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Amidst


Definition:

  • (prep.) Alt. of Amid

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
  • (2) a tumour formation amidst normal tissue, or to exclude necrotic areas.
  • (3) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
  • (4) Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.
  • (5) The majority of nerves were vascular, although several non-vascular endings were observed at the growth plate and amidst marrow cells.
  • (6) The tools of contemporary applied mathematics reveal important hidden regularities amidst the ongoing interactive feedback phenomena occurring in interactional or dynamical systems in nature where everything affects everything else.
  • (7) In those tumors in which immunological cross-reactivity to PTH was detected, the capability of secreting PTH may be restricted to derepressed cell clones amidst other neoplastic cells, whereas the greater heterogeneity of ectopic PTH may reflect hormone cleavage by proteolytic enzymes in the tumor that is less specific than the Pro-PTH cleaving enzyme in the parathyroids.
  • (8) The man who started the move, the man who produced that one moment of skill amidst the madness, adjusted his suit.
  • (9) Amidst all of this relief I still feel a sense of concern … if it’s right for me to be free, then it’s right for all of us to be free.” He paid tribute to Fahmy as an “extraordinary professional” and to Mohamed as “the most amazing family man”, calling both men his brothers.
  • (10) Occasionally small cells were observed amidst large ones during the 24 hour nidation period, i.e.
  • (11) But despite all this, and amidst all the promise and expectations, it is crucially important that this election should be seen to be free and fair, so that Ukraine and its people can finally turn over a new leaf after the revolution.
  • (12) This first report of the natural human infection caused by R. dentocariosa is the precedent for the definite establishing of this aerobic glucose fermenting actinomycete amidst the untraditional potential pathogens of human actinomycosis.
  • (13) Today, the family unit can be helped to maintain normal life amidst intensive medical treatment; the child is acutely ill at times, but also chronically ill, and even well.
  • (14) The criteria of benignity (age under 35, presence of calcification amidst the opacity) are not always absolute.
  • (15) If, through the creation of the Red Cross and later Médecins Sans Frontières, the right to healthcare even in conflict has become the norm for more than a century, then we can achieve the same for education in 2014, and prise open a window of hope amidst the increasing despair.
  • (16) Interestingly, the histology of inhibin treated rat prostate manifested amidst the epithelial lining, an appearance of apoptotic bodies which are considered to be indicative of cell death.
  • (17) 'We sit starving amidst our gold', by Jeremy Deller - a block print of his image of Roman Abramovich's superyacht being destroyed by the 19th-century arts and crafts designer William Morris.
  • (18) The role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the evaluation of thoracic disease is emerging amidst much debate and study.
  • (19) "Beware lest amidst men the flame of foolish ignorance overpowers you."
  • (20) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.

Encompass


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
  • (2) The diagnosis of "autism" has been used to encompass a heterogeneous group of children who may differ in etiology, clinical manifestations, prognosis, and needed treatment.
  • (3) Zebrin II-negative Purkinje cells are present in a continuous region encompassing the rostromedial part of the valvula, the lobus transitorius, lobe C1 and the ventral part of lobe C2, and in a small, lateral zone of the posterior part of the caudal lobe.
  • (4) Restriction fragments of all genes were sequenced: two over 800 bp, covering signals of the 5'- and 3'-non-coding regions, three encompassing the complete coding region and part of the 5', the remaining sequences covering most of the V coding region.
  • (5) Observation encompassed the control period which lasted one hour followed by an experimental period of fetal hypoxemia created by decreasing maternal FIO2.
  • (6) Eight of 10 residues encompassing a continuous region of protection within RB3 (positions -45 to -36) matched in the inverted orientation the conserved core sequence (ACCGTTCGTC) of RB1 and RB2.
  • (7) This encompassed conversion of the hydroxyl groups at 2',4' and 23 of the appropriate macrolides to the corresponding esters, in which a variety of different substitution patterns were examined.
  • (8) This strategy should encompass environmental measures, self-care activities, and health education; it should carefully weigh the prospective costs and benefits of proposed preventive measures; and it should see that such measures are tailored to the needs of the various specific groups within the general population.
  • (9) The region of the AcMNPV genome encompassing EcoRI-H and -S (map positions 82.6-85.8) contains five open reading frames (ORFs) forming one transcriptional unit.
  • (10) The human plasma lipoproteins encompass a broad spectrum of particles of widely varying physical and chemical properties whose metabolism is directed by their protein components.
  • (11) We believe that the issues encompassed in this survey will affect the future practice of optometry.
  • (12) Antibodies were raised against a synthetic dodecameric peptide KGAGQVVAGPWK (K12K), encompassing sequences thought to be important for the function of the cysteine proteinase inhibitors of the cystatin superfamily.
  • (13) We report here the construction of a genomic library containing overlapping cDNA clones encompassing the entire genome.
  • (14) The microdomain (185 base-pairs (bp), composed of 128 bp encompassing the central part of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ADH II promoter plus 57 bp of a polylinker) was obtained by ligation under conditions that produced three circularized forms characterized by different linkage numbers.
  • (15) The introduction and acceptance of percutaneous nephrostomy as a safe and effective alternative to surgical nephrostomy served as the impetus for the development and expansion of an ever-increasing number of techniques that are encompassed by the term "interventional uroradiology."
  • (16) This study encompasses 3150 transfused kidney transplant recipients of whom 765 have received CsA.
  • (17) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
  • (18) The mutations are located at sixteen recombinationally separable sites or are deletions encompassing several sites.
  • (19) This article investigates this question by examining the views of the logical positivists, Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, and concludes that the practice of science and psychotherapy involves metaphysics in (a) problem choice, (b) research and therapy design, (c) observation statements, (d) resolving the Duhemian problem, and (e) modifying hypotheses to encompass anomalous results.
  • (20) This interference component encompasses all phenomena that are uniquely related to duocultures, such as resource partitioning, mutual stimulation, inhibition and complementation.

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