(adv.) In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(2) In order to verify whether or not all the POMC neurons are equally affected by sex steroids, we arbitrarily divided the arcuate nucleus rostro-caudally into four equal portions and used an in situ hybridization technique to evaluate POMC gene expression in these different regions of the arcuate nucleus in the female rat.
(3) The data indicate that considerable error can result from arbitrarily applying to exercising or resting subjects a correction factor which does not fit the conditions of the data to be corrected.
(4) Our findings indicate that response to continuous exposure to 100 per cent oxygen can be divided arbitrarily during the first 7 days into three different phases.
(5) Two weeks ago, the production quotas for all colony brigades was arbitrarily increased by 50 units.
(6) After formation of a cell lawn and addition of cytostatics of the arbitrarily selected medicaments vinblastin, bleomycin, cis-DDP, actinomycin D the reaction of the cells on the drugs was judged light-microscopically and electrophysiologically by measuring the transmembrane potential 24 hours after the application of medicaments.
(7) The intralaboratory reproducibility of the disk test was also good, with 91% of the replicate tests (n = 234) agreeing with each other within an arbitrarily chosen value of 4 mm.
(8) Islet size was arbitrarily defined as large (greater than 0.45 mm) or small (smaller than 0.12 mm).
(9) Patients were arbitrarily divided into three groups: acute (group I), intermediate (group II), and chronic (group III) based on the interval between the first EVS and death.
(10) Patients were arbitrarily defined as having active (58%) or healed (42%) endocarditis.
(11) Transient aphasics were arbitrarily defined as cases who had presented with more or less evident aphasic syndrome in the acute stage, but almost completely recovered in the chronic stage.
(12) These preliminary results demonstrate that, in a metabolic ward setting, it is possible to maintain the spontaneous food intake of obese individuals at levels sufficient to preserve body weight and arbitrarily to decrease those levels of intake by 25% or more through covert changes in the caloric density of the diet.
(13) The enzyme is arbitrarily designated as cycloinulo-oligosaccharide fructanotransferase.
(14) Symmetry-related molecules are located in the electron density map calculated in space group P1, with the phases derived from a model that is correctly oriented but arbitrarily positioned in the unit cell.
(15) Secretory cells were arbitrarily categorized as light, medium or dark based on their granule content.
(16) Twenty severe trauma patients, age 19-70 years, presenting with an initial APACHE II score of greater than or equal to 10 were arbitrarily divided into two groups to define severity of injury: Group A, initial APACHE II of 10-18 (n = 11) and Group B, initial APACHE II of 19-25 (n = 9).
(17) The ability to use these various frames of reference interchangeably allows the designer of treatment design software to present appropriate task-specific user interfaces for arbitrarily complex tasks, and thus reduce the cognitive burden on users of the software.
(18) In order to compare the areas determined by the two methods, area-distance functions from the pharynx to the trachea were arbitrarily divided into 9 divisions at interval of 2.8 cm.
(19) Infarcted dogs were arbitrarily divided into 3 groups by percentage of necrotic area: Group 1 (less than or equal to 15%, N = 5), Group 2 (15 to 30%, N = 10) and Group 3 (greater than or equal to 30%, N = 7).
(20) These groups have been provisionally numbered from 1 to 8 in an arbitrarily chosen order.
Commandeer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(7) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(9) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(10) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
(11) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
(12) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(13) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(14) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(15) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(16) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(18) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(19) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(20) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.