(n.) The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.
(n.) Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life.
(n.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.
(n.) Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.
(n.) A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.
(n.) Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.
(n.) That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise.
(n.) The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.
(n.) A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.
(n.) The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.
(n.) An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.
(n.) A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
(n.) Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.
(n.) Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
(2) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(3) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(4) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(6) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(7) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(8) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(9) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(10) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(11) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(12) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(13) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(14) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
(15) The half-life of the enzyme at 85 degrees C was 40 min.
(16) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
(17) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(18) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(19) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(20) If Bennett were sentenced today under the new law, he likely would not receive a life sentence.
Superannuation
Definition:
(n.) The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking time out from paid employment to look after children and ageing parents meant they had less superannuation.
(2) Hockey carried on in his budget speech about the age pension becoming unaffordable, but within three years this top-end superannuation concession will cost more than the age pension.
(3) The government’s tax discussion paper released earlier in the year advocated for an overhaul of the superannuation system , saying the current system will put pressure on the economy in the long run.
(4) He has determined superannuation policy and is out there threatening to cross the floor again on the backpacker tax.” On Wednesday Labor’s agriculture spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, said the tax would fail to raise $500m as planned because backpackers would stop coming to Australia.
(5) If the GST is shelved, the government will go to the election promising changes to superannuation, perhaps to negative gearing and cuts to family payments to fund a lower personal tax, while Labor makes similar cuts to super and probably negative gearing to pay for hospitals and schools.
(6) The report suggested the option of restoring the general prohibition on direct leverage of superannuation funds on a prospective basis.
(7) For planning and designing the reconstruction of an superannuated radiological department of a neurosurgical supra-regional hospital the following requirements had to be taken into account: 1.
(8) For women, this means continuing with the program we already have – valuing feminised labour, removing the barriers to women fully participating in work, and ensuring government levers such as superannuation and taxation reduce rather than intensify the wealth gap.
(9) In the UK, the £48bn Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), which provides pensions for 330,000 university and college staff, has a substantial stake in the top 50 coal companies, as do six local authority pensions funds including West Yorkshire .
(10) But I believe they raise questions about the purpose of the concessions particularly as it relates to superannuation.” He ruled out making “effective retrospective” changes to super by taxing in the retirement phase.
(11) The wheels are falling off because the Chinese economy is slowing and commodity prices are falling and because the parliamentary gridlock means governments have been unable to do anything about it.” Richardson joined a growing push for the government to consider savings from the revenue the government forgoes due to the generous treatment of superannuation savings – $30bn in 2014-15 and forecast to rise to close to $50bn in 2017-18.
(12) Treasury advice released under freedom of information suggests the government was considering an overhaul of existing superannuation concessions before Labor announced its policy.
(13) Such arrangements are often not captured within the official counts of homelessness, but there is no disputing this is an emerging trend, and one that must be urgently addressed.” According to the report, women of retirement age had 57% less superannuation savings than men due to greater caring responsibilities through the course of their lives.
(14) The government needs to learn not to just oppose ideas that the opposition puts forward especially when our ideas are in the national interest.” Labor’s policy would tax retirees who earn more than $75,000 from superannuation in the retirement phase at 15%, and lower the high income superannuation contribution threshold from $300,000 to $250,000.
(15) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(16) A recent report by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia also found that thousands of retirees with more than $2m in their superannuation accounts received more than $5.2bn collectively in tax-free income-stream payments in a single year.
(17) Unlike Labor we have no plans to increase taxes on superannuation and will honour our commitment not to make any adverse or unexpected changes to superannuation during this term,” he told the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
(18) Labor has argued its changes strike the right balance and they would still maintain concessional treatment of superannuation.
(19) Labor plans to wind back generous superannuation concessions for Australia’s high income earners, unveiling two new measures raising revenue worth $14bn over ten years.
(20) Speaking at Parliament House on Tuesday, the prime minister, Tony Abbott , ruled out any changes to superannuation this term of parliament.