(v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
(2) A statistically significant difference (p less than 0.01) was found between salmeterol and the association for this criteria: during the first period, 46% of subjects treated by salmeterol did not present nocturnal awakenings during the last treatment week by comparison with 15% of subjects taking the association; during the second period, corresponding figures were 39% for salmeterol by comparison with 26% for the association.
(3) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
(4) Total sleep time (TST) and sleep efficiency (SE) significantly decreased, and wake during sleep (WDS), number of awakenings, and percentage of stage one significantly increased across the decades.
(5) Both doses of CM 6912 increased total sleep time, and reduced sleep latency and total awakening in a dose-dependent manner.
(6) Awakening produced desynchronization of electrical activity in all cortical layers of both hemispheres.
(7) Although phenacetin prolonged sleep there was no corresponding increase in urine volume on awakening.
(8) Analysis showed that 24% had delayed sleep onset, 23% awakened frequently, 19% awakened early, 21% were dissatisfied with sleep, and 8% took medication to aid sleep.
(9) This change has been made possible by: -techniques of anaesthesia using drugs which are eliminated rapidly without any rebound phenomenon, -medical attitudes, such as prior examination of the patient by an anesthetist; this is much better than a rapid examination at night or in the morning on admission of the patient, thus precise control of awakening by tests of psychomotor activity.
(10) In narcolepsy characteristic symptoms are sleep attacks, kataplexy (emotionally induced loss of muscle tone) and transient pareses during awakening.
(11) If only she could have foreseen the levels of excitement and anticipation surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens , the seventh instalment, in which she will return alongside co-stars from the original trilogy including Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill.
(12) There was, however, a statistically significant improvement of the objectively evaluated quality of awakening and early morning behavior characterized by an improved attention, reaction time and performance in the reaction time task, while concentration and psychomotor activity tended to improve as as well.
(13) Brexiters face rude awakening on immigration, says ex-minister Read more The problem is, there is nothing on the horizon to suggest that achieving any significant reduction in immigration is achievable or even desirable.
(14) The greater reduction was observed during the 3-hour interval immediately after awakening, a period with a risk of infarction twice that of any other comparable time interval (p less than 0.001).
(15) As for the inner experience of the subjects, they frequently reported dream and distinct mentations on awakening from REM sleep whether or not it was accompanied by Fm theta.
(16) The last hour of spontaneous awakenings from uninterrupted sleep of 16 young adults was analyzed.
(17) Patient awakening at the end of the infusion period was rapid and without sequelae.
(18) Now, after 30 years of direct funding by government grant, with little scrutiny, it is in the throes of the rudest of awakenings, from leaks about zero-rated programmes to critics who say it had too much money.
(19) Let’s leave that discussion to another day, but imagine a combination of the two – sort of Transformers meets Ex Machina – in which a race of giant sexy robots battles it out with another race of really mean giant sexy robots while paltry human beings look on in awe, and teenage boys (and girls) experience incredibly conflicting and disturbing sensual awakenings in the front row of the Beckenham Odeon.
(20) No temperature elevations were recorded in the posterior longitudinal ligament at the disc level and all animals recovered fully with no adverse sequelae, even immediately upon awakening from anesthesia.
Reveille
Definition:
(n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging.
Example Sentences:
(1) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(2) The Shine Group has expanded rapidly over the past couple of years, with a string of overseas purchases including US Ugly Betty producer Reveille, and has launched or bought programme-making operations in Australia, Germany and Scandanavia.
(3) She used that money to help buy a string of production companies, including Kudos, home to Ashes to Ashes and Reveille, the maker of Ugly Betty.
(4) In the past couple of years the Shine Group has really come into its own, with a string of overseas purchases including the $125m (then worth £76m) buy-up of Reveille, the US company behind Ugly Betty and the American version of The Office, and expansion this year into Australia, Germany and Scandinavia.
(5) The company has expanded through acquisitions, buying UK indies Kudos (Ashes to Ashes, Spooks), Princess (The Wright Stuff, Got To Dance) and Dragonfly (One Born Every Minute, The Family) in late 2006 for £65m; and Reveille, the US producer of The Office, for about £100m in 2008.
(6) The former Sky managing director who quit the Murdoch family business a decade ago has built up a production base responsible for Merlin and MasterChef and home to Ashes to Ashes producer Kudos and Reveille, maker of the US version of The Office.
(7) More than 60% of the company's revenues come from overseas after a spate of acquisitions from Ugly Betty's producer, Reveille, in the US to Metronome in Sweden.