(a.) Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case against Reedy was dropped when her rapist – Wilbur Brown – was caught by another force and confessed.
(2) He said Mutko replied quickly saying the Russian authorities would co-operate but, as Reedie put it, “it won’t be easy”.
(3) And Wada is now looking into the latest claims, which Reedie described as “a real cause for concern”.
(4) More than a year after attacking Reedy, the man struck again, but this time he was caught and confessed to the earlier crime.
(5) Reedie said the official was able to test the athlete but only after being told by security officials that 30 days’ notice would be required in future, which “makes a mockery of the idea of no-notice testing”.
(6) When the charges against her were dropped, Reedy sued the police and has now won a marathon legal battle and a $1.5m (£1m) settlement against the detective who turned her from victim into accused.
(7) As Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis is excellent: he has the president's famous height, and his reedy, hushed manner of speaking.
(8) Reedy was swabbed for forensic evidence, but the material was never tested.
(9) Reedy's flared X of four bridges, which appears rotated 60 degrees at successive levels on the thick filament, depends on the orientation of the actin filaments in the whole lattice as well as on the range of movement in each cross-bridge.
(10) Reedy was 19 when the man entered the petrol station near Pittsburgh where she was working to pay her way through college and pulled a gun.
(11) Many seasoned anti-doping veterans worry that Wada has been “captured” by the IOC, a shift they claim is embodied by Sir Craig Reedie’s appointment as president.
(12) Reedie argued that Wada has been doing its bit to increase funding – establishing a new $12m fund to research new testing methods and receiving an encouraging response to a recent plea to fund more investigations in the mould of Pound’s – but that other stakeholders must now do the same.
(13) The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Sir Craig Reedie, has called for sponsorship revenue from cheating athletes to be diverted to the fight against doping and for a levy on TV rights deals as part of a huge increase in the organisation’s resources.
(14) Craig Reedie, the president of Wada [the World Anti-Doping Agency] came out the other day and said there would never be sanctions against countries which systematically dope .
(15) Reedie, an International Olympic Committee vice-president, also endorsed another idea that has been intermittently proposed by Wada executives but has gained traction in recent months as the scale of the global challenge has again become clear.
(16) Mutko told Russian news agencies that he has asked the Wada president, Craig Reedie, to provide a “road map” that the country could follow.
(17) Doping revelations of top athletes will be greeted with dismay but no surprise Read more Responding to a documentary highlighting the claims broadcast by ARD , the president of Wada, Sir Craig Reedie, said: “Wada is very disturbed by these new allegations that have been raised by ARD, which will, once again, shake the foundation of clean athletes worldwide.” He said that given the nature of the allegations, they would be handed over immediately to the organisation’s independent commission for further investigation.
(18) Reedy was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
(19) In an article for theguardian.com , Reedie said that, while Wada could be proud of how far it had come since its formation in 1999, it was time for a step change.
(20) That is reckless beyond description.” Pound, who is in London to speak at the Tackling Doping in Sport conference alongside the current Wada president, Sir Craig Reedie, said drugs such as meldonium were not supposed to be taken for long periods.
Wheezy
Definition:
(a.) Breathing with difficulty and with a wheeze; wheezing. Used also figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients three years of age or less, M. pneumoniae was isolated at the same rate from febrile and afebrile cases and from wheezy and non-wheezy cases.
(2) Recurrent croup was significantly associated with a patient history of asthma and wheezy bronchitis and a family history of croup.
(3) The risk factors for wheezy bronchitis were the same as for infections, indicating that wheezy bronchitis is closely related to infections.
(4) The effect of nebulised salbutamol on the bronchial response to nebulised histamine was studied in five wheezy infants aged 3-12 months.
(5) The effect of an oral slow-release aminophylline preparation (Phyllocontin Continus tablets) in preventing early morning reduction in airway calibre was measured in two groups of asthmatic patients; Group I consisted of eight stable asthmatics whose main complaint was nocturnal wheeziness, and Group II comprised four severe asthmatics studied during the period of recovery from an acute exacerbation of asthma.
(6) The sex ratio of asthmatic and wheezy children was very similar in the two countries.
(7) A 9-month-old girl with 4 months history of recurrent wheezy bronchitis, dysphagia and pneumonia, had impacted, radiolucent oesophageal foreign body (nipple).
(8) Forty-eight wheezy infants were followed up for 25 to 44 months.
(9) Respirosonography provides a noninvasive method for objective clinical assessment of young, wheezy children.
(10) These observations suggest that under conditions of forced expiration intrathoracic airways function may be further impaired by nebulised bronchodilator treatment in wheezy infants.
(11) The results of the present study raise serious doubts about the advisability of sedation with chloral hydrate, in the currently used doses, in wheezy infants.
(12) The response of the bronchi to nebulised salbutamol was measured in five recurrently wheezy infants.
(13) Those with perennial rhinitis were more likely to have past or current eczema or migraine, be wheezy or labelled asthmatic, or have a family history of nose trouble other than hayfever.
(14) After multiple logistic regression analysis was used to control for paternal smoking, social status, sex, family allergy, crowding, breast-feeding, gas cooking and heating, and bedroom dampness, the association of maternal smoking with childhood wheezy bronchitis persisted.
(15) While no effect on respiratory function has been demonstrated, a recent study has reported a fall in oxygen saturation (SaO2) following sedation in wheezy infants.
(16) A virus was isolated in 146 (26.4%) of 554 episodes of wheezy bronchitis, rhinoviruses accounting for almost half of the isolations.
(17) Lower airway responses to nebulised bronchodilators were studied in 18 chronically or recurrently wheezy infants, aged 3-15 months, by means of partial forced expiratory flow-volume manoeuvres performed with an inflatable jacket.
(18) Children consulting trainers for recurrent wheezy chest after those doctors had set a standard for that condition improved both in drug compliance (79% (n = 33) before standard setting v 93% (30) after) and mean number of days of breathlessness (3.8 (SE 1.0) before v 1.7 (0.6) after) and wheeziness (4.7 (0.9) before v 1.8 (0.6) after), compared with those consulting doctors who had not (compliance 74% (144) before v 72% (146) after; breathlessness 2.4 (0.4) before v 2.3 (0.3) after; wheeziness 3.0 (0.4) before v 2.7 (0.4) after).
(19) Fourteen months later the recurrence of wheeziness attacks--that is, asthma--was investigated.
(20) It is effective in conjunction with beta-agonists in acute severe childhood asthma and has an important role in the management of wheezy infants and in chronic lung disease of prematurity (bronchopulmonary dysplasia).