What's the difference between compliant and incompliant?

Compliant


Definition:

  • (a.) Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
  • (2) The Russians call it [the Crimea operation] ‘fast power’ – there are no democratic encumbrances, executive power is sovereign, the legislature, the military, the media, the judiciary are compliant.
  • (3) New management at Lifeline changed the expenses policy to make it legally compliant and asked Flowers to pay the money back.
  • (4) "While some lenders were MMR-compliant ahead of the official launch at the end of April, using May data to assess the impact of the new rules is perhaps premature," he said.
  • (5) Increasing deterioration of qualitative PPG values of deep-valve assessment was found in both compliant and noncompliant patients at each testing interval.
  • (6) The lungs of the group treated with thyrotropin-releasing hormone plus steroid and the rabbits treated only with steroid were more compliant than the controls without surfactant therapy, and showed significant improvements in protein leak.
  • (7) With increasing age, the airways were found to be less compliant, and the tracheal relaxation time constant was observed to decrease.
  • (8) Stress reduced the quality of problem solving in both compliant and noncompliant parents, but even under high stress, compliant parents demonstrated better problem-solving abilities than noncompliant parents.
  • (9) In relatively stiff lungs, an even distribution of elastance may increase susceptibility to barotrauma, because the more compliant zones are subjected to a greater strain.
  • (10) It measures the biologic action of treatment among compliant persons.
  • (11) They wanted food, beverages and personal products to be sharia-compliant, but showed more flexibility in products and services such as finance, insurance and travel.
  • (12) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
  • (13) That process could see Kenya’s national anti-doping agency being declared non-compliant – although insiders were keen to stress the chances of the country being removed from the Olympics were slim because the International Olympic Committee would need to kick Kenya out.
  • (14) However, although NA is correlated with health compliant scales, it is not strongly or consistently related to actual, long-term health status, and thus will act as a general nuisance factor in health research.
  • (15) A ""steal phenomenon'' or passive collapse in compliant coronary lesions during vasodilatation seems unlikely; in fact, patients were free from coronary symptoms, and the electrocardiographic alterations occurred only in seven patients in Group 2, who had a greater left ventricular mass index and required a larger pressure drop to return the diastolic pressure to normal.
  • (16) (Guardian Australia) Government ads could be outside the guidelines The independent advertising watchdog has warned that some of Labor's pre-election advertising campaigns for its disability and education reforms may not be compliant with the government's own advertising guidelines.
  • (17) It said “terminating a sub-contract agreement is the strongest message we can send to those who are found to be non-compliant”.
  • (18) Pressure-volume curves from nine ferrets (including the above six) revealed almost infinitely compliant chest walls so that lung and total respiratory system curves were essentially the same.
  • (19) Initial measurements of the time-varying wall shear rate at two sites in a compliant cast of a human aortic bifurcation are presented.
  • (20) The Cohen CAD Scale, based on Horney's psychoanalytic theory, measured compliant, aggressive and detached interpersonal orientations.

Incompliant


Definition:

  • (a.) Not compliant; unyielding to request, solicitation, or command; stubborn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In-patients with psychiatric or psychosomatic disorders were more incompliant than the other ones.
  • (2) Autogenous-vein grafts have a dynamic response to the arterial pressure pulse (compliance) which approaches that of normal arterial wall, whereas synthetic prostheses are generally incompliant, or become so shortly after implantation.
  • (3) The Council also accused the novel of "incompliance with moral norms" and "hurting people's moral feelings".
  • (4) It is possible that an explanation of this increase incompliance is to be found in the rearrangement of myocardial fibres which follows the dilatation.

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