(a. & adv.) With the head foremost; as, to fall headlong.
(a. & adv.) Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.
(a. & adv.) Hastily; without delay or respite.
(a.) Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.
(a.) Steep; precipitous.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
(2) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
(3) This does not have to be a headlong charge, but there is no doubt in my mind that it must happen."
(4) "But the danger always is that the debate becomes very quickly polarised between one side which says this is the moment to rush headlong towards further integration, new treaties, new intergovernmental conferences, new arcane debates about EU powers, and another side that says this is the moment to unravel the whole thing.
(5) Theresa May’s tactic is clear: to accuse anyone who dares question her headlong, blindfold charge towards hard Brexit of being democracy deniers.
(6) Before slaughtering the chickens are hung up headlong.
(7) These moves are significant because the above list includes some strongly backed National candidates – especially Goold, who led the Headlong company, and Featherstone – but no recent appointee to another theatre could now express interest in Hytner's job without disqualifying themselves because of the appearance of fickleness.
(8) Teunis Brosens at ING Financial Markets described the July home sales reading as a "headlong plunge".
(9) The lesions of C2 seen in hyperextension injuries of the cervical spine following motor vehicle accidents, diving accidents, and headlong falls resemble the cervical lesion found in judicial hangings.
(10) Inspired by Coltrane's development of a packed and fervent sax style - not only bursting with headlong arpeggios but often featuring overtones and multiphonics allowing more than one note to be sounded at a time - Jones's expansion of Art Blakey's technique became appropriately hectic, too.
(11) Some shook their heads ruefully, sadly noting that they had long warned such violence would be the result of the headlong rush to a multicultural, rainbow-hued future.
(12) It showed itself, physically, in such feats as his famous headlong deathfall off a 12-foot-high platform in Coriolanus (Olivier was 52 at the time).
(13) The ignominy of a great country, a country of world famous humanists and scientists, turning headlong into a backwards Asiatic province.
(14) Politics The Red Army arrives In the film's first scene, Polish families fleeing east from the invading Nazis run headlong into Polish families fleeing west from the invading Soviets.
(15) February 21, 2014 Updated at 10.31pm GMT 9.54pm GMT “Yanukovych’s position looks increasingly untenable ,” writes Guardian Europe editor Ian Traynor (@ TraynorBrussels ), in his report on a headlong day of political activity: But, with the opposing sides entrenched and highly polarised as seldom before as a result of this week’s bloodshed, it was also not clear whether the core of the protesters, who have camped out in winter conditions for three months, would accept anything less than Yanukovych’s resignation.
(16) Such eerie parallels may well be found during the nationwide tour of The Absence of War , staged by Headlong and directed by Jeremy Herrin .
(17) The strategy adopted by the Kremlin, under the tutelage of the IMF and the US treasury, involved a headlong dash towards privatisation and liberalisation that became known as "shock therapy".
(18) I was out on my own for the first time, throwing myself headlong into making my mark, and letting the world mark me.
(19) If this Conservative government cared about Britain and cared about what makes our country great they would not be running headlong towards a hard Brexit like this.
(20) They have put a brake on the Tories headlong rush to shake up the NHS.
Isolation
Definition:
(n.) The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
Example Sentences:
(1) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(2) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(3) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(4) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(5) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(6) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
(7) Detergent-solubilized HLA antigens were isolated from a human lymphoblastoid cell using an anti-beta2-microglobulin immunoaffinity column.
(8) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
(9) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(10) Proliferation assays using F3 showed that 15 (14 CD4+ and 1 CD8+) of the 18 isolated clones were specific for T. gondii.
(11) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
(12) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(13) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(14) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
(15) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(16) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(17) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
(18) These major departmental transformations are being run in isolation from each other.
(19) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
(20) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.