(1) There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time.” The president put the onus on Iraqis to find a solution.
(2) The onus is now on Michael Garcia, the former New York attorney who has already spent a reported £6m and travelled the world collecting evidence for a report that is due to be passed to the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa's ethics committee later this year, to prove he has taken the new evidence seriously.
(3) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(4) In trachoma, the lack of simple definitive laboratory diagnostic procedures suitable for wide application has placed the onus largely, and usually exclusively, on clinical observation.The study reported is based on the recorded observations of two skilled ophthalmologists in an epidemiological survey covering more than 35 000 persons in Taiwan.
(5) With three weeks left to election day, the onus is on Obama to mount a strong comeback in Tuesday's Long Island debate to undo some of the damage caused by his dismal showing in the first of the presidential debates in Denver a fortnight ago.
(6) One of the big reasons why people aren’t able to make very effective transitions from one job to another is that their skills aren’t up to date and a major contributor to that is not having the opportunity to train.” Individuals have to take ownership of their careers, he says, but there is also an onus on the government and employers to provide work programmes and apprenticeships to maintain a skilled older workforce.
(7) At other banks the onus seems to be on customers to spot all rogue payments.
(8) Various radical plans for tackling the crisis have been floated, including putting the onus on north African countries to patrol the seas and process migrants in their own transit camps.
(9) Increasingly our standards we will be judged against the behaviour of other companies and agencies, with the onus to show that we operate to the highest standards.
(10) "The onus is on us to help the best we can but we can't do something for nothing," he said.
(11) The onus was on the players who had not played as much to come in, take up the challenge and show what they had got for next season – and for the young lads to come in and show that they would love to have this opportunity to play on a regular basis,” said Sam Allardyce.
(12) Nagpaul says: “There is real potential here if it works effectively, but the onus is on NHS England to get it right.
(13) The onus should be on those who want to make such large changes, and to profit from them, to demonstrate their quality - the more conspicuous a building the more important it is that it is well-designed.
(14) Brandis also rejected concerns the national security legislation reversed the onus of proof on people suspected of being terrorists and said arguments the legislation allowed Asio to torture people were a “red herring”.
(15) But the onus is on his leave colleagues now to prove their case, that leave would not harm Britain but benefit it.
(16) And the reason why we haven't had a prosecution is because we're putting the onus on young children to actually come forward, so we're talking about working with cutters but that's in Africa.
(17) Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets , explains: While Italian political chaos likely to persist as discussions take place on coalition formation, investors still looked to put more onus on US Fed Chairman’s statement that quantitative easing was here to stay.
(18) The latest loss to Southampton prompted the Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, to issue a public vote of confidence in the manager, with the onus now on the Portuguese to instigate a revival beginning with Saturday’s visit of Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge.
(19) The onus in legislation is on the disabled person getting their rights enforced rather than the employer.
(20) 3.03am BST 26 mins Jamaica haven't yet really troubled the US goal too much and the onus is on them to do so.
Tonus
Definition:
(n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.
Example Sentences:
(1) One is the ureteral peristaltic contraction which plays a principal role in urinary bolus transport at low flows; the other is ureteral wall tonus, which plays an important role in the transport of columns of urine by the ureter, which does not coapt its walls, at the higher flow rates.
(2) This experimental model excludes the interference of subjective factors, such as erotic stimuli and libido on erection, and it seems that androgen deficiency has a direct effect on the neurophysiology of the erectile tissues resulting in a higher tonus of the detumescence factors, which can be explained by an incomplete relaxation of the sinusoidal smooth muscle.
(3) As the KR channel is highly active in cells in physiological saline, we suggest that it controls the tonus of the coronary artery, as an endogenous dilating factor.
(4) It was found that the principal test for operative identification of the ventro-oral parts of the dentate nucleus in electrostimulation are motor reactions and changes in the muscular tonus in the homolateral limbs and reactions of the cortex of the central and precentral areas of the cerebral hemispheres revealed by electrocorticography.
(5) Its role in reversing the compulsory rotation at the beginning of flexion can now easily be explained: since it is an extensor, the flexion would cause its passive elongation, against which its mere tonus causes rotation.
(6) In 55 subjects in whom both the resting tonus and blood pressure were simultaneously measured at least twice during pregnancy, the mean maternal blood pressure increased as the resting tonus increased.
(7) The vasodilatory action of nicorandil on the epicardial coronary artery was especially pronounced in cases with increased coronary vascular tonus.
(8) It was found that: 1) papaverine abolished the concentrations induced by drugs (histamine, acetylcholine, bradykinin); 2) papaverine reduced the tonus of depolarized muscle and eliminated its increase under the effect of a rise of the external calcium concentration; 3) papaverine had no effect on the amplitude and the ascending phase of the contractile off-response; 4) papaverine accelerated the discending phase of the contractile off-response.
(9) Study of regional hemodynamics showed a significant increase in the tonus of the arteries of the brain and crura and diminished tonus of the veins.
(10) on the contractile reaction of the guinea-pig intestine to constant doses of histamine and bradykinin and on the initial tonus of the smooth muscles is observed.4.
(11) These results suggested that nicardipine might improve feto-placental blood flow while decreasing the spontaneous basal tonus.
(12) The newly-formed sphincter displays changes in its enzyme pattern and becomes capable of continuous tonus; the spinal reflex arc is set up and the transplanted muscle develops characteristic metabolic and contractile properties.
(13) Before and after treatment, multiple colonic manometry was performed, monitoring tonus, intensity and frequency of sinusoid contraction waves, transitories and vibrations, as well as the voluntary contraction capacity.
(14) In patients with spastic paraparesis, increased extensor tonus can be decreased by stimulation of flexor reflex afferents.
(15) The uterine response to the vaginal administration of this compound was characterized by a gradual increase in uterine tonus followed by sustained stimulation.
(16) These results suggest that D1 receptor tonus is a necessary prerequisite for the expression of a DA agonist's effect.
(17) Therefore, rats with initial prevalence of the sympathetic compartment tonus of the vegetative nervous system are more labile to the effect of the dehydration stress.
(18) After resection of the suspensory ligament of ovarii, an increase in resting tonus in the ovarian side did not only cause an increase in RSNA, but also a decrease in renal blood flow.
(19) Thus, as a single entity, S-CaOs may be implicated in diverse manifestations of heart failure--impaired systolic performance, increased diastolic tonus and an increased probability for the occurrence of arrhythmias.
(20) The response to each substance could be distinguished by different effect on beat rate, amplitude, and diastolic tonus, as well as by the duration of responses to standard 1-min applications.