(1) We conclude that the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias, excluding sinus tachycardia, during FOB is low and that lidocaine anesthesia probably exerts a protective effect against the development of major arrhythmias during the procedure.
(2) On one side stand the FOGs – the Friends of George – and on the other stand the FOBs – the Friends of Boris.
(3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
(4) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
(5) The fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB) plays an essential role in diagnosing respiratory infections in AIDS and is important in minimizing the need for open lung biopsies.
(6) Subsequent examinations included repeat FOB (five), open lung biopsy (five), needle aspiration (two), and autopsy (nine), establishing 49 diagnoses.
(7) In the context of hazard identification (i.e., testing for the effects of unknown chemicals) the FOB and motor activity may be expected to adequately detect neurotoxicity.
(8) With smart key fobs it will be possible to configure it to shut down every appliance linked to a smart plug, plus the heating, when you leave the premises.
(9) Subsequent FOB was performed first by the independent observer to record the DLT position and next by the investigators for improvement or correction of their positioning under visual control.
(10) This study suggests that declines in PaO2 after bronchoscopy can be avoided in most patients undergoing diagnostic FOB by using a diaphragm-modified 40 percent Venturi mask during and after the procedure.
(11) They are becoming more and more sophisticated, so if you have anything worth stealing, it’s worth it.” A video of his facility shows a client using a personalised fob and code through two doors to gain access to a reception where staff behind bulletproof glass identify clients as they give their biometric data to enter the vault.
(12) The two independent molecules, one SCN- ion and 97 associated water molecules were refined by molecular dynamics and annealing techniques to R = 19.6% (10,913 Fobs, resolution 5-1.7 A).
(13) We're going to fob you off with some old jumble from the attic."
(14) When comparisons can be made between effects detected with the FOB and other methods of measuring neurotoxicity (e.g., neuropathology), concurrent validity can also be established.
(15) Frequently, the FOB is used in conjunction with other measures of neurotoxicity, i.e., neuropathology or sensory evoked potentials.
(16) By using freshly isolated blood trypomastigotes of twelve T. cruzi wild type strains we have found eight strains sensitive to FoB and FoA, while four and one were FoA- and FoB-insensitive respectively to the drug-mediated growth inhibition.
(17) Hospitals are risking a repeat of the Mid Staffs care scandal by ignoring patients' complaints, fobbing some off with inadequate explanations of errors and even lying about mistakes, the NHS's ombudsman has warned.
(18) The debate on the future of defence in Scotland is too important to be ignored, or brushed under the carpet, or fobbed off with half-baked sound-bite policies which are financially and strategically incoherent.
(19) That applied equally to the working-class man who felt fobbed off by statistics about border guards when he was worried about EU immigration, and to the woman who works long hours in a small business.
(20) In a prospective randomized trial, we examined the value of routine postlobectomy fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) in preventing postoperative atelectasis.
Yob
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(2) Hailed by Duncan Smith and rightwing London as the incentive that would propel the unemployed into work, universal credit has become Whitehall's equivalent of a layabout yob: nothing can make it work.
(3) Reproductive history, as reported from a validated postal questionnaire, was obtained from 204 women with scleroderma [mean year of birth (yob) 1942] and compared to that reported by 233 women with primary Raynaud's phenomenon (mean yob 1948) and 189 healthy women from a population register (mean yob 1950).
(4) I also think Anzacs were racist yobs and Anzac Day is a death cult.
(5) The distinctive check, which dates back to the 1920s, had also become uniform of choice for yobs and football hooligans.
(6) What happened to such worn-out old tropes as feral youth, yob culture, and the prime minister's own golden oldie, broken Britain?
(7) It comes to something when a documentary series featuring yobs, truants, swearing at teachers, swearing by teachers, cyber-bullying and teenage pregnancy makes you believe in the education system again.
(8) I hope the FIA are considering the implications of this fully and that events in Bahrain are not seen as they are often sold, as a bunch of yobs throwing Molotov cocktails, because that's a gross simplification.
(9) Yob, who guided delegate strategy for Rand Paul’s failed presidential campaign this year and is also the author of Campaign Chaos , a book on a potential contested convention, told the Guardian that one of the key tells for a successful delegate effort was “how effective campaigns are at keeping Sinos from being elected”.
(10) Other nations think we are yobs who go over there to drink and fight, but that's only the few who spoil it for the rest.
(11) Ed Miliband , the Labour leader, accused the prime minister of "total double standards", during prime minister's questions, saying he would be the first to back police for locking up a "yob" who swore at officers, but is refusing to sack his chief whip for the same conduct.
(12) Pointing to Mitchell, who sat near Cameron on the government front bench, Miliband said that if a "yob in a city centre" had abused and ranted at an officer in the way Mitchell had done, "the chances are they would be arrested and placed in the back of a police van — and rightly so.
(13) But while it's a night in the cell for the yob, it's a night at the Carlton Club for the chief whip.
(14) But the suspicion lurks that, just as McEnroe seems to have been contractually obliged to have an outburst or two on the veterans’ tour, so the youthful Kyrgios could easily be groomed for a perceived yob-shaped hole in the branding market.
(15) It's a very modern solution to a very old problem, for in towns and cities up and down the land, yobs have long claimed the right to cause drunken mayhem in shops and restaurants run by visible minorities.
(16) When you look back in history, highly contested conventions tended to be a disadvantage to the party that had them,” Yob said – although he noted there were exceptions, the most recent being Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s White House victory after a multi-ballot convention in 1932.
(17) Campaigns have to take care to not just make the ballot in every state but to fill their slates of delegates with names and ensure that those delegates pledged to them are actual supporters and not what veteran Republican strategist John Yob calls “supporters in name only”, or Sinos.
(18) As Yob noted, delegations such as those from Guam, American Samoa and the Virgin Islands (where he is standing to be a delegate) will play a crucial role as a result.
(19) She’d claimed that I was drunk and disorderly and throwing food around like some yob,” Coe recalled.
(20) Behind the far-left yobs, who disgrace every good cause in Britain, the protesters who did not riot in Parliament Square on Thursday looked almost pitiable.