(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(3) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(4) Experiments have been performed using CO2 laser-assisted microvascular anastomoses, and they demonstrated the following features, in comparison with conventional anastomoses: ease in technique; less time consumption; less tissue inflammation; early wound healing; equivalency of patency rate and inner pressure tolerance; but only about 50 percent of the tensile strength of manual-suture anastomosis.
(5) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(6) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(7) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
(8) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(9) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(10) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(11) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
(12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
(13) The participants strongly preferred the experimental leaflets to the approved leaflets, both with respect to accessibility of the contents (overall preference 78.1% v 17.8%) and ease of understanding the contraindications of drug use (90.2% v 73.7%).
(14) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(15) This article describes the development of REHAB, a behavior rating scale for use with people with chronic psychiatric disability, which has been carefully designed with respect to content, format, and ease of use.
(16) This modification allows for precision of movement, ease of repositioning, and adaptation of rigid skeletal stabilization of mobilized osseous segments in the chin.
(17) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
(18) Clinical open trials of beta-methyldigoxin were carried out in 15 institutions in order to examine the effect, usefulness and ease of its oral administration.
(19) The ease of use of this form of DRB typing is emphasized and potential complications are discussed.
(20) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
Easel
Definition:
(n.) A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Man Booker prize body used Twitter to post an image of the longlist on an easel outside Buckingham Palace, mimicking the official announcement of the birth of the royal baby on Monday.
(2) 3 I had an easel of my own, but the top of it was nothing like Van Gogh's, so I fashioned a fake top out of scrap wood and lashed it to the easel with duct tape.
(3) Thus, it was concluded that the TDI can be used in lieu of the MacBeth Easel Lamp for screening color vision with the Ishihara test.
(4) The thing that jars as the Briton of years standing enters the airy Brent auditorium is the incongruity of the Queen's formal portrait perched atop a wooden easel.
(5) —You know, she added, standing before a large photograph of Wegener that was set on an easel, there is a resemblance between these two men.
(6) Barnes refused to sell any of the great Matisses or Cezannes that he bought virtually off the easel because he considered his collection greater than the sum of its parts.
(7) It was planned long before it opened six months after Freud's death, and included his last painting left unfinished on his easel.
(8) I see now that a lot of the argument in the late 60s was not that painting was dead, but that easel painting was dead.
(9) In this setting, he sustained until the end his ability to make portrayals of many of the people and animals who mattered to him (the one still on the easel, Portrait of a Hound), paintings that face-to-face are all-consuming and oddly liberating.
(10) Jahar Tsarnaev took them all away in the most brutal and painful way possible,” she said, gesturing to easels holding large pictures of the four victims.
(11) At this point no one would be that surprised if Kensington Palace put out an easel declaring that she is going to be Prince George's godmother.
(12) Tim Hall's portrait shows his wife in their shared studio, their slightly bored-looking pug by her side, and her portrait of René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen – repeatedly voted the best restaurant in the world – on her easel.
(13) With all of the fussing over the Duchess of Cambridge's birth plan and the fact that the announcement of the birth will be made via an easel outside Buckingham Palace , I'm comforted to know that she will be going through exactly the same indignity and terror that I am currently experiencing.
(14) Paget recently opened a shipping container and found hundreds of easels inside, ordered at the peak of Obama's surge for commanders in small outposts, keen to map out their offensives against the Taliban on whiteboards balanced on the wooden stands.
(15) In fact, this alternative procedure yields test performances for normal and deficient subjects on the 100-hue, panel D-15, and AO H-R-R tests that are virtually identical to those obtained using a standard Macbeth Easel Lamp.
(16) Like Kelly, Zogolovitch likes undesignated spots "where you might set up a cello or an easel or write a novel".
(17) "Excess easels, there were easels everywhere," he said, shaking his head.
(18) Trivelpiece, an exceptionally astute physicist, had heard the president's sight was failing, and prepared his presentation on two large easels, which he dragged into the Oval Office.
(19) Someone wheel out the gilded easel and announce its arrival!
(20) The two discussed how he should pose, before deciding on his confrontational stance and straight-to-easel glare.