(n.) The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
(n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
(n.) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
(n.) That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
(n.) The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
(n.) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
(n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
(n.) To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom.
(n.) To behave; -- with the reflexive; as, he conducted himself well.
(n.) To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
(n.) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
(v. i.) To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(3) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(4) The experiment was conducted on 3 groups of calves.
(5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(6) Modulation of the voltage-gated K+ conductance in T-lymphocytes by substance P was examined.
(7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(8) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(9) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(10) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
(11) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(12) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(13) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(14) Studies were conducted into the relationship between arthrosis and previous trauma.
(15) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(16) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
(17) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
(18) Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of acute (24 h) thermal stress on anterior pituitary function in hens.
(19) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
(20) Recent research conducted by independent investigators concerning the relationship between crime and narcotic (primarily heroin) addiction has revealed a remarkable degree of consistency of findings across studies.
Sinkhole
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The new trend, of course, is for bedsits to be rebranded as studio flats, but there are still these genuine 60s sinkholes dotted about, idly refusing to update, reminding us of a time when to move into this box of self-sufficiency was a truly liberating opportunity, especially for women.
(2) The beautiful ride leaves you happy you didn't fall into any sinkhole, happy the lion no one told you about was busy on a gazelle and you didn't get caught on the way back by a friendly act of spontaneous local taxation on the road back.
(3) Coming from the dense urban context of Italy, where he grew up in Turin, Soleri found American cities to be anathema, their auto-centric planning “a fathomless sinkhole for immense waste”.
(4) Dramatic sinkholes , such as the recent one in Japan , are not always caused by underground mining – but Paris’s subterranean history certainly makes it more vulnerable to such events.
(5) If Trump could win points there, just imagine what happened among the people who have no fealty to movement conservatism, who have nurtured a sustained rage at being betrayed or ignored by its bromides , who have been told that conservatism is good for them even as they have seen the middle class begin to crater around them like a suburban Florida neighborhood pockmarking with sinkholes during a long drought.
(6) The saga has also turned into a domestic political sinkhole.
(7) An intriguing hint is floated in Downloaded that Napster was not only a sinkhole for investors' cash; it only ever generated proper revenue by selling T-shirts.
(8) His verdict on Microsoft's Bing search engine was clearer: it was "a sinkhole", he said.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sinkholes and landslides follow flooding in France and Germany.
(10) Paul Flynn MP tweeted: “Treasury confirm likely Brexit yawning financial sinkhole ahead in which UK economy could fall in a tailspin of slump.” George Osborne, the former chancellor who oversaw the preparation of the April figures, made the case for the UK to maintain the “closest possible economic relationship” with its former EU partners after Brexit.
(11) A 20-yr-old trained sports diver developed severe chest pain shortly after decompressing from a 40 m repetitive freshwater sinkhole dive, and died 6 h later.
(12) A large sinkhole opens up under the tracks at Forest Hill causing cancellation of all trains from London Bridge.
(13) While the last cataclysm dates back to 1961, when 22 people died in the collapse of a whole neighbourhood on Paris’s outskirts, the IGC still makes more than 70 interventions each year on incidents such as collapsing houses, or roads disappearing into sinkholes.
(14) Oerting told The Guardian the entire GOZ's operations infrastructure had been sinkholed, meaning the malware should “not reappear for … considerable time”.
(15) Random events such as breakdowns, flooding and sinkholes have also struck the luckless Southern , and with resources stretched to the limit and staff goodwill broken down, the knock-on effects of such incidents can be more extreme.
(16) Today’s board of reasons for delays are overrunning engineering works, amended timetable, sinkhole, and issues at Lewisham.
(17) Greater Manchester police have been given extra funding from the Home Office to police Sunday’s event, which is expected to bring the city – already gridlocked due to tram works, a sinkhole on the Mancunian Way flyover and many conference-related road closures – to a standstill.
(18) Behind the scenes, the law enforcement groups have been taking over points of control in GOZ's peer-to-peer network: an action known as "sinkholing" in the security world.
(19) Would our Congress be less of a sinkhole and more of a patchwork?
(20) Slow to get us out of the sinkhole of Afghanistan, at least Obama hasn’t involved the country in yet another all‑out war, whatever you may think of inaction in the sinkhole of Syria – and sometimes what’s most important is what a president didn’t do.