(n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
(n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
(n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
(n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.
(n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
(n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
(n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
(v. i.) To join in an embrace.
(n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
(2) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(3) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
(4) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
(5) IDCs sometimes embraced or contacted lymphocytes, suggesting their role in the differentiation of the latter cells.
(6) After bone-union the embracing ring device was removed in conjunction with external lotion and active exercises.
(7) Slaven Bilic must show West Ham he is more than a rock star manager | Aleksandar Holiga Read more For Sullivan and co, however, it is a nightmare they are embracing, one which has provided a shot at European football and the opportunity for Bilic to begin with an immediate feelgood run.
(8) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
(9) The indications were initially restrictive but now embrace the quasi-totality of gallstones, complicated or not, and in particular when the patient's general condition is fragile.
(10) At birth, most cochlear neurons displayed peripheral arbors that embraced both inner and outer hair cell receptors.
(11) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(12) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
(13) These processes are structurally stable rearrangements of tissue morphology and are spread in the tissue as a wave embracing more and more cells.
(14) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
(15) Trump, embracing the spirit of the “lock her up” mob chants at his rallies, threatened: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation – there has never been so many lies and so much deception,” he threatened.
(16) It represents a temporary drop in traditionally defined living standards, in exchange for a more equitable and sustainable future – a concept that our grandparents' generation embraced, as they endured rationing but also produced the NHS, social housing and social security.
(17) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
(18) It will highlight the importance of our sport embracing innovation and change as we move forward.
(19) Attempts at such prevention inevitably also embrace prevention of the extraosseous consequences of autonomous hyperparathyroidism, such as the effects of hypercalcaemia, need for parathyroid surgery, and, perhaps, toxic effects of the parathyroid hormone.
(20) For Davutoglu, this ambition entails a "comprehensive" approach embracing enhanced economic, cultural and social ties as well as political and security relations.
Learn
Definition:
(v. t.) To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.
(v. t.) To communicate knowledge to; to teach.
(v. i.) To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(4) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
(5) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(6) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(7) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
(8) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(10) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(11) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(12) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(13) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(14) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
(15) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(16) Learning disabled children made more errors at all ages than normal children.
(17) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(18) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(19) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(20) Before discharge, subjects rated six out of the seven content areas as "important" for learning.