(a.) Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of the patient population of a small storefront clinic on the Bowery of New York City has revealed the emergence of a new category of Bowery residents consisting of young, generally White, schizophrenic men with little history of alcoholism.
(2) Frequency of visits to doctors by the Bowery men was comparable to that of the community men, and the Bowery men rated their health substantially better than did their counterparts of two decades ago.
(3) Baclofen is a specific agonist for GABAB receptors (Bowery et al., 1980).
(4) I met him briefly at a club with [mutual friend] Leigh Bowery, and then he took me to lunch at the River Cafe.
(6) I thought Andi was brilliant, his two goals were probably long overdue, I thought Bowery was excellent coming on and [Fabian] Delph and Westwood were outstanding.
(7) But it has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999 and a National Historic Landmark since 2000, thus escaping the fate of the legendary CBGB on the Bowery, the “cradle of punk”, which closed in 2006, to be turned into an expensive boutique.
(8) Leigh Bowery and Freud had a mutually sustaining friendship that went on until just before the performance artist succumbed to an Aids-related illness at the end of 1994.
(9) He paid as much attention to the floorboards or the tangle of buddleia in the yard below as he would to a woman's belly, Leigh Bowery's feminine bulk, Bruce Bernard's stoic drunkard's poise, Lord Goodman's vanity, Sue the Benefits Supervisor's affected boredom.
(10) Tom Huddlestone lined up to shoot but instead released the unmarked Rosenior, whose low centre was diverted past Brad Guzan by the substitute Bowery.
(11) In this article, Norman Bowery discusses the evidence for heterogeneity of GABAB receptors, their possible physiological and pathological roles and the therapeutic potential of GABAB receptor agonists and antagonists.
(12) A total of 86 street-dwelling and 195 non-street-dwelling (177 flophouse-, 18 apartment-dwelling) men aged 50 and older on the Bowery in New York City were studied.
(13) The sample consisted of 195 nonstreet dwellers (177 residing in flophouses, 18 in apartments) and 86 street dwellers on the Bowery in New York City.
(14) This study utilized a homogeneous Bowery-patient population, treated in a comprehensive inpatient treatment and rehabilitation program, and attempted to assess differences among nonprofessional recovering alcoholic counselors.
(15) The amino acid, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), activates two different receptor types (Bowery et al., 1980; reviewed by Ogata, 1990a).
(16) She has put out a live album, Bowery Songs, which includes old protest numbers like Steve Earle's Christmas in Washington, and in March she will tour the UK.
(17) At the Bowery Ballroom over two nights, they veer from anthemic stadium rock into clipped pop into wobbling atmospherics, Healy's voice tripled through a vocoder mic to give the multi-tracked effect of the 90s R&B he loves.
(18) Bowery men scored worse than an aged-matched sample of community men on all physical health scales, with the greatest differences occurring in the respiratory, gastrointestinal, edema, hearing, hypertension, and ambulatory scales.
(19) Although Hull got back into the game when Jordan Bowery turned Liam Rosenior's cross into his own net, the visitors never looked like recovering from the double blow Weimann inflicted just before the interval.
(20) He said the Bowery Opportunity Fund required a minimum investment of $1m.
Social
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.
(a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
(a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
(a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.
(a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
(a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(3) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(4) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(5) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(6) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(7) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(8) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(9) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(10) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(11) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(13) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(14) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(15) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(16) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(17) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(18) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(20) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.