(n.) Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.
(n.) Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case.
(n.) Relative position; circumstances; temporary state or relation at a moment of action which excites interest, as of persons in a dramatic scene.
(n.) Permanent position or employment; place; office; as, a situation in a store; a situation under government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(2) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(3) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(4) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(5) This situation should lead to discuss preventive rules.
(6) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(7) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
(8) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(9) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(10) Being the decision-making agent, the rehabilitee must therefore be offered typical situational fragments of a possible educational and vocational future, intended on the one hand to inform him of occupational alternatives and, on the other, to provide initial experience.
(11) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(12) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(13) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(14) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(15) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(16) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
(17) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
(18) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(19) Safety is increased through temporary discontinuation or dosage reduction of lithium in special risk situations.
(20) The relative importance of each of these growth factors in the in vivo situation will have to be elucidated by future studies using specific receptor antagonists or neutralizing antibodies.
Wrecker
Definition:
(n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
(n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
(n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her transformation from marriage wrecker to part of the establishment has been “rapid and remarkable”.
(2) There were moments when lots of people had doubts whether our plans would work moments, as I was well aware, when people had doubts about me.” Osborne qualified his criticism of Corbyn’s Labour as the party of wreckers by warning the Tories that they must not become complacent.
(3) Tony Abbott has to decide whether he wants to return to Australia’s proud tradition of working constructively with partners like the US and China on tackling climate change or to continue to act as a wrecker of global cooperation,” shadow environment minister Mark Butler said.
(4) Shaoshan, the birthplace of the greatest wrecker of Chinese tradition, has become, in many ways, a repository of it.
(5) She has been economic with the truth about her home in South Africa and accused of being a "home–wrecker" because of an affair with a family friend.
(6) But with the Conservatives now matching their brazenly uncosted spending pledges with brazenly implausible claims that they will win a majority, it could be crucial in those Lib-Con marginals across the south-west and south-east where having wreckers or ideologues in government frightens the horses.
(7) Junior doctors' strike has become the mother of all deadlocks Read more Yet they must do all of that to avoid being seen as the unreasonable ones, the wreckers.
(8) The climate scientists came to regard him as a meddling, time-wasting and probably politically motivated wrecker, who rarely published his own papers and devoted his retirement to trashing theirs.
(9) But now it must make a tricky choice – to spurn the offer of an extension to Kyoto, which would paint it firmly as the villain, the wrecker of a deal and thus of the climate; or to move away from its entrenched opposition to a legally binding treaty, and start being treated more like a developed country.
(10) A lot of younger Corbynites, he went on, view these old-school operators as passionate idealists in the Jeremy mould rather than hard-left wreckers, which compounds other members’ increasing sense of desperation.
(11) Yet while the US media has been quick to trumpet any evidence of Facebook as the country's leading marriage-wrecker, the truth is "It's complicated," as the site's relationship status would have it.
(12) The nadir came in the 3,000m final when, just after half way, she collided with the American favourite, Mary Decker, who tumbled out of the race, leaving a wretched Budd to continue to a chorus of boos and finish seventh, forever branded Decker's wrecker.
(13) Circa 1985, in holding fast to the old maxim "no enemies on the left" and supporting the presence of Trotskyist wreckers in the Labour party, he rather did my head in – because I was fighting a gaggle of them who had moved into my constituency, hell-bent on taking over an essentially meaningless little branch of the Labour Party Young Socialists by being as unpleasant to other people as possible.
(14) Meanwhile, the anti-union Mail, Express and Sun have expressed their honeyed "understanding" for people they would normally castigate as wreckers and layabouts.
(15) Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful, values-oriented, refugee-welcoming and Putin-resisting leader, finally met Donald Trump , potential wrecker of the west and liberal democracy.
(16) The current crop of Labor members of parliament, they were wreckers in government and now they just want to wreck government.
(17) Both contenders abhorred the growing appeal of the mavericks, wreckers and so-called populists, but had little to say specifically in policy terms about how to combat anti-EU forces such Nigel Farage's Ukip, France's Front National, or the Freedom party of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
(18) "With renowned wreckers Mark van Bommel and Lucio on opposing sides, is this game not rife with battle fever?"
(19) Nancy teased Debo that invitations to writers and artists to stay had more to do with interiors than intellect: "They are terrible wreckers, worse than puppies and will give a mellow old look to the house in no time at all.
(20) While pictures of women branded as sluts, victims, home-wreckers (etc) stay accessible on the internet, job opportunities, new relationships, college entry and basic self-esteem are wrecked.