(1) A dedicated goal makes a big difference in mobilising action and resources.
(2) His dedication and professionalism is world class and he deserves all the recognition he has received to date.
(3) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(4) This can only be achieved by a well prepared and equipped team dedicated to provision of this care.
(5) The fashion in Hollywood leading men now is for the sort of sculpted torso that requires months, if not years, of dedicated abdominal crunching.
(6) Arvind Kejriwal, leader of a new populist political party "dedicated to improving the lot of the common man", announced on Monday that he would form a government to run the sprawling, troubled and increasingly wealthy city of 15 million people.
(7) The authors document the first 19 months of a service dedicated to the care of hopelessly ill patients in a teaching hospital.
(8) Patronage at the airport in the early years would not justify a dedicated rail link.
(9) Fried, reports Variety, has now retired to Florida, but the director tracked her down and rewarded her with a dedication in the soon-to-be-published coffee table making-of book, as well as couple of cameos.
(10) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(11) This communication deals with Leidy's life, his philosophy, and his unique dedication to the study of nature.
(12) What we do know is that we cannot and will not see this decision as a vote of no confidence, and that we will find a way to continue through our own passion and dedication to making theatre that represents the dispossessed, tells stories of the injustices of our world and changes lives.
(13) The second phase (1960-1980) was dedicated to a deeper understanding of the relationship between the course of therapy and its results.
(14) The Brookhaven National Laboratory X-ray microprobe, facilities dedicated to X-ray fluorescence, and related analytical techniques are discussed.
(15) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(16) A whole website ( nicecupofteaandasitdown.com ) is now dedicated to choosing the best biscuit for the job.
(17) The fight against Britain's biggest killer diseases could be hit by NHS plans to cut the number of dedicated teams of experts widely lauded for their work to improve care, doctors and health charities have warned.
(18) She insists she has no regrets about dedicating herself to the man millions admired but few really got to know.
(19) In the late 1990s, after airlines were roundly criticized for ignoring desperate requests for information after crashes, Congress required carriers to dedicate significant attention to families of passengers.
(20) The bank told staff that sales of such products are driven by “trigger points” in customer lives and that it was no longer economical to have a dedicated network of advisers selling critical illness and income protection products.
Fastidious
Definition:
(a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
(2) When urine, which has been collected by suprapubic bladder aspiration, is appropriately cultured, asymptomatic bacteriuria due to fastidious organisms can be detected quite commonly in apparently healthy pregnant women; Ureaplasma urealyticum and Gardnerella vaginalis can each be isolated from the bladder urine of 10 to 15% of subjects, other bacteria less frequently.
(3) We have developed a strategy to select clones isolating the other derivative avoiding fastidious and time consuming technics, mainly based on immunofluorescent screening using MIC 2 and MIC 5 antigenic markers and we have succeeded in isolating in a rodent context the two X;5 translocated derivative chromosomes of a female patient with Hunter syndrome.
(4) T cells are less fastidious: those that are affected by the mutations still recognize a number of substitutions.
(5) In this case, anaerobic culture of C tetani was unsuccessful, possibly because of the inherent difficulty of anaerobic transfer from an oral locus and the extreme fastidiousness of the organism.
(6) These fastidious viruses only grow in selected cell lines, 293 cells being the most commonly used.
(7) The additional data has facilitated an updated version of the physical map, and verified this random sequencing method as a useful mapping procedure as well as offering new insight into the physiological processes of this fastidious organism.
(8) This observation raises concern that more fastidious precautions are needed to isolate patients under these conditions of respiratory aerosol generation.
(9) Often topped by a single quote from article 3 of the universal declaration of human rights, “everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person”, the reports were dry in tone, heavy on numbers, and fastidiously situated within a sense of objective morals.
(10) He is famously fastidious, too, once refusing to give a fellow player a lift after training in case he scuffed the leather seats of the new Becksmobile.
(11) Comparison of the characteristics of TM-1 strains with other similar fastidious gram-negative organisms encountered in clinical laboratories indicates that TM-1 is a distinct species.
(12) ALLO, like L. pneumophila, are fastidious gram-negative rods that grow well on charcoal yeast extract (CYE) agar and produce ground glass colonies and browning of modified yeast extract agar.
(13) The hero of the story, says Bezos, "wants to do things a little bit differently" and paints his house purple while all his neighbours fastidiously keep theirs white.
(14) In these patients, culture of bladder aspiration urine for low counts and fastidious species is necessary to diagnose bacteriuria.
(15) We cultured bladder urine, obtained by aspiration, from symptomatic adults with equivocal findings on standard testing of midstream urine for low numbers of conventional uropathogens and fastidious bacteria.
(16) The role of organisms other than those of the aerobic bowel flora, especially fastidious organisms, in urinary tract infections is discussed in detail.
(17) For tests of fastidious bacteria, the MUG-plate was enriched with supplements containing heat-labile growth factors without influencing the reaction.
(18) The results suggest that predominant bacteria of human feces, in general, are not as nutritionally fastidious as rumen bacteria and indicate that media for counts or isolation containing large amounts of rich organic materials are neither necessary nor desirable when adequate anaerobic techniques are used.
(19) Erythromycin disk tests corresponded best with MICs determined in the fastidious broth medium.
(20) Extracellular mollicutes are fastidious, lipid-rich, and contain various potent cytotoxins.