(imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
(imp., p. p., & a.) Satisfied; contented.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pay
Example Sentences:
(1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(2) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(3) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
(4) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
(5) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(6) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(7) Particular attention has been paid to diabetes mellitus and chronic pancreatitis, but a firm conclusion cannot be drawn.
(8) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(9) In each of the clinics I visit I ask how much the surrogates are paid.
(10) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(11) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(12) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(13) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(14) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(15) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(16) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
(17) He also paid tribute to first responders and rescue workers.
(18) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(19) Clifford began representing the family after the media were "camped out on their door" earlier this year but said that he was not being paid by the family, added that the story should never have been in the paper.
(20) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
Pais
Definition:
(n.) The country; the people of the neighborhood.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 11 of the 22 cells PAI-1 mRNA and in 6 of the 22 cells PAI-2 mRNA was found, pointing to a possible role of plasminogen activator inhibitors in the tumor-related plasminogen activator activity.
(2) We conclude that heparin plus AT III partially prevents the endotoxin-induced generation of PAI activity which seems to correlate with the reduced presence of fibrin deposits in kidneys and with a reduced mortality.
(3) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease showed decreased tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen release (t-PA Ag), no significant Von Willebrand antigen release (vWF Ag), and a residual plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI activity) after venous occlusion.
(4) To exclude potential interactions with components of the extracellular matrix which contains binding sites for PAI-1, ligand binding to HepG2 cells in suspension was assessed.
(5) Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), the primary physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in plasma, is a serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) that forms a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with its target proteinase leading to the formation of a stable inactive complex.
(6) Androgen receptor gene mutations were identified in nine CAIS and five PAIS subjects.
(7) Plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-I) rapidly inactivates tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) and urokinase (UK) with nearly identical association rate constants.
(8) The increased PAI appears related to obesity and not diabetes per se.
(9) In the immunopurification of placental extract on anti-PAI-2 Sepharose, the eluate showed the expected reaction with Mab' PAI-2, and it also cross-reacted with anti-vitronectin serum.
(10) IL-1 beta decreased PAI-1 levels by 50% and stimulated PAI-2 levels sixfold.
(11) However, several areas showed a strong u-PA immunoreactivity, but no or low PAI-1 immunoreactivity.
(12) Added alone, H7 does not alter the basal junB or PAI-1 mRNA levels, the deposition of PAI-1 into the extracellular matrix, or the phosphorylation of RB in late G1 phase, suggesting that this inhibitor does not have a general nonspecific effect on the cell.
(13) While t-PA and u-PA levels were slightly lower than in adult controls, a significant decrease in PAI activity was demonstrated and no PAI-2 could be detected in fetal plasma.
(14) In recent clinical studies we have demonstrated that the level of plasma insulin correlated with that of PAI-1.
(15) VN associated with the ECM may confer retention and bioactivity to PAI-1, potentially facilitating both pericellular regulation of plasmin generation and the rapid hepatic clearance of plasminogen activators.
(16) Increases in PAI-1 mRNA levels were evident 1 h after growth factor treatment and were maximal after 4 h. PAI-1 mRNA levels were unaffected by cycloheximide treatment.
(17) To elucidate the mechanisms which govern expression of the PAI-1 gene, total cytoplasmic RNA was prepared from BAEs and analyzed by Northern blotting using a 1.3-kilobase (kb) human PAI-1 cDNA probe.
(18) It is presently unknown to what extent the treatment with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) inhibits platelet PAI-1 release and if release inhibition has an effect on plasma PAI-1 levels.
(19) PAI was increased in 87% of these patients compared to the healthy controls.
(20) It exploded when leading daily El Pais published copies of account ledgers purportedly showing irregular payments to top party members including Rajoy, its leader since 2004.