(n.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
(n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
(n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
(n.) A critic; a reviewer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
(2) Using the generalized Wilcoxon test for single censored samples, there was no significant difference in survival at any postoperative year when comparing both Groups A and B.
(3) In the NO MISO and PLUS MISO arms, the complete response rate at cystoscopy at 6 months was 63% and 69%, the 5-year survival rate was 41% and 48% and the 5-year local control rate with bladder preservation was 46% and 36% respectively (censored for death from metastases while locally clear).
(4) When conservative outlets accused the site of censoring right-leaning news stories , Zuckerberg fired the trending stories team and replaced them with an algorithm – which almost immediately began to distribute fake news .
(5) Thousands who have confronted the possibility of a libel action have self-censored or backed down.
(6) The results of this study suggest that GTFA is the preferred method for the genetic modeling of censored data obtained from twins.
(7) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
(8) Cameron told MPs: "We have a free press, it's very important the press feels it is not pre-censored from what it writes and all the rest of it.
(9) "And obviously, lyrics had to be approved by censors.
(10) Today the Turkish government has levelled baseless and alarmingly false charges of ‘working on behalf of a terrorist organisation’ against three Vice News reporters, in an attempt to intimidate and censor their coverage,” Sutcliffe said.
(11) It is essential that systems which allow censoring of patient records have continuous built-in audit to monitor the reasons for censoring.
(12) Inclusion of right censored lesions by the Kaplan-Meier approach increased the uncensored estimate by approximately 20%.
(13) For some calves known only was that absorption extended beyond duration of the experiment, causing the data to be censored.
(14) He said the need for realism, insisted on by censors, left "only the ancient Chinese stories to be produced".
(15) A brief survey is given of the historical roots of such methods, of the basic concepts and quantities which are required, and of the maximum likelihood estimates which can be derived for right censored and double censored data.
(16) Google moved quickly to announce that it would stop censoring its Chinese service after realising dissidents were at risk from attempts to use the company's technology for political surveillance, according to a source with direct knowledge of the internet giant's most senior management.
(17) She never censored my reading material and always encouraged my writing ambitions.
(18) Many fellow editors and reporters at RBC say they plan to resign too, while others have vowed to continue their work “until the first story is censored”.
(19) @Roborovski says the government's focus is wrong: Government focus on social messaging clamp-down wrong - 24 hour news channels played far greater role in spread of riots Commenter Porgythecat warns of the wider implications of such proposals: How long before Twitter or Facebook gets shut down during a major environmental protest, or worse, Twitter and Facebook start self censoring in order to avoid government regulation.
(20) We propose a design procedure for determining the study duration or for calculating the power in a group sequential clinical trial with censored survival data and possibly unequal patient allocation between treatments, adjusting for stratified randomization.
Censorial
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
(a.) Full of censure; censorious.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the journalist Alexander Chancellor, a friend since Cambridge, agrees with Stoppard that despite sometimes sounding "over censorious, he is actually incredibly warm hearted and very forgiving.
(2) There may be subject matter that I think is in breach of our guidelines and it would be up for me to discuss it with him and grade how censorious you are and how clear you are and what sanction you take.
(3) The censorious atmosphere in the tiny, impoverished kingdom contrasts with South Africa , where newspapers had a field day.
(4) Instead of erupting upwards in ways which surprise, delight and occasionally shock, it travels censoriously and prescriptively down the pyramid.
(5) In our weirdly censorious era, there are too many demands for people to be sacked or forced to resign, too many campaigns and petitions for people with unfashionable views to have their visas cancelled.
(6) Indeed it seems almost to invite the studied censoriousness of the 19th centrury with women again stigmatised as a source of degradation and disease.
(7) Sony’s latest censorious move arrived on Monday, when Vice reported that the studio’s high-priced lawyer David Boies ( of Bush v Gore and anti-Prop 8 fame ) sent a threatening letter to Twitter warning it to delete a specific Twitter account that was tweeting TMZ-friendly emails about Brad Pitt and others found in the “Guardians of Peace” data.
(8) He argued that Google’s decision over what to index should be seen as “editorial judgement”, the same as a newspaper’s decision about what goes on its front page, and that the state interfering in that decision is censorious.
(9) He adopts a plummy, censorious voice: "'You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets.
(10) I remember during the last administration, you were critical and censorious of it.
(11) The result is arguably a more censorious environment, one in which your movements and behaviour are more strictly policed, officially and unofficially.
(12) Merkel was doubtless not so indelicate or censorious as to consult her watch, a simple crossing of the arms would suffice.
(13) I noted this censoriously 40 years ago, when homophobia was more common than it is now, and it seems even more offensive today.
(14) Just as we have got to grips with the dominant “male gaze” that subjects and contorts the female form, we must now contend with the “machine gaze” – more censorious than an overprotective dad and as relentless as the Terminator.
(15) Moyles and, more recently, Jonathan Ross have both criticised the censorious atmosphere that prevails at the BBC in the aftermath of the "Sachsgate" affair – Ross said he couldn't wait to leave.
(16) In his later essay on Gissing, Orwell describes the quintessential flavour of Gissing's world - "the grime, the stupidity, the ugliness, the sex-starvation, the furtive debauchery, the vulgarity, the bad manners, the censoriousness" - which sums up the world Orwell sought to capture and to criticise in Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
(17) I thought he was quite censorious of David Cameron in a very calm, collected and quiet way,” she said.
(18) He criticised the use of injunctions and their more censorious successors, "super-injunctions", which prevent media organisations from reporting the fact they even exist.
(19) Over music provided by Ontario progressive rockers Christmas, a series of crudely drawn information films pictured stereotyped Tom of Finland-type lumberjacks about to get down to business in Rocky Mountain log cabins, only to find the Aids Ptarmigan fluttering around their heads advising them to act responsibly, squawking his catchphrase: “We see thee rise!” Needless to say, Chilliwack the Aids Ptarmigan swiftly became the butt of a thousand Canadian standup comedy routines and his short-lived, sex-fearing reign of gay terror has been largely erased from cyberspace by censorious and retrospectively ashamed Canadian public health bodies.
(20) The app is illustrated with the current cover, a cartoon of the prophet Muhammed, in a change from the norm for Apple’s notoriously censorious App Store which has previous banned satirical and controversial apps.