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Centre


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central.
  • (v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center.
  • (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point.
  • (v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate.
  • (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
  • (n. & v.) See Center.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (3) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (4) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (5) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
  • (6) Salmonella Centre of Paris confirmed the antigenic structure and agreed with this designation.
  • (7) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
  • (8) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
  • (9) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
  • (10) Much has been claimed about the source of its support: at one extreme, it is said to divide the right-of-centre vote and crucify the Conservatives .
  • (11) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (12) Various immunoassays have been introduced into, and evaluated at, the Amani Medical Centre in north-east Tanzania.
  • (13) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
  • (14) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
  • (15) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
  • (16) The results of this study are compared with the results of an earlier study which was completed before the Community Care Centre was established.
  • (17) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (18) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
  • (19) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (20) Four centres contributed a total of 466 patients to a study comparing the efficacy of oral amoxycillin with that of probenecid and intramuscular ceftizoxime.

Midst


Definition:

  • (n.) The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
  • (prep.) In the midst of; amidst.
  • (adv.) In the middle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
  • (2) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
  • (3) Associating themselves with the freedom demonstrations has given Pegida protests an air of moral respectability even though there are hundreds of rightwing extremists in their midst, as well as established groups of hooligans who are known to the police, according to Germany’s federal office for the protection of the constitution.
  • (4) Gove's intervention has been seen as unhelpful by some Conservative party officials who are in the midst of ensuring that this week's expected vote on an amendment to the Queen's speech does not become a vote on Cameron's authority.
  • (5) In 2017, the focus is turning to the people who are suddenly in our midst.
  • (6) Theresa May has rejected a claim by the British Red Cross that the NHS is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.
  • (7) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
  • (8) There is a rich populist history of winning big victories for social and economic justice in the midst of large-scale crises.
  • (9) In the midst of those debates, Texas physicians will mount an all-out effort to push health-related issues to the top of the lawmakers' agenda.
  • (10) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
  • (11) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
  • (12) They provoked threats of a player boycott, led sponsors to withdraw support and created a racially charged image problem in the midst of the NBA playoffs that even President Barack Obama remarked upon.
  • (13) It is hard to think of a better provisional epitaph than that supplied in the midst of his later troubles by Martin Palouš, one of the first signatories of Charter 77: "Havel was the man who was able to stage this miracle play.
  • (14) Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which is already in the midst of a restructuing exercise, said it had been penalised by the methodology used by the regulators and appointed UBS and Citigroup to advise it of its options and “explore all strategic alternatives for the bank”.
  • (15) Can the conscious patient in the midst of a medical emergency provide adequate informed consent for a clinical research protocol?
  • (16) Companies fail to do so at present because the world is in the midst of a shale gas bonanza, and most gas companies are focused on finding new sources of supply.
  • (17) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
  • (18) Matt Shardlow, head of Buglife, said: "The report [confirms] we are in the midst of an extinction crisis and it is happening here in England under our very noses."
  • (19) Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday evening in the midst of two days of talks on the referendum campaign, Philip Hammond signalled that resistance in eastern Europe, especially to migration from the Middle East, was making it easier for London to make its case against freedom of movement within the union, since most recent EU immigrants to Britain are from the newer member states in the east.
  • (20) If you look at the sponsorship and marketing, look at the bidding contracts, and you will see more,” he said after Pound had laid out just how badly the IAAF’s processes and a collective lack of curiosity had failed to deal with the corruption in their midst.

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