(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.
Matriarch
Definition:
(n.) The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(2) Many say that female “water protectors”, in some cases drawing on matriarchal tribal structures, are the core spiritual leaders strategizing how to block the “black snake” pipeline and planning actions to stand up to a police force that has gone to great lengths to defend an oil corporation .
(3) Among the remaining patients was a divorced mother of four with a failing liver who was engaged to be remarried; a second world war " Rosie Riveter " who had trouble speaking because of a stroke; and Ma'Dear, an ailing matriarch with long, braided hair, renowned for her cooking and the strict but loving way she raised 12 children.
(4) The same day, another family, in the corner and speaking a foreign language, huddles around a matriarch quite literally kept alive by machines.
(5) She played matriarchal leads in two BBC series of the 1980s, King's Royal and Strike It Rich, before going into Inspector Wexford.
(6) The play, about a pill-popping matriarch and her rackety family, will be adapted for the screen by Tracy Letts, who won a Pulitzer prize for the work.
(7) They named her after the Hebrew matriarch whose pleas for a child were eventually answered.
(8) Because of the large number of young men who had either been killed in the Civil War, left the region seeking a new beginning in the West, or moved to more prosperous metropolitan centers on the East coast, rural life in 19th century New England was primarily matriarchal or female-centered.
(9) Guided by Freud's dialectic thinking and his discussion of the phenomena of patriarchy and matriarchy, one is led to contemplate the totemism of a matriarchally oriented boy.
(10) The death and burial of a southern matriarch, Addie Bundren, is told from some 15 viewpoints, including that of the dying woman herself.
(11) "So many rappers aren't talking about what's going on in the music industry and how many people are gay," says DJ and scene matriarch Venus X.
(12) A wolf called No9 had the first litter of eight pups and was known as the “matriarch of Yellowstone”.
(13) "He saw Forrest as the matriarch and the patriarch of the family, in the wake of their parents' deaths.
(14) Mother: Andrée, fearsome matriarch Education: a mediocre student, has an MA in private law and degree in business law.
(15) All the other women in my family are magnificent matriarchs with beautiful, well-organised homes, while the role I've played until now has been peripatetic and undomesticated.
(16) Scott said zookeepers had been keeping a close eye on the female elephants since the death earlier this month of the zoo's matriarch elephant, Connie.
(17) Analysis of mitochondrial (mt) DNA restriction sites shows that Kemp's ridley is distinct from the olive ridley in matriarchal phylogeny, and that the two are sister taxa with respect to other marine turtles.
(18) Matriarch, I note, has now become almost a term of abuse when used about Angela Merkel.
(19) But even as the leader attempted not to sound like the matriarch in charge of the family till, there is no denying that that is exactly what she is.
(20) Winner: 2012's reimagining of the matriarch as handy recap tool.