(a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
(n.) An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emollients can increase the water content in the stratum corneum by delivery of their water to the skin, and by occlusion.
(2) As opposition to her and her measures became more intense, she responded not with emollience but with increased ferocity.
(3) In conclusion, regular use of emollients prevented irritant dermatitis from a detergent.
(4) p1 percent) with desoximetasone emollient cream (0.25 percent) showed the new topical steroid to be clinically superior in the relief of moderate and severe inflammatory manifestations of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
(5) While it’s too early to suppose that President Trump’s attitude won’t change, given his unpredictability, the more emollient tone does appear to be pacifying markets for now.” Analysts also pointed to another reason for the strength in US markets.
(6) One wing of the party wants Ed Miliband to take the fight to Ukip; the other calls for a more emollient approach so as not to insult or upset former Labour supporters who have been seduced by the Faragian view of things.
(7) But, if the prime minister believed Morgan would simply be a more emollient version of her predecessor – or as one of her close allies put it, “if they thought she would just be a Stepford minister” – he had misunderstood the 41-year-old MP for Loughborough.
(8) But everyone knows that Bercow, a much more abrasive Commons chair than either Hoyle or his equally emollient Tory colleague, Nigel Evans, is not popular among Tory MPs.
(9) Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, who has previously compared the Republican presidential nominee to Hitler and Mussolini , tried to strike a more emollient tone, tweeting : “I believe in dialogue to promote the interests of Mexico in the world and to protect Mexicans wherever they are.” Many of his countrymen, especially among the intellectual elite, were rather blunter as they anticipated the arrival of a man who has accused Mexico of “bringing their worst people” to America, including criminals and rapists.
(10) As the campaign has progressed, and his chances of victory have increased, some figures on the party’s centre-right, such as Chuka Umunna, who had initially sounded alarms about the leftwing insurgent, began to make more emollient noises.
(11) Then standard amounts of the emollients were applicated to the induced skin reactions, twice daily for a period of 5 days.
(12) Nor does Xi's confidence in overseas dealings necessarily indicate a more emollient approach to foreign relations.
(13) Supportive therapy involves maintaining the affected extremities at warm temperatures and the use of emollient creams.
(14) His emollient language, in answer to a question from the former Labour sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe, contrasted with last week's prime minister's questions when he described the £162m programme as a "complete failure".
(15) The message was a reprise of the commitment to engagement approach he signalled in his inaugural address and was made in an emollient tone that contrasted sharply with that used by George Bush, who included the Islamic Republic in his "axis of evil".
(16) Very superficial burns require only application of an emollient to limit inflammation and pain and prevent desiccation.
(17) Emollient and realistic, because, without question, Tsipras is in an uncomfortable position.
(18) In this study, the influence of 4 after-work emollients on the healing of irritant skin reactions of varying intensity was assessed.
(19) Findings from these multicenter studies confirm the value of the skin replica technique and help establish the efficacy of tretinoin emollient 0.05% cream for photodamaged skin.
(20) Brian Cathcart, the executive director of the campaign group, later issued a more emollient statement: "The direct involvement of ministers in these secret negotiations means no one can be confident that the public's interests are being served rather than the interests of the editors and proprietors, or of the politicians."
Lenient
Definition:
(a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
(a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
(n.) A lenitive; an emollient.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was less than predicted by many observers – each of the 12 offences had a maximum term of between two and 10 years – and immediately the attorney general's office received calls from the public asking it to look at whether it was too lenient.
(2) From Brussels our Europe editor, Ian Traynor , provides this analysis of this morning's events: The eurozone permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, has been given a green light to come into force two months later than planned following the supreme court decision in Karlsruhe which arrived with much more lenient caveats than had been predicted.
(3) Cable's strongly worded intervention came after parliament's spending watchdog, the public accounts committee, said HMRC was "way too lenient" on companies that use clever accounting tricks to pay very little or no tax.
(4) Even in the few cases where prosecution does take place, sentences tend to be lenient.
(5) Other estimates suggest little more than £150m Even so, as Johnson says, this is all lenient compared with equivalent rates in New York, where they also pay local income tax.
(6) All patients were medication free, and REM latency was explicitly defined using both strict and lenient criteria.
(7) That ruling could make it more likely that other lenders will start taking a more lenient view when it comes to older mortgage borrowers.
(8) One partial explanation for the sudden drop in admissions may be that Swedish courts have given more lenient sentences for drug offences following a ruling of the country's supreme court in 2011.
(9) I would maintain that marking has become more lenient.
(10) Will the big names be treated more leniently than the smaller ones?
(11) To date, Czechoslovakia has had a fairly lenient attitude toward the sterilization of women; only recently has it been applied to men as well.
(12) Furthermore, intrinsically motivated subjects chose higher performance standards than had been demonstrated to them in the lenient-demand condition, and also arranged leaner schedules of self reinforcement over all demand conditions than had been demonstrated to them, compared to extrinsically motivated subjects.
(13) "It appears to me the sentence was unduly lenient and the overall criminality was not reflected," he told the court.
(14) No prison for Colorado college student who ‘raped a helpless young woman' Read more Despite the guilty verdict by a jury, Judge Patrick Butler decided not to send Wilkerson to prison this week with a ruling that closely resembles the lenient sentencing of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner .
(15) Tom Gosling, reward partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "There is a wider question of differences in regulatory approach at the global level creating an uneven playing field, and a risk of geographic arbitrage in favour of jurisdictions that are perceived to be more lenient."
(16) He cited Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts, which had an even more lenient policy, allowing criminals out on parole to vote.
(17) Anthony Bosch – who choked back tears in court and said the clinic was a legitimate business gone awry – sought a more lenient term because of his cooperation in the investigation, but US District Judge Darrin Gayles refused.
(18) External conditions were three demand conditions (stringent, variable, and lenient).
(19) Results include the findings that (a) performance is an inverted-U shaped function of exactingness, (b) performance is better under incentives when environments are lenient but not when they are exacting, (c) the interaction between exactingness and incentives does not obtain when an incentives function fails to discriminate sharply between good and bad performance, and (d) when the negative effects of exactingness on performance are eliminated, performance increases with exactingness.
(20) "It was a very lenient sentence," said Shahryar Khan, a retired diplomat and a former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, speaking by telephone from Lahore.