(v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better
(v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;
(v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;
(v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
(v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(2) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
(3) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(4) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
(5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(6) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(7) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
(8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
(9) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
(10) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(11) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(13) This article was amended on 29 January 2016 to correct statistics from the BASW survey.
(14) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
(15) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
(16) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
(17) The Vitter amendment is popular with the Tea Party, which takes it to be an accountability measure.
(18) They all owe their existence to him.” This article was amended on 2 July 2015 to correct the name of the hospital where Sir Nicholas Winton died.
(19) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
(20) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.
Embed
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(2) A technique to re-embed celloidin sections of human temporal bones for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is presented.
(3) Although PEEP, SN, and EMB all increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure, PEEP, had negligible effect on Zc and Ca, whereas SN increased Zc but decreased Ca (+24% and -49%, respectively), and EMB decreased both Zc and Ca (-33% and -39%, respectively).
(4) These results indicate that neither CIM, as currently conducted, nor immunophenotyping alone is sensitive or specific enough to substitute for EMB in screening for tissue rejection.
(5) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
(6) EMB caused no increase in deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis, nor in septum formation of dividing cells.
(7) We measured this variable in 87 subjects classified into five study groups: 19 controls (C), 18 alcoholics (E), 15 patients diagnosed as liver cirrhosis (CH), 11 chronic liver disease (HC) and 24 pregnant women (EMB).
(8) Indications for obtaining EMBs included acute rejection in the cardiac allograft, anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity, myocarditis, cardiomyopathies, specific heart diseases, idiopathic chest pain and arrhythmias, as well as the differential diagnosis of restrictive versus constrictive heart diseases.
(9) In these patients another EMB was performed after 3 or 5 days.
(10) The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.
(11) Hemodynamics were normal prephotopheresis and remained unchanged at the time when the postphotopheresis EMB showed no evidence rejection No adverse effects have been observed with photopheresis.
(12) That’s something we’re going to have to get right as we embed these systems into our lives,” Soltani, the former tech regulator, said.
(13) A review was conducted on 144 right ventricular histological sections (RVs) from hearts surgically resected for heart transplantation, 115 endomyocardial biopsies (EMB) from 100 patients investigated for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and 309 biopsies from 26 heart-transplant patients.
(14) France wanted to firmly embed Germany in Europe and improve Europe’s chances to harness globalisation.
(15) In another 15 patients (Group B) it was possible to administer 2 cycles of EMB, and 9 of them showed local disease progression and died.
(16) Furthermore, temperature shift-down experiments suggest that the emb-29 mutation defines a cell division cycle function that affects an essential activity required for progression into M phase.
(17) EMB was performed in 314 patients, a total of 1362 biopsies, and for evaluation 5564 specimens of cardiac tissue were taken.
(18) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
(19) MARs without maintenance steroids and low serum creatinine levels had the highest risk (37.2% observed incidence) to develop moderate or severe rejection on subsequent EMB.
(20) Policy making My last recommendation is that government must eat its own lunch: it must formally embed structured data in how it develops, monitors and adapts public policy.