(a.) Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sequence data were used to infer phylogeny by using a maximum-parsimony method, an evolutionary-distance method, and the evolutionary-parsimony method.
(2) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
(3) The most parsimonious explanation of this result is that much genetic drift accompanied the establishment of local populations in cities and that there has been little subsequent gene flow.
(4) With benzodiazepines, StD of memory retrieval conceivably constitutes a parsimonious explanation of the anxiolytic and untoward (amnesic, drug dependence) actions of these drugs.
(5) The affiliations of the oligohymenophoreans were assessed using both distance matrix (DM) and maximum parsimony (MP) analyses.
(6) Maximum-parsimony analyses of the total data set of 67 vertebrate alpha A sequences support the monophyletic origin of alligator, tegu, and birds and favor the grouping of crocodilians and birds as surviving sister groups in the subclass Archosauria.
(7) Faced with the realities of Britain's rickety finances, chancellors and shadow chancellors of all parties have frequently turned parsimonious.
(8) The site-by-site parsimony analysis was also used to determine the 3' boundary of each catarrhine species-specific conversion.
(9) The patterns of continuity and change in planning status from pregnancy to pregnancy provide a parsimonious description of reproductive behavior over the course of the life cycle and of the major trends in planning in the recent past.
(10) Phylogenetic trees constructed by both the maximum parsimony method and the neighbor-joining method were highly congruent.
(11) A parsimonious phylogenetic tree suggests that aphA1-IAB evolved from an ancestral form that is closely related or identical to the aphA1 found in Tn903.
(12) The most parsimonious and maximum-likelihood trees both separated the Coleoptera and Neuroptera, but this separation was not statistically significant.
(13) Furthermore, because he fails to take a full count of the number of parameters used in his autoregressive model his argument from parsimony is flawed.
(14) Using regressive logistic models, we analyzed familial aggregation of birth defects among relatives of infants with OM and GA. An autosomal recessive model of inheritance was found to be the most parsimonious explanation for the families of infants with isolated OM or GA.
(15) It was concluded that ARIMA models may, in some cases, produce the most parsimonious model, but in other cases they may miss important process behaviors.
(16) Data from a 52-item self-administered Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Self-Care Scale designed for persons diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) were refactored for the purpose of achieving scale parsimony and clarifying interrelationships among ADL self-care behaviors.
(17) Overall, there is structural and computational economy, or even parsimony.
(18) Thus, whereas a change in central MSH sensitivity may contribute to reduced fever in aged homeotherms, a reduction in central pyrogen receptors appears to be the most parsimonious explanation.
(19) Fourteen thioredoxin sequences were used to construct a minimal phylogenetic tree by using parsimony.
(20) For simplicity the emphasis is placed more on parsimony than on sequence homology in the present study, though both are certainly important.
Penurious
Definition:
(a.) Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
(a.) Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
(a.) Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
(3) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
(4) The British Red Cross charity said such individuals should be allowed temporary leave to remain and work if they meet Home Office requirements , sparing people from years living in penury.
(5) That’s because, just as the earlier bailouts went to the banks not the country , and troika-imposed austerity has brought penury and a debt explosion, these demands are really about power, not money.
(6) And then, finally, laid low by strokes, penury, depression and ill health, Biggs back in Britain.
(7) In Cyprus , now poised to become one of the biggest experiments in global financial history, people know that penury is just around the corner.
(8) A recession may actually appear to rescue poor people from penury, simply by dragging down the benchmark of typical pay.
(9) Our landlord could double the rent tomorrow, one of us could be summoned to work in Stockholm or Scotland or Stockport, or we might find ourselves in financial penury.
(10) There are relatively few signs of the aching poverty that afflicts other parts of Latin America, though a developing world debt crisis drove many to penury at the beginning of this century.
(11) They bid for the World Cup knowing how workers are treated in their country – workers are dying, suffering injury, mental tortureand penury while waiting for the "catalyst" to change their miserable reality.
(12) "These policies will bring penury to Greeks for generations to come.
(13) This is the Tories' brave new world, "compassionate" in giving, "conservative" in lowering taxes, a system that failed miserably in the past and will surely condemn millions to penury in the future.
(14) The Rev Dr John Jegasothy, a former Tamil refugee and now an Australian citizen, says life on a bridging visa is enforced penury and a poverty made worse because of its interminable nature.
(15) There is charity, and sometimes state and local relief, but many a chronic health condition goes untreated, and penury abounds .
(16) The relations between landlord and tenant were circumscribed by the indebtedness of the former and the penury of the latter.
(17) At the age of 40 he began to write seriously, living in near-penury for years while sustaining an eccentric lifestyle, wearing silver spectacles and glycerine gloves (in bed), while writing with a "magic" glass egg on his desk, and chain-smoking like a devil.
(18) They would say that Miliband is taking the party back to the left and the bad old days of inefficiency, trade union power and frequent strikes, that he doesn't like or understand business, and that Britain would slide from prosperity to penury.
(19) It was also on the road to penury, thanks to Mutharika’s increasingly eccentric economic policies and his alienation of the foreign donors upon which Malawi relies .
(20) Its single currency has brought penury to half a continent.