(n.) The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment.
Example Sentences:
(1) 53% of the males but only a very small percentage of the female committers were alcoholized.
(2) Perhaps the greatest advantage to the investigator arises from the fact that once the procedural routine has been established and the computer programs written, the entire procedure can be done by technical personnel and does not necessarily require a large time committment from the principal researcher.
(3) He added: We call on Russia to honour all its international committments to withdraw its force to bases and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine.
(4) Abuse committers were more often males than females.
(5) The partnership builds on committments made by agriculture ministers from the G20 nations in 2011 to co-ordinate worldwide research efforts in wheat genetics, genomics, physiology, breeding and agronomy.
(6) Our previous studies showed that administration of a single dose of hydroxyurea strips the rat bone marrow of approximately 50% of replicating cells within 9--10 h. The results of the present study indicate that such a severe depletion of rat marrow cells results in early committment of spleen stem cells to various blood cell lines.
(7) The pattern of differentiation obtained from these BFU-E suggests that the capacity for granulopoiesis is usually lost before a committment to either megakaryopoiesis or erythropoiesis is made.
(8) Relationships with patients, patient compliance, personal committment, and belief in the efficacy of risk reduction were most frequently perceived to contribute to effectiveness.
(9) Mr Bikindi, 48, laughed during his committal hearing yesterday as details of his alleged crimes were read out, including accusations that he was a commander of the notorious "interahamwe" militia.
(10) The Act has special provisions on important matters relating to the care of persons, for instance on consent in respect of therapeutic treatment, on sterilisation, on committal and on the dissolution of households.
(11) There was a trend for it to be also associated with the mother having at least completed high school, being under 30 years of age, and with the couple's non-committal on (i.e., not outright rejection of) the possibility of adopting a hard to place child.
(12) Psychiatrists and committing judges failed to comply with the requirements of the committment law in one quarter of the cases.
(13) When the demographic characteristics of those who report suicide ideation in themselves or others were compared to those of suicide attempters and committers, some consistencies were found, suggesting that such questions may be useful in identifying those "at risk."
(14) 10.14am BST More reasons Answering questions from the press, the committe chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, is explaining that Syria is by no means the only reason for the OPCW's win.
(15) The personality categories differed significantly in terms of age, sex, marital status and committal status.
(16) Jürgen Klopp just the man to pump up the Anfield volume for Liverpool | Raphael Honigstein Read more Klopp was non-committal about his future when asked about Liverpool’s interest at a meeting of German coaches in Leverkusen on Monday.
(17) The other five cases received treatment with intravenous steroid as well as chemotherapy, and three cases also received committent emergent radiotherapy.
(18) The committal time after periodate stimulation is identical to that after stimulation with concanavalin A.
(19) Conservative Eurosceptics on Sunday renewed calls for moves towards a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union after David Cameron's declaration that he was willing to consider one was criticised as too distant and non-committal.
(20) This committment requires the development of somewhat different skills, knowledge and philosophy from those customarily propounded in dental teaching to date which has concentrated mostly on matters relevant to young and middle-aged persons.
Imprisonment
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(2) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
(3) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(4) My idea in Orientalism was to use humanistic critique to open up the fields of struggle, to introduce a longer sequence of thought and analysis to replace the short bursts of polemical, thought-stopping fury that so imprison us.
(5) Harnessing its greatest asset – its authors – PEN is planning to publish an open letter to each of the five imprisoned writers every day this week, in the run up to the 33rd annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November.
(6) For a time, his father was imprisoned and the family banished from Prague.
(7) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
(8) Data were obtained from 41 survivors of imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II.
(9) The "consultation" and "informed consent" the reports insist must take place before the project goes ahead are a sick joke in a region in which dissent is ruthlessly crushed and people are imprisoned and tortured simply for speaking their own language.
(10) If somebody who has participated in fighting in a foreign civil war returns to Australia, they can be arrested, they could be charged with an offence which carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for 25 years.
(11) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(12) But while the imprisoned activists and their supporters are fervently hoping that the Queen of Pop will use her Russian platform (Olimpiyskiy stadium, which is a pretty big one) to make a strong statement in their support, so far all she's been able to muster in public is a remark that she's "sorry that they've been arrested".
(13) He said he did not oppose the criminalisation of homosexuality but said imprisonment and the death penalty are too harsh.
(14) These had such a chilling effect on the provision of abortion that the number carried out by medical staff collapsed in the face of warnings about long terms of imprisonment for those deemed to have broken the law .
(15) The number of those imprisoned rose dramatically in 2015, nearly doubling after Sisi’s administration assumed power.
(16) She told the court she would not be broken by imprisonment, even if she had to spend 15 or 20 years behind bars, and issued a number of defiant statements from detention.
(17) The other seven Australians in the group were sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia.
(18) So while she is not directly responsible for Sieh's imprisonment, there's not a lot of incentive to get him out either.
(19) Originally a member of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, in 1982 he was imprisoned.
(20) Guardian Australia has been told some of the men imprisoned were taken from the Manus centre’s secret solitary confinement cells, the Chauka isolation unit.