What's the difference between demising and devising?
Demising
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Demise
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.
Devising
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devise
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
(4) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
(5) Contrary to the intentions of the devisers of this scale, it has been found that, significantly different assessments may result when the same patient is rated by various groups (psychiatrists, psychologists, students and psychiatric nurses).
(6) Adaequate and reliable testing techniques had to be devised.
(7) An improved technique to record high-equality electrocardiographic (ECG) signals on the surface, from immersed humans during rest and exercise, in both normothermic and hypothermic exposures, has been devised.
(8) In work to determine whether X-radiation could be used to induce tumors of the colon in outbred Holtzman rats, a technique was devised so that only the descending colon could be irradiated with a collimated X-ray beam and tumorigenic exposures in the kilo-Roentgen range were delivered.
(9) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(10) The clinical and laboratory features are reviewed and the results of recently devised strategies aimed at characterizing the primary molecular and genetic abnormalities are presented.
(11) The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II classification, a measure of severity of illness in patients requiring intensive care, was devised before the rapid expansion of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.
(12) The increase in Con A fiber-binding seems to be specific for EGF, since it was not observed in response to insulin, prostaglandin F2alpha or a higher serum concentration, which also initiate cell devision of confluent quiescent 3T3 cells.
(13) Many modern cancer drugs are of very little benefit to patients, according to a group of leading European experts, who have devised a way to score them.
(14) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(15) An experimental murine malarial model was devised using the highly synchronous species Plasmodium vinckei petteri to test this rationale.
(16) In order to attain these objectives, a new scanning method involving Target Volume Scan for the pancreas as a routine CT scanning modality has been devised.
(17) Banks are now attempting to devise ways of avoiding the cap.
(18) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
(19) The proposed estimator (Z) was devised for pseudorandom excitation and is based on time-domain signal averaging before frequency analysis.
(20) A scoring system has been devised to rate 12 easily measured clinical and pathological parameters, and a regression analysis used to measure the contribution made by each parameter to hospital morbidity and mortality and to later mortality over a 5 year period.