(n.) A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors used a linear multivariate regression to evaluate the effects of distance from the highway, age and sex of the child, and housing condition.
(2) The plan allows for the highway to be reopened in emergencies.
(3) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
(4) Of the 11 people in custody, five were arrested while driving on a remote highway on Tuesday afternoon , three were arrested in separate incidents outside the refuge that evening, and three more subsequently turned themselves in at FBI checkpoints just outside the refuge.
(5) Sheep placed near a highway and fed with forage from an uncontaminated area showed an increase of lead levels in the blood, comparable to that of the previous experiment.
(6) Ronald Johnson, the Missouri highway patrol captain drafted by the governor to take over security in the town and calm the situation down, blamed “premeditated criminal acts”.
(7) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
(8) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
(9) Work is progressing on a north-south highway between Durban, South Africa, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
(10) Tuesday’s arrests on a remote highway outside the wildlife refuge, which activists have occupied since 2 January, had left the remaining protesters leader-less and debating whether to continue the occupation or retreat .
(11) Soil lead levels were found to decrease significantly in all traffic areas as distance from the highway increased.
(12) Thirty miles up the highway there was another reason for Republican confidence: the Tea Party.
(13) However, commenting on the resurgence of police clashes with protesters, Captain Ron Johnson, of the Missouri highway patrol, which was handed responsibility for policing the protests on Thursday, admitted he was worried that the release of the information would cause renewed tensions.
(14) But the security barriers Israel has built since 2000 have divided what was a fairly contiguous swath of territory into what El-Ad called “bubbles”: areas separated by gates, walled highways leading to Israeli settlements, and checkpoints.
(15) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
(16) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(17) It’s clear that more creative methods will have to be employed to beef up highway funding in the future.
(18) In 1984, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) began a cohort mortality study of 4,849 workers to follow up concerns with the health and safety of highway maintenance workers (HMWs).
(19) Police said thousands of officers were guarding streets across the nation and checking passengers on highways.
(20) The Los Angeles police department, California highway patrol, firefighters and the coastguard conducted a search, while cargo vessels slowed during their passage through the main channel so as to minimise disturbance.
Vehicular
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a vehicle; serving as a vehicle; as, a vehicular contrivance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Approximately half were vehicular crash victims and 78% were men.
(2) All the patients sustained their knee ligament injury in sporting activities except one patient who was involved in a motor vehicular accident.
(3) We found that growth of the EMS system, as measured by the cumulative number of EMT's trained, correlated strongly with the decline in prehospital (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), in-hospital (r = 0.84; p less than 0.001), total (r = 0.95; p less than 0.001), vehicular (r = 0.86; p less than 0.001), and nonvehicular (r = 0.93; p less than 0.001) trauma deaths.
(4) Farm, industrial, and vehicular accidents accounted for 80% of the cases.
(5) Death on the X-ray table while allowing persistence of hypovolemia was the common denominator in four of the five victims who died of ruptured spleens in the emergency departments, after having arrived alive following vehicular trauma.
(6) Those studied were 71.7% men, 77.4% whites, 63.2% vehicular trauma victims, 11.2% assault victims, and 25.7% other trauma victims.
(7) The best chance for fetal survival is to ensure maternal survival, so awareness of the types of injuries and their presentation after vehicular trauma is of the utmost importance.
(8) The increased use of child safety seats and seat belt restraints has significantly reduced the incidence of severe head injuries associated with motor vehicular accidents.
(9) Such additives would have to be stable in vehicular cooling systems and not adversely affect the functional aspects of AF performance.
(10) Epidemiological aspects manifested in vehicular accidents in New Delhi during the year 1983-84 are illustrated here.
(11) The NYPD arrested 11 protesters on Saturday, charging most of them with disorderly conduct, obstructing vehicular traffic and failing to disperse.
(12) We report a case of isolated complete azygos vein transection as a result of blunt motor vehicular trauma.
(13) In forty patients treated at The University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals for fifty-two fractures of forty-one scapulae from 1961 through 1973, most of the fractures were the result of vehicular accidents.
(14) Space folk call these EVAs (short for extra-vehicular activity), but it is clearly the glamour job – and it excites the astronauts, who experience perhaps the most wondrous view that is ever experienced by anyone.
(15) Vehicular accidents accounted for 36% of cervical spine radiographic abnormalities, and sports or playground accidents accounted for an additional 36%.
(16) Most pediatric trauma is associated with vehicular and pedestrian accidents.
(17) Whether these associated injuries would have been neglected had laparotomy for splenic trauma not been performed is uncertain, and so non-operative management of splenic trauma remains contentious, particularly in cases following vehicular accidents.
(18) A little unfair – vindictive, even – as he's never insisted on driving, is happy to play the passive role in our vehicular relationship and I have far more road miles under my belt.
(19) The criteria used by medical examiners for vehicular suicide are also discussed.
(20) Breakdown of the cases into various modes of death showed that homicides, vehicular accidents, and suicides predominated.