(n.) The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main objective is an evaluation of the underlying epistemological robustness of the field and the cogency of its claims to possess knowledge.
(2) Furthermore, the cogency of exclusion of parentage, the average power of exclusion and the probability of parentage is calculated using published mutation rates and gene frequencies of the four probes.
(3) Such articulate cogency and a splendid voice like Richard Burton."
(4) It surpassed its rivals in the vehemence and cogency of its opposition to the Iraq invasion.
(5) There is no clean divide between religiously rooted and other beliefs, and this is an area where asking questions will not reliably yield intelligible answers because – as case law cited in Tuesday's judgment puts it – within the sort of supernatural discourses involved "individuals cannot always be expected to express themselves with cogency or precision".
(6) The purpose of this chapter is to present the new routes of navigation in epilepsy research, the salient theories on mechanisms of epilepsies, and their cogency to cause (generation of seizures) and effects (epileptic cell damage).
(7) Employing factor analysis, three independent aspects determining the quality of expert opinion are revealed, namely the factors 'cogency of message', role-conception', and 'recipient-orientation'.
(8) When these interprofessional disagreements are coupled with a lack of political cogency, action is likely to be uncoordinated and transient.
(9) The party has no policies to speak of, Bloom admits, and the intrinsic lack of cogency within the party means they are unable to solve that problem.
(10) Review of ethical criteria for screening, particularly the availability of experimental therapies, increases the cogency and reinforces the acceptability of performing occupational tests for both homozygous and heterozygous AAT-deficient persons.
(11) Recent interdisciplinary investigations (epidemiology, statistics, sociology, psychology, psychiatry) as well as the changing approach of a large section of the population towards suicidal behaviour (self-determination and the responsibility of the individual, human dignity, breaking away from handed down moral judgements) show that the estimation held with cogency in many quarters with respect to suicide as being a reliable symptom of a disease, cannot be maintained.
(12) In Part I of this essay, I assess the fairness and cogency of three broad criticisms raised against 'principlism' as an approach: (1) that principlism, as an exercise in applied ethics, is insufficiently attentive to the dialectical relations between ethical theory and mortal practice; (2) that principlism fails to offer a systematic account of the principles of non-maleficence, beneficence, respect for autonomy, and justice; and (3) that principlism, as a version of moral pluralism, is fatally flawed by its theoretical agnosticism.
(13) This is a crucial point, a requirement for ethical cogency.
(14) The cogency of the problem was amplified by the identification in humans of asbestos-like neoplasms with a fiber other than asbestos (erionite) and by the production of such neoplasms in experimental animals with a variety of man-made inorganic fibers, often used as substitutes for asbestos.
(15) The opening words of this piece, though, don't come from someone who wants parents to think for themselves, but from someone whose living depends on scaring parents into thinking they know nothing – Gina Ford, author of The Contented Little Baby Book, whose methods were described by Nick Clegg in a rare outburst of cogency as being like "sticking babies in broom cupboards".
(16) Estimates vary as to the cogency of the Colombian presence, but one observer suggests there are as many as 60 Colombian drugs traffickers in Guinea-Bissau.
(17) Analyses examine the ability of beliefs to predict compliance and affirm the model's theoretical cogency and appropriateness for use with psychiatric outpatients.
Rigor
Definition:
(n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
(n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
(n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
(n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
(n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
(n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
(n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
(n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
(n.) Violence; force; fury.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
(3) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(4) The symptoms were successfully controlled by rigorous dietary measures.
(5) Rigorously designed clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of fluoxetine in adults with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) but not in patients below 18 years old.
(6) Unambiguous mapping and rigorous determination of the nature of the initiation triplet for IF2 beta, the smaller form of IF2, is critical for future mutagenesis of this codon, required for investigating the biological importance of both IF2 alpha and IF2 beta.
(7) The identification of the cDNA for an A2b-adenosine receptor will allow more rigorous characterization of its anatomical distribution and functional properties.
(8) Meanwhile, we need to show that the recent changes to how we work with the BBC Executive are allowing us to be more focused, more rigorous and more transparent in the work that we do, so that licence fee payers can get a better BBC.
(9) A village will be subject to rigorous evaluations in order to demonstrate sustainability and scalability, and that aid developed with an exit strategy can actually work.
(10) We therefore conclude that in postrigor muscles, paratropomyosin is released from the A-I junction region following the increase in the sarcoplasmic calcium ion concentration to 10(-4) M, and then binds to thin filaments, which results in weakening of rigor linkages formed between actin and myosin.
(11) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
(12) Ferguson’s influence at Old Trafford has clearly waned since the Moyes appointment but, notably, there is no admission on his part that he chose the wrong man, insisting that the club followed a rigorous and methodical selection process.
(13) After a three-month period of rigorous training, two PAs were assigned to the ICU.
(14) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
(15) Even when carried out rigorously, culling does very little to help.
(16) Because the rigor of the present day "scientific method" demands clearcut and reproducible results and investigations require predictable performance of the parasite in an evenly maintained host that is in a highly constrained environment, we should not wonder why we cannot produce the events of nature.
(17) The best definition of osteoarthritis is anatomical, but to be rigorous must include the biochemical characteristics of osteoarthritis cartilage.
(18) "We remain committed to sourcing merchandise that is produced responsibly by suppliers that adhere to Walmart's rigorous Standards for Suppliers code of conduct."
(19) Edelman has a rigorous in-house carbon accounting system.
(20) Material, obtained by a rigorous three-stage sampling procedure from five normal rat livers, is systematically subjected to this analysis at four levels of magnification.