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Fervor


Definition:

  • (n.) Heat; excessive warmth.
  • (n.) Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, he didn’t think it was Trump’s stance on immigration that was drawing voters with a lot of fervor, it was “Trump’s racist language”.
  • (2) Christie first trumpeted his arrival on the national scene by cancelling, at the height of Tea Party anti-government fervor, the largest public works project anywhere in the United States: a vital new tunnel under the Hudson River 20 years in the making.
  • (3) Harward is said to share Mattis’ view of Iran as a primary security threat, though with less ideological fervor: he spent much of his youth in pre-revolutionary Iran, where his father, also a navy officer, was stationed.
  • (4) A succession of desperate attempts to clear their lines had Mourinho jumping up and down on the touchline with increasing fervor.
  • (5) Nursing has discussed widely and with fervor the level of education required to provide quality nursing care for clients.
  • (6) Their faith unshaken, the Republican nominee’s superfans cheered him with religious fervor and, when he lambasted the media, turned to boo with no less passion.
  • (7) Among the more important, though with situational variations, are the high degree of moralistic and patriotic fervor associated with prohibition efforts, the projection of guilts and fears of the proponents onto alcohol use, and aspects of culture conflict and opposing group interests.
  • (8) But what’s original about his work is the fervor and fearlessness with which it borrows and recombines other genres and styles – pop, rock, jazz, operetta.
  • (9) Nostalgia for a nationalist Catholicism by some and the fervor of others to demonstrate that a break with the past had taken place have been important factors in bioethics legislation.
  • (10) While the rescheduled first day in Tampa was a snoozefest, Tuesday in Charlotte had the sight of Cory Booker banging the podium with fervor, Tammy Duckworth walking on stage with two artificial limbs, mute testimony to her service in Iraq, and former Ohio governor Ted Strickland launching into a barnburner, accusing Mitt Romney of "lying and hiding" his policies and tax returns.
  • (11) Just last week, I ventured to a local drinking establishment, with great hopes for my fellow Americans said to be embracing football with fervor .
  • (12) [Cubans] are not committed to this revolutionary internationalist fervor of the 60s and 70s.
  • (13) The conservative fervor over Benghazi and its various conspiracies carried a rarely discussed thread: the mistaken belief that special-ops can do anything, at any time, to save or kill anyone.
  • (14) The fervor with which the Americans have adopted soccer in the last 20 years , and this World Cup specifically, offers a compelling juxtaposition to Canada – another large developed, rich, industrial nation in the Concacaf zone.
  • (15) Having dealt somewhat extensively with Harris and many of his supporters this week, I can say that I haven't encountered such religious-type fervor and jingoistic and tribalistic self-love ( My Side is superior to Theirs!! )
  • (16) Unfortunately, these conclusions have been sensationalized and exploited with litigious fervor to the point that the practice of pertussis immunization is being questioned in the United States.
  • (17) June 4, 2017 ⭐fervor w measure⭐ (@setalyas) "London should not be cowed" mate the Chicken Cottage by Borough station is already open stop worrying June 4, 2017 The nation is not for reeling One headline in particular provoked British ire, from the New York Times, which stated that “Terrorist attacks in the heart of London leave 6 dead in a nation still reeling” Robert Harris (@Robert___Harris) This sort of hyped-up headline does the terrorists' job for them.
  • (18) Barbara Annis, co-author of Work with Me: the 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business and the founding partner of Gender Intelligence Group , a New York firm specializing in gender diversity training, said: “What they [Pao’s critics] are trying to do to Pao is character assassination, and yes, her being a woman and a woman who [previously] filed a discrimination suit against her employer contributes to the insane fervor of which people responded to her decisions as CEO.” Hashtags including #RedditRevolt and #ChairmanPao trended on Twitter this week.
  • (19) The fervor with which abortion opponents have pursued restrictions on mifepristone appears to contrast with the drug’s safety record.
  • (20) But these very technologies--newer and more "mechanistic"--changed interest in the annual checkup into a fervor for "mass screening."

Intense


Definition:

  • (a.) Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
  • (a.) Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: (a) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. (b) Keen; biting; as, intense cold. (c) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. (d) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. (e) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
  • (2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (3) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
  • (4) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (5) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
  • (6) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
  • (7) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (8) The pattern and intensity were followed up for up to 15 days.
  • (9) Respiratory alteration in the intensity of heart sounds is one of the commonest auscultatory pitfalls.
  • (10) They are capable of synthesis and accumulation of glycogen and responsible for its transfer to sites of more intense metabolism (growth, bud, blastema).
  • (11) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
  • (12) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
  • (13) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
  • (14) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
  • (15) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (16) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
  • (17) It was not possible to offer all very low birthweight infants full intensive care; to make this possible, it was calculated that resources would have to increase by 26%.
  • (18) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
  • (19) The present results using approximately 12% hemoglobin concentration in 0.1 M Bistris buffer at pD 7 and 27 degrees C with and without organic phosphate show that there is no significant line broadening on oxygenation (from 0 to 50% saturation) to affect the determination of the intensities or areas of these resonances.
  • (20) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.