(a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
(a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
(n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
(n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
(n.) A member of the Conservative party.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(4) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(5) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(6) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(7) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(8) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(9) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(10) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(11) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(12) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(13) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(14) On the basis of primary sequence homology with other known Pseudomonas lipases, a number of putative active site residues located in conserved areas were found.
(15) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(16) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
(17) A comparison to other hsp70 genes did not reveal any conservation of this 23-nucleotide sequence.
(18) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
(19) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(20) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
Sane
Definition:
(a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
(a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier this week, Izvestia reported that Yaroshenko had written to Trump, complaining of poor health and saying that Trump’s intervention in the case would offer his “last chance to return to Russia as a sane person.” If the two leaders do delve into more geopolitical questions, Putin will probably try to focus on issues on which Washington lawmakers could more conceivably cooperate.
(2) Is there a difference between a person who is sane and that person when he is, in some way, mad?
(3) Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said: "[Zeta-Jones's announcement] will have a huge impact on [people] recognising mental illness is a condition that everyone can suffer from.
(4) Kudos to Louise Byrne for her matter of fact courage #qanda @SANEAustralia October 6, 2014 Anthony Herbert (@AnthonyHerbert9) Deal with fear, maintain hope and believe people - Louise Byrne #qanda October 6, 2014 • Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline 13 11 14 or Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 • Sane Australia Helpline 1800 18 SANE (7263)
(5) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
(6) USA 88, 5847-5851; Donoghue, M. J., Alvarez, J. D., Merlie, J. P. and Sanes, J. R. (1991).
(7) But since then it has gone ballistic, to the point where apparently sane men in suits, or at any rate employees of Goldman Sachs, say it is worth $50bn.
(8) Suicide prevention services, however, do not provide for suicide as a sane, honorable choice in such circumstances.
(9) And it's that magnificent compulsion that means we need to have a sane conversation about how to set limits for ourselves on another wonderful pleasure that has no natural limits.
(10) A divided empire: what the urban-rural split means for the future of America Read more “I hope Trump puts sane people in charge of this and says maybe they can stay on an individual basis.
(11) Other signatories include St John Ambulance, Volunteering Australia, Youth Off the Streets, Drug Arm, Sane Australia, the Myer Family Company, Hillsong Church, and the Australian Council of Social Service.
(12) That is a risk any sane person would seek to drastically reduce."
(13) "With the best engineers in the world, and the crew varying between the intensely respectable and the barely sane, ready to scorn any disaster, unless of Titanic scale."
(14) But the only sane response is total scepticism of the motives of those seeking to make us afraid.
(15) (Incidentally, this is hardly my area of expertise, but I fail to comprehend why any sane 21st-century human would refuse an epidural.
(16) For one thing, in a sane market, such double-digit rises for so long are not sustainable .
(17) Yet it wasn’t until my retirement that I had the time or the resources to fulfil some of the dreams and ambitions that had fuelled my imagination and kept me sane during my working life.
(18) Balmain’s collection had an Aladdin Sane jumpsuit, while Walter Van Beirendonck had a blazer adorned with a clever Aladdin Sane diagonal flash across the lapels, and Dries Van Noten and Alber Elbaz ’s autumn menswear shows both heavily referenced the Thin White Duke.
(19) I still find that the conversations I have with chefs are some of the most sane you'll ever have.
(20) I had dinner with him the first day he arrived in New York and he said to me his sister was in an asylum and she was the sane one in the family.