(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.
Hamper
Definition:
(n.) A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.
(v. t.) To put in a hamper.
(v. t.) To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
(n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
(n.) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(2) "Such attacks will not hamper Afghanistan's relations with other nations."
(3) Testing of potential therapies for spinal cord injury has been significantly hampered by the unavailability of a standardized, reproducible animal model with predictable outcome at a given force of injury (dose-response).
(4) The isolation of plant enzymes is frequently hampered by the presence of phenolic compounds, pigments and mucilages.
(5) The therapeutic potential of interferon gamma (IFN gamma) in a number of disease states is still being explored, but progress is hampered by the lack of a suitable measure of in vivo biological activity.
(6) Primary care services had been hampered in controlling yaws by difficulties with transport, isolation, community resistance and the lack of skilled personel to diagnose yaws and arrange prophylactic treatment.
(7) However, sections of the Act may hamper doctors in the performance of their duties.
(8) The search for the Na-K-ATPase inhibitor has been hampered by the lack of specificity of most assays which demonstrate the presence of many irrelevant Na-K-ATPase inhibitors.
(9) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
(10) His lawyers argued their ability to organise witnesses on Terry's behalf was seriously hampered by Chelsea's demanding season.
(11) Our knowledge of the functional activity of the epidermal Langerhans cell has been severely hampered by the lack of an easy method of purification of these cells that is both efficient and reproducible.
(12) Austin's solicitors, Christian Khan, say their client's case was hampered by highly prejudicial findings by the judge in that case, Mr Justice Tugendhat.
(13) Large scale clinical applicability of this approach has been hampered, so far, by technical problems such as separation of massive islet concentrations and immune rejection.
(14) A large body of research implicates Bacteroides gingivalis in the etiology of adult periodontitis, however, the application of this information to clinical diagnosis and treatment has been hampered by the need for a simple, rapid, and reliable means of detecting this microorganism.
(15) Interpretation is hampered by the short observation period, small number of deaths from certain causes, and poor exposure definition.
(16) Characterization of their role in health and disease has been hampered by inadequate methods to separate interstitial from residual alveolar macrophages (AMs) in preparations of individual mononuclear cells from lung tissue.
(17) Many address deep-rooted social issues, but they are hampered by short-term political horizons and funding arrangements.
(18) The source said Nigeria's intelligence agencies are willing to act to take down the Boko Haram base, but their efforts have been hampered by the government.
(19) A decade ago, she was hampered by post-natal depression after six weeks' maternity leave from RBS.
(20) Understanding the mechanisms by which these oncogenes affect various cell types has been hampered by a paucity of experimental systems that reproduce the range of biological effects associated with them.