(n.) A session, as of some public body; especially, a meeting of spiritualists to receive spirit communication, so called.
Example Sentences:
(1) We thought when we read the original accounts of how seances were carried out that they wouldn't fool anyone.
(2) Long-term influence was studied of the acute hypoxic hypoxia seance on rats behaviour in situation of elaboration of the conditioned reaction of active avoidance of electric shocks in shuttle chamber.
(3) That is the "Nominal Standard Dose" (NSD) measured by rets and taking into account the number of seances (N) and the duration of irradiation (T) which would be to take the place of "the total dose" (D) (rads).
(4) It was all about experimentation and doing something different - the Story Beast hosted a seance, Spencer Jones used the mannequins for a set piece, another comedian re-enacted the lives of the Brontë sisters using the old wedding dresses hanging from the ceiling.
(5) With single-seance-method, where for the indirect pulp capping the base consisted of calcium hydroxide (Dycal, Reolit) and where the teeth were filled during the same seance, the success was achieved in 82.2% of cases; the complications appeared in 17.8% of cases.
(6) It was not a seance,” said Mary Catherine Bateson, a writer and cultural anthropologist, recalling the imaginary conversation.
(7) During the period 1951 to 1987, ileorectal anastomosis in one or two seances, depending upon the activity of the disease, was carried out in 63 patients with ulcerative pancolitis.
(8) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
(9) By means of arterio-venous fistulas over 700 seances of hemodialysis were performed.
(10) During the seance, Nyman, taking the role of the medium, announced that the spirit would raise the table.
(11) It was found that in 2.5-3 months after the hypoxia seance, the experimental animals significantly differed from the intact controls by dynamics of CR elaboration (rats which had hypoxia were ahead of the control ones) and by distribution of the conditioned reactions latencies (for experimental animals this distribution was shifted to minor values).
(12) The use of a nomogram (in numerical and graphic versions) to dose resistance at expiration in patients with concomitant morbid obesity contributed to significant improvement of the indices of pulmonary ventilation and gas exchange without disorders in hemodynamics after seances of SR with PPEE.
(13) Anthropologists, on the other hand, have demonstrated the logic behind the shaman's seance, and its uses as a projective system which locates the patient's problems in external entities rather than within his own psyche.
(14) But to a small group of psychologists, the rituals of the seance and the medium are opening up insights into the mind, shedding light on the power of suggestion and even questioning the nature of free will.
(15) The lights go down, the curtains part and then, just as the seance is about to begin, someone shouts: "Raoul!"
(16) BBB permeability to blood globulins was found to be significantly increased after the exposure to hypoxia, reaching its maximum by the 7th day and returning to normal only by the 30th day after the hypoxia seance.
(17) Chronic administration of cycloheximide to young rats from 15-th to 30-th postnatal day before daily 3-hour seances of their contacts, disturbed the formation of animals intraspecies aggressivity.
(18) It’s hard to imagine some shaven-headed neo-Nazi … sitting in front of his computer ... reading the juiciest bits to a blush of boys armed with belt buckles,” Willi Winkler of the Süddeutsche Zeitung has written, “but every ideological fanatic has access to it and from January, it will be possible to hold such nostalgic seances once again over the printed book …” As to Hitler, it is well-documented that Mein Kampf made him a fortune – more than 12m reichsmark – not least, Kellerhoff has discovered, because he avoided paying much of the tax due on it.
(19) One to three courses were conducted, each consisting of 10-15 seances.
(20) With colleague Andy Nyman, co-creator of Derren Brown's television illusions, Wiseman used contemporary descriptions of Victorian seances to recreate an encounter with spirits in a disused prison .
Stance
Definition:
(n.) A stanza.
(n.) A station; a position; a site.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(2) The influence of vestibular dysfunction upon the vestibulospinal reflex (VSR) in two common peripheral syndromes was investigated by two types of posturographic examination: "static" posturography, recording and analyzing the postural sway in stance, and "kinetic" posturography, recording the stepping in place test.
(3) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(4) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(5) The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the effects of the leg during swing and stance phases of forward propulsion of the body for both men and women.
(6) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(7) Burham's claim to be the continuity candidate, coupled with his past reputation as a Blairite, suggests a centrist leadership that would stay on course in terms of private sector involvement in public services, a crackdown on benefit claimants and a tougher stance on criminals.
(8) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(9) He added: “From what we’ve seen so far, Londoners can be forgiven for wondering if Zac will be a mayor who works to bring London’s diverse communities together or one who will drive them apart.” Others evince real surprise over Goldsmith’s stance.
(10) Loads up to 2.5 kN were applied, without simulated muscle forces, to mimic the line-of-action of the resultant joint-force in a single-legged stance.
(11) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(12) This paper describes a system for the quantitative analysis of posture and stance in the freely standing quadruped.
(13) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(14) A spokesman for the Liberal Democratic party senator, David Leyonhjelm, said he would read Heydon’s decision before determining his stance.
(15) Even more striking is the stance being adopted by Hagan and her Democratic supporters, who have been as keen to discuss social issues as the Republicans have been to avoid them.
(16) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
(17) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(18) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
(19) They are hoping that in a constituency that voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, Goldsmith’s hard-Brexit stance will count against him.
(20) "Cameron's interpretation of Merkel's stance is partially based on a misunderstanding," said Stefan Kornelius, foreign editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung and author of an authorised Merkel biography.