(n.) Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories.
Example Sentences:
(1) This sense of belonging has nothing to do with fiscal or governmental union and everything to do with proximity, amity and difference.
(2) Morton said as far as she knew no other organisation had picked up the service Amity was losing, although that had happened with other organisations.
(3) In Further Tales of the City , published in 1982, Maupin maps amity between gay men and straight men – terra incognita still.
(4) Initially, the Tahrir Square demonstrations were a model of sectarian amity, with Muslim and Christian demonstrators protecting each other from the violence of the police and the regime's thugs.
(5) Johnson told Indian students at Amity University, south of Delhi, that he was pressing the government to set up an educational exports commission to promote Britain's universities abroad and help secure their future.
(6) But they are bound by steel hoops of amity compared to the Tories.
(7) The attempt to promote international amity appears to be an independent one.
(8) "Consort with all religions with amity and concord, that they may inhale from you the sweet fragrance of God," reads the inscription.
(9) Always warms my heart when you realise how many nice, normal, caring people there are out there – about 500,000 people walking along in complete amity.
(10) And young people in the territory – particularly Aboriginal young people – are the most vulnerable … and yet this is the sector we seem to be cutting the most.” The Darwin-based Amity Community Services was one of the latest organisations to receive a knockback, for its volatile substance and alcohol and drug outreach service.
(11) But Kiir, like his opposite number in Khartoum, President Omar al-Bashir, is acting stubborn, drawing on decades of mutual distrust, bad faith and bloody-mindedness while casting aside more recent pledges of amity.
Mity
Definition:
(a.) Having, or abounding with, mites.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chromophore detection rates of Streptococcus mitis were 60.7, 67.9, and 78.6% after growth in THBP, THBP + YE, and CDMT, respectively.
(2) The electrophoretic patterns of 17 gravis, 14 mitis, and 2 intermedius types of C. diphtheriae were compared with the electrophoretic patterns of 5 Robinson and Peeney stock gravis serotype strains.
(3) The present study of the prevalence of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome in a general dermatology population revealed (1) a milder variant of the classic mitis form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome was common and present in 9% of the population studied, (2) these patients could be easily identified by the use of a defined clinical scoring system, and (3) a statistically significant association existed between clinical findings in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and electron microscopic collagen abnormalities.
(4) In this report, we present a case of IE caused by S. mitis, which was remarkably improved by oral administration of AMPC.
(5) Strains of S. mitis, S. mutans, and S. salivarius did not appear to adhere as well.
(6) A mutant of Streptococcus mutans GS-5 has been isolated as a smooth colonial variant on mitis salivarius agar.
(7) Vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops), Sykes monkeys (C. mitis) and baboons (Papio cynocephalus) all supported low grade infections for periods ranging between four and eight months and subsequently showed evidence of self-cure.
(8) Serum from 2 of 8 rabbits hyperimmunized with whole cells of S. mutans, S. sobrinus, S. rattus, or S. mitis, assayed by immunofluorescence and radioimmunoassay, revealed antibodies reactive with sarcolemma that could be attributed to immunization.
(9) S. mutans, S. salivarius, S. mitis and S. sanguis strains were isolated from three subjects of blood groups A, B and O. Parotid saliva samples obtained from the same subjects induced aggregation of some of the bacteria, the S. sanguis and the S. mutans strains in particular.
(10) We believe S. mitis bacteremia is a potential complication of bone marrow transplantation and is associated with antimicrobial prophylaxis with norfloxacin, especially in the setting of mucositis.
(11) For a nonvariant streptococcus, the sensitivity was 61.9% and specificity was 93.5% for an isolate to be either S. mitis or S. sanguis II.
(12) Bacterial colonies cultured from supragingival plaque on sheep-blood (SB) agar were replica-plated onto nitrocellulose membranes overlaying SB or mitis-salivarius agar.
(13) Dot blot DNA-DNA hybridizations, using the nutritionally deficient streptococcal DNA as the probe, showed homology to the preceding clinical isolates, S. sanguis II and S. mitis, at 15.4% and 45.1% hybridization levels, respectively.
(14) A complex flora has been isolated from this phlegmom : Pasteurella multocida, Pasteurella pneumotropica, Streptococcus mitis, Actinomyces sp., Bacteroides melaninogenicus, and a Gram- bacteria related to group II j.
(15) Endodontic files were artificially contaminated with about 10,000 colony-forming units of either B. subtilis spores or S. mitis.
(16) Germfree Sprague-Dawley rats, fed a high-sucrose diet, were monoinfected with strains of Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus sanguis, and Streptococcus mutans.
(17) Plaque samples were dispersed by ultrasonic oscillation, serially diluted, and plated in duplicate on MM10-sucrose-blood agar, mitis salivarius bacitracin agar, and Rogosa tomato juice agar.
(18) Oral streptococci formerly classified as Streptococcus sanguis or Streptococcus mitis have recently been divided into four species.
(19) Mitis salivarius agar (MS) and higher recovery values than modified medium 10 (MM10SB), Trypticase-yeast extract-cystine medium (TYC), or MS with 1% tellurite (MST).
(20) Troops comprising a high density population of samango monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Natal province, South Africa, experienced an influx of adult males during the breeding season.