(a.) Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventeen patients (9 sibling and 8 unrelated donors) received conditioning with hyperfractionated total body irradiation (TBI), thiotepa, and cyclophosphamide (Cy).
(2) Psychophysiological responses were generally unrelated to age and education.
(3) Besides the 15 cases reported in 1984, 6 additional cases of anti-vWF alloantibodies were reported, i.e., one from Spain (a relative of a previously reported case), two from Venezuela (brother and sister) and three from North Carolina (unrelated patients).
(4) Two patients subsequently died as a result of pneumonia and cerebral infarction, respectively; both conditions were unrelated to the hemorrhage.
(5) The total glutathione peroxidase activity was unrelated to studied variables of bull semen.
(6) Differences between natural and elicited attack appeared to be related to the range of completenes of elicited attack, the greater intensity of elicited attack, and the presence of unrelated responses induced by hypothalamic stimulation.
(7) Posttransplant lymphocytes derived from CML-NR patients were stimulated in vitro with lymphocytes from unrelated healthy blood donors, who were selected for the presence or absence of kidney donor-specific HLA antigens.
(8) This deposition is unrelated to the deposition of other immunoreactants (IgG, IgM or C3).
(9) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(10) Three patients recovered from their operations, and the other two, both with endocarditis, died postoperatively from causes unrelated to splenic abscess and splenectomy.
(11) Antibodies were almost never present in the absence of conjunctival follicles, but their titres were unrelated to the degree of follicular hyperplasia; there was no obvious relationship between the serological findings and corneal lesions.
(12) Polymorphism of PGM1 and PGM3 types was investigated in placental extracts from 127 unrelated Japanese parturients living in Yamanashi Prefecture.
(13) Seemingly unrelated conditions, such as atherosclerosis, bacterial endocarditis, and trauma, can all produce similar radiographic appearance of aneurysmal dilatation within the kidney, albeit through differing mechanisms.
(14) PES scores were inversely related to reporting symptoms and unrelated to measures of response style.
(15) In men, the presence of antisperm antibodies in sera was unrelated to fertility.
(16) When epinephrine is infused at different rates into exercising rats, liver cAMP appears to be unrelated to plasma epinephrine.
(17) In this longitudinal study, involving twice monthly samples from each participant and carried out in two phases lasting at least six and three months respectively, we have confirmed that fluctuations in T8+ cells occur in patients with MS and also found a significant reduction in this lymphocyte subpopulation in patients' spouses but not their siblings, compared with unrelated controls.
(18) Gradients were unrelated to symptoms or to the duration of the valve in situ (3 weeks to 20 years).
(19) The superiority of the high responder vs. the low responder line was generally observed, confirming that the genes accumulated through selective breeding can modify the responsiveness to unrelated antigens including TI antigens.
(20) The effect of two structurally unrelated aldose reductase inhibitors, sorbinil and ponalrestat, on glomerular prostaglandin production and urinary albumin excretion was investigated in rats with diabetes induced by streptozotocin.
Unyielding
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In these patients, the conservative treatment by bouginage could not be continued due to a stricture unyielding for dilatation or early recurrence of the stricture after a number of dilatations.
(2) Suturing of these ostia is occasionally difficult because of an unyielding calcified vessel wall.
(3) The captain, Rio Ferdinand, was nearly as unyielding.
(4) Its enlargement of the lower portion overlying the basal portion of the heart formed an unyielding, tense membrane.
(5) The inefficient application of an unyielding (non-inertial) lap and diagonal seat belt permitted this injury, although one does not know what other injuries might have occurred had the belt not been worn.
(6) Recommendations to avoid this complication include shortening of the forearm at the osteotomy site and the release of unyielding soft tissue restraints.
(7) Although this study supported the thesis that a porous HA matrix can function as a bone graft substitute, it is noted that the unyielding nature of the implant blocks, compared to granules, requires a solution to the challenge of long-term denture support without ulceration before it can be used with clinical confidence.
(8) If Hollywood needed an emblematic heroine for a year of hard times and tough decisions, it came in the form of Jennifer Lawrence: resolute, unyielding and somehow old beyond her age.
(9) Climate change provides an unyielding science-based deadline.
(10) But he was more than just cinema's great choreographer of scale, the man Anthony Quinn likened to a general, commanding his troops and preparing for battle out in the blazing Arabian desert, or the unyielding Burmese jungle, or on the frostbitten Eastern Front.
(11) And there is the flinty personality, sharp, jagged, unyielding.
(12) The unyielding response of Italy, France and Germany came amidst a tsunami of global condemnation for Trump’s decision to renege on an agreement made by 195 countries after decades of negotiation.
(13) This happens in an area in which the deep branch of the radial nerve crossed some narrow structures which are unyielding and have more compression strength (tense cords of connective tissue Fig.
(14) Chen Xi once saw the one-child policy as a brick wall, unyielding and inevitable.
(15) Philosophers first, then early academic physiologists began to exhibit interest in pain, that all too common phenomenon, only too often unyielding to theoretical as well as practical efforts.
(16) This procedure consisted of the application of a rigid clip with a fixed and unyielding gap to the left renal artery and removal of the right kidney.
(17) He admired, and liked, practical people, especially those who had tasted some experience of life outside the City and Whitehall; he often appeared unyielding and unforgiving to the fumbling contradictions of political life, and he certainly had a very low threshold of patience with fools.
(18) As it was, the dominant performer in the stalemate was a resourceful and unyielding centre-half, United's Nemanja Vidic.
(19) It’s the work of the old masters, whoever your masters are, really, that remind you that you have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve, becomes its own reward.
(20) But dogma has a habit of being unyielding, and Corbyn shows few signs of being able to develop fresh responses to a world that has changed out of recognition since his formative political impulses of the late 70s: what to do about the growing influence of Islamic State, the ethics of gene editing or the challenges that technology presents to issues as diverse as employment or transport.