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Befit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be suitable to; to suit; to become.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) IN ORDER THAT ASIAN AMERICANS BE MORE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO: (1) have a thorough educational campaign over a long period of time to help Asians overcome their negative prejudices against mental illness, (2) devise culturally relevant diagnostic techniques, and (3) have treatment consonant with the cultural backgrounds of the patients and befitting the role expectations of the patients.
  • (2) The road narrative befits a nation in love with the motor car and networked with roads – but also a country that is so vast.
  • (3) Meanwhile, as befits two heavyweights, there was, before Paris, an edge detectable in Tinseth's voice as he talked of the "strong rivalry" and accused Airbus of holding back orders for the show.
  • (4) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (5) The sort of residence befitting the former leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
  • (6) At the FSA she gave a press conference dressed, as befits her name, in leather jacket and trousers and was promptly dubbed Sexy Suzi by the tabloids.
  • (7) His chairman, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, was more magnificently pompous, as befits an ex-foreign secretary.
  • (8) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
  • (9) It was conjectured that subjects in the positive condition were annoyed by the disabled person's display of "normal" characteristics, whereas in the negative condition they sympathetically accepted the disabled person's inadequacies as befitting a victim of severe misfortune.
  • (10) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
  • (11) Steve Bruce bemoaned Chris Foy’s decision not to dismiss Gary Cahill for what he described as a dive more befitting the ballet as Hull City endured a ninth match without a win after succumbing to the Premier League leaders, Chelsea.
  • (12) Otherwise we fail to understand the thinking of others, or to realize deep down that the brother or sister we wish to reach and redeem, with the power and closeness of love, counts more than their positions, distant as they may be from what we hold as true.” To emphasize the point he added: “Harsh and divisive language does not befit the tongue of a pastor, it has no place in his heart; although it may momentarily seem to win the day, on the enduring allure of goodness and love remains truly convincing.” The pope ended his speech with two recommendations.
  • (13) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
  • (14) As befits Lewis, it was a move that was made both for his team, a way to motivate them and perhaps deflect media attention away from them, and for himself, he certainly didn't exactly seem to mind all that media attention, at least most of the time.
  • (15) Lady Gaga: Artpop Last month, as befits the first single from the third album by a multi-platinum selling popstar, the video for Lady Gaga's Applause was simultaneously premiered on the US breakfast TV show Good Morning America and video screens in New York's Times Square.
  • (16) As befitted a youth movement that had been born and flourished under Thatcherism, dance music had always been marked by a sharp entrepreneurial spirit: unlike punk or psychedelia, there was never much talk of "selling out" in clubland.
  • (17) "His behaviour is not befitting of any player wearing a Liverpool shirt and Luis is aware that he has let himself and everyone associated with the club down.
  • (18) As befits its goals, human perception of visual motion largely evades this diversity of cues for image form; direction and rate of motion are perceived (with few exceptions) in a fashion that does not depend on the physical characteristics of the object.
  • (19) Officials have repeatedly sought to justify the millions spent on Nkandla, insisting it was essential to provide Zuma with security befitting a head of state.
  • (20) Another UN official who worked in Damascus early in the conflict told the Guardian: “The UN country team knew from the early days of the conflict that neither the government nor its authorised list of local associations for partnership with the UN could be considered as befitting the humanitarian principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality.

Behoove


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be necessary for; to be fit for; to be meet for, with respect to necessity, duty, or convenience; -- mostly used impersonally.
  • (v. i.) To be necessary, fit, or suitable; to befit; to belong as due.
  • (n.) Advantage; behoof.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It behooves any physician who uses these powerful agents to be aware of the potential complications and side effects.
  • (2) It behooves us all to help contain rising medical costs.
  • (3) It behooves the psychiatrist to frankly reveal the risks of pregnancy to couples who wish to have a child or to advise about the pregnancy to term so they can make an informed decision.
  • (4) This case demonstrates that it behooves us to maintain a high level of awareness for potential cervical spine problems in all rheumatoid arthritis patients.
  • (5) It behooves the doctor to try to deal as effectively as possible with the symptoms and behavioral responses to litigation because of the subtle impact such changes have on doctor-patient relationships and patient care.
  • (6) It behooves all practising histopathologists to recognise these mimics of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease to ensure appropriate management for patients with inflammatory pathology of the intestines.
  • (7) Since the operation can be performed with greater technical efficiency without a shunt and without the potential complications of shunting itself, it behooves the surgeon to have a reliable method of knowing when it is not required.
  • (8) It behooves all physicians operating in this area and emergency room physicians and personnel to be acquainted with the diagnosis and management of these situations.
  • (9) It behooves all phys-cians caring for young women to be aware of these disease processes for the maximum therapeutic benefit to be achieved.
  • (10) It behooves librarians to be aware of modern management theory, as developed and tested in the environment of business, and to adopt such useful tools as operations analysis and the systems approach to problems in the library environment.
  • (11) Qualified and desperate young people are walking dollar signs to a cash-strapped industry, and it would behoove universities to endow their graduates with knowledge of their legal entitlements before turfing them out of the nest into a wilderness of financial precarity and un- or under-employment.
  • (12) It behooves all clinicians to look at all the options available in treating the adult so these patients can benefit most from our services.
  • (13) The applications of color flow mapping, a new and rapidly evolving technology, are still in their infancy, and it behooves the pediatric cardiologist to evolve in his expertise along with the evolution of the instrumentation toward new and important impacts which these imaging methods will have in the health care of children with heart disease.
  • (14) Thus it behooves dermatologists to study the basic biologic process of aging in the skin and the separable process of photoaging, which itself is a major clinical problem.
  • (15) It behooves us in the mental health field, having vociferously supported the community mental health movement, to assist police in the management of the mentally ill who are now in the community, perhaps by the use of mobile crisis intervention teams and by a considerably increased amount of effort and cooperation.
  • (16) Thus, with this understanding, it behooves us as nurses to intervene accordingly and "decode" the hallucinated messages and thereby assist in breaking into the third stage in the evolutionary cycle of a psychosis, as cited by R.D.
  • (17) It behooves those centers providing investigative protocol opportunities to develop liaisons with practicing physicians nearby as well as at some distance and to provide an organizational framework that will make participation in these protocols practical for a larger segment of our brain-tumor patient population.
  • (18) It behooves all clinical laboratory directors to re-examine and standardize their procedures and use the recommendations of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
  • (19) With recent changes in the management of carcinoma of the breast and a population that is increasingly aging, it behooves us to determine the most appropriate treatment of carcinoma of the breast in the elderly.
  • (20) As surgeons, we are behooved to look, assess, and reconsider in order to improve.

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