(n.) A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
(n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.
(n.) The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
(n.) A gathering or assembly; a conference.
(n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
(n.) The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
(n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(4) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(5) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(6) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(7) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
(8) But he argued that Obama entered the agreement without approval from Congress, allowing the president to revoke it.
(9) I hope this congress will show leaders that we must move from understanding the importance of nature to action,” she said.
(10) The Florida senator on Wednesday signed on to legislation that would delay the implementation of the sweeping surveillance reforms passed by Congress under the USA Freedom Act.
(11) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
(12) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(13) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(14) Such briefings for the entire senate are not unprecedented but it is very rare for them to take place in the White House, which does not have large secure facilities for such classified sessions as Congress.
(15) The new Republican Congress also understands how difficult these past six years have been.
(16) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(17) Two other men were shot dead over the weekend, prompting the governing African National Congress (ANC) to warn that Marikana "cannot be allowed to deteriorate into a bastion of lawlessness".
(18) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(19) Women in politics During the 104th session of US Congress , which ran from 1995 to 1997, 50 women were elected into the 435-member House of Representatives and nine into the 100-seat Senate.
(20) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
Diet
Definition:
(n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
(n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
(v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
(v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
(v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
(v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
(n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
(3) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(5) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
(6) Diet consumption decreased as the concentration of ethanol increased in the diet.
(7) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(8) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(9) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(10) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
(11) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
(12) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(13) In our experience, body weight, insulin requirements, glycemic control, and serum lipids are well managed by such diets for up to 10 years of follow-up.
(14) One week after azoxymethane injection, animals were transferred to their respective experimental diets containing piroxicam and DFMO.
(15) Kidney DAAO activity was significantly higher in chicks fed either the DL-AA or .5 DL-AA diet as compared with the L-AA diet.
(16) When the two most toxic isolates (diets) were diluted, survival time increased but severe growth suppression was evident.
(17) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(18) We evaluated the effect of glycated albumin on phenytoin protein binding in 36 elderly (age range 63-94 yrs) patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) under diet management.
(19) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(20) ACTH also suppressed aldosterone biosynthesis in rats kept on a sodium-deficient diet.