(a.) Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(2) Details of the episode in October 2011 surfaced publicly last summer when the Bank's executive director for markets, Paul Fisher, told MPs that claims about the "thoroughly reprehensible" allegations had been referred to the regulator.
(3) The authors urge that patients suffering from from facial paralysis should be referred to O.-R.-L. departments right from the start and not when all other methods of treatment have been tried, often with reprehensible empiricism, and found unsuccessful.
(4) And let me say that I find much of the media utterly reprehensible and in need of a new regulator that it can probably get away with setting up itself … Newspapers: Ever so 'umble, sir.
(5) By far the most shocking thing was that McBride was a civil servant at the time, acting in a highly political and thoroughly reprehensible manner.
(6) The dumping of excrement on the statue was “reprehensible and regrettable” and an investigation was under way, the university said in a statement last week.
(7) If you care about people on low incomes, if you care about refugees, if you care about tackling climate change, if you care about the fact that the NHS is chronically underfunded, about divisions, lack of opportunity, failure to maximise potential in the north, then backing a leadership which is going to fail to stand up for any of those causes is utterly reprehensible.
(8) Describing the award as “morally reprehensible” and calling for it to be rescinded, the petition has gathered more than 500 staff signatures.
(9) "It's reprehensible, and there's no room for grey areas," Miliband said.
(10) Like phone hacking or MPs' fiddled expenses, this is an issue that only needs to be described to seem reprehensible.
(11) The sectarian conflict responsible for much of the war's reprehensible human cost was caused in part by the occupying forces' division of the country's political system along sectarian lines.
(12) But corporations, which thrive on their sense of power and control, hate nothing more than having to say sorry unless they are forced to do so because they are squirming on the end of a hook for doing something particularly reprehensible.
(13) Jean Ping, head of the commission of the African Union continental grouping, said he was "deeply concerned by the reprehensible acts currently being perpetrated by some elements of the Malian army".
(14) Cable has alleged that his close friend leaked the ICM polling to the Guardian, describing it as "utterly reprehensible" and "totally unacceptable", and adding that there was no leadership issue.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sean Spicer on Assad regime: ‘Even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons’ Despite one more ineffective attempt to make things right (“Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable.”) Spicer’s combination of callousness and historical amnesia inspired a range of critics – from Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi to Steven Goldstein, director of the Anne Frank Center – to demand that he be fired.
(16) Turkey had last month accused Britain of a “reprehensible” delay in informing the Turkish authorities over the departure to its territory of the three teenage girls.
(17) And many, many other Americans feel the same way.” White House press secretary Josh Earnest called Trump’s remarks “incendiary” and “morally reprehensible”, adding: “What Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump’s anti-Muslim comments ‘disqualify him for president’, says White House .
(18) Bailey said it was "reprehensible" of George Osborne, the chancellor, to refuse to publicly debate the potential threats and refer to any deal as no more than "a commercial matter between the companies".
(19) Photograph: Paul McErlane Handing down his judgment in McCauley’s appeal last September, Sir Declan Morgan, the lord chief justice of Northern Ireland, was in agreement with Sampson: “The failure of the security service to disclose the tape to Mr Stalker and to provide it to the prosecution was reprehensible.” Furthermore, the deputy head of special branch had initially misled the director of public prosecutions by leading him to believe that there was no listening device in the hayshed.
(20) The events which took place on 17 and 18 February in Malakal Protection of Civilians site are utterly reprehensible,” said Eugene Owusu, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan.
Transaction
Definition:
(n.) The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
(n.) That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.
(n.) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(2) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(3) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(4) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
(5) The levy would also confirm the dramatically changing nature of Pakistan's ties with its western partners, from a strategic alliance to a transactional relationship, with deep suspicions on both sides.
(6) Several areas of research on childhood asthma are discussed within a transactional model of asthma.
(7) Many alternative, more reliable sources of public finance are out there – a tax on financial transactions would provide billions of dollars of new money for developing countries to tackle climate change head on."
(8) The spokesman said the role of the branch was fast moving to a “centre for advice” and away from basic transactions.
(9) In order for the transaction to process you have to include your full name and address.
(10) The temporary ban on dollar clearing means that BNP's clients must engage rival banks to send transactions through the financial system in the US.
(11) But when the idea of a transaction with Jeff Bezos came up, it altered my feelings."
(12) Contactless payments grew threefold in 2015, with more than a billion “wave and pay” transactions over the year.
(13) Hester also pledged that customers from other banks will be repaid for 'knock-on' costs after they were left out of pocket by an IT failure that sent 20m transactions awry.
(14) 1985, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 79, 85-122).
(15) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
(16) These latter data provide indirect evidence that short-lived transacting factor(s) regulate transcription of the human bcl-2 gene in lymphoid cells with or without a t(14;18) translocation.
(17) "We look forward to the transaction closing as soon as possible."
(18) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
(19) A new perspective is needed--one that accommodates the evolving role of physicians in society, the life-style choices that physicians enable in their patients, and the respective responsibilities of both physicians and patients in physician-patient transactions.
(20) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.