(n.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.
(n.) A dependent; one under the protection of another.
(n.) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
(2) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(3) The study was conducted by monitoring the case managers in the following activities: client intake screening, assessment and service planning, referrals, advocacy, and support services.
(4) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(5) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
(6) RBS had received complaints from two clients, in October 2010 and January 2012, about the activities of forex traders and in November 2011 one of its own traders raised concerns, which were not heeded.
(7) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(8) Only six (43 per cent) of the stores routinely informed clients of the need to continue deworming procedures once the pup left the store.
(9) Wood tells clients: Carney said an interest rate hike: “could happen sooner than markets currently expect”.
(10) A defence solicitor, Mike Schwarz from Bindmans, said his clients would be appealing to the high court.
(11) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
(12) The benefits of holistically identifying clients' ability to mobilize coping resources is that nurses can plan intervention more effectively if these categorizations can be consistently verified.
(13) The attorney, Thomas Bergstrom, declined to say where in Philadelphia his client will live while prosecutors appeal the superior court ruling.
(14) His client-base has tripled since January, and now includes more than half of Shanghai and Beijing's international schools.
(15) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
(16) By using a national sample we ensured that the influence of regional variations in the configuration of long-term care services would not confound estimates of the relative effect of client-related factors.
(17) Results demonstrated that community clients surpassed institutional clients in social and cognitive skills, but not in daily living skills.
(18) He knew how to shmooze Middle East clients and his al-Yamamah deal - under which jets were sold to Saudi Arabia - was the mid-1980s contract which secured his later position as executive chairman at BAE Systems .
(19) The issue of fees can affect clients' evaluation of the provider as well as the likelihood of using the service being offered.
(20) He is now to remain with the bank until March 2014, with continued use of the bank's town house in the West End of London, intended for the bank's wealthiest clients.
Session
Definition:
(n.) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
(n.) The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
(n.) Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(2) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(3) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(4) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(5) With feedback, the rate of decrease in error over sessions was similiar for both levels of IQ.
(6) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(7) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(8) Successful extraction occurred during a single session in 125 of 219 patients (57%); 60 of 219 patients required two extraction sessions.
(9) This paper describes a teaching process in which two 4th year medical students learn a family approach to problem solving during a short clerkship of twelve hours spread over four weekly sessions.
(10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(11) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
(12) Therefore, a study using 2-dimensional and M-mode backscatter imaging was performed in 20 normal male subjects by 2 observers at an initial session and by 1 of the observers after 1 week.
(13) The effects of learning history were evident on sessions 4 and 5 when the same consequence was contingent upon the performance of all groups.
(14) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(15) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(16) When S+ followed cocaine, stereotyped bar-pressing developed with markedly increased responding during the remainder of the session.
(17) In the other component, the discriminative stimuli were the same each session (performance).
(18) Efferent units with spontaneous activity were uncommon at the start of the recording sessions but were more frequently encountered later in the experiments.
(19) Seventy male subjects participated in a six session study of feedback-mediated heart rate modification.
(20) In 92 percent of the patients the thoraco-abdominal aorta and its branches were well documented on 2 orthogonal projections performed in one single session.