(a.) Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.
(n.) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) "These developments are clearly unwarranted on the basis of economic and budgetary fundamentals in these two member states and the steps that they are taking to reinforce those fundamentals."
(3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(4) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(5) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(6) These data suggest that there are fundamental differences in the mechanisms of induction of virally and chemically induced thymic lymphomas in AKR mice.
(7) The findings support our earlier suggestion that the kinetics of spermatogenesis in the quail are fundamentally similar to the pattern which has been described for mammals.
(8) The crystallographic parameters of four different unit cells, all of which are based on hexagonal packing arrangements, indicate that the fundamental unit of the complex is composed of six gene 5 protein dimers.
(9) Which brings us to the next fundamental question: Was it a terrorist attack?
(10) The trials have yielded much fundamental and clinical data of general relevance in the radiotherapy of malignant disease.
(11) With an increased understanding of the fundamental biologic characteristics of brain tumors, we should be able to improve the outlook for these patients.
(12) The negative inotropic effect is fundamentally related to its effects on calcium release, with additional contributions from its effects on calcium entry.
(13) Thus functional plasticity in response to early experience appears to be a fundamental aspect of cortical development.
(14) In spite of this fundamental disagreement, they were both relieved that President Obama has suspended his plan to launch missiles against Syria .
(15) It is argued that the provision of accurate and useful probabilistic assessments of future events should be a fundamental task for biostatisticians collaborating in clinical or experimental medicine, and we explore two aspects of obtaining and evaluating such predictions.
(16) However, the most fundamental questions concerning the pathogenesis of Cushing's disease remain unanswered.
(17) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(18) This study contains the fundamentals and the technique of the intraarticular application of an MRI contrast agent in connection with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI arthrography).
(19) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
(20) Our fundamental market is 75% done,” he said last weekend, “and when we sign one midfield player that crucial work will be done.” The manager did not rule out further purchases, though.
Lese
Definition:
(v. t.) To lose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thailand’s monarchy is protected by some of the world’s strictest lese-majeste laws.
(2) This enzyme was purified 10.5-fold over the induced lese, EC 3.2.1.26) by substrate-specificity studies.
(3) Thailand’s lese-majesty legislation is the one of the world’s harshest, carrying a 15-year jail sentence for an offence.
(4) Despite comparable levels of adult fatness, measured by triceps skinfold thickness, heights of Efe males and females were lower than those of the Lese.
(5) For some the complaining is fun – never mind the lese-majesty of Fearne Cotton and the sick bag, or the lack of gravitas charges levelled at Tess Daly, what about John Sergeant's flat cap?
(6) They were each charged with one count of lese majeste linked to the play, which marked the 40th anniversary of a pro-democracy student protest at the university that was crushed by the military regime in October 1973.
(7) Currently swelling their number are supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, who signed a petition calling for Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC political editor, to be sacked for lese-majesty against the Dear Leader.
(8) Researchers compared 1980-87 data on rainfall, garden size, nutritional status, ovarian function, and births among the Lese subsistence farmers and the nomadic Efe pygmies who lived in the Ituri Forest in northeast Zaire to analyze the ecology of human birth seasonality.
(9) Weights and heights, expressed as percentages of the 50th percentile for age and sex, were significantly lower (P less than .001) in Efe males and females than among Lese males and females, but weights for height did not differ significantly.
(10) In order to establish staging of cataract development in Emory mice, in vivo observation of crystallaine leses of 366 eyes in 183 Emory mice were performed with the slit-lamp microscope from the time of opening of the lid fissure to the age of 12 months.
(11) While the Efe have an overall goiter prevalence of 9.4%, the Lese have a goiter prevalence of 42.9%.
(12) Ovarian function is examined in 35 Lese women inhabiting the Ituri Forest of northeastern Zaire over a period of 4 months through measurements of progesterone in saliva samples collected twice weekly.
(13) The junta has said that the military now has the jurisdiction to intervene in all legal cases – including lese-majesty and national security cases – and has warned civilians and the media against posting anything on social media that could be deemed a threat to national security.
(14) Over 150 civilians are facing military tribunal, 62 are being charged with lese-majesty offences, 38 charged with sedition and 85 prosecuted for violating the junta’s ban on political gathering of five or more persons.
(15) Furthermore, Efe women living in Lese villages and subsisting on a Lese diet have a prevalence of goiter similar to that of forest-living Efe women.
(16) It is suggested that low ovulatory frequency and luteal insufficiency contribute to the low fecundity of the Lese population and that nutritional status is likely to be one of the ecological factors modulating this effect.
(17) Although the army has said detentions will last no longer than a week, observers fear they are merely a means to stifle dissent against the takeover, because many of those summoned include members of the former cabinet, including the former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her supporters, and those who appear to have been outwardly critical of Thailand's lese-majesty law, which protects the monarchy.
(18) This is exactly this sort of public irreverence, bordering on lese-majesty, that grim Xi fears most.
(19) Critics say the lese majeste law has been used as a tool to suppress political dissent, noting that many of those charged have been linked to the opposition Red Shirt movement.
(20) Lese women experienced considerably fewer conceptions during the periods with poor food availability than during other months (p=.002).