(v. t.) To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
Example Sentences:
(1) On "Black Friday", as the suffragette deputation of November 18 1910 became known, when the suffragettes trying to reach parliament were treated particularly violently by roughs in the crowd and police who had orders to push them back, he also again, chivalrously, argued that the protesters "are citizens like the rest of us , and they have right to fair treatment and to the protection of the law".
(2) Florida senator Marco Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that the government should not force Davis to sign same-sex marriage licenses and allow her to instead deputize someone else to sign on her behalf.
(3) The growth of group practice has not eliminated the demand for deputizing services.Sixty-six per cent.
(4) The case is made for the adoption of a standard primary-care record for people aged over 70 years to be retained by the patient and attached behind the front door, where it would be available to ambulance crews, deputizing doctors and other community health workers.
(5) This hypothesis leads to the problem of judging the validity of biological parameters deputed to represent good indices of aging.
(6) Referring to Edinburgh's decision, Graeme Kirkpatrick, the union's depute president, said: "A £36,000 degree is both staggering and ridiculous.
(7) In 1906, the WSPU headquarters moved to London and for the next few years the suffragettes engaged in various forms of civil disobedience, including heckling government ministers and deputations to parliament.
(8) The day the scandal broke, Hosie’s Westminister colleagues unanimously re-elected him as their depute group leader – a role he will keep despite standing down as overall SNP deputy leader.
(9) We have isolated from a genomic library of the pathogenic Neisseriae gonorrhoeae T2 strain, a gene encoding a putative protein of 268 amino acids which exhibited significant similarity to the hisJ and argT gene products of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli, periplasmic proteins deputed to amino acid transport within the cell.
(10) "The new regulations for noble titles should make you look to the future," he told the deputation last year.
(11) Fill another mug for Tim Geithner (who has left government but apparently is deputized to help Obama pick the new chair of the Federal Reserve) and several others.
(12) Deputed to load a pig into a van, young Harry saw the animal escape, and knock into a beehive, whose occupants seared its hide.
(13) of Sheffield general practitioners and 78% of those in Nottingham used a deputizing service in 1970.
(14) This suggest that these neurons are deputated to proprioceptive innervation of the extrinsic ocular muscles.
(15) If she personally doesn’t want to sign it, then she should allow someone to be deputized to sign on her behalf who doesn’t have that objection.” “That doesn’t give anybody the right to shut down the entire office,” he added.
(16) We used the routine data of the Vienna Doctors' Chamber's central deputizing service to throw light upon the diagnostic situation and at the method of management at the start of acute and emergency care in these patients.
(17) These questions were answered by a study of the Vienna emergency doctor's service, a General Practitioner deputizing service operating during all the nights and on weekend days.
(18) Half the referrals to the service were made by doctors working in deputizing services, less than 1% of referrals were due to inter-hospital transfers and half the referrals were made by general practitioners.
(19) In vitro experiments, with thymic whole-organ cultures, have demonstrated that thyroid hormones exert their action on the epithelial cells of the thymus deputed to synthesize and secrete thymic peptides and that such an effect does not seem to depend on the known permissive action of thyroid hormones.
(20) A faction of grandees and nobles have walked out of the Deputation of the Grandees, the body that has represented them for the past two centuries, as tempers fray over changes to the rules governing the way titles are handed down.
Empower
Definition:
(v. t.) To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
(v. t.) To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many would argue that patient education has been used to serve the needs of the health care professional (through compliance) rather than empowering the patient.
(2) Long-term: The defeat of Isis is a political shaping exercise – you find moderate Sunni leaders, empower and install them in Syria and Iraq.
(3) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
(4) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.
(5) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(6) To empower these nurses to respond effectively, it is imperative that the profession be reclarified as a specialty with a distinct philosophy and mission.
(7) We believe that listening to staff and empowering them to improve and contribute means there is likely to be a proportionate improvement in our patients' experience.
(8) The public, throughout the years of the coalition government, has been empowered to distrust teachers.
(9) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
(10) CAL is seen as a means of empowering the patient, rather than the nurse to take control, and this is viewed as a positive move in the direction of self-care.
(11) The revolution proved that a framework enabling people to self-organise in small but coordinated communities will empower them and set free their creative energies.
(12) These choices now open the way for Mr Juncker to pick the rest of his commission team, all of whom will face confirmation hearings at the newly empowered European parliament before the new commission takes over the reins in two months’ time.
(13) To counter this trend, Pol DHuyvetter, a Belgian who has lived in Babilônia since 2012, launched solar power project RevoluSolar, empowering residents to become energy self-sufficient as electricity bills have risen.
(14) Big Society Capital recently launched a £1m investment in Developing and Empowering Resources in Communities (Deric) , which has been proven in trials to increase care time by around 25%.
(15) These stages helped in shaping the characteristics of the discipline as a human science, a practice science, a science with social goals to empower nurses to provide effective and quality care, and one in which gender differences and the need for understanding minorities are areas of primary concern.
(16) Introduce 'new homes zones' But we need also to unlock land for development, empowering those who want to build high-quality homes quickly with the means to do so.
(17) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(18) This is supposed to "empower" them and make it much easier for them to be held to account when budgets go awry, as they have a habit of doing in defence.
(19) The law also empowers courts to bar the journalists from working in their profession for up to a year.
(20) It may also be empowered to set limits on the size of loans that can be granted relative to a borrower's income.