What's the difference between flog and viable?

Flog


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bayern’s game in Saudi Arabia also coincided with the uproar over the flogging in the country of activist and blogger Raif Badawi .
  • (2) "They have staved off closure for a while but it did seem like they were flogging a dead horse and towards the end it did seem like the prices were really not attractive," said Jelensky, who said he preferred to buy online.
  • (3) I appeal to the king of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning Mr Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh penalty.” Badawi’s case was one of several recent prosecutions of activists.
  • (4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
  • (5) After all, the late Mr Boss did not just "flog uniforms to the Nazis", as Russell observed, but, as reported in detail in Channel 4's excellent documentary Hitler's Rise (Part 1, Sunday 8 September), he was an early member of the Nazi party who personally designed the uniforms both of the Brownshirts and the SS.
  • (6) It seemed to me watching the film that the concept of the cloud was another great piece of airy obfuscation on the part of the internet corporations, who like to peddle the childlike and the playful in the way that banks used to flog you credit cards called Smile and Egg and Marbles and Goldfish, to encourage you not to think too hard about the small print (what could possibly go wrong?).
  • (7) The U-turns so far made by the coalition – deciding not to flog off the forests, financial support for the poorest students over 16, scaled-back ambitions on opening the NHS to the private sector – have come about not mainly because of opposition pressure but because of public horror.
  • (8) And I said, well, imagine the Romans have flogged you and they’ve raped your daughters in front of you.
  • (9) Quote of the week Bayern Munich: weighing up pressure from fans, politicians and human rights groups not to travel to Qatar for another warm-PR winter training break - then arriving in Doha with an answer: “A training camp is not a political statement.” • Last year’s winter break highlight: a €2m stopover in Saudi Arabia while their hosts flogged and jailed blogger Raif Badawi .
  • (10) Hannah Jane Parkinson, community Dancing with the drag queens of NYC Downlow It's become a bit of cliche to say this, but Thursday really is the best day of the festival: there wasn't any mud at that stage this year; the site's not yet at maximum occupancy; and of course there's no live music – so no pressure to flog yourself to a distant stage to see a band you once half-promised yourself you ought to see.
  • (11) I was optimistic until the last minute before the flogging.
  • (12) "We are currently repainting the flat in anticipation of great guests, new members of the extended family and anyone else we can get to flog the tat from Dad's shop downstairs.
  • (13) So there would be no more bundling up dodgy mortgages and flogging them in fancy wrappers.
  • (14) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
  • (15) Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani , a 43-year-old mother of two, said she thinks of nothing other than hugging her children and that she was mentally broken when authorities flogged her 99 times in front of her then 17-year-old son, Sajad.
  • (16) It was like Nigeria died, having to queue for every little thing, soldiers flogging anyone who disobeyed.” Identity politics is never far in Nigeria, and Buhari’s image as a strict Muslim may cost him support in the more liberal and more Christian south.
  • (17) He could flog his fish to the secondhand shop, or maybe sell them on the street, the way his neighbour does stolen trainers, maybe diversifying into Noah’s Arks.
  • (18) I have been in healthcare marketing communications for more than 30 years (flogging drugs to doctors) and can confirm that much of the sharp practice you describe is caused by the pressure exerted on researchers by marketing departments.
  • (19) Recently an MP in the Siberian region of Zabaikalsk called for a law allowing gays to be publicly flogged by Cossacks.
  • (20) Public life has become impossible with these public floggings [and Hodge] is now bringing the committee into disrepute.” Lyons said that it was “absolutely right” that Hodge should ask demanding questions but said the business world is not always as black and white as she sees it.

Viable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
  • (2) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (3) It has been shown by LM and transmission electron microscopy that cells with blebs are viable and capable of mitotic activity.
  • (4) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
  • (5) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
  • (6) 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.
  • (7) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
  • (8) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
  • (9) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
  • (10) In addition, a redistribution of cellular controls of the host reaction to parasites may act as a complementary mechanism for establishment of the viable equilibrium between host and parasite.
  • (11) Prior sublethal challenge with viable HC did not cause prolonged illness or increased mortality in the setting of emphysema.
  • (12) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
  • (13) Additionally, the data demonstrate that hamster sperm can remain viable for several hours after becoming immotile, and that many of the immotile sperm are capable of being reactivated.
  • (14) We believe our technique is a potentially viable alternative for selected heart-lung transplant patients.
  • (15) Intravenous injection of PPD or viable H37Ra organisms into H37Ra mice resulted in MIF production in vitro by splenic lymphocytes without further antigenic stimulation.
  • (16) Potassium and K analogs (Tl, Rb, Cs) are avidly taken up into viable tumor cells whose Na+, K+-ATPase activity is elevated.
  • (17) Twenty-three Nectomys squamipes and 9 Akodon arviculoides with a schistosomal infection rate of 56.5% and 22.2% respectively eliminated a great majority of viable eggs.
  • (18) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
  • (19) Because of potential complications that can develop for chronically ill geriatric patients, a hospital setting for respite can be a viable respite alternative.
  • (20) The mechanisms that protect female viable yellow mice from hyperglycemia are not known.