(n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
(n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.
(n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
(v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
(v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(3) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(4) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(5) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(6) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(7) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(8) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(9) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
(10) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(13) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(14) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(15) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(16) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(17) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(18) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(19) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(20) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
Sovereignty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sovereign, or of being a sovereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(2) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(3) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(4) On bilateral issues with Australia, Marsudi stressed Indonesia’s sovereignty and said the case in hand was a legal, rather than political situation.
(5) 4.23pm GMT Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis (@ PaulLewis ) has more on defense secratary Hagel’s warning to Russia that military exercises planned near the border of Ukraine could “lead to miscalculation”: “We expect other nations to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoid provocative actions,” Hagel told a press conference during a NATO defence meeting in Brussels.
(6) As Margaret Thatcher declared in Bruges in 1988: “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” It was never about sovereignty.
(7) We are effectively now placed in co-sovereignty with a hostile power.
(8) In short, a durable, successful currency union requires some ceding of national sovereignty."
(9) The dispute over sovereignty has been going on for centuries, and Britain has never been really confident over its claim to the islands.
(10) This is because the prime minister is aiming to transfer sovereignty in the opposite direction – from Brussels back to the UK.
(11) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(12) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.
(13) Judge Yehia el-Dakroury declared that Egypt’s maritime border would not be redrawn, meaning that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir would remain under Egyptian sovereignty.
(14) Japan has rejected a compromise that would grant Japan sovereignty over the two smallest territories of the Habomai chain and Shikotan, but only after the countries sign a peace treaty.
(15) In 2015, Seagal was included in a proposed blacklist of foreign cultural figures who “speak out in support of violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine” along with French actor Gérard Depardieu and many Russian artists.
(16) Timerman is in London to argue the historical and legal case for Argentinian sovereignty over the islands.
(17) China’s foreign ministry said: “There is only one China in the world, the mainland and Taiwan both belong to one China and China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity will not brook being broken up.
(18) Little blue men: the maritime militias pushing China's claims Read more Tensions between China and the United States are high in the South China Sea , where Beijing has been building islets into military bases and is asserting sovereignty over large parts of the critical waterway.
(19) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
(20) I hereby make a special appeal to Ecowas, AU [African Union] and the UN, particularly the security council, to support the government and people of the Gambia in enforcing their will, restore their sovereignty and constitutional legitimacy,” he said.