(n.) The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.
(n.) That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection to going; unreasonable objections.
(n.) Cause of trouble; sorrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(2) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
(3) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
(4) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
(5) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
(6) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(7) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(8) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
(9) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
(10) Reversible male contraception is another objective that remains beyond our reach at present.
(11) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
(12) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(13) The objective of this work was to determine the efficacy of an endoscopic approach coupled to a Nd:YAG laser fiber in performing arytenoidectomy.
(14) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(15) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(16) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
(17) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(18) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(19) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(20) Among 71 evaluable patients 25% showed objective tumor response (three complete, 15 partial), at all three dose levels and irrespective of the major tumor site.
Precept
Definition:
(v. t.) To teach by precepts.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was George Wickham who, in Darcy's youth, by personal example and precept largely helped to keep him out of trouble.
(2) Rather, there are unwritten standards taught by precept and enforced at the level of science (e.g.
(3) Not one pound is getting through to elderly and frail people in our homes … It needs to get through to people who need it.” On the council tax precept , he added: “In northern constituencies they just won’t be able to raise the money, these are impoverished places like Knowsley or Birkenhead, where I am from.
(4) By having all second-year residents together, faculty teaching time was efficiently used, and the haphazard results from relying on faculty-resident precepting experiences in the family practice center to provide training in these areas was avoided.
(5) The elected commissioners would be responsible for the hiring and firing of chief constables and for setting the council tax "precept" that funds the force.
(6) In daily practice physicians are professionally obliged to interpret ethical precepts and laws in emergency situations under extreme pressure when resuscitation measures leave little or no time to consider deontological issues.
(7) Commonly accepted precepts are challenged: (1) that homologous chromosome pairing is normally mediated by nuclear envelope attachment sites; (2) that crossover site establishment awaits synaptic completion; and (3) that it is the function of the synaptonemal complex to hold homologues in register so that equal crossing over can occur, and perhaps to provide machinery for the crossover process.
(8) Herbert acknowledged that the direct government grant for policing was being cut by 20% in real terms over four years, but said this would be offset by increases in the precept (the funding from local council tax).
(9) He is planning to announce the lower threshold for 2015-16 on Wednesday, the same day as the local government finance settlement, but May has warned that police budgets are already under serious strain and it would cost police and crime commissioners £1.1m to stage a referendum if they wished to raise the police precept by more than 1%.
(10) In attempting to reach his objective, the restorative dentist must remember the fundamental precept of the health professions, which is: Do no harm.
(11) When certain basic precepts peculiar to this age group are observed, the treatment of shaft fractures in young children nevertheless carries a favorable prognosis.
(12) He said: "We were clearly the only ones playing with a straight bat and interested in applying the precepts of Scottish justice, which we continue to do and continue to uphold.
(13) It seems that a unified family structure reinforces a normative social behavior, but it fosters dependency and restricts breadth of preception and possibilities for exercising diversity in behavior.
(14) Ethical precepts are also violated by denying women their right to privacy and by the punitive actions taken against women undergoing abortion by physicians, other health workers, and antiabortion proponents.
(15) Human milk is a preferred food for full-term infants during the first six months of life; however, this precept does not suggest that all infants who are exclusively breast-fed will grow adequately.
(16) In the Precept pacing system, the right ventricular intracardiac impedance waveform is used to evaluate either of two indicators of metabolic demand relative right ventricular stroke volume and preejection interval (PEI).
(17) Young monks study the precepts of their religion in monasteries run by Chinese cadres, even though they know that if they fail to denounce the Dalai Lama they could be dragged away in the middle of the night to face torture and imprisonment.
(18) During the first eight months of the clerkship, 23 medical students were observed in a time and motion analysis and a study of the verbal content of the precepting interactions as students presented their patients to a preceptor.
(19) These thoughts about an ethic of international health can be summarized in a very free revision of the Hippocratic Oath: I will share the science and art by precept, by demonstration, and by every mode of teaching with other physicians regardless of their national origin.
(20) The wide gap between the precepts and practices prevailing among practitioners, the use of potent medicines without proper medical advice and the uninhibited sale of scheduled drugs over the pharmacy counter require careful consideration.