(n.) Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
(n.) An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.
(n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.
(v. i.) To offer an apology.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) It took more than three decades before an apology of any kind was forthcoming from the Met.
(3) Corbyn’s planned apology attempts to pre-empt the findings of the long-delayed Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.
(4) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(5) However, LaBoeuf's subsequent apologies were themselves discovered to have been copied from other sources ; his quoting of Cantona's lines are entirely true to form.
(6) Last week, Park offered a public apology after acknowledging Choi had edited some of her speeches and provided help with public relations, but South Korea’s media have speculated Choi played a much larger, secret role in government affairs.
(7) Balls immediately called for an apology from Osborne for the "totally false" allegations.
(8) But he makes no apologies for seeking the limelight.
(9) Speaking on the BBC's World at One, Carlile also revealed that Rennard had held back from officially sending his apology until after the elections had finished so as not to damage the party's chances.
(10) On Thursday, North Korea's Olympic team accepted repeated apologies.
(11) The form and timing of the apology will be agreed by the trust's committee.
(12) Regression analyses suggested that such aggression-inhibitory effects of an apology were mediated by impression improvement, emotional mitigation, and reduction in desire for an apology within the victims.
(13) The majority of EU delegations are willing to make a compromise on an apology, but some are still unable to accept this."
(14) A Liberal Democrat MP who likened the atrocities against Palestinians by "the Jews" to the Holocaust has made a public apology in the face of widespread anger.
(15) On Thursday Belhaj met with British government representatives, who declined to make any apology.
(16) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
(17) As Tories demanded a personal apology from the prime minister, the former home secretary Charles Clarke said the position of Draper should be "looked at" along with that of Charlie Whelan, once a key Brown adviser, who was copied in on the email exchange.
(18) (Hodge is privately wealthy, and owns shares in Stemcor, the hugely successful steel business started by her father; she denies that the company avoids paying tax, and demanded and received an apology from the Daily Telegraph when it suggested this was the case.)
(19) Hazard was assumed to have avoided criminal charges when the matter was dropped after he and the teenager met and made mutual apologies.
(20) And I am issuing an apology and correction on my website immediately for having made this comment about the beautiful city of Birmingham.
Catalepsis
Definition:
(n.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection of a low dose of haloperidol, that has no obvious behavioral effects in normal mice, produces akinesia, catalepsy, and somatosensory neglect in MPTP-treated mice.
(2) The novel anxiolytic drug, buspirone, reverses catalepsy induced by haloperidol.
(3) Indomethacin and studied prostaglandins did not influence inhibitory action of FDP on haloperidol-induced catalepsy.
(4) Both antagonists produced catalepsy as evidenced by dose-dependent increases in step- down latency.
(5) Joint administration of WA-335 and L-DOPA with an inhibitor of peripheral decarboxylase, or WA-335 and amantadine produced a stronger antagonistic effect (spiroperidol catalepsy) than either of these substances separately.
(6) Finally 6 patients undergoing DDP with Timiperone in combination with trihexyphenidyl suffered no symptoms of catalepsy but sometimes had mild vomiting episodes (1-4 times a day).
(7) Finally, Lu 19-005 antagonized the catalepsy induced by perphenazine.
(8) All rats were tested for catalepsy and at the end of the last catalepsy test, striatal DOPAC, HVA and ACh were determined.
(9) Bilateral intrastriatal injections of quinolinic acid (QA) (180 nmoles) induced weight loss and neurologic and behavioral deficits including convulsions, decreased catalepsy response to haloperidol, increased nocturnal locomotor activity, and abnormal feeding behavior in adult male Sprague-Dawley rats.
(10) Studies on the mechanism of post-etorphine catalepsy.
(11) This dose of haloperidol alone caused only a slight, gradually developing catalepsy, while alphaMT alone caused none.
(12) Administration of oxotremorine to mice produced centrally-mediated effects, such as catalepsy and tremor, and peripheral muscarinic actions, such as diarrhoea and lachrymation.
(13) The results, together with a literature survey on the anticholinergic effects on neuroleptic-induced catalepsy and inhibition of avoidance behavior, are related to biochemical findings and clinical effects.
(14) The action of opiates leading to an inhibition of flexor alpha-motoneurones may contribute to akinesia and catalepsy, and opioid-induced muscular rigidity.
(15) In a second experiment, thioridazine, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin and their metabolites were assayed in the brain of the rat after acute administration of the enantiomers of thioridazine and the assessment of catalepsy.
(16) When the catalepsy score was almost maximal (60 s, measured by the bar-test), the rats were handled, exposed to cold (3 degrees C) or immobilized.
(17) A series of aryl-piperazine analogues of buspirone and other 5-hydroxytryptaminergic agonists were tested for their ability to reverse haloperidol induced catalepsy.
(18) MK-801 also potentiated the anticataleptic effect of scopolamine and bromocriptine against haloperidol-induced catalepsy.
(19) Striatal dopamine (DA) stores were only minimally depleted at the time of catalepsy potentiation.
(20) Catalepsy, measured by the duration of loss of righting reflex (DLRR) in catatonic animals, was induced by larger doses of both ketamine and morphine and in each case was reduced by a larger dose of naloxone.