(n.) Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
(n.) The decease of a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person.
(n.) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
(v. t.) To transfer or transmit by succession or inheritance; to grant or bestow by will; to bequeath.
(v. t.) To convey; to give.
(v. t.) To convey, as an estate, by lease; to lease.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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".
(2) Bongbong Marcos won a Senate position in 2010, the first time since his father’s demise that a family member had won a nationally elected post.
(3) Apoptosis is a physiological mode of death where the dying cell plays an active part in its own demise, which contrasts sharply with what is seen in necrosis.
(4) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(5) A patient who developed it after delivery had a twin pregnancy complicated by demise of one fetus, preterm labor and subsequent preterm delivery of the viable twin, who died at 48 hours of life.
(6) A rare obstetric contraindication to the use of vaginal prostaglandins for fetal demise is presented in the form of a case report.
(7) 'We were in shock how everything Milosevic epitomised collapsed so quickly,' said opposition campaign manager Zoran Djindjic yesterday, surveying the demise of Milosevic's regime.
(8) In an increasingly digital society, the justification for opacity in trade negotiations has met its demise, and it's time that we see modern legal instruments negotiated in a transparent and inclusive manner in order to get the best outcome for our country.
(9) It offers details for preparing the baby for viewing and holding, describes burial arrangements, and provides information on hospital policies for the disposal of a fetal demise or stillbirth.
(10) The demise of the retailer and the subsequent investigation by MPs has raised important questions about the relationship between advisory firms and their client in the City.
(11) Channel One also branded Berezovsky an "evil genius," and a report on his demise quoted a senior member of the ruling United Russia , Vyacheslav Nikonov, saying he found it hard to believe the news was true.
(12) The fetal heart tones were closely monitored by a Doppler instrument and the time from injection of abortifacient to fetal demise (IDT) and to fetal expulsion (IAT) was accurately recorded.
(13) Upon the child's demise at home, police and medical examiner involvement ensued.
(14) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
(15) To take a Marx-ish view of all this, its roots are clearly economic: the demise of the large-scale industrial economy that reached its peak just after the second world war, and the consequent weakening of the idea of politics as a battle between two huge ideological blocs.
(16) These data indicate that 4F-Antag interferes with ongoing cyclic ovarian function by reducing pulsatile gonadotropin stimulation, which disrupts folliculogenic processes and induces the demise of the corpus luteum.
(17) He was a giant of a man in every way imaginable and his demise is not only a tremendous loss to the world at large and to lovers of great art, but very much on a human level.
(18) Although monoamniotic twins frequently die related to cord knotting, sonographic visualization of cord entanglement does not imply impending demise.
(19) This revealed elevated MS-AFP to be associated with 32 (16.3%) anomalies (2 NTD, 5 anencephalics, 5 ventral abdominal wall defects, 1 stage IV-S neuroblastoma, 1 renal anomaly, 1 ventriculomegaly, 15 fetal demises, and 2 fetal-maternal bleeds).
(20) Revealed: how Sports Direct effectively pays below minimum wage Read more The demise of USC, which was controversially bought straight out of administration by another arm of Sports Direct in January, led to about 200 workers being given just 15 minutes’ warning that they were to lose their jobs.
Sublet
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sublet
(v. t.) To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you’re renting your home, you are likely to find subletting is banned and could be cause for a disgruntled landlord to evict you.
(2) The biggest problem, he foresees, would be illegal subletting, but such is the strength of community involvement among tenants, who have been involved in the regeneration project at all stages, he suspects this would be minimal.
(3) An emerging critique today was that many difficult problems have been sublet to commissions and reviews.
(4) The investigations were carried out on rabbits irradiated with subletal (400R) and letal (800 and 1200R) doses of ionizing radiation.
(5) Second, because it shows that Miliband rightly wants to lead from the front and not sublet economic policy to the shadow chancellor as Tony Blair did; the key public spending shadow team will now be Miliband, Johnson and the new work and pensions shadow, Douglas Alexander, a well-balanced group.
(6) The apartments, which are rented by the hospital and sublet to the patients, are located in modern, well-maintained high-rise buildings within commuting distance from the hospital.
(7) The office also claims that Matthias D allowed Böhnhardt to sublet one apartment under an alias as the three committed terrorist acts including murders and bank robberies.
(8) The bank has the option to take all the floors or sublet it to tenants.
(9) I'm going to search for a sublet, and then I will ask all my friends.
(10) Tangled up in all this is illicit stuff that teeters into outright criminality: illegal gangmasters who recruit people in eastern Europe ; the unauthorised subletting whereby houses are crammed with people living two or three – or even more – to a room; an allegedly thriving trade in bootleg alcohol and cigarettes .
(11) For several reasons these ended in 1976, leaving me dependent on rent from lodgers to whom I sublet rooms in my council house, having some to spare because my wife and I had separated.
(12) Randeep Ramesh Treasury George Osborne's own department, one of the first to agree its budget, has committed to overall resource savings of 33% in real terms by 2014-15 by reducing staffing levels, streamlining internal processes and halving the net cost of its building, possibly by subletting unoccupied parts.
(13) In addition to a staffing review, all contracts would need to be challenged to remove any discretionary costs and offices considered for sale or sublet.” The legal changes being introduced by the Conservatives have been condemned as the most unfair alterations to political parties’ funding since the second world war.
(14) But now the waiting lists are so long, those holders who find themselves too busy to dig sometimes illegally sublet rather than let go of their plot altogether – the vegetable equivalent, I suppose, of the dodgy things people get up to when it comes to school catchment areas.
(15) People renting a property can also sublet and get the same benefits.
(16) The retailer has installed coffee shops, restaurants and gyms to make the stores more attractive and looked to sublet space to other retailers.
(17) Tax incentives should encourage renting, co-ops and sublets such as Airbnb .
(18) Subletal intoxication with an irreversible inhibitor of AChE is followed by a faster recovery of the smaller forms.
(19) During this time, too, it was relatively simple to claim housing benefit while subletting my student flat over the summer for nothing to the mendicant men who drank under the bridge in exchange for some of their Giro Party cargo (a dozen cans of Tennent's Super each Tuesday).
(20) The guidelines also make it clear that you can’t sublet a Help to Buy property.