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Downsize


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) How do you draw a supportive social services ring around these families if they are forced as a result of housing benefit caps to move miles away to different boroughs and schools, or downsize into an overcrowded flat?
  • (2) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
  • (3) Because of a shortage of smaller properties, many families have found it impossible to downsize and have been forced to make up the difference in rent, pushing many into arrears and debt.
  • (4) Downsize, by all means, but smaller, age-friendly homes are not always cheaper – and even retired people have to live somewhere.
  • (5) "Downsizing among this demographic by purchasing smaller homes using equity built up over years of booming property prices is a growing trend," says Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients.
  • (6) There is a shortage of one bedroom flats in many parts of the region, with sharp competition between individuals trying to move on from supported housing, and those faced with having to downsize to avoid the bedroom tax or risk falling into arrears.
  • (7) You can always reduce the IHT hit by downsizing, giving your children some or all of the cash released by buying a cheaper property and then living another seven years to make the gift tax-free.
  • (8) Special efforts must be taken to ensure that downsizing will not exacerbate the existing problem of overspecialization and limited access to care.
  • (9) Nevertheless, Elop believes Nokia's downsizing and outplacement programmes are a good thing for Finland.
  • (10) On average, just downsizing from a three-bed to a two-bed home would release around £70,000, according to Savills.
  • (11) Around half of HMV's 223 stores are expected to close while Hilco has the backing of major film and music companies to run a downsized chain.
  • (12) Weaving admits that downsizing Cumbrian hospitals will be a "very sensitive thing for the public", but resources have been redeployed into creating new community NHS services as a result, such as setting up a team of home care nurses, with £6m of extra investment in 2009.
  • (13) Downsizing the state will supersize the economy - this is the economic prize politicians should be grabbing with both hands.
  • (14) As the report says, “this suggests that landlords with the highest proportion of affected tenants will have more difficulties in meeting the demand for downsizing.” In clinical researcher language, the report is an insight into the human misery of this failed policy .
  • (15) The couple are looking at home-swap schemes and are beginning to contemplate how they will dispose of belongings accumulated over 34 years of married life, in order to downsize.
  • (16) But the charity has been beset by financial turmoil following the announcement that the government would not give it its annual £5m grant this year, though it later negotiated a one-off £3m payment, what was called a “transforming and downsizing plan” after Batmanghelidjh said she would resign.
  • (17) He also downsized the number of people he expects to attend, dismissing initial estimates that 15,000 people may march and this week saying that he expected it would draw 3,000 to 5,000.
  • (18) If they choose to downsize, this group are popular with sellers and estate agents alike as they are often cash buyers or only need small mortgages.
  • (19) We had planned to stay in our current property two years, and with the equity and price rises we could then downsize and reduce our mortgage.
  • (20) By integrating automation technology with controlled downsizing and restructuring of drug distribution services, the department was able to reduce expenses while improving existing pharmaceutical services.

Terminate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
  • (v. t.) To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.
  • (v. i.) To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.
  • (v. i.) To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
  • (2) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (3) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
  • (4) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
  • (5) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
  • (6) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
  • (7) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (8) In the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus (Vc), the collaterals of one half of the periodontium afferent fibers terminated mainly in lamina V at the rostral and middle levels of Vc.
  • (9) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
  • (10) The mtRF-1 could translate all of the known termination codons in the rat mitochondrial genome.
  • (11) However, none of the nerve terminals making synaptic contacts with glomus cells exhibited SP-like immunoreactivity.
  • (12) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
  • (13) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
  • (14) The seve polypeptide chains investigated had generalyy similar properties; all contained two residues per molecule of tryptophan and N-acetylserine was the common N-terminal amino acid residue.
  • (15) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (16) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
  • (17) The earliest degenerative changes were seen in sensory and motor terminals at 20-24 h after the lesion.
  • (18) The terminal half-life averaged 12 h following intravenous and 15 h after oral administration.
  • (19) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
  • (20) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.

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