(n.) One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
(n.) A horse used in drawing a stage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the pro-AV leader, Ed Miliband, having stuck his neck out a few times for the yeses, belligerent turns by grumpy old stagers such as John Reid and David Blunkett have created the impression that the people's party has no interest in giving the people more of a say.
(2) It is not just old stagers such as John Prescott and David Blunkett who worry.
(3) Older stagers, like the white-bearded John Tinmouth, who arrives clutching Frances Stonor Saunders's book about the CIA funding of the arts, are invigorated by the presence of the younger arrivals.
(4) Compared with the results of the visual analysis reached as a consensus by both raters--the so-called optimized visual analysis--the stager showed a 26.9% difference.
(5) The reliability of sleep stager percentages obtained in this way is examined in this article.
(6) The analog EMG signals and the sleep data from the Oxford ss90III sleep stager were fed into an IBM compatible personal computer for automatic detection and analysis using specific criteria to define the leg events, the interevent interval, the number of epochs (greater than 30 jerks), and the number of bursts (4 to 29 jerks).
(7) A paragon of common sense to supporters and a xenophobic sophist to critics, Peters, who is part Maori, is a "preternaturally charming old-stager", according to Jane Clifton, a political columnist for the weekly NZ Listener magazine.
(8) This has already produced the engaging spectacle of old-stager radical Germaine Greer falling foul of this new radical chic.
(9) Cannae wait!” some old-stager pitches in from the crowd.
(10) The Sleep Stager follows the recommendations of Rechtschaffen and Kales: its purpose is to review a period of recorded sleep, allocate a stage to each epoch and print out the results in the form of a hypnogram and various sleep statistics.
(11) The sleep stager's frequent difficulty in identifying stage wake correctly as well as its incorrect allocation to other stages--mainly stage REM--could lead to misinterpretations of sleep recordings, whereas the increase in stages 1, 3, and 4, as compared with visual scoring, was negligible.
(12) The results were analyzed automatically by the Oxford Medilog 9000 Sleep Stager and by visual scoring from the Medilog Display Unit.
(13) Sleep recordings can now be carried out in the home using the Oxford Medilog recording system, and analysed automatically by the Oxford Medilog Sleep Stager.
(14) The onset, duration, and extent of cyclin destruction and the appropriately stagered disappearance of cyclin A and cyclin B are correctly regulated during the first cycle in the cell-free system.
(15) All of the records underwent automatic evaluation by the Oxford Sleep Stager.
(16) Miguel Layún was making only his 15th Watford start but, considering the context, qualifies as one of the old-stagers.
(17) Records were scored both visually and by an automated sleep stager.
(18) Of the men, 28 had an abnormal ultrasound and underwent a directed prostate needle biopsy to assess the ability to detect clinical Stager A cancer.
(19) Each sleep recording was scored twice automatically by the stager, twice visually by the first rater, and once by the second rater.
(20) The Oxford Medilog 9000 System with Sleep Stager, a device for the mobile recording of sleep EEGs and automatic analyses of sleep, was tested with regard to its functional capacity, possible applications and reliability.
Totter
Definition:
(v. i.) To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
(v. i.) To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most ship-breaking workers are migrants from the north who rent rooms in the warren of makeshift shanties that totter over the water’s edge.
(2) The European Union (EU), one of the more promising developments of the post-world war II period, has been tottering because of the harsh effect of the policies of austerity during recession, condemned even by the economists of the International Monetary Fund (if not the IMF’s political actors).
(3) In one allele of the tottering locus, a pathogenetic lesion linking noradrenergic hyperinnervation with cortical spike-wave discharges has been identified.
(4) The most significant difference from last year's London event is that instead of a tottering and discredited transitional regime, Somalia now has a fully fledged government, led by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
(5) But the damage of a Greek exit will be out of all proportion to its size, as other dominoes totter, damaging confidence and trade even if they don't fall.
(6) As she tottered around a crime scene in high heels, I had the strong feeling that Cubitt, now directing the series as well as writing it, had put out of his mind altogether the cries of misogyny that trailed the first series.
(7) It means you can totter into the kitchen to put the kettle on 10 times a day.
(8) There are few precedents for such an explosive political ascent in modern western Europe; in Spain, a discredited political elite appears to be tottering.
(9) Hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons in the adult epileptic mutant mouse tottering (tg) show normal intrinsic membrane properties, yet fire abnormally prolonged paroxysmal depolarizing shifts (PDS) during in vitro exposure to elevated extracellular potassium solutions.
(10) Immunocytochemical staining for tyrosine hydroxylase demonstrated the pronounced hyperinnervation in the "tottering" brain, whereas both serotonin and choline acetyltransferase immunostaining were similar between "tottering" and wild type.
(11) Leading care and health bodies are demanding crisis talks with ministers over the unravelling of measures in George Osborne ’s spending review that were supposed to prop up the tottering social care system.
(12) Older versions of 1980s and 1990s politicians – Lord Carrington, John Prescott – tottered in and out of the chamber.
(13) It's not easy and, with Tom and I hoisting him up, we worry that he might totter and fall.
(14) But in El Salvador the challenge is exacerbated by tottering public institutions, high rates of sexual violence, inadequate sex education and a backdrop of violence and gang warfare which are undermining efforts to control the outbreak.
(15) The two bankers are also heard laughing and joking at a time when the bank was tottering on the brink of destruction.
(16) No significant difference in Bmax or Kd values was identified between adult tottering and control mice in any of the tissue preparations.
(17) The petit-mal seizures of the "tottering" mutant mouse (tg) have been attributed to an exaggerated noradrenergic projection from locus coeruleus to the telencephalon (Noebels 1984).
(18) The tottering mouse resulted from a recessively inherited, autosomal, single-locus mutation which produces a very characteristic neurological and cellular phenotype.
(19) Occasionally it is alleged that the billet began to totter during the stroke and that the left hand responded to this stimulus by an unwilled movement to the billet.
(20) I see an extremely united front.” Unity is all the more necessary ahead of the Dutch elections in March and the French presidential elections , in the spring in which the anti-EU populists Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen threaten upsets that would, together or separately, represent existential threats to the tottering European project.