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Rouser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rouses.
  • (n.) Something very exciting or great.
  • (n.) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hungarians fought for freedom in 1956, not Orban’s rabble-rousers | George Szirtes Read more Access to transit zones set up at the border with Serbia has already been severely restricted, human rights groups claim.
  • (2) | Oliver Burkeman Read more The real-estate mogul turned entertainer turned political rabble-rouser-in-chief tweeted a photo of himself on Tuesday – #MakeAmericaGreatAgain – which, upon closer inspection, revealed something shocking to his 3.2 million followers.
  • (3) This time, Republican primary evangelicals and general election evangelicals want a candidate who not just talks a good game, but who has actual accomplishments in the areas that they care most about.” Courting ‘the lifeline of the Republican Party’ In his two-plus years in the Senate, Cruz has made a name for himself as a rabble-rouser who often butts heads with party leadership.
  • (4) It’s time, they said, for Bundy and his anti-government rabble-rousers to pack up and go home.
  • (5) 6.07pm BST Speeches Hunter Pence has given his pre-game rouser to the Giants.
  • (6) It is easier to picture her as a smalltown university lecturer than a dangerous rabble-rouser.
  • (7) On a bitterly cold evening, MPs and senators representing the Five Star Movement (M5S), launched by Beppe Grillo , the comedian-turned-political rabble rouser, implored a packed piazza to use a referendum on the constitution on Sunday 4 December to send the prime minister, Matteo Renzi, packing.
  • (8) Chan and his co-founders – Benny Tai, another academic, and Baptist minister Chu Yiu-ming – hardly appear rabble rousers.
  • (9) Sarah Palin endorsed her but that doesn’t mean she’s Sarah Palin.” He called Ernst pragmatic in the Marco Rubio mould, rather than a Ted Cruz-style rabble rouser.
  • (10) We expected some light-hearted carousing appropriate to this time of year, but didn’t expect to stumble upon these rabble-rousers and police in riot gear.” Among the groups taking part, according to the police, were two soccer hooligan organisations already known to the police called “Faust des Ostens” (Fist of the East) and Hooligans Elbflorenz (Florence of the Elbe Hooligans), as well as members of the National Democratic Party (NPD).
  • (11) "The prime minister and minister Pyne are trying to portray protesting students as violent rabble rousers out to cause trouble," she said.
  • (12) He made specific mention of the group Der III Weg or “The Third Way”, calling them “dangerous rabble-rousers”.
  • (13) Despite Stone’s advance tweets and comments about some major WikiLeaks disclosures – including recent ones in October relating to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and the Clinton Foundation – the self-styled “rabble rouser” and onetime Watergate dirty tricks operative said the FBI had not contacted him in its investigation into the illegal computer hacking of private Democratic emails, and he was not worried.
  • (14) He said the attacks belonged to a “dark Germany” and said those who were involved in helping refugees to integrate belonged to a “bright Germany” and offered a clear answer to the rabble-rousers.
  • (15) Punchy, pithy, pugnacious, it was the speech to make him chief rabble-rouser for all the policies that are likely to march his party into the wilderness at the next election.
  • (16) Surely it’s only a matter of days before we see him mention @realDonaldTrump, potentially sparking a clash of two of the world’s most famous rabble rousers.
  • (17) Hungarians fought for freedom in 1956, not Orban’s rabble-rousers | George Szirtes Read more Shortly after the rightist prime minister Viktor Orban was elected in 2010, a series of punitive media laws were enacted, aimed at silencing a critical press .
  • (18) Or you could say it was a battle for the soul of the party, between a conservative reformer and nativist rabble-rouser.
  • (19) Hungarians fought for freedom in 1956, not Orban’s rabble-rousers | George Szirtes Read more But the atmosphere changed when János Lázár, one of Hungary’s most powerful politicians, strolled up the street and began to speak.

Sleep


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sleep. Slept.
  • (v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
  • (v. i.) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
  • (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
  • (v. i.) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.
  • (v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
  • (v. t.) To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
  • (v. i.) A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
  • (2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (3) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (4) We investigated whether these peptides also affect the sleep EEG in humans when given intravenously by comparing polysomnographically the effects of four boluses of (1) placebo, (2) 50 micrograms GHRH or (3) 50 micrograms SRIF administered at 22.00, 23.00, 24.00 and 1.00 h to 7 male controls.
  • (5) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (6) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
  • (7) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
  • (8) The occurrence of episodes of desaturation during sleep in patients suffering from chronic airflow obstruction is well known.
  • (9) A lower than normal percentage of REM sleep in these patients was consistent with their retarded intellectual development, which supports current thinking that REM sleep may be a sensitive index of brain function integrity.
  • (10) Amine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) were not substantially affected by sleep deprivation, although there was a significant interaction of clinical response and direction of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) change.
  • (11) Results of sleep sampling under electroencephalographic control of the assessment of GH secretion are comparable to conventional pharmacological studies in terms of efficiency, sensitivity, and percentage false-negatives.
  • (12) Sleep was defined behaviorally as failure to respond to the faint auditory RT cue.
  • (13) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
  • (14) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
  • (15) The analogy with infant sleep patterns and results of studies of brain function in narcoleptics suggest that forebrain inhibitory processes are more important in narcoleptic symptomology than is brainstem dysfunction.
  • (16) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (17) Sleep alterations in addicted newborns could be related to central nervous system (CNS) distress caused by withdrawal.
  • (18) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (19) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
  • (20) This result is discussed in terms of either a function of time-of-day effect or of prior sleep intensity.

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