(1) I once knew a fellow in County Derry who wanted his pencils sharpened; he said: “Sned that for me.” Of course he was being ironical, because the word is usually used for a more hefty engagement of materials.
(2) Eleven patients underwent resection of residual tumor in the lung, kidney, retroperitoneum, or pelvis so that they had "surgically no evidence of disease" (SNED).
(3) At this writing, all 11 patients in the SNED group remained alive without evidence of disease (median follow-up, 21 months).
(4) Snedding” is a wonderful word; it means the slicing off of turnips or sugar beet.
(5) Comparison of response duration showed no difference between the complete response and SNED groups, but there was a significant difference between each of these groups and the partial response group.
(6) Enhanced survival of the complete response and SNED groups compared with the partial response group borders on significance and awaits longer follow-up.
Sued
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sue
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(3) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(4) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
(5) A coalition of plaintiffs suing Texas – which includes minority rights groups, voters and Democratic lawmakers – say their experts have estimated 787,000 registered voters lacking one of seven acceptable forms of ID.
(6) This strain does not suppress phage phi 29 mutant susB47, selected on a B. subtilis strain containing the su+3 suppressor isolated by Georgopoulos.
(7) Even as those words were being published, lawyers and senior executives from News International's subsidiary News Group were preparing to run to court to gag Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who was suing the News of the World for its undisclosed involvement in the illegal interception of messages left on his mobile phone.
(8) Su(H) is also involved in controlling the fates of sensillum accessory cells and is specifically expressed in two of these cells.
(9) But we shouldn’t forget that Gawker was not just getting sued over the Hulk Hogan sex tape case.
(10) Raji consistently exhibited the highest and SU-AMB-1 the lowest polymerase activity and ellipticity.
(11) Doctors fear being sued if morphine given to relieve terminally ill patients' pain hastens their death.
(12) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
(13) In 2009, the Office of Fair Trading successfully sued Foxtons for extracting “unfair” charges from landlords.
(14) Last Friday, a high court judge ordered NoW to make available Mulcaire's notes to the growing list of people suing the paper.
(15) A prominent Mexican journalist and her publisher, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, are being sued in an attempt to force them to remove a bombshell political investigation from the country’s bookstores.
(16) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(17) The segment of DNA encoding only this 5-kb message rescues both the suppression and cold-sensitive male sterility phenotypes of su(s).
(18) IBAT weights, IBAT:BW ratios, and IBAT cell number of corpulent greater than lean, and were greater than with SU than CS diet in both phenotypes.
(19) Enraged that this had happened when casting had barely commenced, the director shut down the movie unilaterally (perhaps finally ...) and sued Gawker .
(20) McKillen, who owns 36% of Maybourne Hotel Group, is suing the Barclay brothers, alleging they used illegal means to seize control of the company.