(1) The problem is no longer that it's brazen, but that it's banal.
(2) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(3) As human papilloma virus type 5 is known to have malignant potential, clinicians should be on the lookout for these banal-looking and distinctly non-warty lesions in renal transplant recipients.
(4) But neither Jalili nor any other candidate has so far offered much in the election other than banalities – despite Iran's mounting problems, which now centre on the reduction of oil exports from 2.2m barrels a day to 1.1m in the past year due to tightening western sanctions.
(5) Most of the macroscopically visible abnormalities of the placenta are of no functional significance, the major exception to this general banality being the uncommon large haemangioma which can cause complications in the mother, fetus and neonate.
(6) He does this quite a lot, and even fairly banal details about his personal life are injuncted the moment they're out of his mouth, which is frustrating but unsurprising, given his publicity-shy reputation.
(7) Instead a banally labelled Office for Students (OfS) is to be created.
(8) Achebe's writing isn't anything as banal as cultural relativism – something he has been accused of – but a powerful refutation of the fact that before the white man, Africa was a "blank sheet of civilisation".
(9) So Zhou Enlai’s famous reply was actually quite banal – yet is now universally reinterpreted as a gem of sempiternal Chinese wisdom.
(10) And, at a time when Apple was essentially reinventing home electronics, Fiorina’s spectacularly banal mission statement was, “ Invent ” which is probably why we’re not all calling all tablets “H-Pads” today.
(11) There is indeed evidence to indicate that signaling molecules involved in cellular communication are 'banalized': that means that their receptors are liable to be expressed in almost any tissue by a wide variety of cells.
(12) Particular difficulty was experienced with small (less than 5 mm), flat lesions, which can be banal or potentially malignant.
(13) “One could clearly see from the evidence presented that Mladić, Karadžić and others from the Serb leadership of the time were not mythical characters – neither monsters, as the Bosniak victim narrative paints them, nor heroes and “fathers of the nation” as they are presented by the dominant Serb politic – but banal, self-centred opportunists drunk on the unchecked power to command lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
(14) Alternatively, might it not suggest that quite apart from banal, administrative, bureaucratic "filtering" – routine chucking out cases sent by applicants many years after a final domestic disposal, or without any domestic proceedings having been undertaken – the court is already making extensive use of highly discretionary concepts such as "manifestly ill-founded" to pre-judge the interest of its caseload, and is already selecting cases which it regards as "serious" or "important"?
(15) It's a trajectory that is on the one hand explainable, even banal.
(16) It looks as if someone, in a great hurry, has crammed details of the most banal US shopping mall design of the late 1980s and more recent Chinese design into a laptop in their student bedsit, pressed the "print" button and then, unbelievably, convinced someone, in an equal hurry, to build them.
(17) Occasionally, Sting sings in the sort of broad Newcastle accent he has never revealed before, the one he has previously felt placed him back in the small terraced street he grew up in, a place he once described as an "enclave of banality".
(18) As for bacterial pneumonias they usually present as an acute lobar pneumonia with a banal organism but severe gram negative pneumonias are possible justifying a detailed systematic approach in certain cases.
(19) That is why May should throw away the banalities and try to address a fundamental truth.
(20) Therefore it is very important to inform all patients and their parents about the low, but lifelong risk of infection following splenectomy in order to begin the antibiotic therapy as soon as possible even in cases of banal infections.
Pedestrian
Definition:
(a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
(n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(2) Extraperitoneal hemorrhage, associated with a fracture of the pelvis, is a major cause of death in pedestrian accidents.
(3) Pedestrian fatality rates are highest for boys and for children in the youngest age groups.
(4) A hundred fatalities is 100 too many, but that total is a 10% decrease on the previous five-year average and is a quarter of pedestrian and a third of motorcycle fatality numbers for the same period.
(5) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
(6) Sporadic and pedestrian studies cannot explain why a necessary and sufficient relationship should exist between the presence of a cleft and the dependent measures used.
(7) We studied all traffic accidents to pedestrians under age 15 which occurred on the Island of Montreal during an eighteen months period.
(8) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
(9) The most common causes of injury were motorcycle accidents (56.3%) and street accidents with pedestrian injury (29.47%).
(10) There has also been an emphasis since 2008 for elevated pedestrian walkways, or “skywalks”.
(11) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
(12) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
(13) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
(14) "After several refusals Mr Mitchell got off his bike and walked to the pedestrian gate with me after I again offered to open that for him," a male colleague of the officer wrote.
(15) We conclude that pedestrian victims are commonly intoxicated and that chest and spine injuries are more common in this population.
(16) Of these, 213 were Hartford residents resulting in an annual age-specific pedestrian collision rate of 22.8 per 10,000 persons.
(17) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
(18) Good design improves the behaviour of cyclists If you want to see improved behaviour among cyclists, just build best-practice infrastructure for them – separate bikes from pedestrians and cars and give them their own space in the urban landscape.
(19) The mayor championed some of his early successes, including the implementation of the Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan – although there have been questions after jaywalkers were targeted last month – and reminding the audience that his administration had recently settled in the Floyd v City of New York case, allowing major reforms to the controversial policy to move forward.
(20) Pedestrian injuries occurred in 81 of the 142 census tracts in the city.