(n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
(v. t.) To endow with a benefice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prenatal informed consent for sonogram, a primarily autonomy-based indication, should be given the same weight in clinical judgment and practice as the beneficence-based indications listed by the National Institutes of Health consensus panel.
(2) We discuss the benefice of a such therapeutic option in the true hermaphroditism lately diagnosed recording to organic and psychological data.
(3) Then, acting on a refusal of treatment would amount to acting on unreliable clinical judgment, justifying the physician's resisting the patient's exercising a positive right when fulfilling that positive right contradicts the most highly reliable clinical judgment, dooms the beneficence-based interests of the fetus, and virtually dooms the beneficence-based interests of the pregnant woman.
(4) Therapy appeared beneficent in half of the cases, but only one patient was markedly improved.
(5) The ethical problems for 3 groups of agents (informants and other relatives, including the deceased; the researcher; and the research) are discussed according to 3 basic ethical principles (nonmaleficence, beneficence and respect for autonomy).
(6) Because humans are the subjects in clinical research, this area of scientific study must operate within the limits dictated by such basic principles as individual autonomy, justice, and beneficence.
(7) We can see from the examples discussed that there are many instances where principles, guidelines, rules or laws propounded for the benefit of one party may restrain autonomy, beneficence and justice done to another.
(8) The choice of when and how to use behavioral interventions and the implications of these choices may present the nurse with certain ethical dilemmas related to ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and maleficence.
(9) In a previous essay I criticized Engelhardt's libertarian conception of justice, which grounds the view that society's obligation to assure access to adequate health care for all is a matter of beneficence.
(10) When consideration is given to the underlying principles of autonomy and beneficence, a case can be made for weak paternalistic interventions with persons of diminished capacity who are clearly endangered and in whom the conduct involved is substantially nonvoluntary.
(11) Thanks to the beneficence of its owner he and his allies have recently moved into a derelict 19th-century sea fort on the tiny island of Stack Rock, taking with them camping supplies and generators.
(12) Up until now, it's mostly shown off the times when it's done so with beneficent aims: promoting organ donors, or voters.
(13) When there are no beneficence-based obligations to the fetus, the physician should recommend only termination of pregnancy or nonaggressive management.
(14) The question of beneficence and non-maleficence must first be related to the individual and only second to the society.
(15) A beneficence-based construal would yield a much weaker obligation with respect to the distribution of health care.
(16) To allocate resources ethically under the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) system of reimbursement, it will not be sufficient to appeal to traditional patient-centered principles such as individual beneficence and autonomy.
(17) After this evidence has been collected, moral issues of altruism and beneficence can be balanced against the possible detriment to both patient and health care provider, with the highest priority given to the patient's concerns.
(18) Consumers and providers of ECMO services must continue to examine and debate these issues in a reasoned, deliberate fashion and construct the necessary procedural safeguards that will ensure beneficent and just delivery of these services.
(19) In the absence of an acceptable way to give consistent moral priority to any of the criteria, he concludes, practical systems should be set up to resolve conflicts by taking into account the fundamental moral values of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence while incorporating Aristotle's formal principle of justice.
(20) But the rise of a racist far right across Europe is more than just a predictable cost of an overwhelmingly beneficent change.
(a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon.
(a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them.
(a.) Bent downwards so that the ends touch, or rest on, something else; as, the incumbent toe of a bird.
(n.) A person who is in present possession of a benefice or of any office.
Example Sentences:
(1) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
(2) Therefore, it is incumbent upon clinicians to know the signs and symptoms of using steroids, and to be familiar with the clinical indications for urine testing.
(3) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
(4) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
(5) Akin, a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview broadcast Sunday on St Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have been raped.
(6) The incumbent mayor has set his sights on stronger powers over the London economy as he seeks re-election for a second term on 3 May.
(7) He told the conference: "As you succeed in getting more and more business, the incumbent's tactic is to retreat slowly.
(8) If that suggests that Norwegian and Australian voters are poised to reward these centre-left incumbents for their management, think again.
(9) All the bridge-building exercises in the world will not help Woodward if he fails in his most pressing task: to find the right replacement for Moyes and deliver the players the new incumbent requires.
(10) It is incumbent on the US, Britain and France to do their utmost to help the country win the peace.
(11) Polls released this week showed the radical left anti-austerity Syriza party still in the ascendant, and analysts have expressed doubts that the incumbent New Democracy party will be able to overturn its lead.
(12) Yet even this may yet be tempered by the realisation that life in the assembly will be easier to manage due to the departure of the previous incumbent, Leighton Andrews.
(13) During the past 11 elections where an incumbent ran for re-election and there was a Gallup poll (all since 1940, save 1944), there has been a statistical trend for the president's approval rating to rise during the campaign.
(14) That is, an incumbent Democrat, for example, would tend to do better than a new Democrat running for the same seat.
(15) The increased accessibility of sports medicine clinics makes it incumbent on the physician to be familiar with a wide range of differential diagnoses.
(16) There is a certain provincialism – this is a state where people really do still expect the candidates to show up.” Most agree this favours the incumbent.
(17) It is incumbent upon the physician first to decide what is the most likely diagnosis to be correct; and then to undertake treatment indicated for that diagnosis.
(18) Maréchal-Le Pen has a chance of winning, and becoming France's first Front National MP in decades, despite a difficult battle against the favourite, the incumbent, from the right wing of Sarkozy's UMP party, who has won six successive parliamentary elections.
(19) 8 March 2008: Anwar leads an opposition coalition to wrest a third of parliament's seats and five states from the incumbent National Front coalition, which has ruled Malaysia since it became independent from Britain in 1957.
(20) Issa Hayatou, president of Caf, who is among 10 Fifa executive committee members to be questioned in Zurich, has declared the continent united in its support of the incumbent.