(v.) An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, under the Faustian pact we have witnessed a double whammy: fiscal policy being used to reduce government spending when the economy is already depressed.
(2) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(3) The EU and Ukraine are scheduled to sign the political part of their association pact at the summit on Friday.
(4) The Hollande team maintained that all topics were on the table and also held open the prospect that France could refuse to ratify Merkel's fiscal pact compelling debt and deficit reduction in the eurozone unless eurobonds were recognised as a possible tool.
(5) More than half of Ukrainians oppose Poroshenko’s peace plan, according to a recent poll Second, Poroshenko appears to have made a “non-aggression” pact with Svoboda, the radical Ukrainian nationalist party .
(6) A political official, who asked not to be named, described a pact between elite white and black residents: “There’s an unwritten deal in place,” she said.
(7) Russia Aligned to the Warsaw Pact bloc Sometimes you just have to applaud Russia's diplomatic genius.
(8) The row has weakened Martine Aubry, who declared her presidential bid last week, but had a pact with Strauss-Kahn and could be pressured to stand aside for him.
(9) They complained that while in Washington Cameron launched another round of Brussels-bashing when he was supposed to be promoting the merits of a potential gamechanging trade pact between the EU and the US.
(10) But the Turnbull government has muted its public support for the trade pact since Donald Trump won the US presidential election.
(11) At the time, Christie called the pact “gimmicky” and harmful to business interests.
(12) These parties, with an electoral pact, could win an election to form a one-term coalition to introduce a fair form of proportional representation, after which they could disband.
(13) Despite their crimes, Sharif’s faction of the Pakistan Muslim League has been accused of striking electoral pacts with them in his heartlands of Punjab province.
(14) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
(15) The Green party’s only MP, Caroline Lucas , has called on Labour to support multiparty politics by entering into “progressive pacts” with other parties in certain constituencies.
(16) A Tory win could deliver an EU referendum which Ukip has always wanted – potentially through a pact between the parties – but destroy its raison d’être if the UK decides to stay in.
(17) "The party will fight the next general election in Great Britain as an independent party without any pacts or agreements with any other party and presenting our manifesto as the clear and distinct basis for liberal government."
(18) He spoke about his "responsibility pact" to reduce charges for business and cut red tape in exchange for promises that they will employ more staff.
(19) A series of Tory figures have canvassed the possibility of a formal or informal pact, including leading backbencher Nicholas Boles, former prime minister John Major and leader of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde.
(20) She says that frontbenchers started selling the idea of a pact with the Tories to MPs this morning.
Pacu
Definition:
(n.) A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.
Example Sentences:
(1) My advice to all PACU nurses is to begin recording observations and keep an inventory.
(2) We then measured the patient's sublingual temperature every 5 minutes prior to induction, every 15 minutes intraoperatively, and every 15 minutes postoperatively until he or she was discharged from the postanesthesia care unit, (PACU).
(3) PACU nurses are still the first line of support for the injured athlete.
(4) Patients who listened to music perceived their PACU experience as significantly more pleasant than the patients in the other two groups as recalled both 1 day and 1 month later.
(5) Between transport and PACU entry, the four groups had mean temperature decreases ranging from 1.6 degrees to 2.3 degrees F (0.9 degree to 1.3 degrees C).
(6) Of the nonsmokers, 38% were found to have PACU stays of less than 1 hour, compared with 23% of the smokers.
(7) One patient in the sufentanil 1.0 micrograms.kg-1 group whose surgical time was less than 45 min exhibited respiratory depression in the PACU requiring narcotic reversal.
(8) No additional pain medication was required by patients in the PACU in either group.
(9) Limited published research is available regarding the needs of family members of PACU patients.
(10) In both groups, 52% of the patients were hypothermic (less than 35 degrees C[less than 95 degrees F]) on PACU admission.
(11) Continuous pulse oximetry was performed on 173 adults after general anaesthesia for elective inpatient surgery, throughout their post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) stay.
(12) Findings indicate that temperature on PACU admission is not a variable of difference between groups of patients who develop or who do not develop PS.
(13) Desflurane may benefit elderly patients by providing a more rapid recovery from anesthesia, leading to a shorter PACU stay.
(14) Data showed a PACU complication rate of 23.7%, with an overall intraoperative complication rate of 5.1%.
(15) Sufentanil at all three doses prevented increases in SAP and HR with intubation and incision, provided superior pain relief in the PACU and did not prolong wake-up time.
(16) However, upon testing in the PACU 15 min later, 45% (13 of 29) of Group P patients and 8% (2 of 25) of Group V patients had a TOF ration less than 0.70.
(17) Part II of this article, which will be published in a subsequent issue of this journal, will present research problems that are of interest and the ways in which PACU nurses can use the qualitative research designs discussed in part I of the article.
(18) The installed system, based on four levels of care, provided the following results: more accurate cost of PACU care data reflecting both length and intensity of care; more accurate PACU workload units provided to hospital-wide productivity reporting system; patients charged based on both level and intensity of nursing care in the PACU; nurses feeling that their care efforts are recognized and appreciated; and estimation of overall workload for the next day along with when workload should peak.
(19) Exploitation can also occur when the PACU becomes a resevoir for critical care patients, ie, from the emergency room, due to overcrowded conditions in the ICUs and CCUs.
(20) The purpose of this article is to present an overview of qualitative research methods that can be used by PACU nurses.