(v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
(v. t.) To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
(v. t.) To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
(v. t.) To limit; to confine; to restrict.
(v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(2) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(3) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
(4) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(5) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(6) The apparatus consists of three basic components; a set of 4 strain gauge platforms on which the quadruped is trained to stand, a restraining device to keep the animal positioned over the strain gauge platforms and two mobile plates which mechanically stimulate the left or the right forelimb to produce the placing movement.
(7) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
(8) The structure of Mn(III) superoxide dismutase (Mn(III)SOD) from Thermus thermophilus, a tetramer of chains 203 residues in length, has been refined by restrained least-squares methods.
(9) These linkages could functionally restrain or assist in homeostatically restoring organelles to their normal position after the rearrangement that accompanies the substantial shortening of smooth muscle cells.
(10) A full-body restraining device was constructed that permits the short-term recording of physiologic data (respiration, electrocardiogram, arterial blood pressure, and electroencephalogram) in unanesthetized rats.
(11) For example, a majority of the respondents (82.2%) believed that it was appropriate to keep a patient restrained lying flat in bed.
(12) The reduced Hill coefficients and enhanced oxygen affinity are assumed to be due to impairment of the inter-chain contacts, to restrained cooperative mobility, and heterogeneity of the coupling products.
(13) The mean body temperature of restrained toms declined during the first 150 min of RE and then stabilized.
(14) Today, I am working clinically with Sam*, who moved to Dimensions from an assessment and treatment unit where he was often physically restrained to prevent incidents of aggression.
(15) Out of the total of 333 deaths, 87 people had been restrained, most commonly being physically held down by officers.
(16) We also examined the effect of an external restraining force on tibial subluxation in the ACL deficient knee.
(17) There was no significant difference between apparent pA2 values of unstressed and restrained rats using pA2 regression line analysis.
(18) Perhaps an independent Scotland would offer a restrained alternative to Westminster's current slash and burn.
(19) For training, head restrained animals were oscillated on a turntable in front of an optokinetic pattern projected onto a cylindrical wall.
(20) Significant increases in Tre were observed in the no-behaviour and the semi-restrained groups during cold exposure.
Withhold
Definition:
(v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
(v. t.) To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
(v. t.) To keep; to maintain; to retain.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that there is no pharmacokinetic indiction for withholding OCs from women with early active schistosomiasis who are concurrently receiving antischistosmal drugs.
(2) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(3) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
(4) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(5) In the stringent E. coli, strain 15 TAU (thymine-arginine-uracil) rel A+ (arginine), withholding thymine did not affect the rate of killing.
(6) The Natural Death Act amendments authorize the withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from patients with incurable or irreversible conditions if death will result within a relatively short time without use of such procedures.
(7) Recent activities by some to decry clinical trials as unethical and restrict their conduct results in the totally unacceptable situation of withholding potentially valuable treatments from patients or subjecting patients to the unnecessary risks of treatments not proven safe and efficacious.
(8) While ethicists view the withholding and withdrawing of life-supporting treatment as morally equivalent, physicians tend to make a distinction based on the perceived locus of moral responsibility for the patient's death.
(9) It is argued that the evidence for withholding rifampicin from use in short courses against non-tuberculous infections is slight.
(10) Dear British public, be outraged, act, withhold your money until you can have confidence in what you consume.
(11) These findings support the construct and predictive diagnostic validity of nonfearful panic disorder as a subtype of panic disorder and suggest that a lack of attention to this group leads to both the underestimation of the prevalence of panic disorder and to the withholding of potentially successful treatments for this group.
(12) Kenyan human rights lawyers described how potential witnesses have been cajoled and bullied into withholding their testimony.
(13) We found that 26% of 508 neurons in both parts of the striatum were activated during the presentation of visual signals which prepared the animals for the execution or withholding of individual arm reaching movements.
(14) The Financial Reporting Council also asked for views on companies being able to recover or withhold bonuses from top directors and to explain when publishing the votes at annual meetings how they intend to head off any rebellions in the future.
(15) This study was performed to assess the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in consecutive obstetric patients with clinical symptoms of DVT, using impedance plethysmography (IPG) as the diagnostic method and to establish the safety of withholding anticoagulant therapy in patients with a repeatedly normal IPG.
(16) The daily newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday that Israel had decided to withhold the taxes it collects for the Palestinians under the current interim peace accords and transfers each month to the Palestinian Authority.
(17) Results show that this method of attachment is reliable and strong enough to withhold forces exceeding those necessary to break or tear the cell.
(18) This information was transmitted to a hospital-based telemetry physician who diagnosed or excluded acute myocardial infarction and made a mock decision to withhold or administer a thrombolytic agent.
(19) Neurons were found which remained active during the time period for which the monkey had to withhold eye movements while remembering desired target locations.
(20) Among a "toolbox" of actions under consideration are: • full or partial annulment of the Oslo Accords, under which the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established • withholding tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the PA • cancellation of permits for thousands of Palestinian labourers to work in Israel • withdrawal of travel privileges for senior PA officials • acceleration of building programmes in West Bank settlements • unilateral annexation of the main Jewish settlement blocks.