(n.) Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.
(n.) The state of not being in favor; a being under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.
(n.) An unkindness; a disobliging act.
(v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
(v. t.) To injure the form or looks of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(2) It had to be done as a matter of principle and not in a manner that damaged the eventual nominee.” Sanders may not be able to achieve the seismic changes Jackson did – Democratic leaders would likely look with extreme disfavor on someone who until last year was not a member of the party demanding changes to proportionality or to the superdelegate system, for example.
(3) We replaced the YIGSR glycine residue in peptide 11 with either D-alanine or L-alanine to allow or disfavor the proposed glycine bend.
(4) The data permit structural features favoring, and disfavoring, good S1 binding to be clarified.
(5) The variation in guanine and cytosine (G + C) content revealed: (1) at 2-3 and 3-1 doublet positions CG discrimination is attenuated at high G + C, but TA disfavor is enhanced, and (2) several amino acids are subject to G + C change.
(6) The hot start technique, which may be done by withholding the DNA polymerase until the temperature is sufficiently high to disfavor nontarget specific pathways, allowed the use of a single primer pair and showed that the degree of target-specific amplification, and not the size of the amplified product, determines the success of the PCR in situ technique.
(7) It remains to be seen whether this Act will work without substantial corrections, particularly given the widespread disfavor it has met in the drug industry.
(8) It was the first hoped-for Aids miracle drug, but it caused serious side-effects and fell into disfavor.
(9) Although there was great diversity in views, physicians generally favored policies that increased responsibilities or costs for patients and disfavored policies that decreased physicians' autonomy of practice.
(10) Non-significant differences in the psycho-organic sign (P%, F+%) in disfavor the mongols were seen in the Rorschach experiment.
(11) In conclusion, none of the observed natural sequence variations are in disfavor of the proposed secondary structure model.
(12) The respondents tend to favor drinking distilled spirits during integrative social occasions, feel ambivalently toward drinking in social contexts that are simultaneously integrative and disintegrative and disfavor drinking during disintegrative and anxiety-reductive social occasions.
(13) The Lapidus procedure for correction of hallux valgus has fallen into disfavor over the years because of its complexity and often poor results.
(14) During the past ten years, immediate mandibular reconstruction has gradually fallen into disfavor because of the incidence of infection and the increasing use of preoperative radiation therapy.
(15) Processing occurred at A27 under conditions consistent with formation of an A27-C100 base pair in the acceptor stem but at G28 under conditions that disfavored base pair formation.
(16) An increase in the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) after years of disfavor has led to calls for more research on all aspects of this controversial treatment.
(17) Sexual dimorphism of recombination has been held by classic genetic theory to disfavor the heterogametic sex.
(18) These results probably can be extrapolated to other aminoglycoside antibiotics since most are hydrophilic and ionized at physiologic pH, which disfavors penetration into saliva.
(19) Due to the well known occurrence of a secondary sarcoma, the irradiation of a benign bone tumor or tumorlike lesion is strongly disfavored.
(20) The jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has met with increasing disfavor as a result of its unacceptably high complication rate.
Fraternity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.
(n.) A body of men associated for their common interest, business, or pleasure; a company; a brotherhood; a society; in the Roman Catholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.
(n.) Men of the same class, profession, occupation, character, or tastes.
Example Sentences:
(1) An experiment was conducted to test effects of prenatal and postnatal fraternity size (size of litter in which an individual develops prenatally or is reared postnatally) on ovarian development in mice.
(2) The formation of close fraternal relations is of great importance for the personality development of the children as well as of their parents and for the relations arising between brothers and sisters with advancing age.
(3) The illegal trade in natural resources is depriving developing economies of billions of dollars in lost revenues and lost development opportunities, while benefiting a relatively small criminal fraternity,” says the UN .
(4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
(5) To call for liberty, equality or fraternity is a rallying call to arms.
(6) Let us always pray for us, one for the other, let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity.
(7) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(8) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
(9) The fraternal twins, i.e., the girl operated upon and her brother, have been followed for 5 years and are without any complaints.
(10) In Boston was performed the first successful isograft between identical twins (1954) the first successful allograft between fraternal twins (1959) and the first successful allograft from a cadaveric donor (1962).
(11) Meanwhile at the University of Oklahoma - in a state which wants to expunge its racist history from its history classes - video leaked of a fraternity singing racists chants which would have been at home in the film Birth of A Nation (if sound had only been in movies a hundred years ago).
(12) His 1895 will said it should go to those promoting "fraternity between nations", the abolition or reduction of standing armies, or the formation and spreading of peace congresses.
(13) Several tests related to lipid metabolism were made on the serum and urine of a fraternal twin with FMF during attacks and remission.
(14) Rolling Stone is walking back and apologizing for an explosive article it published about rape at the University of Virginia, admitting there “now appear to be discrepancies” in the key story in the article, about a woman who alleges that she was the victim of a calculated gang rape that took place by members of a fraternity at the school.
(15) Reasons relating partly to Spain's recent history and partly to the nature of its health system have kept the discipline from attracting the support and collaboration of much of the nation's medical fraternity.
(16) Prenatal fraternity size negatively affected average pup weight at birth (P less than .05) but had little subsequent effect on growth or reproduction.
(17) Number of sleep spindles and sleep spindle density showed almost concordance between identical twin pairs and one fraternal pair (No.
(18) The Russian president continued: "Ukraine is not only our closest neighbour it is our fraternal neighbour.
(19) Audio-taped interviews recorded in the Gottesman-Shields schizophrenic twin series (17 pairs of identical twins, 14 pairs of fraternal same-sex twins, and 12 unpaired twins) were rated for level of hedonic capacity.
(20) Miliband called for a "fraternal" contest for all candidates who put their names forward.