(n.) Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
(v. t.) To jeopardize.
Example Sentences:
(1) The governing body said then that Russia’s hosting of the 2018 tournament was not in jeopardy.
(2) But when people's jobs, homes and businesses are in jeopardy, it is not enough for the prime minister and the chancellor to use the eurozone crisis as a cloak to hide their lack of action.
(3) The disadvantage is that agents used to prevent thrombosis can place the hemostatic mechanism in jeopardy.
(4) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(5) Five year survival was 97% in patients with a jeopardy score of 2 and 95, 85, 78, 75 and 56%, respectively, for patients with a jeopardy score of 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12.
(6) He says his job is to ‘base search on really understanding what the language means’.The most successful example of natural-language processing to date is IBM’s computer Watson, which in 2011 went on the US quiz show Jeopardy and won (shown above).
(7) In light of the deterioration of Iraq in the past weeks, they extracted promises from Campbell to review the pace and scale of the administration's drawdown – a sign that Campbell's nomination is not in jeopardy – even as Campbell dismissed concerns that the Afghan military would prove as fragile in post-US Afghanistan as Iraq's did.
(8) Nato's exit strategy in Afghanistan appeared to be in serious jeopardy on Tuesday, after it emerged that the US military command had set fresh limits on joint operations with Afghan troops in the wake of a rapid increase of "green-on-blue attacks" involving local soldiers turning their guns on their foreign mentors.
(9) The second part of the article addresses issues pertaining to assessment of infant development and interventions provided for infants whose development may be in jeopardy.
(10) It does not take a scientist to explain that with this expansion things will be displaced, and it doesn't take a professor to work out that media studies and citizenship studies will be in jeopardy.
(11) However, the patients with an early peaking MB CK had myocardium in jeopardy as reflected by a higher incidence of ST segment depression and a decrement in the global left ventricular ejection fraction with exercise.
(12) The former patients appear to be in double jeopardy with respect to synchronous neoplasms, these being more prevalent and less accessible than in patients with non-occluding tumors.
(13) "Luzhkov and Baturina have only turned into democrats because their wealth is now in jeopardy," Milov suggested.
(14) But, look, this guy has done things that have damaged and put in jeopardy the lives and occupations of people in other parts of the world.
(15) An apparently well patient may be in great jeopardy while you are delivering the most skillful dental care unless adequate precautions are taken.
(16) Lederer, a physician, objects to this application of patient autonomy because it might place the surgeon in legal jeopardy of collusion in suicide and would undermine the principles of nonmaleficence and mutual trust.
(17) The left ventricular ejection fraction was more closely related to prognosis than was the jeopardy score.
(18) The message is clear: Clinton is the elderly grandmother who comes round for tea and biscuits and then has to be driven home when she falls asleep in front of Jeopardy.
(19) Cellino’s position as Leeds owner could therefore be in jeopardy as the Football League’s owners’ and directors’ test disqualifies individuals who “have unspent convictions for offences of dishonesty”.
(20) Social work practice, however, has historically been involved in community intervention and environmental manipulation to offset social and psychological jeopardy.
Rist
Definition:
() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concentration of IgE was measured by radioimmunosorbent technique (RIST).
(2) There was no correlation between C-sensitivity and IgE data (RAST and RIST).
(3) Total IgE level and IgE antibodies to mite and Candida antigens were measured by radioimmunosorbent test (RIST) and radioallergosorbent test (RAST), respectively.
(4) The concentrations of IgE that we found in most fluids (urine, saliva, tears, milk, aqueous humour, cerebrospinal fluid, broncho-alveolar washings, intestinal fluids and faecal extracts) were up to 100 times lower than those reported by others who have used the radioimmunosorbent test (RIST).
(5) The IgE concentrations were also determined by radioimmunosorbent test (RIST).
(6) IgE level was determined by radioimmunosorbent technique (RIST) using Phadebas IgE test in the sera of 37 patients with allergic manifestations to inhalant agents, foods, drugs and insect stings.
(7) Analysis of the factor VIII molecular complex revealed that six patients had reduced vWF measured both immunologically (vW:Ag) and by ristocetin cofactor assay (vW:rist).
(8) Taking its procedural simplicity into account, PRIST thus appears better suited for routine diagnostic purposes than RIST.
(9) In this study we measured the total serum IgE levels (RIST-Pharmacia) in 69 randomly selected control subjects; 38 had no previous history of atopic or parasitic disease.
(10) The Phadebas RIST method failed to meet this criterion, and of the remaining tests the double antibody method had the most useful operating range and produced the most reliable results.
(11) CFT seroreactivity was a poor predictor of RIST seroreactivity.
(12) On the other hand, RIST must be used for the determination of extremely high values, as for instance in patients with severe atopic dermatitis or with parasitic infestations.
(13) We concluded as follows: 1) Factors which more strongly influenced both atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis were IgE RAST score to D.f., positive family history of allergy, IgE RIST and eosinophil counts.
(14) These findings confirm prior reports of spurious elevations of IgE with the RIST and indicate the usefulness of the PRIST and double-antibody RIA for the measurement of IgE in sera and secretions.
(15) By replacing the 125I-labelled anti-IgE antibody used in the paper radioimmunosorbent test by the 125I-labelled anti-IgE reagent used in radioallergosorbent test (RAST) and by changing the serum dilution and the incubation time, this modified sandwich technique (MST) became comparable to the RIST in the normal and elevated IgE-region and showed results similar to the PRIST in the very low IgE-region.
(16) The RIST was more sensitive than a standard complement fixation (CFT), in that 53% of these sera were positive by RIST and 48% positive by CFT.
(17) It has been reported that the sandwich technique (PRIST) is a more accurate method for determining serum IgE levels than the conventional radioimmunoassay (RIST), especially for low IgE levels.
(18) Evaluation of total serum proteins and RIST immunoelectrophoresis of immunoglobulins IgG, IgA and IgM were carried out on a group of 35 children of both sexes suffering from secretory otitis.
(19) It is concluded that the proposed modification may replace the conventional RIST for routine purposes, because it offers comparable accuracy, is more exonomical, and provides better results in the low IgE range.
(20) In this paper we report the purification of the N4-coded DNA polymerase from N4-infected cell extracts by following its activity on a gapped template and in an in vitro complementation system for N4 DNA replication (Rist, J. K., Pearle, M., Sugino, A., and Rothman-Denes, L. B.