(1) This procedure generated a number of VI-like effects, supporting the notion that VI behavior can be construed as a special case of an interaction between the organism's function relating reinforcement susceptibilities to chain length and the experimenter's function relating probabilities of reinforcement to chain length.
(2) However, the test by itself should not be construed as an unequivocal measure of hysteria as defined psychologically by the MMPI.
(3) The absence of fatal ASCVD in these athletes can not be construed as evidence for the protective role of exercise alone.
(4) The search for the acoustic properties useful to the listener in extracting the linguistic message from a speech signal is often construed as the task of matching invariant physical properties to invariant phonological percepts; the discovery of the former will explain the latter.
(5) This seems to be the only consistent significant difference between the secretions of male and female grey duikers and together with the fact that only males mark out their territories, was construed as evidence in favour of these two compounds playing a significant role in the territorial behaviour of male grey duikers.
(6) Scotland remains the only country not to teach its own children its history, and the built heritage has been neglected, bulldozed or shunned by politicians fearing anything that might be construed as “too nationalistic”.
(7) The extent to which individuals construe film through identification with the narrative's characters was also examined.
(8) This classification emphasizes the fact that central serous retinopathy, whatever its etiology, represents a generalized affectation of the pigment epithelium and should be construed as a potentially serious disorder requiring thorough evaluation and follow-up care.
(9) We construe this pattern of age separation within families as suggestive of an environmental rather than genetic cause.
(10) These results were construed to support a two-component hypothesis for cardiac electrogenesis.
(11) Using the invasive and non-invasive data of three groups a non-invasive diastolic pressure scale for both ventricles could be construed.
(12) The Court upheld Pennsylvania's law defining medical emergency, as construed by the Court of Appeals; allowed a 24-hour waiting period for women who must 1st hear information about pregnancy and abortion to insure thoughtful informed consent; allowed a parental consent provision, with a judicial bypass; and allowed a recordkeeping and reporting requirement; but disallowed a spousal notification requirement, noting that "[a] State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
(13) There was no support for the hypothesis, but there was evidence of greater negativity of self-construing in the client group.
(14) These results are construed to suggest that oval cells proliferating during CDE hepatocarcinogenesis are derived from epithelial cells within the biliary tree.
(15) The censorship followed a warning from a New York-based group of extremist Muslim converts that could be construed as a death threat.
(16) Against this background, medical acts (as those performed in other "ethical professions") are construed as occurring in a communicative context which can be differentiated from the context of marketing and advertising on the basis of reciprocity and respect.
(17) This modality, however; should not be construed as "conservative" management.
(18) This study was designed to test four hypotheses: (a) parents of schizophrenics constitute a discrete group amongst the parents of psychiatric patients with regard to aspects of their construing; (b) schizophrenics can be differentiated from other psychiatric patients by aspects of their construing; (c) the construing of parents of psychiatric patients is related to that of their disturbed children; and (d) parents of schizophrenics differ from parents of other psychiatric patients in their personality and attitudes.
(19) The time limit in psychoanalytically oriented brief psychotherapy has been construed as a motivation for the patient and the therapist to work more efficiently in therapy and as a stimulation of the patient's unconscious conflicts relating to separation and loss.
(20) In general, these results suggest that patients displayed similar symptom patterns over time, whether construed as personality traits or characteristic patterns of responding when symptomatic.
Governed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Govern
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(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) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(7) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(8) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(9) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
(10) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(11) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(12) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(13) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(14) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(15) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(16) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
(17) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(18) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(19) Nevertheless, this LTR does not govern efficient transcription of adjacent genes in a transient expression assay.
(20) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.