(1) The practice of community nursing was heavily emphasized, and it was endeavored to strike a balance between hospital experience and work in communities themselves.
(2) In 240 cases of genital ulcer disease among mineworkers in Carletonville, South Africa, this study endeavored to correlate the clinical diagnosis with laboratory findings.
(3) The present study investigated and endeavored to quantify the psychological, sexual, and social adjustment reactions to a mastectomy, the possible interaction of these reactions, and the role of environmental support in mediating these responses.
(4) Understanding the nature and mechanisms of the CNS transduction of peripheral thermal stimuli to efferent command signals for driving thermoregulatory motor outputs will be a challenging endeavor in the future.
(5) This substantial goal probably will be achieved through the completion of smaller endeavors.
(6) The findings reveal that through feminist endeavors, and women physicians as nurse educators, the New England Hospital for Women and Children emerged as a leader in training nurses.
(7) Observational instruments have been used in forensic science, medical, and social situations in an endeavor to measure alcohol intoxication.
(8) Bold and imaginative plans by the medical library community are essential to the full success of the endeavor.
(9) While experience is being gained, each party must endeavor to understand what the technique is able to determine and what it cannot determine.
(10) The investigators endeavored to determine whether (a) depressed adolescents would perform as well as normals on the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency and (b) whether the method of diagnosing major depressive episode (MDE), using DSM-III criteria or the Dexamethasone Suppression Test, was related to motor proficiency.
(11) Modern forecasting techniques and criteria to evaluate prognostic endeavors are described.
(12) Systems like this permit compilation of data, statistical analysis, and the possibility of intercommunication with other microcomputers and mainframe systems in collaborative research endeavors.
(13) Because of the increasing number of patients and the variety of prostheses and fixation modalities available to the surgeon, the evaluation of the patient with a painful arthroplasty has become an increasingly complex endeavor.
(14) The collecting of human remains for study in museums and medical schools has been a vital scientific endeavor for many years.
(15) It is predicted that future endeavors will use this relationship to diagnose and treat specific diseases that have at their basis neuroendocrine and immunologic imbalances.
(16) The library profession must earn a central place in this endeavor, and must address a number of important issues.
(17) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
(18) In addition, closer links with nearby educational institutions or affiliated hospitals are being pursued to support and maintain our ongoing marketing endeavors.
(19) This is not the first time a federal agency has endeavored to track the number of police killings in the US.
(20) This endeavor will be fostered by the further development and refinement of non-invasive roentgenographic techniques.
Salvo
Definition:
(n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
(n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
(n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(2) Recently, we described a bovine aortic phosphatase which we called PCM-phosphatase (polycation modulable) because its activity in vitro can be modulated by polycations such as polylysine and histone-H1 (Di Salvo J, Gifford D, Kokkinakis A. Modulation of aortic protein phosphatase activity by polylysine.
(3) Look, these are opening salvos,” she told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.
(4) Imagine the intimidating message it sends to smaller organisations in the provinces.” In line with his attacks on Soros, Orbán launched yet another anti-EU salvo this month in the form of a government-backed consultation exercise – provocatively titled “Let’s Stop Brussels!” – which asked voters to respond to what critics say are six deliberately loaded questions presented as binary choices.
(5) Lee's case is the "opening salvo in a campaign to remove progressive forces from the political scene," Gregory Elich, a member of the advisory board at the Korea Policy Institute, wrote just before the trial. "
(6) The minimal cycle length of salvos of TA was not modified by these parameters.
(7) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
(8) The latter theory may be given weight by one ear-catching phrase from the prosecution's opening salvo: "No soldier, no matter what his experience or what unit he is attached to is above the law."
(9) But she saved a special salvo for Walker for failing to support student loan refinancing options – just as the rightwing stalwart showed signs of weakness in the first formal polls since the first Republican debate last week.
(10) Three major factors responsible for the repetitive activity could be disclosed: The heart rate preceding isolated ventricular extrasystoles was lower than that preceding the salvos of VT (p less than 0.01) the duration of which increased in a linear way with the sinus rate; Duration of the cycle preceding the last sinus beat before the bursts (long duration in 77% in group A and in 57% in group B).
(11) In patients of NYHA class 3 there was a higher spontaneous variability of VPCs, couplets and salvos than in patients of NYHA class 2, but the differences could not be ensured statistically.
(12) Klein dismissed the idea that acquiring Dos Santos provided the opening salvo in the upcoming battle for the area’s soccer fans.
(13) The arrival of the G1 is the latest salvo in a fight to control the software that will power the next generation of mobile phones, which can access the internet.
(14) Sanader was clearly upset by the allegations , which he said were the opening salvo in what he predicted would be a "very dirty" opposition campaign to discredit his government over the Pliva sale.
(15) The attack that killed Sardar Ahmad and his family was the opening salvo in a string of complex assaults, including on two election offices, battering Kabul with a level of violence normally spread out over weeks or months.
(16) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
(17) The combination of sotalol with mexiletine or tocainide reduced ventricular ectopic beats by 79% and complex ventricular arrhythmias (pairs and salvoes) by 85%.
(18) It opened with the salvo: "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation of consumption simply haven't worked … The revision of US-inspired drug policies is urgent in the light of the rising levels of violence and corruption associated with narcotics."
(19) The coupling intervals between preceding normal sinus beats and beats which led to repetitive ventricular discharge were clustered between the shortest and the longest coupling intervals which did not lead to salvoes and tachycardia.
(20) With this latest salvo, I am afraid that we must consign Dawkins to this very same pile of the irrational and the dishonest.