(a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
(a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.
(a.) A large or considerable number.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(3) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(4) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(6) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(7) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(8) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(9) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(10) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(11) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(12) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
(13) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(14) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(15) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(16) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(17) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(18) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(19) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
(20) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
Omnibus
Definition:
(n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.
(n.) A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distribution analysis of CBF change images (outlier detection by gamma-2 statistic) was assessed as an omnibus test for state-dependent changes in regional neuronal activity.
(2) The opposition said the government’s approach towards the budget debate in this critical parliamentary sitting week was to stack separate proposals into single bills to avoid scrutiny, particularly in the welfare omnibus bills, and to crowd out the agenda with renewed parliamentary debates on carbon- and mining-tax repeals.
(3) In particular, we recommend the avoidance of omnibus significance tests in favor of specific planned comparisons whenever hypotheses more specific than the omnibus null hypothesis may be formulated a priori.
(4) The participants belong to the Omnibus panel of GPs run by Doctors.net.uk , a professional networking site to which almost all of the UK's 250,000 doctors of all types belong.
(5) 55 freshmen were administered a measure of formal operations consisting of eight suboperations and a complete score, the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the conceptual complexity measure.
(6) There are causes for both celebration and reflection when viewing the results of the 1989 Omnibus Survey.
(7) ITV1's FA Cup highlights programme between 9.25am and 10.55am and its Coronation Street omnibus, between 10.55am and 1.10pm, each had 400,000 viewers.
(8) "I believe that the governor was recommending that it be de-coupled form the omnibus bill and if it's rewritten as a stand alone bill it will pass."
(9) This article briefly describes the legislative history of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) and supplemental security income (SSI) provisions, as well as related Medicare and Medicaid provisions, of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-272).
(10) The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 expands the covered limit to $2,200 (from the $500 set in 1966) but retains the 50% coinsurance requirement for beneficiaries.
(11) Democrats in the House of Representatives have rallied around Senator Elizabeth Warren to oppose the plan, hatched with support from corporate lobbyists, which buries the clause deep in the 1,600-page omnibus spending bill and could extend future public bailouts to riskier trading activities.
(12) The omnibus bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation, force clinics to meet standards of surgical centers (rules that could close 37 of the state's 42 abortion clinics) and require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, a problem for anyone in rural Texas.
(13) Many of the task force's recommendations became part of the Omnibus AIDS Bill filed in the 71st Legislature.
(14) I don’t think this Senate is going to approve in the omnibus bill any language that could open any door to the Green Climate Fund,” she said.
(15) Idle No More began with First Nations’ opposition to the Harper government’s omnibus Bill C-45, which violated indigenous rights and weakened environmental protections to benefit natural resource corporations.
(16) Under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, the United States Congress has called for a study of the quality of care of Medicare beneficiaries and a strategy to assure it.
(17) 2005) and the development of other social security related legislation resulting in proposals that ultimately combined in the overall Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.
(18) BBC2's World Snooker coverage averaged 700,000 viewers between 2.30pm and 5.30pm on BBC2; while the EastEnders omnibus pulled in 1.1 million between 3.05pm and 5pm on BBC1.
(19) The I-view Omnibus poll reveals raising the pension age to be highly unpopular: it is opposed by 69% of those polled and supported by only 18%, with the remainder uncertain.
(20) Soon after the November 2008 election, as he began his second minority government, Harper launched an “omnibus bill”, which contained so many provocative proposals that he united the previously divided opposition parties, which decided not just to vote against the bill but to form a coalition that could replace his government.