(n.) Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(3) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
(4) A cocaine craving scale that has proven reliable and practical in clinical treatment research with cocaine-using subjects is presented.
(5) The smoking-specific item "craving" reflected this pattern, though in attenuated form, suggesting that the observed exacerbation of withdrawal symptomatology was not simply due to generalized dysphoria, as queried in both instruments.
(6) However, craving for alcohol was found to be significantly raised over baseline after exposure to low alcohol drinks.
(7) There are many "smoking cessation therapies" – gums, patches and sprays – that reduce cravings for cigarettes, while allowing the smoker to avoid the adverse effects of tobacco.
(8) Craving for alcohol decreased after both active and passive immunization against ADH.
(9) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(10) In the regions concerned, there seems a craving for normality, to put back the clock on the destruction wrought by Isis.
(11) Only 32 per cent of women perceived that their cravings were linked to menstrual cycles.
(12) Principal-components analysis revealed six factors (Dysphoric Moods, Well-being, Physical Symptoms, Personal Space, Food Cravings, Depression) that accounted for 70% of the variance in daily ratings.
(13) In addition to high-protein foods, some of the women craved fruits and sweets.
(14) In the present study we met attitudes that made some people bear numet needs instead of craving their legal rights.
(15) Harry Kane has been craving opponents as accommodating as Bournemouth since the spring.
(16) This study reports on 285 smokers in cessation clinics who answered self-report measures of withdrawal symptoms and craving after quitting cigarettes "cold turkey."
(17) Decrease in cocaine craving correlated with decrease in plasma homovanillic acid (pHVA).
(18) Ibogaine, an indolalkylamine, has been claimed to be effective in abolishing drug craving in heroin and cocaine addicts.
(19) TV watching (i.e., nondietary activity) and subjective measures of craving and tension-anxiety also were assessed.
(20) Craving boldness is too often a euphemism for wishing Labour's predicament were something other than what it is; that there was a way to promise immediate improvement in everyone's lives without giving them money.
Lech
Definition:
(v. t.) To lick.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
(2) Positive reactions were recorded in the following game species: impala (Aepyceros melampus), lechwe (Kobus leche), kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) and tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus).
(3) Kaczynski is the co-founder, along with his late twin brother and former Polish president Lech, of the Law and Justice party – the second largest member of the European Conservatives and Reformists group after the Tories.
(4) A Committee was appointed in 1973 by the National Board of Health and Welfare, which initiated a number of breast feeding promoting activities: the editing of a Manual for health personnel, and booklets for mothers, the systematic arranging of workshops for key personnel in each county, stimulation to more flexible and breast feeding favouring maternity routines, backing of working groups of La Leche League-type, etc.
(5) "Jaroslaw Kaczynski was practising politics from the 19th century, fighting with Germany and Russia and going on about Smolensk," he said, a reference to the plane crash in 2010 that killed Kaczynski's twin brother Lech, a former Polish president.
(6) The Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a regional airport in Russia early this morning.
(7) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
(8) Zych also remembered the late president Lech Kaczynski and MPs who died with him in a plane crash last year.
(9) Positive reactions were also recorded in lechwe (Kobus leche), tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus), red hartebeeste (Alcelaphus buselaphus), gemsbok (Oryx gazella), sable (Hippotragus niger) and impala (Aepyceros melampus).
(10) Lech Walesa, the first democratically elected president of post-communist Poland, has criticised David Cameron for acting "irrationally and shortsightedly" over immigration from eastern Europe.
(11) Ninety-six people died including the country’s president, Lech Kaczyński, who was the twin brother of leader of PiS, Jarosław Kaczyński.
(12) A historical witch hunt for “communist agents” has even extended to hero trade union leader Lech Wałęsa .
(13) In the early 1990s he was initially a close collaborator with president Lech Walesa, but later, after a sharp rupture, became his fierce political opponent.
(14) To increase the range of the feeding and caretaking behaviors hypothesized to be relevant determinants of early crying, home observations and diary records were analyzed from samples of two subcultures of American middle-class women (La Leche League and "standard care" mothers; each n = 16) differing primarily in such practices.
(15) Lech Kaczynski, who has died aged 60, had been Poland's president since 2005, its fourth since the country broke free from the Soviet bloc in 1989.
(16) Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and leader of the Solidarity trade union in communist times, said Palikot had successfully tapped into issues neglected by other parties.
(17) His political home is the Law and Justice party of the Kaczynski twin brothers, Lech, the Polish president, and Jaroslaw, former prime minister.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński in 2005.
(19) The received wisdom says St Anton is for the young ski-and-party-hard set, Lech and Zürs are playgrounds for the European elite and Stuben is a good-value family option.
(20) In neighbouring Poland, the founder of the anti-communist Solidarity movement and former president Lech Walesa called Havel "a great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy".