(v. t.) Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(2) Vertically oriented stimuli were paired with a horizontal response solicited at different locations but always involving the same hand posture.
(3) Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent security researcher, said he has tracked the Bitcoin address used to solicit donations for some of the celebrity pictures and found it belongs to the owner of a Dutch photo-hosting site – which he says is also distributing an "original version" of the pictures released earlier this week.
(4) The 54-year-old, who was jailed for seven years for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, has been fighting extradition since 2004.
(5) Solicitation of patients' assessment of the value and meaningfulness of the rehabilitative task has practical importance.
(6) The law will decriminalise street sex workers, who will no longer be charged for soliciting, but it will still be illegal for two women to work together, or to run a brothel.
(7) Fehring's methodology was adapted for soliciting input from nurse experts for the 134 labels described in this issue.
(8) A questionnaire survey was conducted to solicit the experiences, opinions, and recommendations of the users of this system.
(9) Health departments in Canada solicited reports of this newly recognized illness.
(10) As for the prolongation of the parasitism, it would seem to result on one hand, from a reduced solicitation of the means of defence owing to a smaller number of worms and, on another hand, from the slowing down of the hypocorticosteronemy through the buffer effect of lactation with all the consequences flowing from this at the level of the specific and aspecific defence reactions.
(11) A separate questionnaire was sent to 9 pacemaker manufacturers to solicit information concerning the volume of pacemaker sales and their opinions on a variety of subjects.
(12) Soliciting behavior (hop-darting) was not enhanced by any treatment, suggesting that catecholamine activity has an inhibitory influence on the stop component of sexual behavior, but not on the whole copulatory pattern.
(13) Male rats with ARD displayed not only lordosis but also soliciting behaviors in response to 2 micrograms estradiol benzoate (EB) and 0.5 mg progesterone (P).
(14) To test the hypothesis that death might be related to various clinical parameters, retrospective data collection was solicited on 175 ECMO-related CDH deaths from 41 American ECMO centers (ELSO Registry 1980 through 1989).
(15) Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.
(16) Responses were solicited from the program directors and chief residents.
(17) Results through the first 5 months of this project are presented with copies of all materials used in the solicitation.
(18) I did so in part after soliciting and receiving this response to the center’s mock “nutrition label” for the salmon from Ron Stotish, CEO of AquaBounty, on 27 June: Rebuttal of Center for Food Safety AquAdvantage (AAS) Salmon composition label: In the United States, the average height of a student entering the third grade is 45 inches.
(19) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
(20) Sexual performance of the males did not differ under the two conditions of testing, but the rate of sexual solicitation by the females was significantly higher when treated with the vaginal lavage.
Uncaring
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But this ad certainly does not shy away from its attempt to paint Romney as an uncaring, wealthy elitist – a task in which it is greatly helped by Romney's own words.
(2) The striking images of Cameron posing on the ice with huskies on the way to visiting a melting glacier in 2006 marked a turning point for the Conservatives, who had been seen by many voters as uncaring.
(3) Those who separated from an uncaring partner reported a distinct improvement in depressive symptoms.
(4) The health care system has been increasingly criticized for its uncaring providers, low quality of care, and unequal access.
(5) No such treatment for them; only an uncertain future with few prospects of re-employment, and uncaring treatment from the DWP, which is proactively cutting benefits.
(6) The clinical impression that phobic patients perceive their parents as being uncaring and overprotective was investigated in a controlled study of eighty-one phobic patients.
(7) It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim community to build a mosque in the shadow of Ground Zero."
(8) The NDs, by contrast, were more likely than their controls to report their parents as uncaring and overprotective.
(9) He said: “The Conservatives are reckless, divisive and uncaring.
(10) Emancipatory interventions are provided to help nurses launch a new direction toward freeing their clients, rather than herding them through an uncaring and disjointed health and social service system.
(11) But … if the mutterers continue to mutter then all they will do is stop places like Neath [Hain’s south Wales constituency] from being liberated from this destructive, uncaring, unfair government that is destroying people’s lives.” He added: “I don’t think Labour party members will forgive some self-indulgent MP muttering to a journalist and producing a headline in the Daily Mail when those newspapers have always been Labour’s enemies.
(12) In the maternity unit, staff on the postnatal ward were found to be uncaring, while in the labour ward inspectors found blood stains on a stainless steel bowl in a room that staff said was ready to use.
(13) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
(14) "I have been in parliament for 40 years and I have never dealt with a government, Labour or Conservative, that has been so heartless and uncaring about individual immigration cases as this one," he said.
(15) But such a mood swing often occurs at the end of Labour administrations and the beginning of Conservative ones, and often reverses, into distaste at an "uncaring" government, once the British right has been in power for a few years.
(16) According to examination results higher DMF mean value, less uncared of teeth with caries (D) and, in the age group of 19 years and above 30 years, more edentulousness has been found than with healthy individuals.
(17) NHS inspectors have uncovered "a catalogue of failings" at a London hospital including uncaring staff, blood-stained equipment, poor hygiene standards, patients not being helped to eat and a high mortality rate.
(18) In the second group, B, the wound was left undressed and "uncared" for 24 to 36 hours after surgery.
(19) They seek to paint the supporters of sound finances as selfish, or uncaring.
(20) She has frequently been described to me as untrustworthy, corrupt and uncaring, the epitome of a rotten political establishment.