(v. t.) To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way.
(v. i.) To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.
(v. i.) To prevail; to succeed.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) Sperm specimens were obtained from 13 men participating in our in vitro fertilization program.
(3) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(4) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(5) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(6) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
(7) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(8) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(9) Symptomatic improvement was obtained in 14 of the 15 hands, and sensory-evoked response improved in 13 hands.
(10) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(11) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
(12) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
(13) Scatchard analyses of binding data obtained with synaptosomal preparations from 17-day-old embryos revealed two T3 binding sites.
(14) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(15) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(16) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(17) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
(18) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(19) Data obtained with fenoldopam were corroborated with use of SK&F 38393, another dopamine D1-receptor agonist.
(20) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
Swindle
Definition:
(v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
(n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(2) One of my strongest memories of Malcolm is watching him reduce Richard Branson to tears by refusing to allow him to invest in my film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle .
(3) He sent me information about the film The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(4) But for Americans who are learning about the agreement, it is clear that the real "us against them" is not America against the more independent nations of the developing world, but TPP countries' citizens against a corporate swindle being negotiated behind their backs.
(5) As his 28-page petition seeking the Dallas injunction makes clear, even before the fevered allegations of "epic swindle" and conspiracies by the three directors and RBS, Hicks is obsessed with the $822m (£513m) valuation put on Liverpool by Forbes magazine and his belief that the club should fetch a fortune approaching that.
(6) They do the crossing of the Sahara desert, they are swindled, they are often being ransomed, it’s an incredibly violent trek to get to Libya and then cross into Europe.
(7) The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59-year-old Leyla Yunus and her 60-year-old husband, Arif, guilty of swindling and tax evasion yesterday, and sentenced them to eight and seven-and-a-half years in prison respectively.
(8) Either a substitution without proxy or a swindle of one spouse by the other occurs in vital areas of their relation.
(9) Some environmentalists blame the public's doubts on last year's Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, and on recent books, including one by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, that question the consensus on climate change.
(10) But those people would have no problem swearing an oath disingenuously, since they intended from the outset to swindle or bring down the institution anyway.
(11) The Texas District State Court petition accuses the chairman, Martin Broughton, appointed by the creditors Royal Bank of Scotland in April to oversee the sale of the club, and his fellow directors of acting as "pawns" of RBS to perpetrate an "epic swindle" in selling the club to NESV for less than half its supposed market value and ignoring several higher offers.
(12) They forever print tabloid tales of benefit cheats on the swindle, which is bad – I used to do it – but the reality that we lose £1bn a year on all benefit fraud combined, and £25bn on tax avoidance and evasion by big companies and the super rich is seldom reported.
(13) Cameron's role, in Putin's eyes, as modern-day useful idiot may be further enhanced by the former's cautiously oblique references to bilateral concerns including corruption, legal swindles encountered by British businesses and human rights issues.
(14) In other cases, the procedure may become a nightware coupled to a swindle, and even endanger the life of the hopeful mother-to-be.
(15) Magnitsky exposed the biggest tax swindle in Russian history, and was put to death by Russian officials for his pains.
(16) In other words, the emissions scandal is not confined to Volkswagen, to a single algorithm, or to the US: it looks, in all its clever variants, like a compound global swindle.
(17) Signatories included Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, editor of Energy and Environment, Jones's least favourite journal, and Martin Durkin, the British TV producer notorious for his programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(18) A spokesman for Guinness World Records told German paper Taz: "It seems that at the time Guinness was duped by this swindle just like the rest of the media."
(19) The Office for National Statistics report published yesterday on migration has provoked some predictable hysteria: the Sun’s headline is “Great Migrant Swindle”, while Allison Pearson in the Telegraph claims that “the gap between ONS migrant figures and the truth is as wide as the Grand Canyon”.
(20) For some reason, I can also vividly recall seeing an import single featuring Malcolm McLaren singing You Need Hands: presumably some lunatic at a continental record label had looked at the soundtrack of the Sex Pistols' film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and concluded that the track with most commercial potential was the one that featured their manager tunelessly bellowing his way through the old Max Bygraves number.