(n.) The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.
(n.) Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
(v. t.) To insult.
Example Sentences:
(1) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
(2) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(3) Subjects used these insoles during dance class for 15 weeks.
(4) Based on clinical and biomechanical peculiarities of foot, in the institute have been developed insertable orthopaedic devices for mass-produced footwear for mentioned pathology: corrective device with unloading element and curative insole.
(5) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
(6) The author discusses the use of accommodative weight-dispersing insoles as an alternative to surgical excision for the treatment of such lesions.
(7) Controlled rigidity is provided by the incorporation of a spring steel shank between the sponge insole and the hard wearing plastic sole.
(8) I was told it was a contractual requirement, despite there being no mention of either the strike system or the obligation to sell insoles within the contract itself.
(9) Therefore running shoe insoles can eliminate peak forces by exactly placing supporting elements.
(10) Treat with orthotic insoles or look at upping your shoe size.
(11) This paper describes a study of the effectiveness of commercially available shock absorbing insoles when used in four different pairs of shoes during normal walking.
(12) Insoles will be available to turn any existing shoes into smartshoes.
(13) A new method was developed for the quality testing of shoes, insoles and sport shoes.
(14) The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the impact forces in running using running shoes with conventional insoles to the impact forces using running shoes with four different viscoelastic insoles, 2) to discuss possible effects of the viscoelastic insoles on lower leg kinematics, and 3) to explain the force and kinematic results using a mechanical model.
(15) A full account is given of (a) Wilhelm Werneck's therapeutic coagulations (1835): rupturing of cataract by focussed light (sun, phosphorus); (b) Maximilian Adolf Langenbeck's "insolation" of corneal, pupillary and retinal lesions and of traumatic cataract (1859); (c) Vinzenz Czerny's coagulation experiments on the retina of various animals (1867, 1882).
(16) Vertical foot bearing pressure was decreased by an average of 18% by wearing shoes padded with a Professional Protective Technology insole and the decrease was greater in patients with higher foot pressure.
(17) About a third of dancers fitted with viscoelastic insoles and a tenth of placebo insert wearers found that the insoles made their shoes too tight to be comfortable.
(18) Without physical exercise and direct insolation death usually occurred later (on the average of 5-9 days) from acute renal and renal-hepatic failure.
(19) The mechanism of the static effects of the wedged insole for the medial osteoarthritic knee was studied in ten women.
(20) The most important finding was that an elastic polymer insole with good shock absorbency properties did not prevent stress reactions of bone during a 12-week period of vigorous physical training.
Obstinate
Definition:
(a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
(a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
(2) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
(3) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
(4) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
(5) Adamant avoidance of division of primary clinical responsibility among cooperating specialists and clinician obstinancy when dealing with third parties can help prevent suicides.
(6) When an obstinate irritable colon is present, a diagnostics of neuroses is indicated.
(7) Twenty-two cases 23 eyes with obstinate stromal keratitis treated by combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicines are reported in this paper.
(8) Scores of people, including comedian Mark Thomas and wilderness hiker Cameron McNeish, have become joint owners of an acre of land previously owned by Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon netsman who has become Trump's most famous and obstinate opponent.
(9) The results show the possibility that recombinant human interleukin-1 alpha could be of help for treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with antimicrobial agents alone.
(10) "[The officials] have become obstinate – they are seeking just different ways to mistreat my mother and us as her children," he said.
(11) During the first weeks of the rheumatoid arthritis the following symptoms are found: articular syndromes, more frequently in form of obstinate polyarthralgias, mono-oligoarthritis, accompanied by morning rigidity and accelerated BSR as well as impairment of the general condition.
(12) In a study for the recognition of the urodynamics of the detrusor after administration of the anticholinergic drug Mictonorm 14 patients with obstinate urge symptoms were examined.
(13) But these factors become important when patients, particularly debilitated patients, are infected acutely or chronically with some of the more obstinate bacteria.
(14) Back by the obstinately uninflated elephant, Simon Vose clambered in to his van and set off on another callout for his house maintenance business.
(15) These results show the possibility that KW-2228 could be of use in treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with an antimicrobial agent alone.
(16) Instead, the focus has been on the objective question: could an obstinate and prejudiced person have honestly based the comment made by the defendant on the facts on which the defendant commented?
(17) But with a very strong El Niño driving record global temperatures and a huge patch of hot water, known as “the Blob” , hanging obstinately in the north-western Pacific, things look far worse again for 2016.
(18) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
(19) Three years later, he provoked intense controversy with the publication of Haig: The Educated Soldier, which was sharply at odds with the popular view that the first world war had been the supreme example of "mud, blood and futility", with British generals depicted as callous, obstinate and incompetent.
(20) The knowledge of these diseases is a prerequisite to the causal and lasting treatment of patients affected by the obstinate and occasionally even painful symptom of the burning tongue.