(n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
(n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
(n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
(n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
(v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
(v. t.) To ordain by fate.
(v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Threshold temperatures for males were a little higher than for females, however, this difference was lesser than 1 decree C. On the other hand, the quantity of energy (GD) for developing females was a little higher than for males.
(2) Egypt • Morsi is due to meet senior judges to try to reach a compromise over the decree, viewed by many as a power grab.
(3) Substantial changes in X-ray diagnosis procedures will be introduced with the expected guidelines on implementation of the new decree.
(4) Hogan set out his decree in a letter to the city’s district court administrative judge Wednesday.
(5) But the decree included provisions for an increase in the capital of Italy's central bank – a move that will swell the balance sheets of the commercial banks that are shareholders in the Bank of Italy.
(6) I created a country', says the rebel driving South Sudan's brutal war Read more “I, Salva Kiir Mayardit, president of the Republic of South Sudan, do hereby issue this republican decree for the appointment of Dr Riek Machar Teny as the first vice-president of the Republic of South Sudan ,” said the decree issued late on Thursday.
(7) Our results show that an oral dosage of 20 mg of 5-IM given to patients with stable angina pectoris increased the capacity and exercise tolerance delaying significantly the onset time of angina, the onset time of EKG ischemia and its decree induced by the effort up to 5 hours after its administration.
(8) Turkey has issued a decree paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners in an apparent move to make jail space for thousands of people who have been arrested after last month’s failed coup .
(9) The more the president rules by decree – and one faction in the Brotherhood argues that he should issue a constitutional decree of his own, annulling the content of the decree Scaf issued within hours of the closing of the presidential polls – the more he risks alienating his future political partners in the broad-tent political coalition he intends to set up both under him as president, and under the prime minister he intends to nominate.
(10) More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Cairo on Tuesday to protest against a decree by the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, that grants him sweeping constitutional powers.
(11) And while I also believe that banning adoptions by Americans is unethical (this is personal for me – as an American, I am also now banned from adopting, and as a young mother, I find something seriously wrong with this), I also believe that Russia's orphan problem can be solved by making changes that must happen on a local level, and not as the result of a top-down decree.
(12) They accused the decree of attempting to topple the legal state, make Morsi a God whose decisions cannot be reviewed and build a dictatorship unlike any other Egypt has ever witnessed.
(13) Kuwait • A decree issued by Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah, that changes voting rules, thereby weakening the opposition, has stirred signs of the Arab Spring in the oil-rich nation , Ian Black writes: The opposition is a coalition of youth groups, disgruntled tribes and Islamists.
(14) Leftwing and liberal parties have called for an open-ended sit-in aimed at "toppling" the decree.
(15) For three decades politicians and pundits have decreed that electoral success can only be achieved on the basis of an establishment corporate orthodoxy they decreed to be "the centre".
(16) The Czech Association of Pharmacists was established as a state-constituted professional organization by the decree of the Czech Government dated 11 March 1784, the initiator of the decree being Josef Gottfried Mikan (1742-1818), the then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Botany and Chemistry at Charles University.
(17) Morsi issued his decree last Thursday, granting himself sweeping powers and immunity from judicial challenges over any laws he may pass until a new parliament is elected and a constitution is in place.
(18) A decree issued by Ukraine's interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said that compulsory military service – which was scrapped earlier this year – was being reinstated "given the deteriorating situation in the east and the south … the rising force of armed pro-Russian units and the taking of public administration buildings … which threaten territorial integrity".
(19) On Friday, at the end of a week which saw the spectre of bankruptcy loom large over the ancient capital, the Italian government said it had approved a last-minute decree that would give an urgently-needed injection of funds to the city, thus staving off imminent disaster.
(20) The decree included Mikan's requirements and the introduction of tests for pharmacists' apprentices (tirones) prior to the journeyman's examination and compulsory registration of employed pharmacists (subjecti) at the Faculty of Medicine.
Reductive
Definition:
(a.) Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.
(n.) A reductive agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(3) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(4) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(5) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
(6) Osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone density.
(7) At pH 7.0, reduction is complete after 6 to 10 h. These results together with an earlier study concerning the positions of the two most readily reduced bonds (Cornell J.S., and Pierce, J.G.
(8) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(9) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(10) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
(11) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
(12) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(14) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(15) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
(16) By increasing luminal air pressure from 10 to 20 cm H2O a significant reduction in GBF was observed.
(17) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(18) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
(19) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
(20) The analysis of total seizure days showed a significant reduction during LTG treatment (p less than 0.002).