(a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
(a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
(n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(3) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(5) The incidence of antibody to exotoxin was highest in the age groups ranging from 26 to 32 years, where the positive rates were higher than 40% and 30% for military personnel serving in Sarawak and Sabah, respectively.
(6) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(7) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(8) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(9) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(10) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(11) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(12) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(13) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
(14) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(16) Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis Read more Given that Obama – whatever one’s views on his strategy – is not advocating a bigger military contribution, the only difference is that Abbott is “urging” the US and others to do more, which sounds resolute, and Turnbull says he would consider any request if it was made.
(17) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(18) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(19) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(20) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
Noneffective
Definition:
(a.) Not effective.
(a.) Not fit or available for duty.
Example Sentences:
(1) This fact, the limited applicability of the information obtained from animal experiments, and the further fact that even test results obtained in human subjects cannot be applied on a world-wide basis, exhort us to take care not to subscribe to an all-too apodictic classification of therapeutic measures into effective and noneffective.
(2) (i) By a step-wise decrease in the dose of virus and restriction of the analyses to the first infectious cycle, a multiplicity of infection was ultimately reached for all "avirulent" populations at which infected cells produced normal yields of infectious viral progeny; i.e., the interferon-inducing components were diluted to noneffective levels.
(3) There is a brief review of the literature, and case examples are given of effective and noneffective consultation.
(4) Two criteria for an interpretation of noneffect are that the relative risk estimate be near unity and that the confidence interval be narrow; lack of statistical significance has no bearing on this issue.
(5) Similarly, in pigeons trained to discriminate imipramine from saline, noneffective doses of CRF shifted the imipramine dose-response curve more than twofold to the left.
(6) In addition to the schizophrenic co-twins, 3 MZ co-twins had a noneffective psychotic disorder, thus supporting the hypothesis that genes are involved in the development of Axis I schizophrenic spectrum disorders.
(7) The purpose of this work was to study the effect of indolylacetic acid (IAA) on the strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum, effective and noneffective with respect to symbiotic nitrogen fixation (L4 and 245a, and 14--73, respectively).
(8) In contrast to ZDV, PMEA was either noneffective in preventing viremia in the offspring or embryotoxic, depending on the dose.
(9) Furthermore, separation of PEC into plastic adherent and nonadherent cells showed the nonadherent (T cell enriched) cells to be noneffective alone.
(10) Effective and noneffective levels of inhalation of 239Pu and 241Am transuranium radionuclides were estimated by changes in heart mass parameters of 143 mongrel dogs.
(11) Of the 23 cases followed by CPA, the chronic efficacy of drugs was excellent for 7 (30%), moderate for 5 (22%), slight for 7 (30%), and noneffective for 4 (18%).
(12) Although it is commonly said that only a small proportion of childhood cancers are caused by environmental exposures, much has been learned about exogenous carcinogens through study of their effects or noneffects in children: 1.
(13) Vaccine preparations with mitomycin C inactivated tumor cells proved to be less (NDV) or noneffective (BCG) compared to those with irradiated tumor cells.
(14) The successful evaluation and treatment of the hypertonic patient depends on a clear understanding of the differences between effective and noneffective solute and the consequences of changes in these solutes for water distribution.
(15) Controls had been provided for to prove the noneffectiveness of the distraction device per se to the joint structures under study.
(16) In contrast, excluding these variables resulted in a 95% probability of failure (noneffective or transiently effective).
(17) The methodology for establishing threshold and noneffective (harmless) levels is also described, along with the prediction of delayed adverse effects.
(18) It was shown that T2-DNA modified I in 0,1 M NaCl completely preserves the native secondary structure, has a low degree modification (1 molecule I per 1000-2000 nucleotide pairs), but is a noneffective template for the RNA-polymerase from E. coli B (20%-40% as compared with unmodified T2-DNA).
(19) It was concluded that a single noneffective dose of a vasodilator administered together with an ACE inhibitor in normotensives can lower blood pressure and increase arterial compliance and plasma active renin.
(20) Effects of CRF were significantly enhanced when given in combination with imipramine with low noneffective imipramine doses potentiating the rate-reducing effects of CRF.