(1) Indeed, there is only a limited understanding of the factors influencing physicians' decisions to forgo or maintain life-sustaining treatments when caring for dying patients.
(2) NHS officials told the Guardian that any individual local council that chose not to engage with NHS partners would forgo the opportunity to join up social care and health services more effectively, but that would be their choice.
(3) The wheels are falling off because the Chinese economy is slowing and commodity prices are falling and because the parliamentary gridlock means governments have been unable to do anything about it.” Richardson joined a growing push for the government to consider savings from the revenue the government forgoes due to the generous treatment of superannuation savings – $30bn in 2014-15 and forecast to rise to close to $50bn in 2017-18.
(4) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(5) Many patients, especially those who are elderly and who have chronic medical illnesses, choose to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in case of cardiac arrest.
(6) If the patient is incapable of expressing a preference, the decision to forgo resuscitation may be made by the patient's family or other surrogate decision maker.
(7) Increasing costs would cause “unnecessary harm” and lower high standards of care, as many patients would choose to forgo important tests, Harrison said.
(8) (In the end, Serco paid back £68.5m for the tagging debacle, and agreed to forgo any future profits on its prisoner escort contract.
(9) He has already dispatched 2,500 head office staff to work in its stores for one day a fortnight in the runup to Christmas, and revealed that, when possible, he is forgoing his chauffeur and taking public transport.
(10) Each year Thiel pays a small group of teenagers to forgo or quit university and start their own business.
(11) The BBC has announced that most managers will not receive a bonus this year, and ITV executives agreed to forgo part of their performance-related payments last week.
(12) Only one has been issued so far this century – by Pope Benedict to give Anglicans a way of joining the Catholic church without having to forgo their liturgy and so on.
(13) "We could lose a generation of potential, as more young Americans are forced to forgo college dreams or the chance to train for the jobs of the future," Obama said in the five-minute address.
(14) In the health care setting, team members forgo their personal needs to focus on the needs of patients.
(15) "We listened to our customers in December and so decided to forgo certain deductions which would make us liable to pay £10m in corporation tax this year and a further £10m in 2014.
(16) They forgo electricity or running water in favour of old-fashioned pleasures: you drift off in front of a log fire and awake to birdsong.
(17) Given the possibility that this surveillance could perhaps prevent deaths in the form of terrorist attacks, most Americans are willing to forgo some abstract notion of privacy in favor of the more concrete benefits of security.
(18) Given the unique and challenging Arctic environment and industry’s declining interest in the area, forgoing lease sales in the Arctic is the right path forward.” The move, announced as part of the federal government’s land and ocean leasing program that will run from 2017 to 2022, has been cheered by environmentalists who called for the Arctic to be put off limits for drilling to help slow climate change and avoid a catastrophic oil spill.
(19) The patient information that was collected included age and sex, diagnoses, mental status, location in the hospital length of hospital stay, method of payment, the timing of the first decision to forgo treatment, and the range and sequence of interventions forgone.
(20) As we have seen all too often in international emergency response operations, the stakes are too high to forgo systems of accountability.
Relinquish
Definition:
(v. t.) To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.
(v. t.) To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he insisted that there had to be “proper succession planning” before he would relinquish the leadership.
(2) This stands in high contrast to many western hip-hop stars who have been slow to relinquish control of their "intellectual" property in the same way (take Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind, for example, which quickly generated a host of YouTube tributes that were quickly removed by EMI ).
(3) In a statement published shortly before the disclosure of material as a result of freedom of information requests, Ashcroft indicated he would relinquish his non-dom status in line with new Tory policy to remain in the Lords.
(4) Unusual features included the illness chosen, the father as the parent falsifying illness, his failure to pursue unnecessary investigations and treatment, and the ease with which he relinquished the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
(5) It's hard to think of a more extreme way of relinquishing responsibility.
(6) Thompson also agreed to relinquish his role as "editor-in-chief" as regards News Corp's bid for Sky.
(7) Transsexuals who relinquished their wish for surgery did not differ substantially from transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery.
(8) Transsexuals who had not undergone surgery, although it had been offered to them providing they fulfilled the usual requirements, were classified into various subgroups, measured according to their attitude towards sex reassignment surgery: they were transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery, transsexuals who were ambivalent towards surgery (hesitating patients), and transsexuals who had relinquished their wish for surgery and lived in the initial gender role.
(9) The symptoms often begin in the presence of the family, allow a temporary relinquishing of social roles, and result in the mobilization of the social network in support of the person.
(10) Techniques for the first group include ritualising the group process, emphasis on reality rather than fantasy and dilution of inter-patient rapport; techniques that aid patients with good ego endowment to relinquish pathological controls include support of basic questions concerning the individual's identity, free flow of fantasy, tolerance of tension, silences or strong ventilation of affect and facilitating observations from patients concerning the process of interaction.
(11) He continued to call on the military to relinquish power, saying democracy will never come to Myanmar as long as the military continued to dominate the political landscape.
(12) Some are very concerned, some relinquish the dog to a refuge, but others think the dog is happy or even being intentionally spiteful," Mendl told the Guardian.
(13) Willingness to relinquish control, as evidenced by hypnotic susceptibility, enjoyment of alcohol, and inability to control thoughts and movements near the end of coitus, was found in this study to be predictive of the consistency with which females reported experiencing orgasm during sexual intercourse.
(14) Djokovic is hiding his problems better, but they're still visible in his tennis, as he parlays advantage into break point with a couple of unforced errors before lashing a crosscourt backhand wide – way wide – to relinquish control of the set and match.
(15) The government is facing a clash with some of the country's most senior judges who will this week attempt to force ministers to relinquish control of the running of the supreme court.
(16) Except sex.” Rechtshaid and Flowers bonded on the phone over Dire Straits and Depeche Mode, relinquishing control to each other in Flowers’ Battle Born studios and crafting an accessible yet sophisticated power rock record.
(17) Guidelines for the medical profession that are aimed at preventing psychological disability in relinquishing mothers are outlined.
(18) Councillors may be reluctant to agree to a perceived relinquishment of power.
(19) Nicki I think the days of "I'm just going to let someone else do it, get a digital company to do it" are over, because people are beginning to realise that they've actually relinquished their creativity, research, planning, strategy – everything.
(20) In a statement, the UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said: "Having reviewed the video footage on the Daily Telegraph website, and other media reporting of Lord Laird's engagement with alleged lobbyists, I telephoned his home this morning and as a result he has relinquished the party whip, pending the outcome of the review of his behaviour that he has already requested of the relevant authorities at Westminster."