(n.) The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
(n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
(n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
(n.) Sufferance; permission.
(n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
(n.) Solitaire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopefully it could be just a week 7.03pm Michel texts Adam Smith thanks for your patience today 9.31pm Michel texts Adam Smith are you publishing the Slaughters and May opinion tomorrow?
(2) He has frequently tested the patience of Japan's conservative sumo authorities with his disdain for the rules of engagement in the ring and his bad behaviour off it.
(3) This is a community where readers' patience for mediocrity is measured in seconds not minutes," added Thomson, the former Times editor who moved to New York to run the WSJ at the end of 2007 following Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the paper's publisher, Dow Jones.
(4) Benteke continued to test Anfield’s patience but created the third with a measured pass to Teixeira, who made no mistake from 12 yards.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
(6) It’s something I’ve wanted ever since I’ve lived in the area.” A man who has kept his family home on Teesside since taking charge of Middlesbrough has required patience.
(7) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
(8) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
(9) Other zookeepers quickly pulled Patience away from Bradford but he had been killed instantly, Scott said.
(10) This overtaxes the attention, mechanical memory, and patience of the brain injured pupil.
(11) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
(12) Mandelson believes Cameron is underestimating the patience of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who is keen for Britain to remain one of the key members of the EU.
(13) Parents should discipline their children with love, understanding, patience and tolerance.
(14) He requires patience, understanding, and repeated explanations to allay his apprehension and anxiety.
(15) A little more patience would have yielded a better result,” Bush said.
(16) Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has some sympathy for Cameron, but her patience is not endless.
(17) Photograph: Da Capo Lifelong Books This is why I have no patience for anyone who insists that women must learn self-defense moves and memorize lists of specious advice to prevent our own victimization.
(18) Brando directed once - on One-Eyed Jacks (1959) - before boredom and sourness took over, but seldom had the patience, the stamina or the courage to be master of his own fate.
(19) Fulham is a team that defends well but we played well, we were a balanced team and we had patience.
(20) I don’t want any more shots.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patience Carter describes being held hostage during Orlando shooting 2.06am Mina Justice was asleep at home when she woken by a text message from her 30-year-old son, Eddie.
Restraint
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
(n.) The state of being restrained.
(n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(2) The current study used the restraint model of stress ulceration to compare the effects of a more potent prostaglandin analogue, 16,16-dimethyl prostaglandin E2, with hyperosmolar glucose and antacids.
(3) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(4) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(5) Rats that were subjected to restraint stress for 18 h were found to have reduced myocardial glycogen and blood sugar levels and showed histological changes in heart and adrenals.
(6) Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs."
(7) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(8) Amid calls for restraint from senior politicians and police, the prime minister, Peter O’Neill has threatened to “terminate” the position of anyone going against the government.
(9) Although B-PELLET rats had normal basal morning ACTH concentrations 5 days after surgery, they exhibited augmented and sustained ACTH responses to five different ACTH-releasing stimuli (injection, restraint, chlorpromazine, and, under pentobarbital anesthesia, morphine or sham adrenalectomy).
(10) Restraint produced regional losses of bone most obviously in the proximal tibia.
(11) The committee responses delineated emerging standards governing specific areas of animal use, such as antibody production, induced disease, surgery, physical restraint, and behavioral conditioning.
(12) Nine of the groups were fed nutrient solutions of different compositions, antacid and sucralfate through orogastric tube during induction of stress ulcer by restraint and a cold ambient temperature.
(13) These observations are rationalized taking into account the ionic radii and coordination numbers of the cations and the conformational restraints of valinomycin molecules.
(14) Even without public spending restraint, those pressures will only increase as our population ages.
(15) The data revealed striking sex differences in body image, restraint and food attitudes, even in the youngest age group (12 to 13 years).
(16) Does the restraint required for head or nose-only exposure of rodents to inhaled aerosols or gases alter their breathing pattern?
(17) Behavioral problems resulting in the use of physical restraint is a clinical problem seen in the acute phase of recovery from cerebral contusion.
(18) Later-born cohorts were lower in Restraint and higher in Ascendance than early-born cohorts.
(19) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(20) The rate of AChE activity restoration in Gd-7 treated axolotl embryo depends on the level of the enzyme restraint and the stage of the embryo development.