(n.) Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.
Example Sentences:
(1) Castillo, who's seized his chance with aplomb, gets on the end of an aerial one-two in space and is free in front of goal.
(2) The young Spaniard, who has deputised at right-back with such aplomb this season, had the confidence to canter goalwards and plant the ball with his left foot into the far corner of the goal.
(3) No fairytale ending for Germany, mind, as Ronaldo fancied making good the horrors of 1998, and did so with aplomb.
(4) And it has managed to do this with some resourcefulness, if not quite aplomb.
(5) With his usual aplomb, he turned his back on his detractors and continued to paint in the name of his multireligious India elsewhere.
(6) Ceramicist Grayson Perry responded to a falling out with rather more aplomb.
(7) Alistair Beaton writes: Not long before he died, Ned was lying in a hospital room receiving visitors with his usual cheerful aplomb.
(8) Not just because of her sheer endurance i n a nearly 11-hour filibuster, not just because she stood up to condescension and sexism, and not just because she did it all with aplomb and grace.
(9) The cast always performed as smoothly as if they had had months of rehearsals, Williams doing his Rambling Syd Rumpo with aplomb.
(10) Jon Stead, a vibrant force up front all afternoon, squared the ball for the onrushing Mark Yeates, a Bradford substitute, and he despatched it with aplomb.
(11) Croatia 1-0 Cameroon (Olic 10 min) The hardest looking man on the pitch puts Croatia ahead against the run of play, finishing with aplomb from seven yards out after being teed up by a wonderful diagonal pass from Ivan Perisic.
(12) With characteristic Kinois aplomb, he believes the city that was once a shining star of Africa can somehow find its way back to prosperity.
(13) Its government has so far handled the modest tasks of the EU rotating presidency with aplomb.
(14) Bettino Craxi, who has died aged 65, was Italy's longest serving post-war prime minister (1983-87), filling the office with considerable aplomb and presiding over a period of strong economic growth; but he will be remembered as a tragic symbol of Italy's devastating corruption scandal and the man who effectively destroyed the Italian Socialist party (PSI).
(15) That win proved she had transferred her considerable talents to the road with great aplomb, involving as it did a lengthy solo escape in the final 40km which hinted at what she would achieve here, although with two other women for company.
(16) Roma doubled their lead with a strikingly similar goal, Radja Nainggolan beating his man just inside the home side’s half before threading the ball to Dzeko, who finished with aplomb on 29 minutes.
(17) Thus at the age of 37, Kerry took over the business empire, ironically handling the reins of power with aplomb.
(18) Bailey recalls that Dimbleby also chaired an edition of Question Time in Northern Ireland more than a decade ago, the first to feature a guest from Sinn Fein, and managed the debate, which also included an Ulster Unionist, with aplomb.
(19) "The real question is why Monsieur Cahuzac lied with such aplomb?
(20) Broken Sword 5 Serpent's Curse (£4.99) The Broken Sword games are brilliant: engrossing adventures that have navigated the path from PC to mobile with aplomb.
Stability
Definition:
(a.) The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.
(a.) Steadiness or firmness of character, firmness of resolution or purpose; the quality opposite to fickleness, irresolution, or inconstancy; constancy; steadfastness; as, a man of little stability, or of unusual stability.
(a.) Fixedness; -- as opposed to fluidity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(2) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
(3) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(4) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(5) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
(6) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(7) The diastereoisomers appeared to differ in stability.
(8) Thermal stabilities (Tm's) of the hybrid between the 2'-O-methyl ribooligomer and the complementary ribooligomer and of the related hybrids are compared.
(9) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
(10) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(11) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
(12) The cell fermentation culture with a stabilized pH value was better than the culture with the pH value changing spontaneously on saponin content, growth rate and biomass.
(13) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(14) Stability of kinetic constants for a long period of time is demonstrated.
(15) Poly (8NH2G) does not interact with poly(C) in neutral solution because of the high stability of the hemiprotonated G-G self-structure.
(16) The elongation of helix III with the addition of helix II at the N-terminus somewhat stabilizes the ordered structure.
(17) Replacement of vinyl groups with bulkier substituents (hydroxyethyl or acetyl groups) decreases holoenzyme stability and catalytic activity.
(18) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
(19) In a family with hereditary elliptocytosis and an abnormality in spectrin self-association, the membranes had decreased deformability and stability.
(20) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.