(n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
(n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
(n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
(n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
(n.) A curse or anathema.
(n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
(v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon.
(v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.
(v. i.) To curse; to swear.
(n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(2) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(3) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(4) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(5) Uruguay's coach, Oscar Tabárez, had insisted yesterday that his player should face only a one-match ban.
(6) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
(7) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(8) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(9) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(10) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(11) That would be the first step towards banning Russia’s track team from next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
(12) The policy was effective in reducing perceived environmental tobacco smoke exposure in work areas where smoking was banned but not in nonwork areas where smoking was allowed in designated areas.
(13) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(14) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(15) The 79-year-old also described the Liverpool striker’s four-month suspension from all football , plus nine international matches and a £65,000 fine, as a “fascist ban”.
(16) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
(17) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
(18) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(19) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(20) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
Diamorphine
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the subjects found diamorphine acted quicker than morphine, one found no difference and nine found that morphine was quicker than diamorphine.
(2) The duration of initial analgesia from diamorphine was 101 min (range 30-170 min).
(3) Factors affecting the disposition of extradurally administered diamorphine are discussed.
(4) We conclude that epidural diamorphine is a suitable technique to use in scoliosis surgery because of its lack of effect on neurophysiological variables, although the potential respiratory problems need investigation.
(5) The results suggest that the currently used dosing regimen of diamorphine achieves a safe and effective morphine concentration in the premature newborn but that the loading dose could be modified to achieve a more rapid onset of analgesia.
(6) The predominant effect of morphine, diamorphine, pethidine or nalorphine on the blood pressure of the anaesthetized cat or rabbit is hypotension although, occasionally, a pressor action may predominate or intervene.2.
(7) The mean (SD) pain score on recovery from general anaesthesia, on a scale of 0-4, was 2.9 (1.2) for the ketamine group and 1.0 (1.0) for the diamorphine group (p less than 0.01).
(8) At pH 4.0 and 5.6 diamorphine had a half-life of greater than 14 days at all temperatures but at alkaline pH diamorphine was rapidly deacetylated.
(9) Diamorphine and insulin had the highest adverse reaction rates, diamorphine having the highest risk of a severe adverse reaction.
(10) The group using patient-controlled analgesia received more diamorphine and suffered a greater incidence of emetic sequelae (P < 0.05).
(11) The pharmacokinetics of morphine were studied in 26 newborn premature neonates (26-38 weeks gestational age) who were given a loading dose of 50 micrograms kg-1 of diamorphine followed by an intravenous infusion of 15 micrograms kg-1 h-1 of diamorphine.
(12) A randomised double-blind controlled trial of equivalent doses of buprenorphine and diamorphine showed no significant difference between the drugs in terms of pain relief and duration of action.
(13) A total of 141 patients admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of suspected myocardial infarction were randomized to treatment with intravenous diamorphine (71) or nalbuphine (70).
(14) The effect of fentanyl, meperidine and diamorphine on A- and C-fiber conduction in an in vitro rabbit vagus nerve preparation was examined.
(15) Midazolam mixed in the same syringe as diamorphine was well tolerated at injection sites.
(16) In a randomized double-blind study the effect of the addition of adrenaline to extradural diamorphine was assessed in 54 patients after Caesarean section.
(17) The diamorphine group had better analgesia than the control group for the first 24 hours postoperatively.
(18) Fifty patients received 0.25% bupivacaine 10 ml via the epidural catheter as their initial dose; patients in Group 1 received diamorphine 5 mg with the bupivacaine.
(19) The median time from symptom onset to treatment was 135 minutes for the nalbuphine group and 125 minutes for the diamorphine group.
(20) Two cases of severe respiratory depression complicating epidural diamorphine administration are reported.