(n.) One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.
(n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.
(n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
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.
Foreman
Definition:
(n.) The first or chief man
(n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
(n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasing pressures on social care budgets meant DLA was often the only financial support they got, said Esther Foreman, the charity's campaigns and policy manager, and short-term cost savings could have long-term implications for claimants, their families and carers.
(2) After 48 h their ovaries were removed and the granulosa cells isolated (Foreman et al.
(3) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(4) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(5) My religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful .
(6) At 11.35am, within a packed and hushed court 1, Redknapp and his fellow defendant, the former Portsmouth football club owner Milan Mandaric, hugged in the glass-walled dock after the female jury foreman responded with quiet answers of "not guilty" to each count.
(7) Ali knocked out Foreman in the eighth round, taking the heavyweight champion title from him.
(8) Apart from a small bruise beneath the right eye and some flecks of blood surrounding the iris (which he attributed to Foreman’s thumb), he was unmarked.
(9) Muhammad Ali, 'the Greatest', dies aged 74 Read more George Foreman , 67, who was Ali’s opponent in the legendary Rumble in the Jungle fight in 1974, took to Twitter to share his grief.
(10) Instead of providing all the robots with a plan of the desired building, and appointing a mechanical foreman to direct them, each is given the same set of rules that tells it when to move itself or a nearby brick.
(11) He bent over the set with a hostile concentration when Foreman’s manager, Dick Sadler, came up on the screen.
(12) Elizabeth Weise (@eweise) #ellenpao The jury foreman counted wrong on the fourth claim.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful – audio “A part of me slipped away, the greatest piece,’ Foreman wrote.
(14) His recruitment agent in Kathmandu, Capital International Manpower, said Shanbu was “over-reacting” and that they sent him on a foreman’s contract because that is the permit that had been supplied by Qatar.
(15) So, having rolled away the rock, he hit George Foreman on the head with it.
(16) There were a few familiar faces from gangland's past: Freddie "Brown Bread Fred" Foreman and Chris Lambrianou, both of whom were involved with the Krays around the time the robbery took place.
(17) Making plays Two weeks ago, Sean Foreman, the president of Sports Reference LLC, the company behind the popular, addictive and wildly useful website baseball-reference.com provided the Guardian with a breakdown of the stat known as WAR , which is "an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player's total contributions to their team in one statistic".
(18) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
(19) The high-profile status of the Lawrence killing – its highlighting of racism, incompetence and an apparent vein of corruption in the Metropolitan police, and the way the aftermath of the murder radically changed the face of policing, the law and politics – was reflected within minutes of the jury foreman pronouncing the "guilty" verdicts in court 16.
(20) It was a mantra that served him well with the list of distinguished fighters he trained, including George Foreman, who became the oldest ever heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in 1994; his first world champion, Carmen Basilio, who took the welterweight title in 1955; the brilliant Cuban-born Mexican world welterweight champion José Nápoles; and the multiweight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard.