(a.) Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
(a.) Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
(a.) Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
(n.) An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(2) Three million of us are behind our team!” trumpets La Republica, who hail “the national team's exemplary behaviour so far, both individually and collectively.” Naturally they were saying exactly the same thing after the defeat to Costa Rica.
(3) He could execute in an exemplary fashion pieces of music for the organ in his repertory as well as improvise.
(4) The second cause for alarm is more real – the insistence on imposing exemplary, or punitive, damages on those who don't join the regulator (and, in some circumstances, even those who do).
(5) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
(6) Lt General Stephen Speakes applauded Greene for a “sense of self, a sense of humility” and an exemplary work ethic, according to an account of the promotion ceremony published by the Times Union of Albany, New York, which called Greene an Albany native.
(7) On Friday, Hacked Off called for an urgent correction to one of the major sticking points for Fleet Street: the unintended vulnerability of the amateur blogger who, due to "bad government drafting", could have found themselves liable for exemplary damages.
(8) "[The CQC inspectors] saw some exemplary care, but some hospitals were not even getting the basics right.
(9) Her plan was angrily rejected by the food and drink industry, which claimed an exemplary code already existed that had been rigidly followed by the industry.
(10) These states were selected for the purpose of illustrating two different approaches and not necessarily for the presentation of exemplary evaluation practices.
(11) Unstable angina pectoris, a particular form of acute coronary heart disease is described in two exemplary cases.
(12) The intellectual elegance of her work – and its exemplary quality as an Anthropocene-aware artefact – lies in its subtle tracing of the technological and imperial histories involved in a single extinction event and its residue.
(13) Spotlight is more akin Argo , Ben Affleck’s big winner in 2013: it takes a conventional approach to telling a compelling true story, with assured direction and exemplary performances from its ensemble cast.
(14) No 10 insists Cameron was kept in close contact with the talks from his offices a quarter of a mile away in Downing Street, but it was not necessary for him to be personally present since the substantive talks had already occurred, and the purpose of the Letwin meeting was purely to tidy up aspects of exemplary damages.
(15) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
(16) Sharon Allen, chief executive of Skills for Care, said the academy was doing “exemplary work” and that the award was “well-deserved”.
(17) This failure of supportive, exemplary democratic leadership is even more apparent in Washington, where the longer Barack Obama has remained in office, held hostage by a hostile Congress, the more myopic, seemingly, has become his global strategic vision.
(18) Petrolheads should have been a cast-iron hit – the logic behind it was exemplary: people love Have I Got News For You, people love Top Gear, Neil Morrissey is a beloved comic actor.
(19) At the Economist, we have always been supportive of the idea that anything that could be done to clean up Britain's libel laws[, should be done] … the idea of exemplary damages for people who are outside the system I find very difficult," he said.
(20) The investigators believe that collaboration, caring, and communication are the essence of exemplary health care.
Proficient
Definition:
(n.) One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.
(a.) Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,
Example Sentences:
(1) However, at the aprt locus the repair-deficient cells were much more highly mutable (9-15-fold) than the repair-proficient AT3-2 cells.
(2) Mean proficiency scores were 51% for atrial flutter and 35% for ventricular tachycardia.
(3) We hypothesize that preferential removal of lesions from the transcribed strand of the hprt gene accounts for the observed DNA strand specificity of mutations in repair-proficient cells.
(4) On the other hand, excision proficient yeast cells were slightly more sensitive to killing by UV radiation following transformation with a plasmid containing the denV gene.
(5) recD and recB both encode subunits of exonuclease V, but recD mutants, unlike recB, remain proficient in genetic recombination and repair.
(6) Proficiency in this area, along with expert clinical advice, will be needed to advance therapy of patients complicated with fungal infections during the next decade.
(7) SPP1 mutants that are affected in the genes necessary for viral capsid formation (gene 41) or involved in headful cleavage (gene 6) remain proficient in pac site cleavage.
(8) When laboratories were analyzed according to hospital size, the proficiency in performing the proper susceptibility testing was 55% (6 of 11) for hospitals with more than 400 beds versus 3% (2 of 58) for hospitals with fewer than 100 beds (P less than 0.0001 by Fisher's exact test).
(9) When the practitioner has developed proficiency in restoring class II carious lesions with tunnel restorations, less treatment time is required than with traditional class II preparations.
(10) Spearman rbos between the questionnaire responses and relative hand proficiency were .733, .689, and .619.
(11) Early diagnosis of a primary tumor and recognition of recurrence are often facilitated if the examining physician is proficient in identifying skin metastases.
(12) It is shown that revertants are characterized as intermediate strains between recA and rec+ (on the level of recB, recC strains) on their recombination proficiency in crosses with Hfr, sensitivity to UV and gamma-rays and in F-heterogenote formed cultures on their capacity of the formation of recombinants between episome and chromosome and the capacity to chromosome mobilization.
(13) A proficiency study designed to assess interlaboratory precision of amniotic fluid surfactant measurements is presented.
(14) What are the standards of determining the degree of care, skill and proficiency that is required?
(15) For the first time, we report that critral exhibits UV-A (315-400 nm) light enhanced oxygen-dependent toxicity against a series of Escherichia coli strains differing in DNA repair and catalase proficiency.
(16) Maryland's proficiency testing program is modeled on that of New York State but incorporates improvements in diagnostic definitions, testing mechanisms, and retraining requirements.
(17) It is shown that imperfect correlations between proficiency and preference measures, and J-shaped distributions of preference, can be predicted by such a model.
(18) Before the course was developed, pharmacy staff members were asked to rate their drug information skills; the pharmacists' responses indicated their belief that they were not proficient enough in the skills needed in daily practice.
(19) Samples of whole blood from four hematologically normal adults and from two individuals with increased fetal hemoglobin levels were shipped to laboratories participating in the 1976 and 1977 Center for Disease Control (CDC) hemoglobinopathy proficiency testing surveys.
(20) The reliability of these techniques is dependent on proficient specimen procurement and the cytopathologist's expertise and experience.