(n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
(n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
(n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
(n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
(n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
(n.) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) We have addressed the effect of late intensification with autologous bone marrow transplantation on SCLC through a randomized clinical trial.
(3) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(6) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
(7) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(8) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(9) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(10) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(11) We are currently conducting a trial to compare the ability of DHPG administered plus an anti-CMV immune globulin preparation with acyclovir to prevent posttransplant TI-CMV disease.
(12) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(13) Recently reported unfavorable clinical results (i.e., a high incidence of pain) have led to the discontinuation of one trial of porous polyethylene.
(14) According to the experience of clinical trials the recommended ciprofloxacin dose varies between 100 and 500 mg b.i.d.
(15) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(16) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(17) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(18) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
(19) Of these, 41 were given a trial of sulfapyridine or dapsone, and six showed a significant response.
(20) The initiation of clinical trials should be a primary goal of gene therapy research programs.
Tribulation
Definition:
(n.) That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gotti Jr's sister, Victoria Gotti, has been the star of the TV series Growing Up Gotti, which endeavoured to show the trials and tribulations of life bearing the infamous Gotti name.
(2) After many trials and tribulations, this treatment modality has experienced a resurgence of interest in recent years.
(3) The very troubles and tribulations of the week will be cited as evidence of how his heroic deal-making abilities can overcome any hurdle, even the rightwing House Freedom Caucus – though another battle will loom in the Senate.
(4) I’ll make sure they stay interested.” Trump’s post-convention tribulations just prompted Time magazine to publish a stylised image of his head dribbling like hot wax beside a single word headline: “ Meltdown ”.
(5) His life became a tribulation, and a survival of sorts – an industrial accident working at an abattoir in Denmark, then finding a wife – "I woke up one morning and I was married" – and having three children.
(6) We'll be keeping track of their trials, tribulations and, hopefully, their triumphs.
(7) Guy Anderson, a defence analyst at IHS Jane's, said: "A merger between BAE and EADS is unlikely and wouldn't happen without a lot of trials and tribulations.
(8) There is little doubt that the Syrian government has, through various means, attempted to inflame the Lebanese theatre as a means of distracting attention from its own tribulations, and reminding all of its old game as the indispensable troublemaker and problem-solver : "If you want a stable Lebanon, you need the Assad regime."
(9) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding In this third instalment of the diaries , our hapless hapless heroine continues to agonise over the tribulations of modern life large and small, from single parenthood and dating in the age of social media to the perils of the skinny jean.
(10) Even then, I was lucky enough to avoid the tribulations faced far too often by my friend Emma, manager of the BrewDog bar in Camden.
(11) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
(12) A lot of trials and tribulations led to this, people think everyone has no reason.
(13) Tellingly, the book's title as a work in progress was Tribulation.
(14) Their trials and tribulations should encourage future generations of cardiac surgeons to proceed with further developments in this field.
(15) Sir Alex Ferguson has sprung to the defence of Louis van Gaal and urged fans to be patient during Manchester United’s current tribulations.
(16) These traits were well depicted in Il Divo, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, which narrates the events surrounding Andreotti's trials and tribulations of 1991-92.
(17) The show, which revolves around twentysomethings finding their way in New York, presumes sympathy for the tribulations of college-educated young women with generous parents funding their identity crises.
(18) Weeks of trials and tribulations had opened my eyes to a profession I was not strong enough to be part of.
(19) Dr Crippin Description: "The trials and tribulations, the pleasures and pitfalls of family medicine in the modern British National Health Service."
(20) We present four brain tumor cases with his unpublished sketches and direct quotations to illustrate both the trials and tribulations of those times and Cushing's innate surgical genius.