(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.
Interregnum
Definition:
(n.) The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.
(n.) Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the stodge and results-first defensiveness of the Verbeek and Osieck interregnums out of the way, it is finally okay to like to the Socceroos again.
(2) Antonio Gramsci described this phenomenon quite aptly in his prison notebooks: "The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
(3) That odd interregnum has not seen Putin behave in an any less "presidential" way.
(4) One reason for the interregnum could be the gardening leave enforced upon the leading candidate, Stephen Carter, by his former employer, Ofcom.
(5) The interregnum As the emeritus pope leaves the Vatican for the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo – and becomes the first pontiff to resign in 600 years – the operation to choose his successor begins.
(6) But many expected it to be a temporary interregnum before Scotland returned to Labour rule.
(7) There was a weird interregnum on Coronation Street in 1984.
(8) With the throne of St Peter declared empty and the interregnum formally begun, as many of the 208 cardinals who can make the journey will be expected to travel to the Vatican to help run the church in the absence of a pope.
(9) But strategic considerations – the implications of a chaotic interregnum – have forced Mr Mubarak's erstwhile western allies to hold back from publicly insisting on his exit.
(10) T he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” So said Antonio Gramsci .
(11) Adding that O'Brien was obliged by his office as cardinal to go to the conclave, Pepinster said efforts to investigate the allegations would be delayed by the pope's resignation: "There will be an interregnum until the next pope is elected and much of the work of the Vatican will come to a halt.
(12) A couple of weeks before the French Open, the question of who might replace Ivan Lendl as Andy Murray's coach , following a lengthy interregnum, was discussed on Radio 4's Today programme.
(13) With the throne of St Peter declared empty, a period known as the 'interregnum' has formally begun.
(14) We are in a similarly weird interregnum, knowing that Coronation Street, EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and even the longest-running soap in broadcast history, The Archers , are no longer fit for purpose and are waiting for the how and when they get rubbed out.
(15) United were peppering Ruddy's goal as of old by the end and the Giggs interregnum is off to a highly encouraging start.
(16) Previously youth had been an ill-defined state, but Hall conceptualised a new stage of life: an interregnum between childhood and adulthood that was to be sheltered, shaped and guided to avoid the stresses of puberty.
(17) With Ofcom expansion and board members to be appointed, Fairhead, the current chair of the BBC Trust, is expected to see out her contract until 2018 to ensure continuity during the interregnum.
(18) Labour's strategy is a gift to the right, and particularly to any fire-breathing rightist that can occupy the Tory leadership after the weak Cameron interregnum.
(19) As Antonio Gramsci, the sombre Italian Marxist thinker of the 20s, put it in a famous quote currently popular again with thoughtful British leftists: "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
(20) The interregnum With the throne of St Peter declared empty and the interregnum formally begun, as many of the 208 cardinals who can make the journey will be expected to travel to the Vatican to help run the church.