(n.) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
(n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel.
(v. t.) To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.
(v. t.) To advise or recommend, as an act or course.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(2) At the end of the year, however, Hugh Davies QC, deputy counsel to the inquiry, also resigned.
(3) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
(4) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(5) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(6) She was provided medical treatment and encouraged and supported to seek counselling, including flights for that help to Nairobi.
(7) The authors have studied the different situations that prompt a request for genetic counseling if different members of the same family suffer from cancer.
(8) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
(9) A daily clinic was organized for abortion counseling.
(10) The conclusion of this section is that the law fails to address women's needs for adequate and accurate abortion counseling.
(11) One group received additional health education and counseling independent of clinic staff, and the other group only received health education and counseling from clinic staff.
(12) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
(13) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(14) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
(15) Early ultrasound diagnosis enabled appropriate genetic counselling to be given; neonatal complications, such as hypoglycaemic episodes, were prevented.
(16) Part II reviews Supreme Court cases and state law regarding abortion counseling, critizing both the Court's narrow view of counseling and the states' failure to use the legislative process to create laws which benefit maternal health.
(17) The variable phenotypic effects of ring G chromosomes, as well as several aspects of genetic counseling are discussed.
(18) This paper describes the counseling program implemented by a social worker and a family planning counselor for female clinic patients requesting sterilization.
(19) Women doctors gave comparatively more counseling than men.
(20) Important considerations for the obstetrician concerning hereditary antithrombin III deficiency are discussed, including: 1) the need to therapeutically anticoagulate these patients postpartum, 2) the need to consider prophylactic anticoagulation throughout pregnancy especially in patients with a history of thrombosis, 3) the practical aspects of assaying antithrombin III in plasma rather than serum, 4) the normally low antithrombin III levels in normal newborns, and 5) the need to provide prepregnancy counseling, including information about the autosomal dominant inheritance of hereditary antithrombin III deficiency.
Deal
Definition:
(n.) A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
(n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.
(n.) Distribution; apportionment.
(n.) An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.
(n.) The division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. If narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.
(n.) Wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.
(n.) To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.
(n.) Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.
(v. i.) To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.
(v. i.) To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.
(v. i.) To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.
(v. i.) To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.
(v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
Example Sentences:
(1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
(2) 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.
(3) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(4) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(5) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(6) 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.
(7) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(8) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(9) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(10) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(11) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(12) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
(13) These results indicate that the hormonal status should be taken into consideration in studies dealing with platelet MAO activity in depressed women.
(14) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(15) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
(16) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(17) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(18) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
(19) The present study deals with 832 ossicular chain reconstruction procedures performed in 655 patients from January 1975 to December 1985.
(20) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.