(n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.
(n.) Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(2) A dedicated goal makes a big difference in mobilising action and resources.
(3) It was not possible to offer all very low birthweight infants full intensive care; to make this possible, it was calculated that resources would have to increase by 26%.
(4) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
(5) Variation in patient mix was a major determinant of the large variations in resource use.
(6) Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition.
(7) Similarly, I would like to see fully funded and resourced public services.
(8) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(9) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(10) There is no evidence to support the move to seven-day services, there is no evidence of what is going to happen if we divert our resources away from the week to weekends.
(11) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
(12) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
(13) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(14) The following 10 products were tested: Ensure Plus, Ensure, Enrich, Osmolite, Pulmocare, Citrotein, Resource, Vivonex TEN, Vital, and Hepatic Acid II.
(15) Competition for resources also occurs from noncancer drugs, eg, cardiovascular agents.
(16) Three motives are found for evaluating the quality of human life: allocation of scarce medical resources, facilitating clinical decision making, and assisting patients towards autonomous decision making.
(17) The women used a variety of resources, and their partners were particularly helpful.
(18) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(19) In addition, the UK government will provide further resources to the European Asylum Support Office to help Greece and Italy identify migrants, including children, who could be reunited with family members elsewhere in Europe.
(20) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.
Subscription
Definition:
(n.) The act of subscribing.
(n.) That which is subscribed.
(n.) A paper to which a signature is attached.
(n.) The signature attached to a paper.
(n.) Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
(n.) Sum subscribed; amount of sums subscribed; as, an individual subscription to a fund.
(n.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.
(n.) Submission; obedience.
(n.) That part of a prescription which contains the direction to the apothecary.
(n.) A method of purchasing items produced periodically in a series, as newspapers or magazines, in which a certain number of the items are delivered as produced, without need for ordering each item individually; also, the purchase thus executed.
Example Sentences:
(1) OnLive launched in 2010 and now offers over 200 titles via a subscription-based model.
(2) Streaming and subscription revenues rose by more than 50% over the past year to reach $1.1bn, helping overall sales of recorded music in Europe grow for the first time in 12 years, according to figures published yesterday.
(3) The Economist, which has just launched a single-copy subscription service and reached an undisclosed settlement with oil tycoon Gennady Timchenko in July, saw UK sales rise 2.6% year on year to 187,341.
(4) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
(5) A review of efforts to formulate basic medical journal lists and a report of a survey of subscriptions held in academic health science libraries is presented.
(6) The Conservative MP calling for the BBC licence fee to be replaced with a voluntary subscription is expecting a response to his request for a review of the matter from the culture secretary by the middle of the week.
(7) YouView – a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva and TalkTalk – aims to replace Freeview as a subscription-free interactive TV service to rival pay-TV giants BSkyB and Virgin Media.
(8) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
(9) Globally, 20m people paid to use subscription music services in 2012, according to another industry body, the IFPI, which has highlighted streaming's impact in Sweden and Norway as a sign of bright times ahead for other countries.
(10) The transport of taurocholate across the brush-border membranes was stimulated in the presence of Na(+) compared with the presence of K(+); stimulation was about 11-fold in the presence of a NaCl gradient (Na(o)>Na(i)), where the subscripts refer to ;outside' and ;inside' respectively, and 4-fold under equilibrium conditions for Na(+) (Na(o)=Na(i)).
(11) Nature , one of the world's leading cross-disciplinary scientific journals and owned by the publishing group Macmillan, charges subscriptions for access to its suite of magazines and websites.
(12) Speculation about YouTube's plans for a Spotify-style subscription service have been swirling for some time.
(13) It is trying to get people to pay for music too: it’s launching its own Spotify rival, YouTube Music Key, with a similar model of a free, ad-supported tier then a £9.99 monthly subscription with more features.
(14) YouTube Music Key will sit alongside parent company Google’s existing subscription music service, Google Play Music All Access.
(15) Netflix is the most popular film subscription website in the US, with more than 25 million users in its domestic market, Canada and Latin America.
(16) Last month, the Sunday Telegraph distributed 72,779 bulks and subscriptions accounted for 321,665 copies.
(17) Sales are driven by annual subscriptions, rather than casual purchases – it gets cash up front.
(18) We have got a broadcast ecology here that works, the licence fee funded BBC, advertiser-funded services, subscription services as well.
(19) "In Midcounties, we are setting up a campaigns fund that will replace the subscription we previously paid to the Co-operative party.
(20) It elicited howls of outrage from readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, insulting Ensley, and wishing the newspaper would not even mention the scandal.