(v. t.) To commit, intrust, or give in charge for care or preservation.
(v. t.) To recommend as worthy of confidence or regard; to present as worthy of notice or favorable attention.
(v. t.) To mention with approbation; to praise; as, to commend a person or an act.
(v. t.) To mention by way of courtesy, implying remembrance and good will.
(n.) Commendation; praise.
(n.) Compliments; greetings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week, the army major who ordered Dar to be tied to the vehicle was awarded a commendation for his counter-insurgency work in the region.
(2) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(3) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
(4) Furthermore, rodents frequently develop immunity to, and become carriers of, these organisms, and there is little to commend their use, except in lightly populated areas where control is infrequently applied.
(5) In the circumstances, they showed commendable resolve not to allow all the changes and disruption to break their supremacy.
(6) Channel 4 News is to be commended for pioneering this move, particularly as a mere 0.4% of British journalists are Muslim , according to study by City University.
(7) The illustrated format was commended by students for its clinical relevance but certain problems with the reproduction of radiographs and the selection of data have been revealed.
(8) Patients, family members, and a physician wrote letters of commendation regardless of the LOS, payer source, total charges, time spent with the patient, and personnel who provided the care.
(9) The satisfactory results commend the procedure, which has yet to gain global acceptance.
(10) Whatever the answer, this is a brave move and I commend her.
(11) The president then commended Jackson as “proof of what a young person can accomplish free of drink or drug abuse”.
(12) The problems of monitoring children whilst they receive radiotherapy under general anaesthesia are discussed, the merits of different methods are reviewed and the use of the capnograph is commended.
(13) "We are managing an unprecedented situation and all the staff involved should be commended for their dedication and hard work during this difficult time," said a Prison Service spokesperson.
(14) Bryant told the committee that he commended the current Yard inquiry under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers.
(15) Glasgow city council and the emergency services are also to be commended, firstly for their rigorous scrutiny of the proposal and secondly for having the courage to grant the first approval.
(16) President Obama, while commendably showing her mercy, also oversaw a justice department that prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other administrations combined, while casting an unmistakable chill over investigative reporting and press freedom.
(17) It said the bishop was "commended" to it by the then archbishop of Rwanda, Emmanuel Kolini.
(18) "We commend our soldiers for exhibiting resolve even while under heavy fire."
(19) Two criteria (willingness and medical benefit) are commended in the context of initiating treatment, while three distinctions (willing v unwilling, passive v active, and terminal v nonterminal) are found to be particularly helpful when deciding if treatment should be terminated.
(20) Work in Europe and the US over the past two years has commended aspirin as an anti-blood clotting agent for heart and stroke sufferers.
Recommend
Definition:
(v. t.) To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.
(v. t.) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
(v. t.) To commit; to give in charge; to commend.
Example Sentences:
(1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(2) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(3) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
(4) Steroids are not recommended because they may compromise defenses against an underlying disease process.
(5) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(6) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
(7) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(8) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(9) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(10) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(11) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(12) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
(13) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(14) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
(15) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(16) A more radical surgery is recommended but with the limitation that the operative method must be adapted to the operative finding.
(17) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
(18) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(19) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(20) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.