(1) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
(2) "Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain," Wallace wrote at one point, "because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."
(3) The animals in group 1 (n = 6), group 2 (n = 3), and group 3 (n = 5) were killed at 4, 16, and 32 weeks, respectively, from the end of the distraction period.
(4) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(5) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(6) Miles Shipside, Rightmove director, said: "The number of new sellers is slightly up on the same period last year, though perhaps as a reflection of their urgency to sell, or to compensate for the distraction of the achievements served up by Team GB, they have dropped their asking prices more aggressively than summer sellers in previous years."
(7) Bone formation in the distraction zone was quantified by means of computed tomography.
(8) Furthermore, a time must come when in the wider interests of society it is necessary to stop relitigating the past, distracting attention and resources from the problems of the here and now.
(9) Distraction lengthening has gained wide acceptance in general orthopedics and in upper extremity reconstructions.
(10) The wire functioned as a spindle along which the distraction of the osteotomized bone fragments was continued.
(11) The noise distraction influenced performance of all groups similarly.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bannon scorns media in rare public appearance at CPAC Some observers suggested the move to block some organisations from the Friday briefing was an attempt to distract the public from controversial stories.
(13) But like so many of his colleagues in the Trump administration , Spicer has shown us how unconsciousness and stupidity can, however paradoxically, assume a Machiavellian function – how a flagrant example of gross insensitivity and flat-out odiousness can serve as yet another useful and convenient distraction.
(14) The results show that epiphyseal distraction is a valid method of limb lengthening, but it appears to have a consistently harmful effect on the growth plate and should be used clinically only in patients close to maturity.
(15) Myths such as those that we have described may distract our patients from the underlying behaviors that contribute to the disease or may deflect the blame perceived by obese patients and their parents.
(16) He is a bit different and speaks his mind but the most important thing is that he doesn’t get distracted from what’s happening on the court.
(17) Specific goals of the two-year study were to develop and test a method for assessing chart skills and to test the following hypotheses: (a) knowledge base is a component of chart review skill; (b) chart skills are related to basic observational skills; (c) performance on one chart is positively correlated with performance on other charts; (d) chart performance is affected by distraction and time pressure; and (e) chart performance improves with clinical experience.
(18) "It is clear this is a government which is short of ideas, desperately trying to bring up nonsensical diversions to distract attention from the situation in the country.
(19) Both groups showed substantial decrements in digit recall following distraction by letter matching.
(20) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
Insane
Definition:
(a.) Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.
(a.) Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
(a.) Causing insanity or madness.
(a.) Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(2) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(3) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
(4) But gas prices hit $5 in California this month, a price consumers think is "insane" .
(5) After briefly discussing the limitations of expert testimony and the adversarial demands of the judicial system, the author concludes that the insanity defense should be retained but altered, and that psychiatrists should bear the burdens of advocating for the mentally ill.
(6) The review demonstrates that conditional release is particularly important as a means of balancing the protection of society with the treatment of insanity defense acquittees in the least restrictive environment.
(7) He has, however, refused to testify, invoking his right to remain silent, while his lawyer has insisted his client is “insane” and therefore unfit for trial.
(8) Four forensic psychiatrists were asked to indicate whether they thought 164 defendants met any or all of four insanity tests: 1) the American Law Institute (ALI) cognitive criterion, 2) the ALI volitional criterion, 3) the APA test, and 4) the M'Naghten rule.
(9) There is a need for Parliament to consider changes to the law both to prevent the mentally disordered being sent to prison inappropriately, and because the Mental Health Act 1983 has not taken account of rare cases where an offender such as an epileptic might be found legally insane but not mentally disordered.
(10) Others are taking the rally at face value and planning to turn up with banners proclaiming themselves part of the reasonable majority, liberal or conservative, against the particular brand of insanity that has swept America since Barack Obama entered the White House.
(11) I have to stay moving, going, running, just to keep me from going insane Michael Brown Sr “I lost my boy.
(12) A bit insane if you consider that most of the [Asian] lads were born in Rochdale.
(13) Documenting the early history of mental illness in North America is complicated by the absence of colonial institutions specializing in the care or management of the insane.
(14) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
(15) Not only is the use of the insanity defense infrequent, but defendants who select it give up important safeguards.
(16) The lawyer defending Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect behind Norway's terror attacks, said on Tuesday he had concluded his client was most likely "insane" and he was baffled that he had asked him to represent him.
(17) The treatment of insane persons in the last century is briefly described.
(18) The authors propose that, as occurs in tertiary neurosyphilis and general paresis of the insane, Borrelia species may invade the brain, remain in a latent state for many years, and cause dementia in the absence of other focal neurologic deficits.
(19) He sounds fresh as a daisy, which is kind of insane.
(20) McClure said she believed the "insane amount of media" at the park was keeping officials at bay.