(v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.
(v. t.) To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(4) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(5) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
(6) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
(7) Physicians have an obligation to ensure that parents make a well-considered decision, and to provide them with counsel and support.
(8) As he told us: 'Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.'
(9) Organisms of the genus Bacteroides represent the major group of obligate anaerobes involved in human infections.
(10) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
(11) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(12) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
(13) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(14) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
(15) These species are all obligately anaerobic, asaccharolytic, and generally nonreactive, and they grow poorly and slowly on media commonly used to isolate anaerobic bacteria.
(16) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
(17) In the present report we summarize our data on 144 obligate female carriers.
(18) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(19) No serious side effects were reported and none of the patients was obliged to terminate treatment because of side effects.
(20) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.
Oblite
Definition:
(a.) Indistinct; slurred over.
Example Sentences:
(1) No signs of significant obliterative arterial changes were found.
(2) Hepatic fibrosis with obliterative lesions of the small hepatic veins occurred in a three month old infant with fatal congenital leukaemia treated with cytostatic drugs.
(3) This demonstrates the low incidence of obliterative lesions (4 cases throughout the world) which are always associated with collateral vascularization.
(4) In most patients there was an oblitering angiopathie of digital type, stage II to IV, confirmed by angiography.
(5) The angiographic hallmark of allograft arteriopathy is an extensive, diffuse, obliterative process that primarily involves distal, small, subendocardial arteries.
(6) The frequent occurrence of adhesive and obliterative pericarditis with loculated effusions suggests the need for pericardiectomy rather than pericardiocentesis in the patient with rheumatoid arthritis and symptomatic pericardial involvement.
(7) The process of atherosclerosis as a cause of the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells in complicated by ulceration, parietal and obliterative thrombosis as well by intramural hemorrhages.
(8) The role of the parasite in the production of obliterative arteritis in this fatal case of haemorrhagic enteropathy is discussed.
(9) Defibrotide (D) a polidesoxyribonucleotidic derivative provided with fibrinolytic and antithrombotic activity has already proven effective when administered by parenteral route in patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease (POAD).
(10) Peripheral deposition of 99m Tc-DTPA was uniform in normal subjects and patients with CFA, but patchy in patients with obliterative bronchiolitis, possibly resulting from altered patterns of ventilation associated with patchy distribution of bronchiolitis within affected lungs.
(11) We examined a 26-year-old woman with biopsy-proven Crohn's disease who developed a severe bilateral, obliterative retinal arteritis and phlebitis, leading to a marked loss of vision.
(12) This study of 41 cases of young patients with obliterative arterial disease treated surgically, with follow-up for 6 and a half years, used the standard classification.
(13) According to these findings we see the decisive mechanism for the pathogenesis of all stenosing, obliterative arteriopathies in a disturbed interaction between vessel wall and arterially circulating blood.
(14) The overall risk of soft tissue organ failure caused by the obliterative sickle vasculopathy (including stroke, renal failure, chronic lung disease with cor pulmonale, leg ulcers, and young adult death) was increased threefold in those with a CAR haplotype and was decreased in those with a Senegalese chromosome (p = 0.003).
(15) By means of a polarographic method, the peculiarities of blood distribution in the tissues of the lower extremities in 34 patients with obliterative atherosclerosis and in 29--with obliterative endarteritis after sympathectomy were studied.
(16) These findings indicate that pulmonary vascular disease begins at or soon after birth with abnormal pulmonary vascular remodelling which leads to obliterative pulmonary vascular disease.
(17) Since obliterative bronchiolitis may be reversed by early recognition and treatment of rejection, we have aggressively used bronchoscopy with transbronchial lung biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage for surveillance of both rejection and infection in our recent patients.
(18) Regional hemodynamics in the lower limbs was studied in 250 patients (480 lower limbs) with obliterative lesions of the abdominal aorta and lower limb arteries.
(19) Angiographic diagnosis and therapy are discussed in relationship to the indications and follow-up of radiological interventions in patients with obliterative atherosclerosis located in the arteries of the pelvis and lower limbs.
(20) Patients with peripheral obliterative arterial disease, ischaemic cardiopathies and cerebrovascular insufficiencies show a diminution in blood fluidity during spontaneous or provoked ischaemic conditions which disappears after reperfusion of the tissue.