(v. t.) To bring together for comparison; to compare.
(v. t.) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
(v. t.) To contribute; to conduce.
(v. i.) To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(2) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(3) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(4) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
(5) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(6) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(7) The data suggest that the presence of a bromoacetate group at the 12 position on cardiotonic steroids does not confer CS binding site directed alkylating properties on these drugs.
(8) It is possible that the formation of a mycetoma grain may limit a patient's exposure to antigens which confer specificity, an explanation which may also account for the variability in antibody responses seen.
(9) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
(10) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(11) Substitution of a single amino acid residue, proline for glycine-9 in [pGlu6]SP6-11, a hexapeptide analogue of substance P, confers on the peptide selective agonist activity toward the SP-P receptor subtype.
(12) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(13) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
(14) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
(15) Furthermore, immunization of mice with persistently infected cells conferred resistance to tumor growth after challenge with the highly malignant NS20Y cells.
(16) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(19) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
(20) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
Notoriety
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) She had set up a blog advertising her availability for appearances and modelling assignments to make use of her new-found notoriety.
(2) Abu Khattala, who did not finish high school and never married, often appeared to revel in his own notoriety.
(3) But Kasidiaris, who shot to notoriety last year when he assaulted two leftwing MPS during a live TV debate, confirmed that the far rightists had set up a "local organisation" in Germany.
(4) The money and notoriety of McGregor, the business that supports it or its popularity, especially among young people, is no defence.
(5) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
(6) The men were seized from the baths and dragged half-naked to waiting police trucks in early December, an event that achieved worldwide notoriety after being filmed and broadcast by a television journalist.
(7) Their notoriety stems from a case in October 2009 involving the oil trading firm Trafigura.
(8) In 2015, domestic violence got the notoriety it deserved as one of the biggest blights on modern Australian society.
(9) This is an attempt to clamp down on tax-avoidance on highly profitable businesses – a practice that shot to notoriety when it emerged that Starbucks had paid £8.6m in taxes on a reported £3bn in UK sales over 14 years in the UK .
(10) Methaqualone (Mtq; quaaludes or 'ludes) is a controlled substance, having a molecular structure related to the imidiazobenzodiazepine series of drugs, that has gained some notoriety recently due to its history of widespread abuse on the street.
(11) "He is now three days into a prison sentence and, probably worse than all of that, he has managed to achieve a notoriety and perhaps pariah status."
(12) Also this weekend, in another story that was overlooked while Donald Trump was tweeting nonsense that held everyone’s attention, the Washington Post reported that Obama dramatically expanded the power of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the secretive military unit that gained notoriety during the Osama bin Laden raid, “to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe” – even far away from battlefields.
(13) Or, as in Abbottabad, should those wounds be soothed with the Savlon of an amusement park – a place where those who wish to remember, forget, celebrate or condemn the reason for the area's notoriety can eat candyfloss and go paragliding together?
(14) Interest in writing this paper was stimulated by the fact that this class of compounds, particularly 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), has gained notoriety as an extreme environmental and industrial hazard.
(15) But Harry Fletcher of Napo, the probation union, said the memos showed real concerns about the danger to people who were being remanded in custody for the first-time on riot related charges: "They could be at risk of self-harm or of assault by other prisoners because of resentment about their actions or their notoriety."
(16) Taxi-app Uber is losing millions of dollars every year, despite the company’s rapid growth and international notoriety, according to documents obtained by US news site Gawker .
(17) He had appeared perhaps out of bravado, perhaps out of enjoying the notoriety, but he insisted on one condition: his face not be shown.
(18) Led by the success, and sometimes the notoriety, of these films, Russell progressed into the cinema.
(19) He achieved national notoriety after three failed attempts to buy Marks & Spencer.
(20) It was a combination of his notoriety and his persona.