(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.
Renunciation
Definition:
(n.) The act of renouncing.
(n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(2) Nick Lowles, director of Hope Not Hate, which campaigns against extremism, said: "We celebrate Quilliam's efforts here but only a complete renunciation of the violence and hatred the EDL leaders have promoted, and a turning away from the anti-Muslim rhetoric they have championed, will be enough for the many thousands who have suffered from the EDL's ugly actions over the past three years."
(3) The systemic elaboration of anterior phases (individuation, couple) allows an integration of the new role and renunciation of the symptom.
(4) 7 StGB and a reduction respectively a renunciation of minimal period of revocation should give possibility to courts and reprieval authorities to ensure the inclusion of a large number of persons suitable for additional training and in cases of total abstinence traffic authority should regard the aptitude for participation in traffic as regranted.
(5) But Mazowiecki’s renunciation stabilised the eastern frontiers of the European Union.
(6) But it is no use the Guardian preaching renunciation.
(7) It is possible to renounce any information but renunciation of information assumes a basic knowledge of both possible kinds of treatment.
(8) That will require the formal and public renunciation of many of the policies on which the leadership election was won and the construction of a viable economic policy – a wholly legitimate process in a party which prides itself on being a broad church.
(9) From the giving up of smoking on the eve of his wedding, via the renunciation of his nominal religion and dropping of his name, to the abandonment of his career, Philip has proved himself the consummate royal wife.
(10) The further development, however, showed that the responsible and successful surgery in a special field-in the case of Kehr the surgery of the bile ducts-could only be performed with a far-reaching renunciation of other surgical activities.
(11) The renunciation of a sealer is the advantages of the procedure.
(12) "Essentially, it has to do with the renunciation of citizenship.
(13) What are probably his two best-known pieces of writing, his 1940 novel Darkness at Noon and his contribution to Richard Crossman's 1949 essay collection, The God That Failed , were both inspired by his painful renunciation of communism.
(14) In-depth interviews and participant observation was conducted with 14 Hindu religious renunciates, 70 years or older.
(15) The remedicalization of psychiatry does not mean the return to a reductionistic biomedical model of psychiatry or the renunciation of psychotherapy and psychodynamics.
(16) We cannot meet the secretary of state's public renunciation of violence, but it would be given privately as long as we were sure that we were not being tricked."
(17) Unprepared learning, which is often accompanied by failures on the first steps of learning, is suggested to produce renunciation of search, which decreases learning ability, suppress retention, and increase REM sleep requirement.
(18) (I have, incidentally, done a straw poll among my octogenarian contemporaries, and have found that the majority were as ignorant and shocked by the renunciation as I was.
(19) Presumably, the function of REM sleep is to compensate for renunciation of search in the waking period.
(20) There can be no voluntary renunciation of sovereign immunity, just as no person can sell himself into slavery.