(1) Recently, the use of pentamidine has risen because of its efficacy in managing patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and Pneumocystis carinii infection.
(2) Respectable Europeans may damn the nationalist parties that have risen up against mass immigration as “far right”.
(3) And the number has risen sharply since 1980, with nearly 1 billion people added to the ranks of the poor over the past 35 years.
(4) Increasing food inflation means families within this group have to pay a £280 cost of living "premium" as they spend a greater share of their budget on essentials (which have risen faster than other goods) compared with higher-income households.
(5) Primary cadaveric graft survival was 72 and 42% at 1 and 3 years respectively; although since 1985 1 year graft survival has risen to 90%.
(6) Global rates of depression have not risen to the same extent, even though more people are being diagnosed in some countries.
(7) IgA concentrations had risen to the normal range for age in 22.2% of children presenting with aIgAd and 77.6% presenting with pIgAd when restudied at a median interval of 3.2 and 3.0 years, respectively.
(8) During the last 3 years the number of prisoners in Finland, has risen, being for the moment 105 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in Europe.
(9) But no sooner had Hull hopes risen than they were dented by Meyler.
(10) The judge has yet to see the camp, but said he would visit the site on Monday evening once the court had risen.
(11) By October 2018 this minimum will have risen to 8%, made up of at least 3% from the company, up to 4% from the employee, and 1% tax relief.
(12) But yesterday the Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997, despite a promise by Gordon Brown in opposition of a "bonfire of the quangos".
(13) In these countries, however, a question has risen as to priority and justification for developing neonatal intensive care.
(14) There has been little impact on interest rates, banks have not increased their lending and the yen has risen on the foreign exchanges - the opposite of what was planned - because investors fear that the Bank of Japan is fast running out of ammunition.
(15) The scene highlighted Dines's explosive charisma and the fact that, since the death of Andrea Dworkin, she has risen to that most difficult and interesting of public roles: the world's leading anti-pornography campaigner.
(16) Supporters of the 1981 budget say Howe raised taxes when he froze personal tax allowances at a time when they should have risen 15% to keep pace with inflation.
(17) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
(18) Seven years later, the number of British mosques identified with Wahhabism had risen to 110.
(19) The ONS said UK's debt pile had risen to £1.11tn or 70.7% of GDP.
(20) However, while the intestinal oxygen consumption increases along with the blood flow, when the blood flow to the whole splanchnic area has risen the oxygen consumption has not increased moreover it has decreased.
Riser
Definition:
(n.) One who rises; as, an early riser.
(n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread.
(n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.
(n.) A shaft excavated from below upward.
(n.) A feed head. See under Feed, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Semiconductor maker CSR has dropped 2.5%, but its larger rival ARM is the biggest riser on the FTSE 100, up 1.8% Billions has already been wiped off tech stocks in recent days, on fears that prices have been driven too high in recent months.
(2) Precious metal miners were among the risers as investors bought gold and silver, while pharmaceutical stocks moved higher as the threat of Hillary Clinton’s price controls disappeared.
(3) Other issues include dry risers – the water outlets inside buildings for firefighters to use – being damaged, residents replacing their own front doors with non-standard ones, and a lack of fire notices or signs.
(4) In the latest sign that McDonald’s is trying to consolidate its control of the coveted breakfast market, the fast food chain has applied to trademark a new word that could appeal to late morning risers everywhere: “McBrunch.” The application, which the maker of the Egg McMuffin filed on 23 July, signals at the very least an interest in expanding what has been one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable day segments.
(5) In the gliding movement into maximum intercuspation, the difference of the canine riser showed no consistent change in the muscle activity.
(6) Steeper canine risers caused a reduction of the muscle activity when compared with the more flat guidance.
(7) Without artificial pumping, trapping of rainfall with flapgate risers aided in eliminating oviposition sites but still allowed mosquito production in some marsh locations.
(8) US said to allow drilling without needed permits 14 May BP plans to insert a 4in-tube into the ruptured 21in riser pipe that would take the oil to the surface.
(9) However the relative relationships between the individual muscles as well as the working-side muscle and nonworking-side muscle remained unchanged with all canine risers.
(10) Terms such as "stress-riser fracture" and "Young's modulus fracture" have been applied.
(11) The bank's shares – down a third this year and hit by fraud allegations brought by the New York attorney general in June – rose 4% to 228.4p and were the biggest risers in the FTSE 100.
(12) In the present experiment the perceived and attained absolute and relative (riser height divided by leg length) action boundaries were significantly affected by hip joint flexibility.
(13) Rolls-Royce and Imperial Tobacco, which were hit by the strength of the pound last year, were both among the top risers.
(14) Protesters criticise Drax over use of subsidies for coal and wood power Read more Drax’s planned investments were welcomed by the City, with shares closing up 12% at 311p – the biggest riser of the day on the FTSE 250.
(15) BP engineers today began the slow process of trying to fit a smaller tube inside the crumpled riser pipe on the ocean floor to try to siphon oil to the surface.
(16) Banks were among the biggest risers on the FTSE 100 this morning, with Lloyds Banking Group gaining 2.95% to 77.89p, Royal Bank of Scotland up 2.8% at 49.9p, Barclays rising 2.79% to 328p and HSBC 1.7% higher at 672.5p.
(17) Shares in the UK’s biggest retailer leapt nearly 7% to 155p on Tuesday, making it the biggest riser in the FTSE 100, as analysts said the industry market share data suggested sales at established Tesco stores were level, and might even have risen, over the festive period.
(18) On each subject the lateral gliding movements were carried out while maintaining the occlusal contact on the canine riser.
(19) We have reported the case of a nonunion of a clavicle fracture in which the Dacron had eroded the bone and acted as a stress riser contributing to the fracture.
(20) As explained at 7.44am, it's not clear how Pfizer can raise its offer again under City rules 8.25am BST Garry White (@GarryWhite) Not longer a Pfizer riser: #AstraZeneca shares fall 13.1% after management rejected "final" offer from US group May 19, 2014 8.17am BST This charts shows how AstraZeneca's shares have tumbled right back to their level in late April, after Pfizer made its first approach (but before it raised it).