(n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
(n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was and am very grateful – indeed I gave him very nearly a pound in gratuity.
(2) By transforming the provision of medical care in this way, the giving and accepting of gratuities for doctors could be terminated, not only in law but also in the economy.
(3) Although CBAP is not a true gratuitous inducer, operationally it approaches gratuity for induction of B. licheniformis penicillinase better than other known inducers.
(4) The induction studied under conditions of gratuity with the latter compound as an inducer showed immediate linear kinetics only at saturating inducer concentrations.
(5) He may have won some votes by stating: "I would like to make it clear as I did this past weekend that I am against the MP's gratuity bonus."
(6) A local guide would take us there and we could give him a gratuity if we wished.
(7) The habit of giving a gratuity became so frequent at the end of the 1950's that counter-measures were enacted.
(8) But the Pentagon said it cannot grant these families a "death gratuity" to cover the burial and other expenses as long as the budget impasse continues.
(9) · An eight-day holiday joining the Cottonwood Ranch Horse and Cattle drive starts from £1,040 per person including full board, transfers, taxes and gratuities.
(10) When 4 mM Ca2+ is added gratuitiously in the reaction mixture synthesizing prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) from arachidonic acid and cofactors by membrane associated microsomal multienzyme system (MES) prepared from goat seminal vesicles, one observes an immediate lag in the production of PGE2.
(11) The authorisation for the dam project was one of dozens of specific spending amendments introduced in the Senate deal, ranging from a “gratuity of $174,000 for the widow of Senator Lautenberg” (Frank Lautenberg, the long-serving New Jersey senator who died in June ) to “authority for activities to counter Lord’s Resistance Army” in Uganda.
(12) Although granting and accepting gratuities is forbidden by law, the wages of doctors have been fixed since 1954, for so long that accepting gratuities has come to be considered part of the wages, even in semi-official comments and in the media.
Liberality
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity.
(n.) A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(4) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(5) The bacterial strains did not liberate free patulin from the adduct mixture present in the growth medium.
(6) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(7) CCK-OP and PMA activated phospholipase A (PLA) which liberated lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and free fatty acids from membrane phosphatidylcholine.
(8) Yet it is liberal Muslims such as Sadiq Khan who are best placed to challenge extremist views within their own communities.
(9) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(11) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
(12) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
(13) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
(14) ), like phenoxybenzamine, blocked responses to field stimulation, but failed to modify release and subsequent metabolism of NA liberated by field stimulation.8.
(15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(16) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
(17) The kidney KGA activity was compared with the urinary KGA activity, and the following properties were found to be the same: molecular dimension, pH optimum, effect of inhibitors, and ability to liberate kinins from kininogens.3.
(18) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(19) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(20) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.