(v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Example Sentences:
(1) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(2) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
(3) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(5) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
(6) These cells regained responsiveness to PDGF after an additional incubation period in PDGF-free medium.
(7) Obese women who regained weight after successful weight reduction (relapsers, n = 44); formerly obese, average-weight women who maintained weight loss (maintainers, n = 30); and women who had always remained at the same average, nonobese weight (control subjects, n = 34) were interviewed.
(8) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(9) Microbial lipases exhibit a total cutoff in activity with as low a pressure as 2 MPa and a remarkable activity regain with depressurization.
(10) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
(11) Doctors hope that injecting stem cells directly into the spine will help repair damaged nerve cells enough for paralysed people to regain some movement, but such treatments have yet to be tested in humans.
(12) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
(13) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
(14) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
(15) Upon dialysis to remove DTT from the reduced UK mixture, the disulfides reformed and enzymatic activity was regained.
(16) Despite intensive nutritional rehabilitation, patient did not regain the use of his lower limbs.
(17) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(18) Out of 10 patients, eight treated by early mobilization regained full shoulder function within 1 year.
(19) The aged erythrocytes incubated in a mixture of adenine and inosine markedly regained their ATP levels, and also showed a marked transformation from spiked spherocytes to normal discocytes.
(20) She wanted the department to give her reporters better access to Helmand province, where British troops were fighting and dying as they battled to regain control.
Repurchase
Definition:
(v. t.) To buy back or again; to regain by purchase.
(n.) The act of repurchasing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massimo Cellino, the Leeds United owner, has said that an offer to repurchase Elland Road has been made using money raised from the sale of Ross McCormack and other funds.
(2) The Catalan club also has a second option to repurchase him at the end of the 2016-17 season and a right to first refusal should it not exercise (the second purchase option),” they added.
(3) As Sherlund wrote last week: In our conversations with Mr Thompson, he has not appeared receptive to taking steps to enhance shareholder value through accelerated share repurchase, cost cutting and better focusing the business.
(4) It went into administration and Tchenguiz immediately repurchased 293 of its 383 outlets through two new companies.
(5) We appreciate that the board just increased the share repurchase authorisation by $50bn, and that it continues to prioritise share repurchases over dividends (as it should).” He had outlined the importance of Apple TV in his previous letter and again highlighted the potential market value of this business as well as the cars.
(6) Exxon Mobil spent $5.8bn for stock repurchases, buying back 83m shares.
(7) The actual amount VW will spend will depend on how many vehicles are repurchased.
(8) Valukas said the bank tried to lower its leverage ratio, a key measure for credit rating agencies, through a device dubbed "repo 105", through which it temporarily sold assets with an obligation to repurchase them days later, at the end of financial quarters, in order to get a temporary influx of cash.
(9) The statement said that unless director positions were offered "without unsuitable conditions", she would be "unable to assist Fairfax at this time" and may sell her interest and consider repurchasing at some other time.
(10) A New America Foundation study (pdf) , co-written by Laura D'Andrea Tyson, maintained that companies could use the money for two purposes: "They can distribute them to their shareholders in the form of dividend payments and share repurchases; and they can use them directly to fund their domestic economic activities or to reduce their debt."
(11) The company's nuclear investment in 2008 was funded by a £2.2bn rights issue, but with Monday's pull-out, it will give £500m back to shareholders via a share repurchase programme.
(12) McCormack was signed by Leeds’s fellow Championship club Fulham for £11m in July, providing a large chunk of the £16m fee Cellino believes is required to repurchase the stadium.
(13) Apple is also expected to increase its dividend, said Bernstein, perhaps by 20% or more, and could unveil a new share repurchase programme, of $80bn or so, to the end of 2017.
(14) The Officers Club deal happened on the same day: the 150-store chain collapsed and 118 profitable stores were immediately repurchased by the group's original founder David Charlton.
(15) You might imagine that it resulted in an enormous economic boost, but here's what happened instead, in the words of Treasury official Michael Mundaca : "There is no evidence that it increased US investment or jobs, and it cost taxpayers billions … the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service reports that most of the largest beneficiaries of the holiday actually cut jobs in 2005-06 – despite overall economy-wide job growth in those years – and many used the repatriated funds simply to repurchase stock or pay dividends."
(16) The proposed new use of the eurozone bailout money to fund the repurchase of Greek debt on the secondary markets, said officials, has been forced on policymakers by the private sector who made it a condition for their involvement.
(17) [...] In addition, overnight borrowing costs for banks in the $5 trillion repurchase market - which funds day-to-day operations for banks on Wall Street - remain elevated on concern that a default could ripple through key funding markets.
(18) It’s not agreed, we have the option to buy it and, if we try after November, it will cost more.” The deeds to Elland Road are owned by Teak Commercial Limited, a firm based in the British Virgin Islands, and neither of the past two Leeds owners – Gulf Finance House or Ken Bates – repurchased the ground.
(19) This Note reviews those responses and concludes that a ban on the sale of UFFI, coupled with a removal and repurchase program, is the most effective solution from the standpoint of consumer health.
(20) Suárez was due to stay in Andalusia for two years, through to the summer of 2016, but is now headed for [Villarreal], with Barça maintaining the option to repurchase the player at the end of the season,” Barça said on their website.