(n.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).
Example Sentences:
(1) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(2) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
(3) Within a treatment program, the use of various kinds of assessment methods and treatment modalities did not appear to be closely associated with the endorsement of abstinence vs nonabstinence treatment goals.
(4) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(5) By using a quasi-A-B-A experimental design for the six abortion items that appeared in the Edmonton Area Survey for the years 1984, 1987, and 1988, we found that the order of presentation of the items affected dramatically the endorsement of the abortion items.
(6) Of our sample, 31 per cent endorsed use of sex selection technology, with the small subsample of nonwhites more accepting of utilization than were whites.
(7) April 12, 2016 Gardner, who previously supported Marco Rubio’s presidential bid, has yet to endorse any of the remaining three candidates.
(8) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(9) The head of the TUC, Frances O'Grady, said she supported the aims of the foundation, but was wary of endorsing changes that allowed retailers to squeeze under the wire without raising the pay of the lowest-paid workers.
(10) Their endorsement would be a significant coup for Farage’s party as it seeks to build on the two by-election victories following the defection of Tory MPs, Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell.
(11) The usefulness of micronutrient antioxidant therapy for recurrent (non-gallstone) pancreatitis has recently been endorsed by a 20-week double-blind double-dummy cross-over trial in 20 patients.
(12) The code, endorsed by the Department of Health , has been piloted by eight organisations.
(13) Projects that are not endorsed or supported by the Lego group.
(14) Government officials said they saw the massed forces as an endorsement of the new Greek administration's determination to enforce unpopular changes on an economy that has lost close to 20% of GDP since its first bailout in May 2010.
(15) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(16) Stand by Trumpenstein, as some are now doing, and you risk seeming to endorse his ideas, statements and ludicrous antics.
(17) Nick Clegg has endorsed the government's decision to ask the Guardian to destroy leaked secret NSA documents on the grounds that Britain would face a "serious threat to national security" if they reached the "wrong hands".
(18) He asked Cameron to write to Bawtree to say he believed the idea was worthy of endorsement.
(19) Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton was advised once again by Beltway advisers who knew it all, had the models and the projections, but who called it wrong.” The USHCC was singularly invested in the outcome of Tuesday’s election, as it had endorsed Clinton for the presidency – the first time it has done so for any candidate in its 38-year history.
(20) Candidates have 60 minutes to submit their forms, which must be endorsed by 12 to 15 MPs, at least three of whom must be from a party different to the candidate's own.
Sanctify
Definition:
(v. t.) To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
(v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
(v. t.) To make efficient as the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
(v. t.) To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violation; to give sanction to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nelson Mandela, 95, and 89-year-old Robert Mugabe are two giants of southern African politics with little in common: one sanctified, the other demonised.
(2) Jessica Glenza Foreign policy Obama’s foreign policy was sanctified before it had properly begun.
(3) But religiously speaking I don't think that any human being can be sanctified to the extent that they cannot make mistakes."
(4) We sanctify the food, offering it to God, and that spiritualised food is called prasadam , which means the mercy of the Lord.
(5) In A Small Family Business (1987), without ever mentioning Mrs Thatcher but to devastatingly comic effect, Ayckbourn pinned down the essential contradiction in her beliefs: that you cannot simultaneously sanctify traditional family values and individual greed.
(6) You couldn't put a publishing chief executive on the recognition committee that sanctifies the new arrangement, nor on the appointments committee that puts this regulator and his or her board in place.
(7) Yet this debate remains trapped in the past, with the institution still pathetically over-sanctified despite a series of horrific care scandals showing the damage this myopic stance can cause vulnerable patients.
(8) Formal authority was no longer sanctified; the prospect of elite admonishment or discipline no longer commanded so much fear.
(9) Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Boxing has been sanctified by all the fine minds who have fallen for it through the years.
(10) We made these sacrifices in order for Egypt to become a true democratic civil state in which human dignity is sanctified and human rights respected.
(11) "They cannot say that they want to separate from the Palestinians in order to prevent a binational state, which has a certain logic, and also sanctify a binational, Jewish-Arab state within the permanent borders of the state of Israel."
(12) A s with so much concerning Kafka – his strange life, and stranger fiction – we are almost compelled to begin with the observations of Max Brod, his friend, sanctifier and – some might argue – crypto-amanuensis.
(13) However he was always identified as one of the Conservative party's most prominent rebels on the matter, telling one constituent last March: "I believe that marriage is an institution ordained to sanctify a union between a man and a woman."
(14) Yet if the Commonwealth was sanctified by the coronation, the Mother Country felt less secure.
(15) The ever-blunt publisher Dennis Johnson writes , "it was as if the government not only sanctified the Amazon monopoly, but they made sure it's going to get even more dominant".
(16) The MEP Jussi Halla-aho of the Finns party, for instance, accuses Islam of "sanctifying paedophilia".
(17) A political lie is no longer sanctified by office and received as wisdom from on high.
(18) So the call comes again for real, parliament-sanctified law, not judge-concocted, superinjunction law in these privacy areas – and now Tom McNally, at coalition justice HQ, is promising exactly that.
(19) Men frequently relate to women as either "sanctified" and hence, asexual, or as sexual, and therefore "degraded."
(20) In ancient times this organ was sanctified and, as sacred object, its emblem formed the headdress of male and female deities.