(n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
(n.) Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
(3) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
(4) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
(5) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
(6) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
(7) In all 4 cases, their reactivity outside the gastrointestinal tract is mainly confined to tracheal epithelium.
(8) Similarly at ) degrees glutamine is confined to the simultaneously determined sucrose or mannitol spaces...
(9) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(10) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
(11) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
(12) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
(13) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(14) At an ultrastructural level, 15-1 immunogold-labeling in the epidermis was confined to the surface of cells exhibiting Birbeck granules.
(15) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
(16) Three patients were confined to a wheelchair after 3 years of follow-up.
(17) This observation confirms that idiotypic recognition is confined to a limited number of clonal products, despite the fact that a very heterogeneous antibody population was used forthe anti-idiotypic immunization.
(18) The neighbouring neocortical areas receive afferents neither from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus nor from the ventral mesencephalic tegmentum; their catecholamine innervation is mainly confined to the superficial layers and appears to be of noradrenergic nature.
(19) Thus definitive evidence of fetal infection confined to red cell precursors is documented.
(20) More patients are being encountered with early Stage I lesions that are confined to the breast or with minimal axillary involvement.
Jailer
Definition:
(n.) The keeper of a jail or prison.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2013, Egypt was among the most prolific jailers of journalists in the world, according to a recent survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
(2) He ordered the jailers to put our feet up to beat us.
(3) Our response to these challenging circumstances can of course be scrutinised but no one should lose sight [of the fact] that the responsibility for jailing journalists lies firmly with the jailers.” Adel Iskandar, a communications expert at Georgetown University, Washington DC, said AJE had clearly suffered because of the network’s Arabic channels.
(4) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
(5) Those years feel now like a perverse captivity in which I was jailer as well as prisoner.
(6) The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which has branded Iran as one of the world's worst jailers of journalists, has asked Tehran to shed light on the situation of the detainees.
(7) According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Iran is currently the world's second-worst jailer of journalists, with 45 behind bars Iranian journalists working in exile have not been immune from the crackdown, nor foreign media inside the country.
(8) Rosewater focuses primarily on the relationship between Bahari (Gael García Bernal) and one particular jailer, played by Kim Bodnia (Martin in Scandinavian TV thriller The Bridge).
(9) Shaker Aamer , released after 14 years incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay where he was beaten by his American military jailers, has touched down on British soil at Biggin Hill airport in south-east London.
(10) One of the artists, Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, explains that the panopticon-shaped space, called Güiro, was inspired by the interior of a notorious Cuban jail – only here the jailer is a bartender and the prisoners are the drinkers.
(11) No reform of the draconian catch-all anti-terror legislation that, among other things, has been abused to make Turkey the world's biggest jailer of journalists.
(12) One day, when his jailers held a party, Mujica began to scream for it; the commandant, embarrassed in front of his guests, relented.
(13) Turkey has a chequered history on press freedom and was the world’s top jailer of journalists in 2012 and 2013.
(14) Even Marcos's defence minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, brutal jailer of the democracy campaigners, was placated by Aquino, eventually finishing up as a senator.
(15) On 14 May, a frantic Mobley called his sister to say his jailers were beating him with sticks: “ They’re trying to kill me here at the prison .” Reprieve’s Craig, in her letter to the State Department, reminded US diplomats of her request to share coordinate information on Mobley’s location with their Saudi allies in order to spare his life.
(16) Marzieh Rasouli reported to Evin prison in Tehran on Tuesday, where she became the latest of dozens of journalists imprisoned by the Islamic republic, which has been branded as one of the world's worst jailer of journalists by the New York Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
(17) Hari managed to bribe his jailers and escape back to the UK via Russia and is now filing a second claim for asylum.
(18) According to a report in Thursday's print edition of Haaretz, based on accounts from prison service officials, Prisoner X2 is held in a cell without windows, has no contact with other prisoners or jailers, and prison guards do not know his identity or any charges on which he has been convicted.
(19) While he was rotting in jail, Hague and Ashcroft were meeting his jailers.
(20) His jailers had to tip the cage on to its side to get him out.