(1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
(6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
(9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
(10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
(11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
(14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
(15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
(16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
(18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
(19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.
Sentient
Definition:
(a.) Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.
(n.) One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both record, with power and sentient humanity, the vortex of war in our world today, and the millions these wars scatter and shatter across it, not least to Europe’s shores.
(2) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(3) "The passions are perfectly unknown to her ... the unseen seat of life and the sentient target of death - this Miss Austen ignores."
(4) (Sentient describes the state where partial or total awareness is elicited by stimulation).
(5) Ever since this exhibitionist drivel began, otherwise sentient people have been sobbing into their popcorn about thwarted love and the passing of time.
(6) Long before they tucked into the starters there was something whiffy about the relationship between No 10 and News International: why did the prime minister stand by his PR man long after most sentient people had concluded that his denials of involvement in phone-hacking were risible?
(7) Click here for the Paddington trailer There was a swift online reaction to the still image from the film pictured above, in which Paddington looks less like the harmlessly bumbling bear of Michael Bond's books and more a malevolent creature, disturbingly sentient enough to dress itself in a duffel coat.
(8) Unlike Teletubbies, which featured sentient vacuum cleaners and characters with TV screens on their abdomens, this show doesn't rub our faces in the fact that we are slackly farming our children out to the electric babysitter; instead, it has a faintly folky, storybook quality.
(9) Tagline "Sometimes life's second chances come in small packages" Cool Gel Attacks Photograph: James Mccauley Based on an incident in 2006 where packs of cooling gel were found in rural Thailand and mistaken by some for aliens, Cool Gel Attacks offers a "knee-slapping look" at what might have happened had the gel packs indeed been sentient.
(10) He reinvigorated a minor DC title, Swamp Thing – a sort of sentient bog monster – with his now-familiar penchant for supernatural mysticism, psychedelic prose and adult characterisation.
(11) Central heating alone induced sweating responses and the central temperature thresholds of sweating were inversely related to the ambient (sentient skin) temperatures.
(12) He criticised "materialistic technology" in his eight-minute speech and said greed had "unbalanced the ecosystems, contaminated the environments, caused natural disasters, spread epidemics, induced wars and hence endangered all sentient beings now and in future", according to an official translation of his speech.
(13) What I have chosen as my concern, in the foregoing, is not a rough survey of conceptions of human nature--whether man is good, bad, or indifferent; a rational creature or essentially a sentient one; whether man's nature has ever been the same' or whether 'man makes himself', creatively.
(14) Where mo-cap can add value is for films that attempt to respond to humanity's essential 21st-century passions: our essential loneliness as a sentient species, not mutually exclusive with the terror that we might one day be supplanted at the top of the intelligence tree.
(15) Johnny Depp plays Dr Will Caster, an artificial intelligence researcher who is willing to sacrifice himself to create a sentient machine.
(16) As sentient beings we all know this, but it’s my public duty to remind you of the fact.
(17) It was beyond suppression and therefore beyond any sentient move to wish it away.
(18) The Matrix dissolved around me, still a virgin, and barely sentient.
(19) Let's just settle down quietly – pushing meddling politicos out of the action – and decide, as sentient stakeholders, what we want to do next.
(20) From sentient marine mammals to apparently downed airliners and the drastic effects of climate change, the world's oceans, and what we do to them, may be the last great battleground.