(a.) United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.
(n.) One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.
(n.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).
(v. t.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.
(v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthew Fell, the Confederation of British Industry's director for competitive markets, said: "The government has made absolutely the right decision not to adopt the European FTT in the UK.
(2) The NHS Confederation – backed by the British Medical Association and the royal medical colleges – issued a strong warning that healthcare would suffer as a result of the reforms.
(3) The president of the Confederation of British Industry used his opening address to repeatedly make clear that it regards EU membership as being beneficial to the UK economy and warn against ending the principle of free movement of labour, as opposed to free movement of benefits.
(4) The confederation is grouped around 10 tribes across the north.
(5) These 40 young women were interviewed by one confederate of each sex.
(6) Subjects were induced to interact with a confederate who in all cases revealed something quite personal about himself.
(7) Nigel Edwards of the NHS Confederation, which represents 95% of the health sector, said that there were now trusts considering "closing down services and selling off" hospital wings.
(8) Retail sales have held up surprisingly well , according to the Confederation of British Industry's August survey published on Thursday, suggesting that momentum continued into the early part of the third quarter.
(9) Late last night, al-Ahmar, who is also the head of the Hashid confederation, accused Saleh's troops of not observing the ceasefire.
(10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
(11) The study was designed to test whether men and women identifying with a masculine stereotype differ in their perception of a confederate (adversary) who displays either an empathetic or aggressive role in resolving a disagreement over social issues.
(12) Kevin Green, chief executive at the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Without a doubt, the retail sector is having a difficult time.
(13) Students initially expected the confederate to display traits similar to those of a typical former mental patient.
(14) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
(15) Organized into same sex dyadic pairs, 64 students (32 male, 32 female) were divided into two groups (high- and low-eye contact) and assigned to either a positive or negative condition defined in terms of the verbal content of the confederate.
(16) Before a cross-party political summit on the local NHS to be held at Stormont this month, a report by the Northern Ireland Confederation – a body that represents 50 health and social care organisations – has warned of additional pressures on the health service.
(17) An earlier version of the article said the Financial Times reported that the Confederation of British Industry had attacked the scheme as "highly discriminatory and very unfortunate".
(18) In the 1860s, the fight between the North and the South was about slavery and the right of the Confederate states to maintain a dreaded institution that kept people of African descent in bondage.
(19) Now, a European champion for club and country , twice Chelsea’s player of the year, the most expensive signing in Manchester United’s history, and a starter in last summer’s Confederations Cup final here, he might have expected to play a central role four years on.
(20) So in June, Fifa banned the instrument from stadiums for the Confederations Cup.
Together
Definition:
(prep.) In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town.
(prep.) In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together.
(prep.) In concert; with mutual cooperation; as, the allies made war upon France together.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(3) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(6) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(7) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(8) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(9) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(10) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(11) 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.
(12) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(13) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
(14) When my boyfriend and I first got together a year ago, our sex life was romantic and playful.
(15) The observation that phase reversals did not occur in area 29, together with the low incidence of phasic (rhythmic) theta-on cells, suggests that the posterior cingulate cortex does not independently generate type 2 theta.
(16) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(17) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(18) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(19) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
(20) Taken together with other physical studies on the effect of vitamin E on (unsaturated) phospholipids, these results indicate that vitamin E could influence the physical properties of membrane phospholipids in addition to its known antioxidant role.