(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(3) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
(4) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(5) A year after hiring, many relationships were found, including professional actual situation with job satisfaction (r = 0.26, P less than 0.05) and alienation with job satisfaction (r = -0.33, P less than 0.01).
(6) Less than 2% of humanitarian funds 'go directly to local NGOs' Read more Suggest to her that she’s too outspoken, that her approach is counterproductive and alienates those who are trying to drive change more gently, and she pauses.
(7) It describes issues related to practice, politics, and understanding of a culture alien to them.
(8) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(9) And how did Africans respond to Western medicine and its alien institutional social and technological structures and relations?
(10) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
(11) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(12) He was fearless and driven, creating music quickly, and without ever stopping to wonder whether his push for new sounds would alienate his audience."
(13) Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” Byrd said in a statement.
(14) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(15) It was hypothesized that incarcerated adolescents would have significantly higher levels of isolation, normlessness, powerlessness, and total alienation than would nonincarcerated adolescents.
(16) The episode accelerated a renewed alienation between party activists and the leadership.
(17) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
(18) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(19) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(20) Utilizing the Gottschalk-Gleser verbal behavior scales of Anxiety, Depression, Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization and Cognitive Impairment a significant correlation was revealed between low platelet MAO activity and high Total Anxiety scale and Shame Anxiety subscale scores.
Nonresident
Definition:
(a.) Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.
(n.) A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results showed that knowledge and use of the pill were significantly higher in the project villages than in control villages, where the pill was supplied by a nonresident rural midwife: 28 percent of married women of reproductive age were using the pill in project villages compared with 15 percent in control villages.
(2) The prevalence of IgG to cryptosporidium was significantly higher among exposed respondents to the survey who had become ill than among nonresident controls.
(3) In addition, 51 sera obtained from 20-25-year-old nonresidents were tested.
(4) Ninety-five nonresident girls of a private school volunteered for the study with the teachers' help as well as parental consent.
(5) However, a sizeable portion of marriages in Hawaii are of nonresidents who, if they divorce, probably divorce elsewhere.
(6) Faculty were more likely than residents to assess tasks as educational (50% compared with 26%, P less than 0.01) but were less likely to consider tasks as scutwork (47% compared with 62%, P = 0.12) or as work that should be done by nonresidents (35% compared with 46%, P greater than 0.2).
(7) The main question is: To whom and according to which regulations does the nonresident physician bill for reimbursement?
(8) Residents showed higher levels of parasite-specific antibody than did nonresident controls for IgG and IgA but not IgM.
(9) Convalescent-phase sera from 24 residents and 20 nonresident control subjects were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, and IgA antibodies to Giardia lamblia.
(10) Nonresident mothers in the new mother-and-child program performed as well as resident mothers.
(11) Revenues generated by nonresidency physicians were projected to be from 29.4% to 37.6% less than those of the residency, primarily due to the loss of grants and graduate medical education reimbursement through the Medicare program.
(12) Complete information was obtained for all 117 nursing-home residents and for 580 of 588 nonresidents.
(13) Nonresident marriages are chiefly intra-ethnic marriages of Caucasians.
(14) Additionally, data were collected covering psychopathology, clinical and personal data, medical and social care as well as the extent of contacts to nonresidents and institutional setting.
(15) The objective of the present study was to compare the content and medical practice activities of residency-trained (RT) to nonresidency-trained (NRT) family physicians in North Carolina.
(16) Insofar as they are national resources, Congress may be able to stake a claim; but insofar as giving organs to nonresident imposes sacrifices on residents awaiting an organ, perhaps they should be consulted.
(17) We have complied with these regulations through the addition of nonresident personnel, including attending physicians, a physician assistant, and nurse midwives.
(18) When attempted resuscitation was begun in a nursing home, only two patients survived to hospital discharge, whereas 61 nonresidents (11%) survived after a mean stay of 14 days.
(19) Two different tests for CV were used: the foreign gas bolus (FGB) with helium as nonresident gas and the single breath nitrogen dilution technique (SBO2).
(20) These in situ experiments support and extend previous studies suggesting specific functions for nonresident macrophages in Wallerian degeneration of peripheral nerve.