(a.) Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.
(n.) One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
(n.) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
(a.) To remove; to set apart.
(a.) To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(2) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.
(3) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
(4) However, an exemption in the MPA allows people from the US nuclear base on Diego Garcia to continue fishing.
(5) However, the 1916 Irish Easter Rising would be exempt.
(6) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
(7) It had originally said anyone earning more than €500,000 (£410,000) a year would fall under the cap but has now exempted them if they are not taking or managing risk.
(8) The relative efficiency of investor-owned and tax-exempt hospitals in the product market for hospital services is examined as the free cash flow theory is used to explore capital-market conditions of hospitals.
(9) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(10) The proposed exemption would be available to private companies that are based in Australia.
(11) "If at any time we had been presented with a scheme that in any way amounted to immunity, exemption or amnesty we would have stopped that scheme - consistent with our opposition to the previous Government's Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill in 2005."
(12) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may choose to provide exemptions for studios hoping to use the technology for artistic purposes.
(13) The exemption for the McAllen clinic lasts only until another licensed abortion facility opens in a location closer to the Rio Grande Valley than San Antonio.
(14) It’s also a legal authority that is exempt from oversight by Congress or the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, meaning we know even less about it than the other NSA powers that have been dripping out over the last year and a half.
(15) The 2 types of exemptions proposed were: 1) allowing pharmacists to provide a prescription-only drug in an emergency with the doctor providing a prescription within 72 hours, and 2) allowing pharmacists to provide a 3-day emergency supply of drugs previously ordered by a physician.
(16) However, those who volunteer for charity or a government body can be exempted.
(17) Further, he suggests that there are theoretical reasons why one could expect that one set of circumstances--those which typically apply in the short-term emergency commitment of mentally ill persons predicted to be imminently violent--may be exempt from the systematic inaccuracy found in the current research.
(18) "It is my intention to release every part of every paper of interest subject only to legal exemptions."
(19) A spokesman for Turnbull said on Monday night Turnbull and Partners Holdings had been used for other investments more recently, but the prime minister would now write to ask that it be removed from the Asic exemption list.
(20) Instances in which investigational use would require application to the FDA for an investigational New Drug Exemption (IND) and instances in which their use would require approval by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) will be described and examples given.
Immunity
Definition:
(a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
(a.) Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(3) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(4) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(5) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(6) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(7) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(8) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(9) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(10) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(11) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(12) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(13) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(14) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(15) The literature on depression and immunity is reviewed and the clinical implications of our findings are discussed.
(16) These results suggest that CD4+ protective T cells generated by immunization with vBCG are characterized by the ability to produce IFN-gamma after stimulation with specific Ag.
(17) All of the rabbits immunized with FCA developed sterile subcutaneous abscesses.
(18) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(19) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(20) Our results on humoral and cellular components of immunity in dependence of age, according to SENIEUR protocol admission criteria are presented.