(a.) Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.
(a.) Communicated in confidence; secret.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
(3) This paper raises other issues for consideration, including problems associated with HIV testing, confidentiality, informed consent and the dilemmas facing those involved in the treatment of patients suffering from HIV infection.
(4) Angela Barnes As I understand it, dating websites are supposed to provide a confidential forum for the exchange of personal information between people who do not yet know each other but might like to.
(5) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(6) The survey takes roughly 8 minutes to complete and all answers are confidential.
(7) Of course those are confidential [pieces of] information and only for the judges, not for the public,” the official said.
(8) In one email contained in the file it is alleged a senior News International journalist agreed a police contact should receive a "four-figure sum" for leaking a confidential document containing the movements, locations and phone numbers of members of the royal family.
(9) In this investigation, reanalysis of responses to case vignettes obtained from 436 psychologists, psychiatrists, and internists revealed that on the issue of confidentiality management, these health care providers discriminate among cases involving: Premeditated harm to others, socially irresponsible acts with possible dire consequences to self or others, and minor theft.
(10) More than 50% of condom requests are made using these confidential forms.
(11) The letter contains confidential information that could be used by the carmakers’ rivals, he said.
(12) Psychiatrists in the U.S. have raised a host of issues related to their experience with peer review including a concern for the patient's confidentiality, the need to correlate normative standards with local customary practice, the significance of the reviewer's theoretical orientation and training, the optimal documentation required and the impact of peer review on the reimbursement of claims for services rendered.
(13) In response to gaps in existing legal protections, it suggests parameters for a model law protecting the confidentiality of genetic information collected in the workplace.
(14) It is now apparent that a large amount of confidential Sony Pictures Entertainment data has been stolen by the cyberattackers, including personnel information and business documents,” it said.
(15) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
(16) Swinney admitted in that confidential memo that the "ageing profile of our population" and Scotland's reliance on volatile oil revenues could mean serious cost pressures on an independent state's spending.
(17) The UK government continues to support millions of people on benefits with an £80bn working-age welfare safety net in place.” Separately, the UN committee on the rights of persons with disabilities is holding confidential hearings in the UK as part of an investigation into the effects of welfare cuts, during which it will speak to campaigners, lawyers and service users.
(18) The results suggest that when physicians decide to protect a third party by breaching an HIV-infected patient's confidentiality, their decision may be influenced in some cases by the race, sex, and sexual preference of the patient.
(19) There is no penalty for appealing this decision, and your name and other details will be kept confidential."
(20) Julian Huppert, a Lib Dem member of the Commons home affairs committee, said HMRC would "seriously undermine the confidentiality we expect" if it proceeded with the proposal to relax restrictions on sharing taxpayer data and potentially selling it to private firms.
Proprietary
Definition:
(n.) A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.
(n.) A body proprietors, taken collectively.
(n.) A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
(a.) Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report on a comparative study of social work services in proprietary and nonprofit hospitals that used the results of the Membership Survey, 1985 of the Society for Hospital Social Work Directors and a sample of 50 proprietary hospital social work departments.
(2) Described herein is a simple, efficient, inexpensive, reproducible, and safe procedure using Peldri II, a proprietary fluorocarbon compound that is solid at room temperature and a liquid above 25 degrees C, as a sublimation dehydrant for processing specimens for SEM.
(3) A proprietary insecticidal mulesing powder containing diazinon and an experimental liquid dressing based on eucalyptus oil, naphthalene, cresylic acid and chlorfenvinphos in a carrier of liquid hydrocarbons and petroleum oil were compared for their ability to promote wound healing and reduce the incidence of fly strike in freshly mulesed lambs.
(4) The proprietary treatments were etching, silanation, surface activation, etching plus silanation, and etching plus surface activation.
(5) The reasons for the expanded growth of proprietary chains over nonprofit systems of ambulatory care are also discussed.
(6) Flexible silicone posterior chamber intraocular lenses made of a proprietary formulation were implanted in rabbits following planned extracapsular lens extraction.
(7) Diminished reimbursement places a greater financial burden upon not-for-profit centers over those that are proprietary.
(8) The results indicate that present recommendations for infant feeding in Finland--including prolonged breast feeding, the use of proprietary milk formulas after weaning, and later introduction of solid foods--prevent overnutrition.
(9) This report compares fat, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, zinc, and copper absorption and retention data from 13 nutritional balance studies performed in 12 appropriate-for-gestational-age premature infants with birth weights less than or equal to 1,600 g fed a proprietary premature formula or their own mother's preterm human milk (PTHM) fortified with a powdered protein-mineral supplement.
(10) Emphasis has been placed on the stability problems which could arise upon dilution of proprietary preparations by the use of model systems.
(11) This study assessed changes in the structure and quality of care on 13 acute care psychiatric units before and after a single outside proprietary firm was hired to manage the units.
(12) The quali-quantitative characterization of such extracts, as active ingredients for the formulation of proprietary medicinal products, requires therefore, if compared with that of pure products, to set up a specific analytical development in relation to the complexity and the grade of refinement attained by the multicomponent mixture.
(13) I’ve got nothing against proprietary software: as the eponymous heroine says of chemistry in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.” But when, as in the VW case, software has the potential or the power to have an adverse effect on human life or wellbeing, then we have to hold it to a different standard.
(14) This article attempts to place in proper perspective the legal and ethical aspects of proprietary rights as they apply to federally funded media programs.
(15) However, the same pesky proprietary screws are present, and it's never a joy to encounter fused (read: expensive to replace) displays.
(16) It is anticipated that research into the important public policy issues regarding relationships between costs and proprietary status and quality of care will be enhanced by developing teaching nursing homes.
(17) In Experiment 1, laying hens on a proprietary layer mash were compared with hens rested from lay by the feeding of whole grain barley.
(18) The case of a 17 year old abuser of butane aerosols who developed fulminant hepatic failure after taking a proprietary engine or carburetor cleaner is described.
(19) The declining incidence of this disorder is felt to be due to the decrease in physicians' use of prescription bromides and the declining availability of proprietary bromide containing compounds.
(20) The infants were weaned at different ages either to a proprietary infant milk formula or to a home-prepared cow's milk formula.