(n.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.
(n.) That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.
(n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.
(n.) Venom; poison.
Example Sentences:
(1) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
(2) "If ratings agencies see a rollover [of Greek debt] as a partial default, contagion to other peripheral eurozone countries will occur."
(3) In this context, the present article makes an analysis of the main ethical and legal problems posed by HIV infection, in the framework of Portuguese law, with special focus on: a) Conflict between the necessary protection of public health by the State and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens; b) Inadequacy of the existent laws to fight contagious diseases to HIV infection; c) Discrimination; d) Testing and compulsory hospitalization versus informed consent; e) Confidentiality; f) Voluntary contagion.
(4) And it is why, without a proper firewall to stop contagion spreading to other troubled economies such as Spain and Italy, a disorderly Greek exit would be catastrophic not only for Greece but for the rest of Europe and the world economy."
(5) But senior officials at the European commission in Brussels disclosed that a compromise was in the air to save Greece and halt contagion by levying a tax on banks in the eurozone – opposed by Berlin and proposed by Paris – as well as a long-term Greek debt rollover stretching for decades, and other measures aimed at reducing Greece's crippling debt level.
(6) The likely patterns of spatial contagion are indicated and the need for smaller-scale study is pointed out.
(7) Some suggest the party is concerned about longer term political shifts and the risk of contagion if people on the mainland begin to wonder why they cannot choose their leader like compatriots in Hong Kong.
(8) I am particularly worried about contagion from stress coming from the European banks and whether there might be linkages – perhaps indirect – between them and the largest UK banks,” Kashyap said.
(9) Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just because of the increased risk of contagion.
(10) Lee Hardman, a currency strategist at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, said: "There is evidence of contagion from Greece.
(11) These include "a steeper than expected downturn in Europe, financial contagion related to the sovereign debt crisis, rapidly rising oil prices and geopolitical risks".
(12) The role of water, food and direct contagion in transmission of cholera over the last 20 years is considered in the light of recent studies and with special reference to the epidemic in Latin America, where the intense emotion aroused by the disease has prompted vigorous action that could produce significant and lasting progress in the health field.
(13) Above all it needs to happen soon, before the contagion, and the poisonous distrust it engenders, spread further.
(14) The response to AIDS illustrates that contagion has a social definition, even in the context of Western scientific medicine.
(15) Eurozone policymakers had been eager to shore up Spain's position before elections in Greece on 17 June that could push Athens closer to a eurozone exit and unleash contagion.
(16) "Contagion from Greece is what I would call thematic," says Michael Saunders, an economist at Citigroup.
(17) "The management has held out for fear of contagion.
(18) A sense of the end-times is also apparent in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Contagion , where super-intelligent apes and killer microbes respectively are poised to wipe out mankind.
(19) One of the main conclusions of the article is that legislation, as a mean to fight HIV infection, must be essentially aimed to the increasing of educational and informational actions and not to the repression of situations which are, in rule, rare, as the voluntary or careless contagion.
(20) The only uncertainty is whether adults, with intradermal reactions to tuberculin should undergo chemoprophylaxis if the time of contagion is unknown and the subject does not show any particular risk factors.
Financial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to finance.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(4) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(5) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(6) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(7) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(8) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
(9) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(10) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(11) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(12) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(13) The legs of that argument were cut off by the financial crisis.
(14) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(15) Uncertainty and risk concerns remain in financial markets.
(16) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(17) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.
(18) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
(19) Only 23% provided any financial support to younger generations.
(20) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.