristics that might possibly affect the outcome of rhinoplastic surgery.
(11) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
(12) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
(13) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(14) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(15) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(16) The aim of this study was clarify the physiopathological mechanisms underlying atrial pauses as well as to evaluate the sensitivity of sinoatrial conduction time (SACT) directly measured on SNE and of SACT estimated with the indirect Strauss method with respect to the detection of SSS.
(17) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(18) An antismoking campaign aimed at the 9-18 year old Genoese school population in 1981-1985 is described.
(19) The aim of the present study was to determine if dexamethasone treatment increased the rate of appearance in plasma of gut-derived glucose.
(20) The Ibiza Rocks hotel is aimed at a young clientele who'd never make it into the VIP section of Pacha.
Maimed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Maim
Example Sentences:
(1) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(2) The violence has maimed a further 172 children, and injured a total of 1,185 civilians.
(3) India’s caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing | Mari Marcel Thekaekara Read more India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , belongs to a party that is explicitly Hindu in character, while other parties exist to further the interests of, among others, India’s Muslims population as well as members of socially disempowered Dalit caste.
(4) Stephen O’Brien, the UN’s most senior humanitarian official, said he was horrified by the total disrespect for civilian life in the conflict, which has killed at least 250,000 people and maimed up to four times that number.
(5) It is a blow to the heart: an atrocity whose purpose was to kill and maim as many children and teenagers as possible.
(6) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.
(7) The maim beam wil be directed in the axis of the condyle for sagittal tomography and perpendicularly for frontal tomography.
(8) The images coming in to the Guardian's picture desk have reflected the last few days' carnage in an even more graphic way than usual: dead and maimed children in bombed-out Gaza or bodies of victims lying in Ukrainian cornfields.
(9) One of the cluster bombs we saw in northern Yemen was made in the UK Villagers told us about how people have been killed or maimed by the unexploded, but still live, bomblets.
(10) The aptly-named doctrine of "heroic restraint", imposed on Nato troops in Afghanistan by General Petraeus, forces our soldiers to accept personal risk at an unprecedented level – greater even than the horrific dangers they already face in this lethal conflict, where so many of our brave men have been killed and maimed."
(11) They removed dictators, they gave ordinary men and women a voice, and perhaps most important of all, they put the problems of an oppressed, forsaken people on the global political agenda – people just like those who, before Wednesday's ceasefire, were being killed and maimed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
(12) "Cardiovascular disease maims and kills people through coronary heart disease, peripheral arterial disease and stroke.
(13) Then, the movement to legalize abortion rested on the following: 1) illegal abortions were killing and maiming women; 2) women should have a backup to ineffective contraception; 3) the number of unwanted pregnancies should be reduced; only wanted children should be born, as a matter of child welfare; 4) women should have the right to make the abortion decision; 5) everything possible should be done to change the economic and domestic circumstances forcing women into unwanted pregnancies.
(14) We passively accept that scores of young men in our country will inevitably die each year after being circumcised and that many more will be permanently maimed.
(15) Logical, yes, but politically it's a no-brainer: why risk the wrath of the Daily Mail for being soft on drugs, even if it does mean passing up the chance to ensure these concoctions – produced and marketed by manufacturers who work one step ahead of the law – are better controlled, dosed and labelled, and therefore less likely to maim or kill.
(16) Egyptians, and much of the world, watched in horror as the military and police stormed into the camps , torched tents while people were still sleeping inside them, and killed and maimed indiscriminately.
(17) He recalled taking on able-bodied runners in Mozambique to give confidence to people maimed by landmines.
(18) "Cardiovascular disease [CVD] maims and kills people through coronary heart disease, peripheral arterial disease and stroke.
(19) Iran, of all nations, with full understanding of their horrific effects, could now ensure that they are never again allowed to maim and kill across the region.
(20) After all, the evidence of what mechanisation was doing to people (rather than what they were doing with it) was all around him in 1891 in the form of maimed bodies and minds imprisoned by repetitive tasks.