(1) Roy Jenkins, the Chancellor, was desperate for some reassuring morsel to feed the bankers hungrily circling the floundering pound.
(2) Their home, however, also happens to sit atop the Marcellus shale bed, believed to be one of the world's richest, which is being eyed hungrily by oil and gas companies lobbying the governor, Andrew Cuomo, to allow them to frack.
(3) Those changes now mean that investors across the region – and beyond – are eyeing Burma hungrily.
(4) It gloops hungrily along, oozing cash like a snail trail, digesting every politician and policymaker in its path.
(5) The camera still feasts on his beauty now that he's pushing 60 as hungrily it would on any 1955 MGM contract starlet.
(6) Yet if we Britons spend our holidays hungrily gobbling up our annual quota of words and ideas from a sun lounger, doesn’t it show that, despite worrying literacy figures, we do still want to read, and learn, and explore fictional worlds?
(7) The club, facing another red tax bill, accepted the investment hungrily.
(8) But this time the Tory tiger feasted on the fresh carcass of the Ukip vote while Labour and the Lib Dems could only prowl hungrily on the sidelines, and received a few deep scratches from the Tories’ claws while they were doing so.
(9) Western leaders queued up hungrily for a piece of Russia’s president following his armed intervention in Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.
(10) United were hungrily looking for more goals when Cole caught them with too many men upfield nine minutes from time, an endearing trait that Moyes would be unwise to try to stamp out.
(11) Gaskell was already hungrily plotting the biography, which she convinced herself was an act of charity.
(12) Satyarthi forces him to take water from a plastic bottle and he gulps at it hungrily, head tilted back, rivulets running down his face.
(13) We meet at her agent's office, where she's just finished an ideas meeting, and she buzzes hungrily between thoughts.
(14) Having decided to become a writer I read hungrily, for pleasure as much as to learn.
(15) In the pre-match build-up, Inter manager Jose Mourinho has been busily peddling his unique brand of nonsensical waffle masquerading as profundity and as usual the press pack have been hungrily lapping it up.
(16) Lessing, for her part, fell hungrily on the theatre, music, museums, but in other ways found London frighteningly flattened, people's energies leeched away by rationing and having to cope.
Remiss
Definition:
(a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
(n.) The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Definite tumor regression, improvement of some clinical symptoms, and continuous remission over 6 mo or more were observed in six, nine, and three patients, respectively.
(2) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(3) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
(4) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
(5) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
(6) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(7) Seven patients relapsed after a CY-induced remission, but 5 of them became steroid responsive.
(8) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(9) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
(10) If severe seizures were prevented by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) there was complete remission of the syndrome and repeat injection was necessary to reinitiate seizures.
(11) About 10% of the patients treated had “complete remission”, with no detectable cancer remaining - considered a cure if the patient is still cancer-free five years after diagnosis.
(12) In conclusion, not only TBII but also T3 release-stimulating antibodies may occur in a minority of patients with long-term remission of Graves' hyperthyroidism.
(13) In total, 22 out of 29 patients (76%) obtained remission.
(14) We observed complete remissions in five patients and partial remissions in 54, for a total remission rate.
(15) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
(16) A new feature is the highly effectiveness of all-trans retinoic acid treatment, a vitamin A derivative, for inducing complete remission in patients.
(17) The impact of this activation on the remission rate and duration, as well as survival in patients with NHL, warrants further investigation.
(18) Antiplatelet factors disappear upon achieving a clinical and hematological remission.
(19) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
(20) Standard criteria for staging and response evaluation, including pathologic documentation of remission status, are crucial.