(a.) Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation chief, Duncan Lewis, asked a couple of MPs to tone down the rhetoric , fearing the immoderate language used by some politicians would have a detrimental impact on national security.
(2) Deformation of the respiratory tract due to silicosis has a greater bearing on the development of chronic bronchitis and airway obstruction than immoderate cigarette smoking.
(3) As well as not being able to drink immoderately any more, I can't hack the big, filthy hangovers either.
(4) If someone wants to take an immoderate position on Israel or Palestine, should I accept that the same restriction applies?
(5) Beijing has to realise it is a moderate community and that the only thing likely to stoke up immoderation is the denial of democratic aspirations.
(6) On account of a serious local damage of the skin in both patients the administration of an immoderate dosage must be supposed.
(7) If he knows that one of his patients is drinking immoderately, he should warn him of the outlook.
(8) Many of the known methodological problems and difficulties will arise in the mentioned scientific branches if one stresses immoderately only one component of "idea and experience" by leaving the natural, discipline-related range of variation of the relation "idea and experience".
(9) As for as spontaneous nutrition is concerned the frequency of normal food intake or even of hypocaloric intake, the immoderate proportion of fat intake and the frequency of the few, daily meals.
(10) Immoderate consumption of alcohol was found to be related to three other potentially addictive behaviors (illicit drug use, smoking, and caffeine consumption) in a randomly drawn sample (n = 1253) of American adults.
(11) The politician who is really despised is the kleptocrat who both steals immoderately and does not share the proceeds.
(12) The poison was recycled in The Sun, by Andrew Neil and on BBC's Question Time and would you believe it, there are also some quite rude and immoderate people on Twitter.
(13) However, a sampling of historical sources reveals that not only are there warnings in the writings of both Hippocrates and Aristotle concerning the dangers of excessive intake of cold or iced water, but a series of medical works, from the sixteenth century on, incorporate discussion and illustrative case histories about the detrimental effect of immoderate usage of cold water, ice and snow, frequently in the context of disordered eating.
(14) Immoderate eating habits (e.g., overeating) may aggravate or contribute to the development of degenerative diseases and should be discouraged.
(15) The metachromasia was readily lost after immoderate washing in aqueous solutions or routine dehydration in ethanol, with consequent diminished fiber type distinction.
(16) However, a belief is growing among ordinary soldiers, not just that the generals' perks are immoderate but that in some cases their families are using their connections to make huge corrupt fortunes outside the military.
(17) During the reduction of the fracture, the immoderate use of a image intensifior seams to be the major risk.
(18) This data indicates that the eicosanoid metabolism is involved in the modulation of the potent vasoconstrictor effect of ET-1 in HSV and that PGI2-releaser, such as defibrotide, may have therapeutical value against immoderate changes of venous tone.
(19) Particular Tory policies – on human rights, say, or on welfare – might have been immoderate, but Mr Cameron was always able to wrap them up, often pretty convincingly, in the language of pragmatic common sense.
(20) Significant prevention effects were found for cigarette smoking, marijuana use, and immoderate alcohol use.
Lacking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lack
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) tRNA from mutant IB13 lacks 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thio-uridine in vivo due to a permanently nonfunctional methyltransferase.
(3) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
(4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(5) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(6) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(7) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(8) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
(9) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(10) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(11) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(12) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(13) Core enzyme, lacking omega subunit, catalyzed this reaction at a rate less than 1% that of holoenzyme.
(14) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(15) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(16) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(17) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(18) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(19) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(20) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.