(v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.
(v. t.) To pen; to confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(2) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
(3) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(4) Catheter occlusion of the right lower pulmonary artery allowed evaluation of the integrity of the remaining pulmonary vascular bed as well as improvement of the patient's hemodynamic condition pending more definitive therapy.
(5) The spokesman added that there were already "quite a few cases pending".
(6) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
(7) The implications for ethics committees of the pending federal Patient Self-Determination Act are discussed here by John C. Fletcher in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: yes," and by Alexander Morgan Capron in "The Patient Self-Determination Act: not now."
(8) Greens in the European parliament, as well as in France and Germany , called for the conference to be postponed pending an investigation of the allegations.
(9) Scotland Yard said the 15-year-old was questioned on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act, but freed on bail on Tuesday morning pending further inquiries.
(10) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
(11) These conclusions must be considered tentative, pending other studies to disprove the presence of new molecular species with no change in net charge or size.
(12) As pharmacists are legally or unofficially involved in many areas with few facilities, it may be questioned how their contribution may be more effective pending the development of more extensive official programs.
(13) The TLU was well tolerated by the patients; only two patients refused the TLU pending discussion of the technique with their obstetrician.
(14) Although supporters have stumped up £180,000, it is expected bail will be refused, pending a full hearing of Sweden's extradition request.
(15) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(16) Successful application of CAD technology for bridge to transplant or pending recovery of the natural heart requires understanding issues involving team readiness, patient selection, device limitations, patient management, and complications.
(17) But the pending toughening of the rules merely angers lawyers acting for the detainees even more – why, they ask, did the Obama administration not act more quickly to effect transfers before the squeeze was imposed.
(18) Pending delivery, which is the only definitive therapy for preeclampsia, maternal complications of intracerebral hemorrhage and eclampsia may be prevented with judicious use of antihypertensive medication (e.g., hydralazine) and magnesium sulfate, respectively.
(19) Balls's intervention came in the wake of News International announcing yesterday that Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor, had been suspended before Christmas pending an investigation into whether he had instructed reporters to hack phones, or had knowledge of the practice.
(20) He is reported to have expressed unhappiness at his own pending deployment and of US troops being responsible for the killing of fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tend
Definition:
(v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
(v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
(v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
(v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To await; to expect.
(a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
(a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(4) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(5) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(6) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(7) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(8) Fibrinolysis tended to be depressed in resting ANO patients.
(9) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
(10) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
(11) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(12) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
(13) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
(14) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(15) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
(16) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(17) The more the OKT8+ and B1+ lymphocytes infiltrated, the longer the survival (rate obtained) whereas, the infiltration of some kinds of plasma cells tended to have a negative correlation with the prognosis of the case.
(18) This fact is due to the characteristic of IgE which tends to fix itself to basophil membrane.
(19) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(20) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.