(n.) The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.
(n.) That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(2) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(3) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
(4) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
(5) We have studied if 2 Hz electroacupuncture alleviates chronic nociceptive pain and if so whether the alleviation was related to the release of endogenous opioids.
(6) Therapy with prednisone appears to alleviate the hypoglycemia rapidly, usually within 24 hours.
(7) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
(8) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
(9) Michael Brown’s parents, appearing on the Today show on Tuesday, said they believe the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, would be alleviated by the prosecution of the officer who shot and killed their son.
(10) Possible applications of the study in alleviating rural doctor shortages are discussed.
(11) Co-existent superficial femoral disease can be alleviated by appropriate concomitant profundaplasty.
(12) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
(13) It is necessary to have available a means of alleviating this symptom in a way that will be effective, comfortable, and efficient in terms of time and expense.
(14) The routine use of topical anesthetics to alleviate discomfort associated with in vivo ocular irritancy testing has been advocated.
(15) Rwanda was among 11 signatories to a regional peace agreement signed last month, and has been praised for progress on poverty alleviation.
(16) If more people are helped before their problems become crises, this would alleviate some of the pressures on our social care services.
(17) "We have developed this in conjunction with organisations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a way of alleviating a real health problem in the developing world," says Dubock.
(18) However, before appropriate management decisions can be made to alleviate the effects of behavioral stress on reproduction, it is necessary to identify the mechanisms by which stress disrupts normal reproduction.
(19) The effectiveness of even a low dose of 4-methylpyrazole suggests its clinical usefulness for alleviation of acute acetaldehyde toxicity in alcohol-hypersensitive Japanese individuals as well as in disulfiram-treated alcoholics.
(20) Devastating neurologic complications can be avoided or alleviated in a great proportion of patients undergoing radiation therapy for cerebral metastases and spinal cord compression.
Humanitarian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
(a.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.
(a.) Benevolent; philanthropic.
(n.) One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.
(n.) One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.
(n.) One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
(2) While we cannot administer aid indiscriminately, our ability to provide swift, effective humanitarian aid is one way in which we can demonstrate that we are truly relevant in the Third World.
(3) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
(4) The UN should "be able to meet a much higher standard in fulfilling its protection and humanitarian responsibilities", it says.
(5) The UN estimates that at least 10 million people in east Africa will be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of severe food shortages, failed harvest, rising food prices and conflict in the region.
(6) Espinosa wrote that time has now come, with 15 of his group of prisoners having been released, six executed, and American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller killed in a bombing of Isis positions last month.
(7) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(8) Partly due to the separation between military and humanitarian work, few if any of the necessary direct conversations between aid agencies and army about the attack on Mosul have taken place.
(9) Agir, launched in June as the Sahel crisis was taking hold, lays out a roadmap for better co-ordination of humanitarian and development aid to protect the most vulnerable people when drought hits again.
(10) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(11) Crises such as the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and mass displacement in Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria triggered a 22% rise in humanitarian spending among the DAC’s 28 member countries, which spent $13bn in that area last year, the OECD said.
(12) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(13) The idea was to create a simple set of standards that everyone can relate to, a low hurdle that every humanitarian organisation should be able to leap over.” As organisations grow, they can aspire to use more technical standards that more established NGOs might already be working with.
(14) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(15) If there is any movement by Russian forces across the border, it won’t be a humanitarian mission, it will be an invasion.
(16) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(17) Theresa May has rejected a claim by the British Red Cross that the NHS is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
(18) Stephen O’Brien, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, told the security council in New York on Friday that more than 20 million people in four countries – Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria – were facing starvation and famine, numbers that would make this the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war.
(19) But the humanitarian catastrophes in Syria have been overshadowed by stories about Islamic State .
(20) "The regime has shown it can facilitate access for OPCW inspectors – it needs to show the same commitment to ensuring humanitarian aid reaches those in need.