(1) So in trying to harmonise with the original rather than transcribe every last word of it, certain liberties have been taken.
(2) Burmese president Thein Sein wants to "harmonise" the country and make it pure.
(3) The three leaders also differ over how to boost the eurozone’s flagging economy, with Hollande and Renzi both broadly backing more investment and greater harmonisation, but Merkel anxious to preserve the bloc’s integrity and above all not undermine its deficit and debt rules.
(4) She was also absolutely gorgeous, and we all harmonised really well together.
(5) November also saw a new EU commission take charge, with harmonising copyright reform high up on their agenda.
(6) A single market with harmonised and simplified rules and duties should theoretically make life simpler for small traders such as Violet and Mary.
(7) "Even though [this kind of discussion] is constantly managed and deleted and 'harmonised' – it's there in a way it wasn't before.
(8) Latvia’s minister for justice, Dzintars Rasnačs, said : “Today we have moved a great step closer to modernised and harmonised data protection framework for the European Union.” The agreement comes in the last week of Latvia’s presidency of Council of the European Union.
(9) Merkel also called for greater harmonisation in regulation of the financial markets across Europe and supported the contested idea of making the European Central Bank in Frankfurt the new supervisor of the eurozone's banking sector.
(10) Down in Lloyds branches, where the bank is trying to harmonise employment contracts, staff may also look in amazement at the brainpower devoted to the boss's contract.
(11) He has created a modern, environmentally friendly transport system within the city, high-speed rail links with Paris and the east, investment in cutting-edge industries, alongside protection for Bordeaux’s inspiring historical and cultural legacy, and a civilised, harmonising approach towards religious and sexual minorities.
(12) The quality, safety and efficacy requirements have been harmonised, as have certain aspects of procedures for marketing authorisation or for manufacture.
(13) This budget would have its own revenues (for instance a common financial transaction tax, as well as a small portion of a harmonised corporate tax) and would provide for borrowing on that basis.
(14) On an 'EU harmonised basis', prices were flat year-on-year.
(15) This was billed originally as something largely apolitical: an attempt to harmonise rules and regulations in the US and the EU so there were fewer barriers to trade.
(16) The commission said it would come up with more initiatives by the summer, including an attempt to revive discussion about harmonising the corporate tax base in the EU, a perennial taboo for many national governments, including Ireland and Britain.
(17) Assuming that the leaders of the leave campaign would conduct the exit negotiations with the EU, we would be leaving the single market and would no longer have any formal legal obligation to harmonise our laws with that of the EU.
(18) What's needed is harmonised systems and procedures across the EU.
(19) The media regulator said that there was a "strong case" for "harmonising" the current mismatch in TV ad regulations between non-PSB and PSB broadcasters.
(20) Its member states have already lifted some internal customs barriers and harmonised others for the outside world.
Tone
Definition:
(n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
(n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
(n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
(n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
(n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
(n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
(n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
(n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
(n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
(n.) State of mind; temper; mood.
(n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
(n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
(n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
(v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.
(v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
(v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
(3) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(4) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(6) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(7) Histamine (10(-6)-10(-4) M) induced concentration-dependent increases in tone and Ca2+i, but these responses were not sustained.
(8) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(9) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
(10) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(11) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
(12) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
(13) Inhibition of the production or action of these substances will allow for vasodilatation, and it is probable that perinatal pulmonary vascular tone reflects a balance between local prostaglandin and leukotriene production.
(14) Subject evaluations in accordance with the intensity levels of tones, i.e.
(15) Maximum expiratory flow on partial flow-volume curve at 25% forced vital capacity (PEF25) was measured as an index showing basal bronchomotor tone.
(16) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
(17) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(18) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(19) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
(20) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).