(a.) Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
(a.) Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements.
(a.) True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant.
(a.) Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(3) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(4) This was faithfully reflected in the pattern of pulsatile LH discharges.
(5) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(6) Several former hostages, now safely in Europe, say he had spent the past year true to the creed of his new faith.
(7) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(8) In such circumstances faith in the project inevitably ebbs among the faithful.
(9) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(10) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
(11) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
(12) "He is a person of faith and he has shown his greatness in a very short time," said Diego Moreno, who had travelled with two friends from Mendoza in Argentina.
(13) | Mary Dejevsky Read more Third, if that breakthrough can be delivered with good faith on all sides, that could potentially be the basis to revive the Kerry-Lavrov ceasefire , open humanitarian channels into Aleppo, and start the process of negotiating a lasting peace.
(14) A letter from the Islamic Society of Britain and the Association of Muslim Lawyers pointed out that this group has no standing among faithful Muslims and it is certainly not a state.
(15) Then there are the divisions of ethnicity, faith and caste, the ancient social hierarchy prevalent in much of south Asia.
(16) Ultimately, like in virtually any other industry, having faith in a product or a system comes from past experiences and referrals from people you trust about what to expect.
(17) She was also a pacifist and lived her Catholic faith, no matter how difficult that made her life.
(18) Faith said: “The Tories are going to have to think very carefully about how they implement £12bn cuts.
(19) It’s no good me swearing on a Bible; I don’t share your faith.” Morrison said: “I will do it, Ray, but I think it’s a very offensive thing for you to ask me to do but I’ll do it if that’s what you require...if you insist I will.” Hadley did not persist with the demand.
(20) Cerebellar and adrenal microsomes were used in a ligand-displacement mass assay (conducted under near-physiological conditions, at pH 7.0) on extracts of cerebral-cortex slices stimulated with agonists, and both preparations faithfully detected the increases in Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 that occurred, implying that Ins(1,3,4,5)P4 is the principal ligand on these binding sites in intact cells.
Reliable
Definition:
(a.) Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(2) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(3) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(4) A beta-adrenergic receptor cDNA cloned into a eukaryotic expression vector reliably induces high levels of beta-adrenergic receptor expression in 2-12% of COS cell colonies transfected with this plasmid after experimental conditions are optimized.
(5) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(6) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(7) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(8) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
(9) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(10) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(11) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(12) Abnormal albuminuria at levels not reliably detected by the usual dipstick methods was commonly observed in Pima Indians with diabetes, even those with diabetes of recent onset.
(13) It is concluded that the transcutaneous ultrasound technique provides a reliable, rapidly available, non-invasive method to confirm the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
(14) This new index provides a reliable method to assess drug therapy appropriateness.
(15) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(16) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(17) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(18) In conclusion, 99Tcm-MIBI SPECT provides a reliable method for detecting CAD.
(19) As a result of measures taken to reduce artifacts and to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, the measurements were performed reliably, with little inconvenience for the patients; all measurements could be used for analysis.
(20) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.