(v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
(v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is totally unclear to them how they can get the skills needed for a successful career.” The report, Overlooked and Left Behind, argues that “a culture of inequality between vocational and academic routes to work” pervades the education system.
(2) The microfilaments are strands of polymerized actin which form a network that pervades the neutrophil cytoplasm.
(3) Building Britain's Future startlingly admits: "A sense of unfairness pervades modern contemporary Britain.
(4) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
(5) The chief executive of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Paul Murphy, said the growing culture of secrecy pervading the government’s approach was disturbing.
(6) These structures pervade the cellular cords and rosette-like structures formed by immature type II pinealocytes.
(7) Examination of C. jejuni-colonized crypts by transmission electron microscopy revealed that the campylobacters freely pervaded the lumina of crypts without attachment to crypt microvilli.
(8) If they do, my hunch is that it's because their intuitions haven't kept pace with the extent that mobile technology has pervaded our lives, or with the scale of the data that outfits such as the NSA have been accumulating.
(9) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
(10) A debate about surveillance powers in the internet age is not best advanced by that all-pervading slogan: “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.” We cannot have a risk-free society, and it is too much to expect of the agencies or the law to deliver it.
(11) These strands form a three-dimensional lattice or mesh that pervades all parts of the cytoplasm.
(12) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(13) Quackery is currently a widespread problem that pervades all aspects of healthcare, including the treatment of learning disorders.
(14) Shock-induced drive was assumed to equally pervade all four situations; stimulus contiguity ('pairing') was present only in the DP and DPC tests; and the avoidance 'contingency' was present only in the DC and DPC paradigms.
(15) The enduring ambiguity pervades more the psychiatrist than the legal profession.
(16) The power and independence of the department chairmen and the absolute dependence on research productivity as the criterion for advancement in the academic hierarchy are pervading influences in Swedish dental education.
(17) The party conference season has done little to lift the gloom pervading the public sector, as politicians offer little to cheer staff worried about services, jobs and pensions.
(18) Nonetheless, the change in the doctor-patient relationship might merely reflect the growing indifference to people as individuals that seems to pervade our society in all service-related areas.
(19) But the message that pervades the paper is that once one is a nurse, one is a nurse forever.
(20) The upper-floor restaurants left a lot to be desired, even as the smell pervaded surrounding departments.
Pervasiveness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(2) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
(3) Results indicated a fairly pervasive tendency for the female subjects to upgrade successful males in relation to unsuccessful males but to downgrade successful females in relation to unsuccessful females.
(4) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
(5) Since 1940, under conditions of restricted immigration and high and sustained growth in aggregate demand, shifts in the relative number of younger versus older adults have had a pervasive impact on American life.
(6) Poverty's influence on child health is pervasive and creates a variety of clinical challenges.
(7) Television as a powerful and pervasive influence on youth, containing many undesirable health messages, is discussed.
(8) The remaining question was whether or not this necessarily signified pervasive tissue hypoxia.
(9) Of the several general strategies adopted by bacteria for defence against antibiotics, one of the most pervasive is that of enzymic inactivation.
(10) After six months of sessions, when the infant manifested full-blown weaning patterns, the mother reported symptoms indicating a major depressive episode, such as pervasive dejection and rejection, listlessness, and anxiety attacks.
(11) These transfers often occur in the early hours of the morning and with no warning (for “operational reasons”) and are big contributors to the pervasive fear and anxiety.
(12) The results indicate that (a) alcoholics suffer pervasive physical health difficulties, (b) a family history of alcoholism is predictive of health problems in both alcoholics and controls, (c) the effects of alcohol abuse and family history of alcoholism on health appear to be independent and additive, and (d) women may be more "illness prone" than men and exhibit an increased vulnerability to the adverse effects of alcoholism.
(13) Accustomed to a world in which violence is pervasive, life is cheap and the public authorities – police and judiciary – cannot be relied upon to keep the peace or administer justice, many of Brazil's young men go armed and ready to use their weapons.
(14) But Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, warned that although the prosecutions of figures such as Savile were important, there was a danger they could detract from a pervasive problem.
(15) "The consequences of the financial crisis, sparked by the failure of Lehman Brothers exactly a year ago today, will be pervasive and long-lasting.
(16) The differences in the dental students of the two nations are more pervasive and may be explained in part by the ways the two countries have organized and financed dental education and dental care.
(17) One of the most pervasive findings in the literature on the aged is the general slowing of cognitive-motor responses with advancing age.
(18) Nalia Kabeer and Jessica Woodroffe argued on the Poverty Matters blog that gender is not only "one of the many inequalities that exists but the most pervasive".
(19) Work of the past 20 years shows that flash synchrony is widespread geographically and taxonomically, appears in an astonishing range of spectacular display types, utilizes several neural flash-control mechanisms and is pervasively but enigmatically involved in courtship.
(20) Disorders of pervasive social anxiety and inhibition are divided into 2 categories, generalized social phobia (GSP) and avoidant personality disorder (APD).