(1) A ceremony will take place at which Jolie will receive the child, who is said to be healthy, likeable, a bit shy and keen on football.
(2) "It is not a likeable work," ran one unfavourable review, "containing little humour or tenderness or modesty.
(3) Denis Napthine, a former country vet, is like your favourite uncle – a bit of a dag but highly likeable.
(4) Sex differences in the perception of touching were investigated by having 25 male and 25 female college students rate how likeable a touch would be under different conditions.
(5) And trust and likeability come from being honest, not always from being nice.
(6) And that is not easy.” Clinton faced questions about her “likeability” during her failed campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
(7) , G2, 21 March), a likeable person with whom I once shared a public platform.
(8) No wonder David Cameron wanted to have at his side the man who so successfully enhances his likeability .
(9) You might dislike the prime minister's policies – and that's fine – but he and the chancellor are two very likeable and good men, as well as politicians that care deeply about others, and their colleagues know it.
(10) "It's all past history as far as the group is concerned," comforts their instantly likeable manager Joe Moss as we wait in a west London recording studio for the Smiths' imminent return from a Thameside photo session.
(11) But the need for likeable heroes may instead ensure that the Bushes and Obamas will take the blame – leaving Ronald Reagan up there with George Washington, founding hero of the republic, and with Abraham Lincoln, its saviour.
(12) Female characters in books, movies and on TV are meant to be likeable and, as nymag.com points out this week, if they're not, the problem is usually explained away as a medical problem (such as Homeland's Carrie being bipolar.)
(13) Three homogeneous and stable factors emerged from a factor analyss: Aggression, Withdrawal and Likeability.
(14) If there was a fear before this Olympics began that it would be a corporatised, soulless event, the effort and enthusiasm of the volunteers have filled it with a likeably amateur and properly human warmth.
(15) I liked it.” In private Defour is likeable, though he can find privacy difficult.
(16) But they also may be tackling broader concerns about the party’s likeability, after the party spent most of this week on the wrong side of public opinion over issues such as the non-domicile tax status .
(17) But while the radical increase of women in the workforce has shifted views, we're still not living in a society that sees women and men as equally competent, likeable and authoritative.
(18) As we know, this manifesto for women in the boardroom tells us that the correlation between women being judged 'likeable' and their position in a hierarchy are inversely proportionate.
(19) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(20) I am not so very old, but I'm old enough to have noticed that the times in my life when I was most admired by men, the times when I was considered most likeable, were also the times when I was most vulnerable, most powerless and unsure of myself.
Sympathetic
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
(a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.
(a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
(a.) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.
Example Sentences:
(1) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(2) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(3) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
(4) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(5) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(6) Chick sympathetic nerve fibers densely innervate expansor secundariorum muscle, but not skeletal muscle.
(7) Assays of isolated single sympathetic neurones show that their transmitter functions can be either adrenergic or cholinergic depending on growth conditions.
(8) The increased sympathetic nervous activity during exercise appears to be a toxic rather than a compensatory effect of alcohol.
(9) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(10) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(11) The marine natural product lophotoxin has produced a non-reversible antagonism of parasympathetic and sympathetic functions that are known to be mediated by C6 sub-type nicotinic receptors.
(12) The distribution and ultrastructure of lipopigments in the rat sympathetic, vagus and spinal ganglion neurons were studied in vivo and in vitro using fluorescence and electron microscopy.
(13) In 27 decerebrate cats under various experimental conditions, we studied the effects of programmed premature ventricular contractions on the impulse activity of preganglionic sympathetic fibres isolated from the third left thoracic ramus.
(14) Sympathetic nervous system function was blocked in developing male SHR by treating pups from days 0 to 14 with: (1) guanethidine, (2) combined alpha- and beta-receptor antagonists (prazosin and timolol), or (3) vehicle (5% sucrose).
(15) These results show the existence of a depressor response and decreases in HR and RNA in the rabbit mediated by the action of BK on cardiac sympathetic afferents.
(16) Finally, fosinopril had no effect on the pressor or chronotropic effects of norepinephrine (NE) or 1,1-dimethyl-4-phenylpiperinium (DMPP) or electrical stimulation of the sympathetic ganglia of pithed rats.
(17) Sympathetic nerve stimulation may cause a rise in IASP by its action directly at the IAS smooth muscle partially through release of NPY.
(18) In anesthetized cats, the enhancement of sympathetic activity and increase of the blood pressure in exclusion of afferents (section of vagosympathetic trunks and clamping of common carotid arteries) as well as the disappearance of the activity in enhanced afferentation, were shown to be transient and to disappear within a few minutes-scores of minutes in spite of the going on deafferentation or enhancement of afferentation.
(19) Stimulus-response characteristics suggested that this system was well suited for a role in tonic inhibition of sympathetic activity.
(20) This increase is presumably the result of radiation induced release of their parent amines from the brain; in the case of VMA the secondary response of the peripheral sympathetic system might occur.