(a.) Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
(a.) Of the same age; coeval.
(n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(3) It doesn’t matter when art was made; it’s all contemporary.
(4) As part of a series of articles on various aspects of image conservation, practical advice is given on how best to ensure image permanence of contemporary photographs.
(5) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
(6) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(7) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(8) Concerning the etio-pathogenic study, as we tried to show, the authors agree in simultaneous and contemporary appearance, between the 4th and the 6th month of the intra-uterine life of oculo-cerebro-renal troubles of Lowe's Syndrom and in the existence of a common factor, probably a genetic one.
(9) Contemporary biological psychiatry is in a seemingly inchoate state.
(10) Five particular precedents stand out as instructive for informing contemporary policy responses in Europe and globally.
(11) The same evaluation in 76 nonrandom contemporary controls matched for risk factors, maternal age, and parity has shown that more than 50% had a cervix dilated more than 2 cm, 38% had a cervix shorter than 0.5 cm, and 24% had rupture of the fetal membranes.
(12) Patients with hyperdiploid (47 to 50) ALL treated in a contemporary program of multiagent chemotherapy had a significantly better outcome than did those in an earlier study using less intensive therapy (4-year EFS = 75% [95% confidence interval, 55% to 86%] v 41% [22% to 59%]; P = .006 by the logrank test).
(13) This article elucidates: the poor relationship that exists between contemporary psychotherapy and the lower class clients; various efforts that have been attempted to solve this problem; the basic elements of Goldstein's 'structured learning therapy'; activities and results of the Dutch 'Goldsteinproject'.
(14) Contemporary songs - by Adele, Lady Gaga, La Roux - are simulacra of those produced in the 60s, 70s and 80s.)
(15) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
(16) New noninvasive contemporary indices for assessment of left ventricular diastolic function are presented.
(17) As one example, certain aspects of Gawain's situation seem oddly redolent of a more contemporary predicament, namely our complex and delicate relationship with the natural world.
(18) In this article the results of studies on the relationship between anaphylaxis and CNS, performed by both pioneers and contemporary investigators, are briefly reviewed.
(19) (Personally, I think a perfect contemporary drama would highlight the quiet, fraught, human, ongoing battle between those who want to live life and those who want to live life electronically.
(20) Many of these low molecular-weight effectors now play a different role, that of antagonists, by interacting with the original receptor sites in macromolecular structures; this explains their contemporary activity as antibiotics.
Unison
Definition:
(n.) Harmony; agreement; concord; union.
(n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.
(n.) A single, unvaried.
(n.) Sounding alone.
(n.) Sounded alike in pitch; unisonant; unisonous; as, unison passages, in which two or more parts unite in coincident sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We have hard clinical evidence that if NHS staff feel valued that results in a positive outcome for patients," says Christina McAnea, head of health at Unison.
(2) Dave Prentis, Unison's general secretary Fighting talk at long last.
(3) Due to this aspect the ability of this activity to work in unison with DNA polymerase molecules in the process of DNA repair synthesis was investigated.
(4) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(5) The YouGov poll, commissioned by the health union Unison, follows reports that three cabinet ministers supported an editorial on the influential Conservative Home website last week describing the NHS bill as "potentially fatal to the Conservative party's electoral prospects".
(6) But by Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison.
(7) January 6, 2014 Updated at 10.30am GMT 10.13am GMT The public services union Unison, which represents thousands of Environment Agency workers, has accused the government of putting public safety at risk by cutting the organisation's budget.
(8) But it's also arrogance, the idea that the world could heal itself by thinking, in unison, like Brand.
(9) There is the Usdaw reception in the Hilton on Sunday, the Communication Workers Union drinks on Monday and a Unison bash on Tuesday.
(10) "Millions of public sector workers will be left out in the cold," said Dave Prentis, leader of Unison.
(11) Mike Jeram, national officer at the Unison union, which represents workers at E.ON, said: "This is a devastating blow.
(12) Becca Kirkpatrick is a community organiser and chairs Unison’s West Midlands community branch.
(13) More than 1.1 million Unison workers, from healthcare assistants to paramedics and dinner ladies, could join walkouts on 30 November in a dispute over reforms to public sector pensions for health, education, local government and civil service employees.
(14) "Private health already has a small role in the NHS [providing 4% of services], but we don't want it to grow," said Karen Jennings a spokeswoman for Unison, the public services union.
(15) Around 43,000 Unison members – 28,000 as Labour party members in their own right and a further 15,000 who have signed up as registered supporters – can vote in the contest.
(16) Jessica Khoshooee (Unison) Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan • To complement the government’s proposed reforms, would it not be only fair for them to extend the legislation to shareholders in public companies?
(17) The clinical results indicated that Dispersalloy, Indiloy, a high-copper blend by Syntex, Cluster, and Unison had the least marginal failure.
(18) He wrote: "It is time for British politicians to say it loud and clear and in unison: we need bankers my friends.
(19) The only party that can win for working people is a strong and united Labour party.” The signatories to the statement included the general secretaries of Unite, Unison, the GMB and Ucatt.
(20) A memorandum of understanding between the college and Unison, made public at the insistence of the education committee, states that the £270 fee would be split 50-50 between the college and Unison.