(a.) Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity.
(a.) Hard to be borne; unendurable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carr claimed that Kammerer's sexual importuning had become threatening, and in Riverside Park on August 13 1944, he defended himself with his boy scout knife, fatally stabbing Kammerer twice in the chest.
(2) The proceedings of animal body waste salvage plants are-as you know-connected with intense smell importunities of the immediate environment.
(3) He played in Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache at the Arts theatre and went on tour as Gerald Popkiss in Ben Travers's Rookery Nook, before giving an irresistible Roland Maule, the importunate playwright from Uckfield, in Coward's Present Laughter, at the Vaudeville in 1965.
(4) In his recent book, Marriage of Inconvenience , Robert Brownell claims that Effie was something of an adventurer, encouraged by her importunate family to marry Ruskin to forestall her father’s bankruptcy.
(5) Had I not been so concerned by this importune turn of events, I might have wondered why two of my oldest friends hadn't told me they were together or invited me to their wedding, and so I resolved to work humbly for Herbert for the next 12 years.
(6) This paper discusses three cases of importunate fracture, with skin breakdown and exposed fracture fragments, and their treatment with tobramycin beads (and in two cases, external fixateurs).
(7) If we take the view that German aggression above all else started the first world war, we may conclude the US should take a hard line against contemporary Chinese importuning.
(8) When she was four, her father had to relocate to Pennsylvania after importuning young male members of his staff.
(9) Neither are the tense years of the cold war, when Finland pursued a delicate balancing act between the importunate demands of its giant neighbour and its natural attachment to the west.
Permutation
Definition:
(n.) The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.
(n.) The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.
(n.) Any one of such possible arrangements.
(n.) Barter; exchange.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
(2) On days 39-70 of gestation, the mean serum relaxin concentrations were significantly lower in ten resorbing ectopic gestations (P less than .001, permutation test) than in the normal control group of 13 intrauterine pregnancies.
(3) Using both circular permutation and circularization assays we provide convincing biochemical evidence that TFIIIA bends the DNA at the internal promoter of the 5S gene.
(4) With the combined data, we used the computer program CRI-MAP to build the most likely sequence of loci by sequentially adding single loci to a fixed pair of loci and separately calculating the likelihood of all permutations of four consecutive loci.
(5) There are all sorts of permutations here, not least that founders Ed Wray and Andrew "Bert" Black – who still own 19% of the company – could retain their shares in a company CVC takes private.
(6) DNA molecules of B. subtilis phage SPP1 exhibit terminal redundancy and are partially circularly permuted.
(7) To explore the functionality and conservation of specific base differences in the 3' 200 nucleotides of brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNA-1 (1t) and RNA-2 (2t) with respect to the 3' end of RNA-3 (3t), all possible permutations were used to exchange these regions among the genomic RNAs.
(8) Three variants, X2k, X3k, and X4k order the different permutations of leukocyte and red cell Kx antigen production that have been recognized.
(9) While the great number of permutations possible with dose-response models, detailed risk estimates and proposed projection models precludes any unique result, the reduced integral coefficients are required to conform to the linear, absolute-risk model recommended for use with the integral risk estimates reviewed.
(10) With these methods, some allocation sequences are impossible or highly unlikely so that standard permutation tests are technically invalidated.
(11) Statistical significance of the observed relationships revealed by these representations are assessed by a hierarchy of permutation procedures and by comparisons with theoretical random models.
(12) But though Brown might like to copyright all permutations of the word, George Osborne has made a grab for fairness, as has Nick Clegg.
(13) These results confirm the suggestion that circularly permuted and terminally redundant chromosomes of T-even phages are made of fragments.
(14) Analysts of both genders who have access to their own maternal erotic countertransferences and their patients' matching transferences may enable their patients' acceptance of and immersion in the maternal erotic transference in its loving and sado-masochistic permutations and thus foster the making of a sense of wholeness, and connectedness to living.
(15) Permutation tests are also presented for the case of stratified analyses within one or more subgroups of patients defined post hoc on the basis of a covariate.
(16) A set of ten different sequences was employed, comprising all base permutations at positions 2, 4, and 5 of the consensus sequence 5'(TGTGA)3'.
(17) Gel mobility shift assays with circularly permuted bent DNA fragments and purified RIP60 showed that RIP60 markedly enhanced DNA bending of the dhfr origin region sequences.
(18) Preferred permutations of sexes were those in which the first child was male and subsequent children resulted in an alternation of sexes.
(19) Terminal redundancy may exist and the populations of linear phages may be uniform or randomly permuted.
(20) Poststratified subgroup analyses can also be performed on the basis of the urn design permutational distribution.