(1) High-level diplomatic discussions have only reopened in recent weeks, with one of Clinton's deputies, Thomas Nides, due to arrive in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Nine
Definition:
(a.) Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
(n.) The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(3) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(4) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(5) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(6) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(7) A review of campylobacter meningitis by Lee et al in 1985 reported nine cases occurring in neonates, of which only one case was caused by C. fetus.
(8) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(9) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(10) Definite tumor regression, improvement of some clinical symptoms, and continuous remission over 6 mo or more were observed in six, nine, and three patients, respectively.
(11) Nine of the in vivo synthesized early polypeptides can be precipitated specifically from infected cell extracts by antisera with specificity against early adenovirus proteins.
(12) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(13) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
(14) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
(15) A two-year follow-up was available for fifty-nine of the treated knees.
(16) Four of the nine patients failed to show any clinical or hematological improvement.
(17) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(18) The effect of pO(2) was studied in a further nine dogs.
(19) Labeling experiments with fucose and glucosamine show that at least nine of the iodinated peptides may be glycoproteins.
(20) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.