(a.) Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) To prevent inopportune switching, HO transcription is restricted to a specific period in the haploid cell cycle, which is just after, and dependent on, the start of the mitotic cell cycle.
(2) The Vatican's spokesman Federico Lombardi insisted the rite took place in "a specific situation in which excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all".
(3) This makes demolition surgery, which is not often well accepted by the patient, inopportune.
(4) Inopportune coagulation of blood in vessels is prevented by defense mechanisms, in which plasma inhibitors play an important role.
(5) Other morphological radiographic appearances include a risk of misinterpretation and thus inopportune, inadequate or hazardous operative procedures.
(6) While Mark Wallinger's Ebbsfleet horse is eagerly awaited, Manchester's B of the Bang, its steel shards falling at disconcertingly inopportune moments, failed.
(7) An allergic reaction could occur at a most inopportune time.
(8) Indeed, Vidal claimed the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred because the Bush administration was "incompetent" and Bush himself was "inactive and inopportune".
(9) All of which feels like an inopportune context for Keith Bristow, the director general of the new National Crime Agency , to request more police powers.
(10) Metastases of secreting tumors are verily more rare, nevertheless they are indubitably a major indication for embolisation, since good results are achieved concerning inopportune secretions and repeat embolisations possible are a super advantage.
(11) Due to a perfect confluence of inopportune circumstances, I have not been able to get the Talkboard standings from last week tallied up just yet.
(12) I lose count of the many times I have been reprimanded for an inopportune frown, eye-roll, or death stare (teachers found the latter particularly unnerving).
(13) The timing of the event, the last of three which took place during the week, was seen as inopportune, given the killing of a NYPD officer just days before .
(14) Because of this favorable outcome, all inopportune treatments must be avoided, and abstention is the best attitude.
(15) Nevertheless, the need to be away from school such as during an important examination, or from work, may be inopportune.
(16) The today usual diagnostic procedures in the postoperative follow up control are able to detect liver metastases in most cases only in an inopportune stage for therapy.
(17) "It may seem inopportune to be questioning growth while we are faced with daily news of the effects of recession, but allegiance to growth is the most dominant feature of an economic and political system that has led us to the brink of disaster.
(18) The remarks, which are unusual in a country where courts do not generally comment on cases before publishing their written reasoning, were reportedly described as "inopportune" by the chairman of the judges' governing body, the CSM.
(19) Therefore the separation of the healthy sibling takes frequently an inopportune course and should be adjusted by psychological psychiatric intervention within primary prevention.
(20) This tendency, apparently inopportune from the aspects of caries prevention, ensures, however, a permanent low F- level above the enamel surface.
Unsuitable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
(2) However, since peptide ligands are usually unsuitable for development as potent orally active long-duration therapeutic agents, considerable research effort is being directed to the development of non-peptidal ligands.
(3) This technique can be used to treat fractures unsuited for conventional rods.
(4) Normal biomarkers are inherently unsuitable in a positive search for disorder; instead one must either use abnormal markers or be prepared to search negatively, i.e., to look for and somehow validate the rare absence of a normal marker.
(5) Seven patients judged unsuitable for an operation were treated with an aggregated allogeneic antigen.
(6) Five percent of the forceps biopsies were unsuitable for examination; all excision biopsies were of good quality.
(7) These results led to the conclusion that the IFAT screening procedure, as carried out, was unsuitable for the purposes intended.
(8) These results indicate that the 'Imotest' is significantly less sensitive than the Mantoux test and is unsuitable for use as a diagnostic or screening test.
(9) In the courts the remarks of non-specialist qualified persons can lead to wrong decisions as can either unsuitable or wrong evidence.
(10) The carboxamide group is thus unsuitable as was postulated for raising antibodies which recognize the peptide bond.
(11) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
(12) We conclude that s-creatinine and creatinine clearance are unsuitable measures of glomerular function during high-dose cisplatin treatment.
(13) Due to the large variations within and between days, the estimation of unconjugated oestriol in plasma might be unsuitable as a substitute for the estimation of urinary conjugated oestriol in the supervision of complicated pregnancies.
(14) The anterior superior iliac crest, the usual donor site for cortico-spongy bone grafts is unsuitable for the removal of large quantities of spongy bone.
(15) At this stage any attempt at definitive removal of diseased tissue would necessarily result in a larger dural defect at a time when local disease and systemic illness present unsuitable conditions for reparative procedures.
(16) Ultrastructural analysis indicated that Bands 2 and 3 were composed predominantly of membranes, although Band 3 was contaminated with mitochondria; Band 1 and the gradient pellet contained insufficient material and were unsuitable for ultrastructural analysis.
(17) Whilst this sensitive immunological test increases the yield of carcinomas, the high false positive rate makes it unsuitable for population screening for colorectal cancer in its present form.
(18) Unfortunately, a large number of potential compounds are unsuitable for use in dentifrices because they lack "substantivity", produce undesirable side-effects, or are incompatible with toothpaste ingredients.
(19) In this study, we have conducted a systematic investigation of various aspects of cell viability and function of isolated hepatocytes stored at 4 degrees C for 24 and 48 hr in either University of Wisconsin solution or Hanks' HEPES buffer, a control solution clinically unsuitable for organ preservation.
(20) It is concluded that heparin may be given intravenously in normal saline with benzylpenicillin, ampicillin, or methicillin but several other antibiotics were found to be unsuitable for concurrent infusion with heparin.