(n.) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
(n.) Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
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.
Purchasing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purchase
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(3) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(4) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(5) Following baseline, training consisted of teaching students to use a number line to make purchases.
(6) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
(7) Our fundamental market is 75% done,” he said last weekend, “and when we sign one midfield player that crucial work will be done.” The manager did not rule out further purchases, though.
(8) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
(9) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(10) Like many young Chinese, Hua often made purchases on Taobao, the country’s equivalent of eBay.
(11) Howard Archer of consultancy IHS Global Insight said: "Given the dominant role of the services sector in the economy, the steady growth in May reported by the purchasing managers is welcome news and supports hopes that it can avoid further contraction in the second quarter."
(12) The CML said the value of lending for house purchases was up by 8% year on year in May, at £9.4bn, while the number of loans grew by 5% to 53,800.
(13) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(14) It's possible to go out and about, and not talk to anybody apart from the person you purchase goods from."
(15) The company is also making its VR games collection free to all purchasers of its headset.
(16) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
(17) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
(18) The news website is run by journalist Carmen Aristegui, who in 2014 reported that Peña Nieto’s wife was purchasing a house with financing from a government contractor .
(19) For example, if we purchase new examination equipment without any consideration or if we decide what type of equipment to introduce according to the common advice of the purchase committee of the hospital or the medical school, then we cannot design an ideal system of laboratory examinations and are forced to invest a large sum of money in vain.
(20) The euro clawed back some losses after the European Central Bank said it would absorb €16.5bn from the money markets to compensate for bond purchases up to 14 May, and Greece said it would receive the first tranche of emergency loans tomorrow.