(n.) The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.
(n.) A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(2) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
(3) We present interim survival data for a group of 83 adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma treated by implanting stimulated autologous lymphocytes into the tumour bed following surgical debulking.
(4) The study was terminated prior to accrual of the planned number of patients because of the statistically significant difference in efficacy between treatments found at interim analysis.
(5) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(6) The commission is due to issue an interim report by the end of the year, drawing up a shortlist of potential long-term airport runway schemes.
(7) Such employees are entitled to free advice and in certain cases may qualify for interim daily allowances.
(8) We report here in the interim analysis of an ongoing randomized clinical trial designed to test whether androgen priming enhances tumor chemosensitivity in men with stage D prostate cancer refractory to orchiectomy.
(9) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
(10) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(11) The interim Ukrainian president, Alexander Turchynov said “many” pro-Russians had been killed and arrested.
(12) France intervened following a direct request for help from Mali's interim President, Dioncounda Traore.
(13) In the interim, Gough had also played a devious old friend of the Doctor – by now, Peter Davison – in the 1983 story Arc of Infinity.
(14) Routine application of these techniques would serve as an interim procedure to assess antigenic potency of individual strain components of commercial vaccines until improved tests are developed.
(15) On Monday, Nato declared: "Today, we have declared an interim ballistic missile defence capability as an initial step to establish Nato's missile defence system, which will protect all Nato European territories, populations and forces."
(16) This interim report describes the results in 85 patients.
(17) John Vine, the chief inspector of immigration, who is conducting the official inquiry into who, including ministers, knew what when in a row which has put the home secretary's political reputation on the line, is to publish an interim report as early as next week.
(18) At the request of the state governor, the interim president, Michel Temer, has authorized 1,000 soldiers and 200 marines to bolster security.
(19) Guus Hiddink has not lost a game in his second spell in interim charge, but more revealing is the reality he has won only once in the league to date.
(20) Secondly, results from a program that provides pretrial and interim predictions in clinical trials are displayed, bringing together the use of subjective opinion, Bayesian methodology and techniques for evaluating and criticizing predictions.
Intermediary
Definition:
(a.) Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project.
(n.) One who, or that which, is intermediate; an interagent; a go-between.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) About half of the total of the 13 selected parameters showed reactions of the intermediary metabolism of the test groups caused by the feeding.
(3) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(4) Officials in Israel, using intermediaries in Europe, tried to reach out to Ayatollah Khamenei, via Khatami.
(5) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(6) The role of 20,000 local authority housing officers has yet to be rethought and could act as universal credit intermediaries.
(7) These local glomerular constrictor actions of LTD4 support the possibility that this eicosanoid might play an important intermediary role in the functional impairment accompanying some forms of inflammatory injury.
(8) Lateral diffusion from the surrounding choroid into the optic nerve was detected but diffusion from the prelaminar optic nerve into the juxta-optic nerve retina was prevented by the Kuhnt intermediary tissue.
(9) Fillings were made of Concise composite resin, without applying an intermediary resin (1), after applying the resin layer (2), after diluting the mix with one (3) or two (4) drops of catalyst resin but without an intermediary resin, and after diluting the mix and applying the resin layer (5).
(10) In a social policy and decision-making context, the nurse is an intermediary between political authorities and community groups.
(11) Magnesium deficiency is an important but rather neglected intermediary factor for the occurrence of (avoidable) side effects of renal, ototoxic and cardiac nature, emerge when using cytostatics, immunosuppressives and antibiotics.
(12) Pyruvate inhibits Escherichia coli K-12 biodegradative threonine dehydratase activity by a mechanism distinct from product inhibition by alpha-ketobutyrate and catabolite inactivation by intermediary metabolites.
(13) Mediterranean patients (N = 16) had features intermediary between the two other groups.
(14) Soluble fibrin is observed in patients with intravascular coagulation and represents an intermediary product of conversion of fibrin monomers into a fibrin clot whereby the presence of fibrinogen may suppress fibrin clot formation.
(15) A reaction scheme is proposed which postulates that two electrons are transferred from guaiacol to compound I giving ferriperoxidase and oxidized guaiacol with the intermediary formation of compound II.
(16) Rent for the restaurants is paid to a separate UK company, itself also owned by a Netherlands intermediary.
(17) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(18) Oman has been an important intermediary in the past between Washington and Tehran, and Alawi met P0resident Hassan Rouhani and aides to Iran’s supreme leader on a visit to the Iranian capital last weekend.
(19) Receptors are linked to membrane-bound, signal-transducing proteins which act as intermediaries in the generation of second messengers that elicit biological responses.
(20) The nature of the changes in the intermediary metabolites suggested that rise in blood glucose was caused by insufficient insulin.