(a.) Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
(a.) Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.
(a.) Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.
(a.) Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.
(a.) Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
(adv.) Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
(n.) That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.
(n.) Right; just title or claim.
(v. t.) To endue.
Example Sentences:
(1) tRNA from mutant IB13 lacks 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thio-uridine in vivo due to a permanently nonfunctional methyltransferase.
(2) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(3) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(4) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(6) 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.
(7) This may be due to efficient replacement of Leu by Phe at CUC (and, probably, CUU) codons throughout the genome.
(8) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(9) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(10) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(11) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(12) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(13) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
(14) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
(15) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
(16) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(17) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(18) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(19) The differences might be due to an arrest of "specialization" in the regional expression of the different MHC isoforms.
(20) The sexual dimorphism in hepatic drug metabolism found in Crl:CD-1 mice is due to the normally repressive effects of testicular androgens on the activities of hepatic monooxygenases.
Repossess
Definition:
(v. t.) To possess again; as, to repossess the land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(2) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(3) Mortgage lenders are failing to follow rules designed to help people avoid repossession, according to a damning report published today.
(4) The owners of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight won a repossession order today in their attempt to end an occupation of the plant by workers protesting at planned job losses.
(5) But by 2007 work dried up and we were struggling to pay the mortgage, leading to our home being repossessed.
(6) A record number of Americans are having their homes repossessed.
(7) A worse slump than expected means many more unemployed and thousands more homes repossessed.
(8) Therefore, possible future increases in unemployment or interest rates may cause a further wave of repossessions," said S&P credit analyst Neil Monro.
(9) Repossessions rise and properties lose 40% of their value.
(10) The difference between the two sets of repossession figures is due to the fact that the FSA data includes all lenders, including those offering second charge mortgages, while the CML only publishes figures on first charge loans advanced by its members.
(11) Figures from the Ministry of Justice show that 11,100 properties were repossessed by bailiffs between July and September this year , the highest quarterly figure since records began in 2000.
(12) "The UK deficit is the result of vital government action to keep the economy afloat and prevent the levels of unemployment, business closures and repossessions seen in previous recessions."
(13) The homelessness charity Crisis said the repossession figures showed the economic downturn had become "a human crisis" and that thousands of people were now at risk of homelessness.
(14) The housing minister, Margaret Beckett, said: "We know that some families are worried about their mortgage payments right now, and we are determined to do everything possible to ensure repossession is always a last resort.
(15) In its latest analysis of the Irish property market at the start of 2014, the ratings agency Fitch said one in five houses where mortgages had been in arrears for three months or more was likely to be repossessed.
(16) I understand what is happening to ordinary working people – their jobs are being lost, their families and the future of their children are being threatened, their houses are being repossessed and they are looking around for someone to give them help.
(17) Business failures and house repossessions were at record levels.
(18) The scheme, which aims to prevent people spiralling into debt, home repossession and relationship breakdown when they lose their jobs, is being considered by the party's policy review, chaired by MP Jon Cruddas .
(19) The Moody's report's key conclusion was relatively positive – it predicted that a combination of "lender forbearance and manageable affordability" would help older borrowers manage to avoid repossession.
(20) Mortgage-holders who bought council houses have a far higher rate of repossession than other groups of home owners.