(n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
(2) Many tasks (e.g., solving algebraic equations and running errands) require the execution of several component processes in an unconstrained order.
(3) His first job was also as an errand boy and assistant in a grocer's shop, from which he moved on to be a junior shop assistant and an early switchboard operator.
(4) Through either running in a group or carrying out one-off missions you can complete physical tasks that benefit the community, for example doing errands for those who are isolated or lonely.
(5) Techniques such as Loci can be readily adapted to help us remember appointments, birthdays, errands we need to run, etc.
(6) Our results indicate that patients with RA experience more losses than controls in every domain of human activity and that patients with OA experience more losses in the performance of household chores, shopping and errands, and leisure activities.
(7) Though she pursued further studies and wrote, Aung San Suu Kyi did bring up children, darn socks and run grocery errands.
(8) He said he'd run some errands, and would "be right back".
(9) The first point to make, stresses Jason Butler from IFA Bloomsbury Wealth, is that "all the evidence suggests trying to time investment markets is a fools' errand".
(10) Photograph: TaskRabbit Leah Busque is the founder and CEO of TaskRabbit.com , an online and mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for neighbourhood errands and small jobs One blustery Boston night in February 2008, Leah Busque and her husband were about to go out for dinner when they realised they'd run out of dog food and didn't have time to get any.
(11) Ameobi dinks a ball over the top (seriously) and finds Gouffran again, once more with the Liverpool defenders busy running errands or something, but this time Johnson nips across and half-blocks, enough in any case to prevent another goal.
(12) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
(13) The whole idea that we were going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013, this plan never had a chance,” he said, adding that it was a “fool’s errand”.
(14) But as Stevenson heads off towards his seventh errand of the day, it's not clear what is keeping him going like this just shy of his 70th birthday.
(15) Pimpi is still working as an errand boy in a government office aged 38.
(16) And here’s a taster from the ‘errands’ section: • Organise all Jermain’s personal needs i.e.
(17) The men seem to be on some urgent errand or quest, but are constantly waylaid by events, the scenery, or perhaps the atmosphere.
(18) Fame Monster is said to revisit Jennifer O'Neill's two years travelling the world with Gaga, which she claims included running her errands, and sometimes even sleeping in the same bed.
(19) The second daughter of a middle-class Muslim family from the city’s Mulund area, Firoza learned to cycle at eight so she could run errands for her mother – she would hire a bike for 30 minutes a day because her father did not have the money to buy one.
(20) I was trusted to run errands alone in the van, so I knew I could leave the site without arousing suspicion.
Responsibility
Definition:
(n.) The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
(n.) That for which anyone is responsible or accountable; as, the resonsibilities of power.
(n.) Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) Furthermore, it had early diagnostic (seven days) as well as prognostic value, as revealed by response to therapy and decrease in COA titer.
(4) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(6) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
(7) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(8) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
(9) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(10) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
(11) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(12) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(13) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(14) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(15) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(16) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(17) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(18) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(19) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(20) 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.