(v. t.) To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have always called for a public inquiry into the events at Southall, and for Cass's report to be made public.
(2) Results of coronary artery bypass grafting were evaluated in 856 nonrandomized patients in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry with mild angina (Canadian Cardiovascular Society Classes I and II) and three-vessel disease, defined as 70% or more stenosis in the proximal or middle segment of the three major coronary arteries.
(3) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(4) Analysis of data from the CASS registry indicated that blacks had a higher incidence of hypertension and current cigarette smoking than did whites in CASS and that chest pain was the major reason that both blacks and whites underwent coronary angiography for suspected or proven coronary disease.
(5) Mr Cass was beaten about the head and upper body, and suffered an arm injury as he tried to defend himself.
(6) Today the commissioner said he was sorry officers had behaved in the way described by Cass.
(7) There are three large randomized trials of early elective coronary artery bypass graft surgery vs early medical therapy in selected patients with stable angina pectoris: the Veterans Administration Study (or VA Study) with enrollment in 1972 to 1974, the European Coronary Surgery Study Group (or European Study) with enrollment in 1973 to 1976 and the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) with enrollment in 1975 to 1979.
(8) Burton refused lawyers acting on behalf of Peach's friends and family access to the Cass report.
(9) The cellular chloride concentration was varied between 5 and 700 mM by the nystatin technique (Cass & Dalmark, 1973).
(10) "In my view, while there were enormous innovations of enduring value during this period, the reductionist vision of a central bank's role that was adopted around the world was fatally flawed," Carney said in his Mais Lecture at the Cass Business School in London.
(11) In 1979 the family and friends of Blair Peach called for the Cass report into his death to be made public and for a public inquiry to be held into the events of Southall on the day that he was killed.
(12) The applicability of the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) to clinical practice is seriously hampered by the following findings.
(13) We put a notice in the Jewish Chronicle,” said Keidan, 38, who is a research fellow at City University’s Cass business school.
(14) Ajay Bhalla at Cass Business School The falling star of Tesco in the US is a harsh reminder that scale is not the recipe for sustainable value creation.
(15) • From the outset, the Cass investigation appeared unlikely to find an officer guilty.
(16) Angiographic evidence of coronary artery disease was present in 16,002 patients in the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry.
(17) However, data from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) and others show that there is no difference between medical and surgical therapy in return to work and in need for subsequent hospitalization.
(18) We investigated the effects of cigarette smoking and cessation of smoking in a cohort of 1893 men and women from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry who were 55 years of age or older and had angiographically documented coronary artery disease.
(19) The bad smell hovering over the global economy Read more China’s borrowings hit 168.48 trillion yuan ($25.6 trillion) at the end of last year, equivalent to 249% of economic output, Li Yang, a senior researcher with the leading government think-tank the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), has told reporters.
(20) The Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) Registry is used to evaluate the effect of various baseline clinical and angiographic factors on mortality after acute out-of-hospital myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with and without prior coronary bypass surgery.
Crass
Definition:
(a.) Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
Example Sentences:
(1) So perhaps, at some distant point in the future, the Nobel committee will find a crass way to play politics at the same time as giving a retroactive nod to Malala – unless she has become president of Pakistan: in which case she'll finally be in the sort of day job that tends to catch their eye.
(2) In their crass off-pitch antics as well as their humiliating ineptitude, Les Bleus have reminded us of an important truth.
(3) What’s troubling isn’t the premise that a straight man might be stricken by rape-anxiety before going to jail, but the crass and bludgeoning way it’s handled,” he said.
(4) Hofer himself described Farage’s comments as a “crass misjudgment”, adding that “it doesn’t fill me with joy when someone meddles from outside”.
(5) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
(6) He joined the counter-attack launched in the Observer by Tristram Hunt , historian and shadow education spokesman, who accused Gove of a crass attempt to "rewrite the historical record and sow political division".
(7) The supreme irony is that when Klimt painted his so-called golden portrait of Adele, his style had hardened into a crass ersatz modernism, so the price it fetched for Altmann makes it the most expensive postcard in the world.
(8) In more benign times the Blair-Brown regime bowed to a crass, illusory idea of the centre-ground: now, with the coalition pushing politics even further to the right, too many Labour politicians seem to be acquiescing in the other side's world-view.
(9) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
(10) Nor should we take very seriously the criticism from Labour MP Tom Watson: "This is a crass example of rich Tories buying privilege ...
(11) It’s difficult to describe how crass and inappropriate those messages were.
(12) The London mayor made a crass, sexist joke this week about Malaysian girls going off to university to find husbands.
(13) As long as you’re not crass enough to dig out your basement and turn it into a swimming pool.
(14) Scott Walker seems to be making crass and insulting remarks on a daily basis about abortion,” Richards said in a statement.
(15) The scandal becomes not that racism exists but that anyone would be crass enough to articulate it so brazenly.
(16) Saunders has sailed close to crass indiscretion more than once.
(17) It would really be a bit crass if we start talking about who was to replace them."
(18) The Conservatives quote Mervyn King gleefully in every speech, along with the German finance minister's attack on "crass Keynesianism" - though days later they began higher spending than the UK.
(19) I think we’re seeing crass opportunism from those people who support changes to the law.” The government in August backed down on plans to remove the clauses of the RDA which make it unlawful to offend, insult or humiliate people on the basis of race, following outcry from community groups.
(20) The Labour MP asked John Bercow, the Speaker: "Could I ask whether you have had a request from any minister of Her Majesty's government to attend this house and give clarification to the rather crass and insensitive statements of the enterprise adviser to the government that we've 'never had it so good'.