(p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.
(p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Methods that compliment, reflect, and are consistent with developmental needs of the young teen provide cogent approaches to teen pregnancy prevention.
(2) Those concerns were most cogently expressed to Jones by his ex-boss, and former head of the CRU, Dr Tom Wigley.
(3) The court of appeal affirmed that the council had no cogent reasons to depart from the guidance.
(4) By encouraging the verbalization of cogent feelings and anxieties in a weekly group meeting, members developed a sense of mutual trust and openness.
(5) Multivariate analyses suggest that the most cogent factors affecting teenage fathering include being black, going steady, and having unorthodox views about parenting outside of marriage.
(6) The result is a cogent approach to the radiologic evaluation of the patient with a suspected umbilical remnant anomaly.
(7) It is also the most cogent organised crime syndicate in the world, trafficking – according to some estimates – up to 90% of drugs consumed in the US and varying proportions across Europe, Africa and the east.
(8) He has generally been appreciated by journalists for his accessibility and geniality – and, as Guardian readers and Thought for the Day listeners to Radio 4's Today programme know, his ability to present a coherent and challenging message cogently and to deadlines.
(9) He added: “By no stretch of the imagination can the evidence relied upon in support of the applications be described as corroborated, contemporaneous, persuasive, compelling or cogent.” It is not yet known if the officers will appeal against Meadows’s decision.
(10) The SSN says that the warning is no less cogent now than it was in 2006 and cites the developing use of unmanned drones, full body search scanners and workplace surveillance techniques to monitor employees as worrying indicators of what is to come.
(11) "Those who do not wish to listen to the informed and cogent warnings of leading scientists," he writes, "will find excuses not to do so."
(12) The most cogent evidence for a müllerian rather than a mesonephric origin for clear cell carcinoma in the female genital tract is its presence in the endometrium, a Müllerian derivative.
(13) It confirmed that local authorities should (unless they have cogent reasons not to do so) follow statutory guidance stipulating that kinship foster carers should not be paid less than unrelated foster carers simply on the basis of a familial relationship.
(14) The CBA data indicate that aging, per se, has little effect on ASR parameters; the C57 data show that hearing loss is a cogent factor.
(15) While the development-focused media has expanded, the standard for what makes a compelling blog, speech or opinion piece have not: clear writing and cogent argument backed up by solid evidence and examples.
(16) Sir Mick Jagger showed a sign of rigor mortis by refusing to serenade the burghers of Davos, but struts and frets his years upon the world's stages to little cogent effect.
(17) This guideline summarizes recommendations for (1) developing cogent procedures for diagnosis and antimicrobial susceptibility testing; (2) developing quality-control parameters for the microbiological components of clinical trials; (3) continually updating U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines; (4) reviewing microbiological recommendations from other groups, such as Microbiology Subcommittees of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards; and (5) improving the microbiological aspects of FDA package inserts for antimicrobial drugs.
(18) Even 3-year-olds were able to judge real and mental entities appropriately on the basis of the 3 criteria, to sort such entities as explicitly real and not-real, and to provide cogent explanations of their choices as well.
(19) The authors concluded that nonparticipation was associated with clinically cogent adverse health outcomes, but that the magnitude of these associations varied according to the reason for nonparticipation.
(20) The purpose of the study was to identify the cogent diseases requiring hospitalization of HIV patients in the current era of PCP prophylaxis.
Ideological
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to ideology.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(2) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(3) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(4) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(5) But I recall my own first encounter with that ideology, back in the 1990s.
(6) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(7) The problem, however, is that this scale of economic planning and management is entirely outside the boundaries of our reigning ideology.
(8) What’s becoming very clear is that the government is no longer concerned with school improvement, but with an ideological reorganisation of schools.
(9) It argues that Saudi Islamic charitable groups have tended to fund Wahhabist ideology.
(10) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(11) Synthesis and discussion is focused on five major areas in which gerontological continuity and change are evidenced: 1) transformation of basic themes over time; 2) gerontology's identity crisis; 3) the social ideology of gerontology; 4) evolution and refinement of gerontological ideas and methods; and 5) temporal frameworks.
(12) Problems arise because this ideology is relevant to the potential effectiveness of violence prevention.This paper delineates several ideological issues involved in violence prevention and discusses how they interact with frequently employed public-health prevention strategies.
(13) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(14) I wanted to make a big ideological point, and I had but one weapon in my arsenal: a pulpit that I could use to denounce the very thing that had given me a voice.
(15) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
(16) Thus, failure to include consumers on health policy boards guarantees the absence of a solution-oriented dialogue and promotes the continuing predominance of a provider-biased ideology.
(17) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(18) By illuminating both the prejudical content of medical theories as well as the emancipatory actions of lesbian and gay communities to change stigmatizing diagnostic and treatment situations, the authors attempt to demystify ideologies about lesbians that motivate clinicians, administrators, educators, researchers, and theorists in the delivery of health services.
(19) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(20) All of this has been accompanied by ideological tightening across academia, religion, even state media and officialdom itself: a sort of sterilisation of the environment.