(n.) A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.
(v. t.) To represent by parable.
Example Sentences:
(1) IIRR has also used humorous anecdotes and parables as educational devices.
(2) So also do parables drawn from actual cases and used as personalized narrative projective tests.
(3) With a back catalogue including Mexican road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien, dystopian near-future parable Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cuarón has been nominated for Oscars before, but not in this category.
(4) While he gets his beard trimmed – a painstaking process that takes 45 minutes and involves an Afro comb the size of a garden rake – Rick dishes out a little parable about how to deal with paparazzi in light of Alec Baldwin's recent decision to quit public life (and New York) after one too many run-ins.
(5) Stories are not only a matter of plots, or of conclusions or denouements, any more than they are moral lessons or parables in fancy dress.
(6) And yet the reason the judges gave the prize to Catton, rather than to either of the two other serious contenders – Jim Crace's parable of land and dispossession, or Colm Tóibín's spare, shocking portrait of the Virgin Mary – must be for its investigation into what a novel is, and can be.
(7) The logic of the specific-effects approach to treatment evaluation is first illustrated by a hypothetical example (the Minefield Parable), and it is then suggested that the approach is appropriate for the evaluation of any treatment, be it physical, psychological, or some complex combination.
(8) The parable of the frog and tadpoles ridiculed the false hopes that encourage the acceptance of inequality.
(9) The expansive, leisurely poems in the new collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, by Louise Glück, are interspersed with one-paragraph prose-poems – miniature parables often framed as personal anecdotes, like this week's choice, A Work of Fiction.
(10) Chelsea's shafting of Ranieri is the most brazen parable of everything that is vile in modern football.
(11) And what's happening to reefs is a parable of what is going to happen to everything else."
(12) Asked what he expected of the papal visit to Britain in 1982, he told the following parable.
(13) With the Falklands war sending Thatcher back into power in 1983, followed swiftly by the defeat of the miners' strike, there was a general sense on the British theatrical left that now was the time to "get real" - to oppose the Thatcher regime with more directly relevant drama than the parables of injustice in which Bond seemed to be dealing.
(14) On Renaissance, you'll find politics, war parables, mellifluous metaphors, a keen sense of humour and a brilliant backdrop of Tribe-ish beats by himself and the deceased J Dilla.
(15) It certainly doesn't demand to be read as a parable of the victimisation of women by medical patriarchs."
(16) now treat these horrors as parables or myths, which is just as well.
(17) Indeed, from what's emerged so far, the story of Madonna and the unbuilt school has all the elements of a modern parable about the failure of top-down development projects.
(18) In the parable, the inventor of writing – the Egyptian god Theuth – boasts to King Thamus that his innovation would make people wiser and improve their memories.
(19) There is another paradox in the fact that Plato put the parable in the mouth of the last great Greek oral philosopher, whose ideas he had chosen to put down in writing.
(20) The first film is a tender gay parable in which Luke falls in love with Alec Guinness and gradually "comes out" as a Jedi.
Procured
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Procure
Example Sentences:
(1) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
(2) Thus, HBsAG screening should be done along with the implementation of a blood policy that ensures the procurement of sufficient blood for hemotheraphy in Ethiopia.
(3) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
(4) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
(5) The number of synaptic sites is regulated by both pre- and postsynaptic cells, in proportion to their cell surfaces; an independent size increase in the receptor terminals (procured in the Drosophila mutant gigas) produces an increase in their synaptic population.
(6) Currently, procurement is obtained from living donors.
(7) Since 1986, the number of kidneys procured in New York City increased while the number procured nationally fell.
(8) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
(9) Different procurement systems have already made England a slightly "different country" for Scottish suppliers, many of whom are more concerned about Cameron's equivocal attitude towards the European Union.
(10) ChE depression is determined by comparison of the affected specimen to normal ChE activity for a sample of control specimens of the same species, but timely procurement of controls is not always possible.
(11) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
(12) These results justify the use of UW solution by intraaortic flush especially during multi-organ procurement.
(13) The taskforce said "smarter use" could be made of the government's £150bn procurement budget to better support innovation and suggested the creation of a new Department for Science and Innovation under its own secretary of state.
(14) A previously described technique of simultaneous whole liver and pancreas procurement depended on "classic" hepatic arterial anatomy, which is present just over half the time.
(15) Procurement experts looking to work in this part of the world will get great experience of project contracting work, demandfor which are likely to continue to increase.
(16) The Southeastern Regional Organ Procurement Program has developed a computerized system for the selection of organ transplant recipients.
(17) Despite increasing referrals for organ donation in metropolitan New York, procurement has remained essentially unchanged from 1983 through 1988 at 9 to 13 per million population, falling far short of increasing demand.
(18) Surgical-pathologic staging was performed laparoscopically, with exploration of the abdomen and procurement of peritoneal cytology and pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes.
(19) Although private capital was gradually replaced by public investment, the latter was much less productive as criminal organisations distort and corrupt the public procurement process.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
(20) The reliability of these techniques is dependent on proficient specimen procurement and the cytopathologist's expertise and experience.