(a.) Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.
(a.) Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence, this particular family illustrates the great importance of obtaining a detailed, accurate family history and of assiduous follow-up of the entire family.
(2) For years Rupert Murdoch has poured his anti-BBC poison into the ears of his readers, viewers, and the politicians who pay him such assiduous court.
(3) He gives credit to Gøtzsche for his assiduous work over many years to get to the truth.
(4) He is instead, assiduously effective, notable above all for his peripheral vision and awareness of space, the ability to play not just the pass before a goal but the pass before the pass that makes a goal, qualities that do not so much leap out as emerge, once again, by stealth.
(5) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
(6) But during his own years in the House Balls has worked the back-benches assiduously, diligently touring round constituency dinners on damp Friday nights.
(7) First, the Independent's target readers are sophisticated and assiduous internet users.
(8) The next step is not Read more Since then Labor has been assiduous in appearing in lockstep with the Coalition on asylum seeker policy.
(9) At one level it's very gentle and quite jolly; at another, if continued assiduously, it means they are after you.
(10) If only the future London mayor had prepared a little more assiduously for a house debating competition when he was on Dixon’s team at school – they lost – Dixon may have pulled his punches.
(11) Considering he does not turn 19 until November things are happening rather fast for a Bristol-raised teenager who has already been the subject of assiduous courting from both England and Jamaica.
(12) In the performance of end-to-end jejunoileal shunt, operative mortality can be nearly eliminated and late deaths largely prevented by assiduous care and follow-up.
(13) In recent years, China has worked assiduously behind the scenes to weaken international human rights institutions and publicly rejected international criticism of the political repression of its citizens.
(14) The acrid taste left by the election was heightened by the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks which revealed Amano's assiduous courting of American support .
(15) His lack of ego endeared him to the maths community: he brought out the wonder in their subject, and was also assiduous in crediting all the academics and puzzlists who contributed ideas.
(16) The good postural stability of the shooters apparently results from assiduous training aimed to improve postural stability.
(17) He added: "The air cargo industry has obviously been aware for many years of the potential for terrorists to attempt to use or attack freight-only flights, and has worked assiduously with law enforcement and security agencies to provide a security regime that will prevent this from happening.
(18) One group had undergone early (mean age, 3.0 months) myringotomy with placement of tympanostomy tubes, followed by assiduous monitoring and an aggressive treatment program to maintain ventilation in the middle ear.
(19) He craved a smile as assiduously as he would avoid a left hook, and so natural was he in front of a microphone that he often reduced his inquisitors to silent witnesses, most famously Michael Parkinson, whose interviews with Ali are the stuff of legend.
(20) None had obvious underlying cardiac disease or iatrogenic fluid overload, and in all an assiduous search for underlying cardiovascular disease was launched.
Prudent
Definition:
(a.) Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.
(a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
(2) The potential benefits in terms of more rapid return to work, maintenance of the patient's psychosocial integrity, and modification of natural history of the disease make the institution of a cardiac rehabilitation program a prudent activity for a practitioner, clinic, or hospital.
(3) Regardless of the exact dose per fraction chosen, it seems prudent to use relatively low doses per fraction initially to maximize the chance of detecting any benefit inherent in the use of neutrons, before exploring increased doses for reasons of improved cost-effectiveness.
(4) One would be prudent to avoid marijuana during pregnancy, just as one would do with most other drugs not essential to life or well-being.
(5) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
(6) For the present, prudent clinical practice should include avoidance of whole blood, fresh frozen plasma, and platelet transfusions and greater reliance on autologous blood transfusions.
(7) The author suggests that the most prudent course would be to direct health care providers to accept family decisions unless it appears that the family is acting out of ignorance or in bad faith, in which case the decision would be referred to a hospital ethicist or ethics committee and then--only if there were good grounds to suspect ignorance or bad faith--to judicial review.
(8) Based on the currently available data, it seems prudent to diagnose diabetes mellitus only if fasting hyperglycemia is present.
(9) From what we know about food adequacy, preparation, and storage, the notion that the postulated "primitive" diet was generally adequate, safe, and prudent can be rejected.
(10) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
(11) It may be prudent to obtain a drug history and urine screen for cocaine before instituting indomethacin therapy for preterm labor or polyhydramnios.
(12) Because of the risks of increasing late effects, either due to direct thermal damage or thermo-radiosensitization of normal tissues, it is not prudent to proceed with such testing in sites where there is a risk of excessive normal tissue heating.
(13) In such cases especially prudent care is required, for the prognosis may be poor.
(14) The National Cancer Institute (NCI) believes that the potential for dietary changes to reduce the risk of cancer is considerable and that the existing scientific data provide evidence that is sufficiently consistent to warrant prudent interim dietary guidelines that will promote good health and reduce the risk of some types of cancer.
(15) Three cases of primary adenocarcinoma of the Fallopian tube have been treated at the Gynecology Department of Hospital A. C. Camargo, Fundación A. Prudente, São Paulo, between 1972-1987.
(16) For this reason it recommends that banks provide a separate set of accounts drawn up on "prudent principles".
(17) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
(18) It increases in relative importance along with improvement in socioeconomic and environmental conditions and in association with prudent lifestyle.
(19) As drug-induced erythroid hypoplasia typically occurs after a relatively long period of dosing, it may be prudent in certain individuals to monitor the CBC at approximately bimonthly intervals after initiation of therapy.
(20) These results revealed specific shortcomings in the dietary habits of the CORIS population and emphasised the need for changes necessary to meet the requirements for a prudent diet.