(adv.) A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
(adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.
(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
(a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(3) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(4) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(7) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(8) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(9) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(10) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(11) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(12) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(13) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(15) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
(16) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(17) "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.
(18) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(19) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(20) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
Transmigration
Definition:
(n.) The act of passing from one country to another; migration.
(n.) The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) After having analysed the most frequent etiological factors of mandibular canine impaction, the authors present their considerations concerning the probable pathogenetic mechanism of transmigration.
(2) The actual size of the population requiring institutional care, however, remains stable forcing individuals to transmigrate from one system to the other in order to obtain institutional support.
(3) In conclusion it is important, also from a therapeutical point of view, to keep under control, by periodical panoramic radiographs, all those clinical situations considered at risk due to their possible evolution in transmigration and which are characterized by: 1) an unerupted canine which can be palpated in a mesial position in the labial sulcus; 2) an enlarged symphyseal cross-sectional area; 3) an obstacle to normal eruption (cysts, odontomas, ecc.
(4) The initial decrease in resistance, maximal 5-13 min after initiation of transmigration, occurs despite inhibition of transmigration by an antibody to the common beta subunit of neutrophil beta 2 integrins, and is paralleled by an increase in transepithelial short-circuit current.
(5) Here we show that detailed time course studies of the transmigration-elicited decline in resistance has two components, one of which is unrelated to junctional permeability.
(6) Adhesion of lymphocytes to endothelial cells (EC) is the requisite first element in the multistep process of transmigration from blood across the postcapillary venules.
(7) During gastrostomy closure and performance of a feeding jejunostomy, inadvertent transmigration of the gastrostomy tube was found to be the etiology of the small intestinal obstruction.
(8) In contrast, eosinophils from allergic asthma patients showed an increased adherence and transmigration capacity.
(9) The patient explained his anxiety and his symptoms as stemming from violent death in his former life and subsequent transmigration.
(10) This response was dependent on the size of the FMLP gradient and the density of PMN transmigration.
(11) Three cases in whom transmigrated IUDs were removed with operative laparoscope are presented.
(12) Thus, permeability alterations accompanying PMN transmigration can be specifically attributed to altered permeability of the rate limiting barrier of the paracellular pathway, the intercellular tight junction.
(13) Chi-square analysis shows that there is no statistical difference between the tendency to right or left transmigration.
(14) We have previously reported that abdominal irradiation of mice inhibited lung metastases of a weakly immunogenic fibrosarcoma, and that transmigration after the irradiation of Enterobacter cloacae into mesenteric lymph nodes coincided with this phenomenon.
(15) Using this model, we demonstrate that neutrophil transmigration in a plasma milieu was associated with a significant disruption of the retentive properties of the basement membrane in the absence of discernable morphologic changes.
(16) 13 cases of transmigration of impacted mandibular cuspids are presented, 3 of which occurred in pairs, raising the total number of teeth to 16.
(17) In such cases the heterotopic tube should be removed to reduce the risk of ectopic pregnancy and to eliminate competition between the tubes for the transmigrating sperm and oocyte.
(18) Furthermore, in ampullary operated oviducts peritoneal transmigration of ova was frequently observed.
(19) Lungs from rIL-2-treated (but not controls) animals displayed marked ultrastructural changes by electron microscopy in the arteriolar segment to include intracellular and subcellular blebs throughout the arteriole with separation of endothelial cells from basement membrane, interstitial edema, endothelial adhesion, and transmigration of lymphocytes into interstitium.
(20) Both IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha caused sustained increased transmigration with IFN-gamma having the greater effect.