(n.) That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
(n.) Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
(v. t.) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
(v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
(v. i.) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
(2) Mass examination in organized populations at industrial enterprises made it possible to bring to light a statistically significant different effect of the level of productive labor and sport activity on the prevalence of frequent alcohol consumption as one of CHD risk factors.
(3) In this review, the instrumentation essential to any microsurgical enterprise and the sutures available are described.
(4) As a result existing job definitions and traditional forms of organization are being challenged and attempts made to restructure work so that it becomes meaningful and rewarding in the fullest sense, to the individual, to the enterprise, and to society.
(5) Defining personality and its pathological variants is a hazardous enterprise.
(6) "I would go further: where they work properly, open markets and free enterprise can actually promote morality.
(7) He said he hoped the eurozone countries would "get their act together" and make it a success, adding: "The last thing we should do is say 'oh in that case we wash our hands of the whole enterprise and we'll get out'.
(8) The clinical structure of the revealed neuropsychic disturbances has been studied on the materials of blanket examination of several thousands of employees at a large industrial enterprise.
(9) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(10) There is no shortage of aspiration-raising initiatives from social enterprises and charities offering the sort of “inspiring visitors” programmes that she proposes.
(11) They would work with local enterprise partnerships, set up by the coalition following its abolition of regional development agencies.
(12) Sometimes it helps when an enterprise can point to the success of an affiliate in another country.
(13) The mode of administration of chemotherapy is evaluated, in conditions of integration, and under strict supervision, in tuberculosis patients in 12 medical dispensaries and in 6 enterprise dispensaries from Craiova over a period of one year.
(14) In the international categories, a Nicaraguan company won the energy enterprise award for installing more than 400 kilowatt peak (kWp) of solar photovoltaic energy, often in rural areas without a national grid connection.
(15) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(16) With social enterprises represented in an increasing number of markets, customers are being presented with choices about how they spend their money – and whether by that choice they can help to build a fairer society.
(17) The 126 747 examinations for risk factors revealed a succesive increase in the detection indices as follows: 0.76 per thousand among students, 1.36 per thousand in silicogen risk enterprises, 2.07 per thousand among the workers on building sites, 2.22 per thousand among diabetics, 2.76 per thousand among contacts, 2.85 per thousand among hyperergic subjects, 3.89 per thousand among former patients no longer on the files, 4.17 per thousand among alcoholics and patients under psychical treatment, 6.01 per thousand among patients with minimal lesions and 6.82 thousand among those with sequelae.
(18) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
(19) This infection affected persons working at one of sheep-breeding complexes, as well as at enterprises, technologically linked with this complex.
(20) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.
Initiative
Definition:
(a.) Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
(n.) An introductory step or movement; an act which originates or begins.
(n.) The right or power to introduce a new measure or course of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue bills is in the House of Representatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(5) Needle acupuncture did, however, increase the pain threshold compared with the initial value (alpha = 0.1%).
(6) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(7) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(8) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(9) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(10) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
(11) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(12) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(13) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(14) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
(15) At low concentrations of TFIC there is a more or less direct relationship between the amount of the factor and the number of initiated complexes formed.
(16) During the 1st h after induction of the sporulation process, the rate of protein synthesis increased to two times the initial value.
(17) Benefits increase with an individual's initial cholesterol level and decrease with the age at which an intervention is initiated.
(18) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(19) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(20) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.