How To Use Elicit In A Sentence

Washington, who believed liquor a particular scourge among blacks, sent felicitations. LAST CALL
Its addition in minute amounts to the nucleoprotein tumor fraction, was expected to suppress the formation of the fibrillar halo if nucleic acids rather that the protein were responsible for the nerve growth promoting effect elicited by this fraction. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
Palpation of the nasal structures should be done to elicit any crepitus, indentation, or irregularity of the nasal bone.
All of which has elicited no reaction at all. Times, Sunday Times
Marriage documents were signed, felicitations offered, they sat down to a great banquet, and the new bride lay in her husband's lap... Elizabeth Abbott: Is New York's Gay Marriage Truly Historic?

And it is in the elicitory processes of both personal attachment and detachment wherein social agency lies.
Prema Jayakumar's translation is done with a rare felicity that is pleasing to read.
In the past a recitation of those statements would have elicited a collective nod from any listening Americans.
Second, the Employment Tribunal's decision should be read generously and not overturned merely because of infelicitous or inappropriate statements which were looking at the matter in the round, of an inessential nature.
Bosnia are not simply in Brazil to elicit sympathy or provide romance, and they score an awful lot of goals. Times, Sunday Times
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2010
He poured a tankard of beer, and placed it between the acrobat's feet, eliciting an oath as he deliberately spilt some over his crotch.
The use of torture to elicit information is not beyond the realm of possibility.
A further clarification of the mystery man's identity still elicited a blank response.
Bureau chief Small chided me for using the word screw on the air, which had elicited complaints from the Bible Belt. Staying Tuned
This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world. Times, Sunday Times
Her article contained one or two verbal felicities which will stay in my mind for years.
Work that is less inflected than Marasela's may elicit the same doubt.
The day also saw Tamana felicitating those who had successfully won medals at the recently held Delhi Special Olympics.
Although rock had become mainstream by the early 1970s, it continued to arouse resistance and to elicit reproach - and continues, indeed, to this day.
Let him go, with all appropriate felicitations and salutations. Morning Bits
There is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from an opposite direction — the inner fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way in and is extinguished in the moisture, and all sorts of colours are generated by the mixture. Timaeus
Felicity Maxwell had left Lorelei's cigarettes and matches on a little table by the left arm of Lorelei 's chair. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
I cleared my throat to distract from the infelicity of the phrase. THE CALLIGRAPHER
It seems that the elicitation of responses under these conditions is mediated by an alleviation of the effects of negative attentional processing (reflected in distracting worries or negative thoughts).
We were surprised today to learn that Mayor Bloomberg dismissed his hand-picked Schools Chancellor, Cathie Black, after 97 infelicitous days as chief of New York City's school system. Henry J. Stern: Black Thursday
And he does so on the sole basis of the appearance of these images and maledictions in the depictions of Simone's death elicited by torture from the accused.
Hoping to make up for his infelicitous soup comment, Stan chimes in with his own compliments. The Search
Of course, this will not elicit general sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
His method of character development consists of striking his two leads together trying to elicit sparks; alas, the script provides no comedic tinder to be ignited.
What information is the questionnaire intended to elicit from the respondent?
This infelicitous parental combination had produced a timid, nervous son whose prognosis for healthy adulthood was poor.
After the war, Smith convinced prohibitionists to organize within the infelicitously named Anti-Dramshop Party.
There is little, however, of that rapturous extasy which issues from many a finally most infelicitous husband, some days, weeks, or even months, after the conjugal union. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
Her own brother Theo despised cats, the Major complained when Sidhi dug in his flower beds, Duncan treated him with polite indifference, Felicity pronounced him unsanitary, and Meg lived in a bed-sit in Kilburn with a landlady she described as ferocious—no good prospects there. All Shall Be Well
But on this particular day it seemed as if some of the ingredients were wanting, for the morning and afternoon passed, to the astonishment of all, without a single "phiz" as the girls were wont somewhat felicitously to call the frequent passages of arms in which the two girls considered it their peculiar privilege to indulge. Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission
By settling for a lesser licensing fee, the patentee can preserve the patent as a weapon, using it to elicit licensing fees from other putative infringers.
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He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
The former involve a description of linguistic structures, usually based on utterances elicited from native-speaking informants.
Felicity sold hers to Uncle Alec's hired man -- and was badly cheated to boot, for he levanted shortly afterwards, taking the apples with him, having paid her only half her rightful due. The Story Girl
Shee's any good man's better second selfe, the very mirror of true constant modesty, the carefull huswife of frugalitie, and dearest obiect of man's heart's felicitie. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
We measured egr-1 in the auditory brainstem and its forebrain targets and found that conspecific whine-chucks elicited greater egr-1 expression than heterospecific whines in all but three regions. Elites TV
Fleda, my dear," said Mrs. Evelyn, with that trembling tone of concealed ecstasy which always set every one of Fleda's nerves a-jarring "you may tell the gentlemen that they do not always know when they are making an unfelicitous compliment I never read what poets say about 'briny drops' and 'salt tears', without imagining the heroine immediately to be something like Lot's wife. Queechy, Volume II
Pushing our body's happy buttons with a cool swim on a hot day, or a fermented drink containing ethanol, or even just some good old-fashioned genital manipulation can elicit the sort of enjoyment that transcends angst and that does not need to be reconciled against the overbearing reality of our inconsequence. Manufacturers to Riders: Go Sponsor Yourself
We need to stop worrying about what others think of us and make pictures that elicit a gut reaction.
The Zionists tried to de-bourgeoisify Jews by creating a national economy in which Jews would hold all the jobs, including farmer and soldier, rather than just the bourgeois middle-man-minority jobs at which they made much money, but also elicited dangerous resentment from other peoples. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » David Brooks: The Tel Aviv Cluster
Yet this very tragedy, in spite of its author's protestations, is nothing more than a rifacimento of Racine's drama, and rather infelicitous at that, though it must be admitted that Mendes' style is of classic purity, and some of his scenes are in a measure characterized by vivacity of action. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
You need to handle the delicate matter in a most felicitous manner.
Through his connections with influential figures in the media, he was able to elicit favorable press for his clients.
Protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis is the central moiety of the anthrax toxin complex and it elicits antibody response useful for serodiagnosis of the disease.
But the other day, when first I beheld thee, whether it proceeded from thy happinesse in fortune, or the fatall houre of my owne infelicity for ever, I know not; I conceyved such an effectuall kinde of liking towardes thee, as never did Woman love a man more truely then I doe thee having sworn within my soule to make thee my The Decameron
All of which has elicited no reaction at all. Times, Sunday Times
Second, fruitless-bearing males elicit and are receptive to courtship from other males, which nonmutant males reject. Homosexuality and Biology
And we discussed a Slate article that showed how often the word McCain elicited the word "senile" and Obama the word "Muslim" in voters 'minds in 2008, though neither was either. HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin : On Obama's 'Enthusiasm', Brown-Whitman, Negative Ads & Jobless Over 50
'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate. The Mother's Book
I put the emphasis on that last word just right so to elicit some reaction from him.
By and by, when in her turn, back in the festally decorated house, she came to give the newly married pair her felicitations, she was well pleased to see Stuart quite himself again, smiling at her with the proud look of the bridegroom from whom no human being can wrest the prize he has just secured. Under the Country Sky
We felicitated John on his engagement to marry.
Holy love to God as the chief good and our felicity is the power of godliness, the very life and soul of religion, without which all external professions and performances are but a shell and carcase: now here we have some of the expressions of that love. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
When her knock elicited no response , she opened the door and peeped in.
Translation into local languages of report and draft Constitution to elicit public responses.
The pain elicited on palpation of a tender point is localized to the area under palpation and does not elicit a jump or twitch.
To adapt Benedict Anderson's felicitous phrase, hockey is one cultural activity through which Canadians are often said to imagine their community.
His response to the coolness elicited by his ideas in these circles was scarcely calculated to dispel it.
Tame and refusing to eat anything other than cat food, the puma, later named Felicity, lived out her days at a wildlife park.
His name isn't going to elicit a positive reaction - it hasn't for over a year now.
With this felicity of thinking, they easily bridged the physical and social sciences, from biology to psychology to sociology.
Besides which, a complaint is usually uttered more to elicit sympathy than in real expectation that the grievance will be addressed. Times, Sunday Times
Eliciting condemnation is the essence of the overall strategy of Israel's enemies to demonise and delegitimise the Jewish state in the eyes of the world. The Palestinian's tactics and "proportionality"
Again we become aware of how gracefully the sun and earth waltz with each other through the ballroom of space-time, eliciting awes and hallelujahs. Wes Nisker: Worship The Sun! (Not Just The Son)
This dose would elicit maximal insulin response with minimal glucose spillage to urine.
She would elicit from her colleagues at the Versorelli Institute the exact itinerary Kingdom had followed there in November.
They were candidly surprised by how well it all turned out and my office no longer elicits derisive or doubting commentary.
Whether consumed with a meal or alone as a snack, the beverage elicited the weakest (negative) appetitive response, the solid food form elicited the strongest appetitive response and the semisolid response was intermediate. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Don’t Drink Your Calories
When her knock elicited no response , she opened the door and peeped in.
Aid from rich countries is often leveraged to elicit certain behaviors from recipient nations.
It is to his credit that he manages to elicit our sympathy without ever betraying the character's maddening interiority.
FELICITY hurries across the stage, PRINCE JACK in pursuit. Over the Moon
And first, I am very sensible how much the gentlemen of wit and pleasure are apt to murmur, and be choked at the sight of so many daggle-tailed parsons that happen to fall in their way, and offend their eyes; but at the same time, these wise reformers do not consider what an advantage and felicity it is for great wits to be always provided with objects of scorn and contempt, in order to exercise and improve their talents, and divert their spleen from falling on each other, or on themselves, especially when all this may be done without the least imaginable danger to their persons. An Argument against Abolishing Christianity
This reduced its helicity and increased its average tilt, thereby presumably reducing fusion efficiency.
Yet the meeting has elicited only a collective yawn from the US and even European press despite its agenda is to replace the global dollar standard with a new financial and military defense system. Not to bum you out or anything (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Felicity's perfect recipe - a many gingered thing. How to cook perfect ginger cake
* I wish oodles of happy natal felicitations to the lad — who can be found right here online. Technically
As he coolly, incisively probes away, his questions elicit fascinating personal revelations, generating feelings of anger, guilt, panic and emptiness.
The reason for the relatively low helicity of long peptides is unclear to us.
When her knock elicited no response , she opened the door and peeped in.
If they could be improved, and the stylistic infelicities, misprints and translation inaccuracies removed, a second edition would pass muster as a useful introductory text.
It seems that between Italy and Sicily there is a strait called Faro of Messina, where the tide ebbs and flows every six hours, and the fickleness of lucks tides in Faro where it ebbs and flows every six minutes, furnishes a felicitous illustration of the whimsicalness of the tides of Faro de Messina, and the game may have derived its name from that fact. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
He insinuates a languor of sun-mist and lustre into his modish Arcadia: a region of roses, felicitously painted, and ruins sketched on his Italian journeys, all against the backdrops of the opera-ballets of his time.
(Rick Warren certainly had an agenda on Saturday at CamelbackSaddleback, but he seemed more interested in eliciting information from the candidates than the too-knowing 'pros' and -- blissfully -- he seemed entirely uninterested in playing gotcha.) Debate Perps - Swampland - TIME.com
And while Super Bowl champions hardly elicit much commiseration, the process has come under question.
No doubt this is a felicitous emendation, though I think it may be fairly objected that a rumourer, being one who deals in what he hears, as opposed to an observer, who reports what he sees, there is a certain inappropriateness in speaking of a rumourer's eyes. Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
His play has been an infelicitous concoction of ingenuity and inaccuracy, the latter being generally fatal at this elite level. Times, Sunday Times
It accounts for the occasional lapses into infelicitous sentiment, tired phrasing and intrusive personal details that would have appalled the American.
This provocative thesis elicits flat denials from both governments.
The speech of presentation was made by our friend, “Colonel” James S. Norton, in what the rural paragrapher would have described as “the most felicitous effort of his life,” and the wonderful collection was commended to Mr. Larned's grateful preservation by the judgment of Mr. Henry Field, whose own choice selection of paintings is the most valued possession of the Chicago Art Institute. Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
I have always felt that I manifest a felicitous combination of his compassion and her boundaries.
If this is the case, changing the functional role of a digit pair for a given task would not elicit changes in motor unit strength.
The duduk is a simple instrument; but deceptively so, in that it requires an embouchure and diaphragm of steel plus circular breathing to elicit its haunting, cool sound. Michal Shapiro: Grandfather, Grandson, Grandmasters (Video)
It is ironic to think of the fact that even though many Christians had Muslim friends during college years, worked with Muslim colleagues, and exchanged felicitations with Muslims during big events and religious occasions; they usually had the underlying perception that they would never have a sincere and meaningful relationship with a Muslim. Mirette Bahgat: Coptic Christians In Egypt: Standing At The Crossroads
On reflection the chess metaphor is not a felicitous one.
Its overall shape eluded me; but its incidental felicities were engaging. Times, Sunday Times
As a bonding activity, this grooming is reciprocal, founded on mutuality (which is to say, an exhibition of care constitutes an elicitation of a reciprocal exhibition of care). Archive 2008-09-01
The Pope's view are congruous to the Catholic Church's position when matters involving human sexuality are concerned, and the Church's opposition to the use of contraception has elicited a correlation of large families and lower life expectancy in the world's poorest continent. Michael Mungai: The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
Cats afflicted with hyperesthesia and intense skin allergies may exhibit symptoms elicited by even the softest touch, including strange skin ripples or seizurelike episodes of frantic racing, panic, or biting at the air. The Last Chance Dog
Neither of these questions was written by anyone with the remotest feeling for literature, and it is therefore not surprising that they appear to have elicited unmemorable responses and poor results.
Undine was almost ashamed that the unwooed Mabel should be the witness of her own felicity, and planned to send her off on a trip to Denver when Peter should announce his arrival; but the weeks passed, and Peter did not come. The Custom of the Country
Its infelicities are striking only because they are so few. Times, Sunday Times
The censorian judgments, although arbitrary and as a rule spontaneous, were sometimes elicited by prosecution: and an accuser was found to bring the conduct of Gracchus formally before the notice of the magistrates. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world. Times, Sunday Times
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. Moby Dick; or the Whale
Have you managed to elicit a response from them yet?
Worse, the fact that biopics are structured as heroic romance makes the possibility of dramatic interpretation of character more remote: the knights of romance embody noble ideals and elicit only unmixed reactions.
While there is little that is new in Kirk's presentation, and the writing is marred by many infelicities and misprints, anyone who writes with sensitivity on this practitioner of Baroque poetry deserves encouragement.
Action potentials are elicited when tiny pores in the nerve cell membrane, known as sodium channels, open up in response to a stimulus.
However, cooking and autoclaving apparently destroy the lupus-eliciting effects without decreasing the lipid-lowering properties found in the foods.
My wife says I cannot tell a joke, but I can make off-the-cuff cracks that have been known to elicit the occasional chuckle.
an elicited response
Mr Norris said he was hopeful that his request would elicit a positive response.
If he is not a good interviewer, he may elicit the wrong kind of information, or perhaps very little information at all. How to Face Interviews
Few are entirely immune, and all that it takes for repossession to take hold is an infelicitous set of circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
On top of his last Parliamentary committee appearance, where among other infelicitous comments, Griffin said that he didn't understand his organisation's budget, he has since dropped a clanger on his relationship with the Government.
He interestingly elicits the languor and melancholy of Fowler, fusing this ennui with the action as Fowler journeys up-country to report on the vicious shooting war.
It was a cloudless summer morning, and all Nature, smiling in her felicity, sent up a hymn of adoration to the author of her beauty.
Of course, we alone are responsible for any remaining errors or infelicities.
She can describe an ostrich or elephant with equal felicity.
His books lack the extempore felicities and the reflected fellow-feeling which lent a charm to his spoken sermons; and on the table-land of his controversial treatises, sentence follows sentence like a file of ironsides, in buff and rusty steel, a sturdy procession, but a dingy uniform; and it is only here and there where a son of Anak has burst his rags, that you glimpse a thought of uncommon stature or wonderful proportions. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
All this elicits little sympathy from those who contend that aspiring owner-occupiers have always struggled. Times, Sunday Times
He can flit from populist argument to high brow abstraction and then back into quango-speak and then consultancy jargon with amazing felicity.
Last year reports that the United States was slipping from Internet pioneer to digital dawdler as its global broadband penetration ranking had fallen from 4th to 15th in six years elicited a collectiv ... Bennet Kelley: Obama, Net Policy and the Kindness of Strangers
However, the extension to minority groups elicits the potential for internal (cultural or economic) autonomy.
Deploying his amazing deductive powers on crude earlier representations he elicited a likeness which the Emperor sharply recognised.
The analysis of helicity also revealed that under the updraft, the conversion from the horizontal whirlpool into the vertical whirlpool is one of the possible mechanisms of the event.
My patient still had a few elicitable neurological reflexes.
Today, Liberace's name elicits smirks from many of those who recall the kitschy pianist from TV shows of their youth. Can Liberace's Legacy Stay in Vegas?
In the absence of immobility, mutism or stupor, at least two of the following that can be observed or elicited on two or more occasions: stereotypy, echophenomena, catalepsy, automatic obedience, posturing, Gegenhalten negativism, ambitendency The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
This old-school argument for unquestioning and unrewarded obedience contrasts sharply with my claim that praise is more likely to function as a tool for imposing our will and eliciting compliance. Alfie Kohn: Criticizing (Common Criticisms of) Praise
She could tell, perspicacious as she was, that Harriet was dying to tell her something but needed the information to be directly elicited.
Given the infelicitous effects of other utterances in the play, Titus's vow during this extended ritual does not act as directly or causatively as he thinks it does.
It was an insupportable situation and Felicity was a fool to go on enduring it. THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
Development of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ finger signals, independent of conscious volition, can occur quickly and allows for the elicitation of deeper, less conscious responses.
The structure and language of the summary of contentions had some infelicities, but it was clearly enough framed on the basis that the Bank was not entitled to dishonour cheques because the limit was exceeded.
On average, there are two infelicities and one major mistake for every three pages. The Times Literary Supplement
Slides showing reparative changes elicit responses that were among the least concordant for any diagnostic category for laboratory responses.
Local stimulation by distension along the body of the esophagus will elicit a peristaltic wave at the stimulus site.
Felicity took one look at old Mrs. Briney and burst out laughing, sniggering and pointing at her.
In all likelihood, though, the films of the Indian dancers elicited a far more complex spectatorial response than that suggested in these two contemporary accounts.
I won't even delve into the profanities this elicited in explosive bursts as I read his latest missive taking me to task for this or that.
The story is largely a wasted opportunity to elicit clarifications of ambiguities and contradictions.
The fact that they are middle-aged men - the lines on their faces as chiseled as their biceps, triceps and pectorals - adds to the curiosity the images elicit.
Chrysler's Nova cars elicited snickers from Mexican buyers because'no va'in Spanish means'no go '.
Apart from his moments of glory on the American football field, he is a lumbering giant mostly used to elicit reactions from the cast around him. Times, Sunday Times
Letters over the past year from the staff on the matter have not elicited a response from the college president.
The keyed instrument, of which our pianoforte is the living representative, had found its keyboard and a practical method of eliciting tones, which, whatever their weakness, were at least better than those of the lute, the chitarrone, the psaltery or harp. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
The kind of behavior that is correlated with specific eliciting stimuli may be called respondent behavior, and a given correlation a respondent.
As expected, the inward currents elicited by carbachol (1 mM, 30 s) persisted for a longer duration compared to the inward currents elicited by acetylcholine (1 mM, 30 s) in both males and females, as seen in the voltage clamp traces in PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
“I feel the highest gratitude and attachment to my country—her felicity is the most fervent prayer of my heart.” Ratification
Felicity had a natural aptitude for what we called "bossing," and in her mother's absence she deemed that she had a right to rule supreme. The Story Girl
The analysis of helicity also revealed that under the updraft, the conversion from the horizontal whirlpool into the vertical whirlpool is one of the possible mechanisms of the event.
An effective general practitioner must have counselling skills to elicit important diagnostic information and manage consultations appropriately.
The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood a long time at the bars wondering what had become of Felicita. Spring o' the Year
Gentle percussion best elicits rebound tenderness.
Besides which, a complaint is usually uttered more to elicit sympathy than in real expectation that the grievance will be addressed. Times, Sunday Times
Ignored or abused by alcoholic parents, his desperate acts were the only way he could elicit any show of concern from them.
All we have to do is speak our preferences plainly and a whole new world of mutual felicity should arise.
It is also filled with unintentional clunkers that elicited inappropriate but inevitable laughs in this reviewer's living room.
Did none of them elicit sympathy? Times, Sunday Times
In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
Yes, I dare say you can find errors and infelicities in the posts on this noble blog.
Setting aside the opening elenchus which elicits Thrasymachus' conception of the real ruler, Socrates offers five arguments against Thrasymachus.
Along the way there are many felicities. Times, Sunday Times
Mainly with a view to elicit further expression of opinion, I hinted to the last and most accomplished person who put these queries to me, that it would be absurd to give the cottier absolute control over his land, and that he should have a conditional lease from the Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
The President of the United States is a supporting player in the romantic misadventures of Hillary Felicity Porter Clinton, the dweeby good guy our heroine has been ignoring for the BMOC, and the Secretary of State has nothing more pressing on her mind than wondering what pretty girl has caught her wayward boyfriend's eye and maybe how pleased she is with herself for acing that term paper for English lit. Lance Mannion:
Again, he is often loose and vacillating in the use of the English words he has selected as corresponding to the technical phraseology of the Arabian jurists, and sometimes infelicitous in the selection of his English terms. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
Besides which, a complaint is usually uttered more to elicit sympathy than in real expectation that the grievance will be addressed. Times, Sunday Times
It is an 8-week lifestyle program designed to incrementally elicit and sustain habitual physical activity behaviors in previously sedentary people.
Every page of the book is studded with similar felicities but it would be wrong, says Carey, for him to take all the credit.
One peptide was designed to maximize helicity and the other, having the same composition but a different sequence, was designed to minimize helical formation.
The second woman turns outward to the beholder to elicit our negative opinion of this misbehavior.
But in all those, no long co [n] tinuaunce of felicitee, nor of happy state can appere A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
Let's quiz them on these issues, try to elicit some real information. Times, Sunday Times
You can read an abstract of the study, Pancreatitis-associated chymotrypsinogen C (CTRC) mutant elicits endoplasmic reticulum stress in pancreatic acinar cells, online in the November PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
In June, an attempt to sell the pink stucco main building and adjoining annex failed to elicit any bids that met the government's minimum so a new tactic will be tried.
She lived, meanwhile, wholly shut up from all company, consigned to penitence for her indiscretions, to grief for the fate of her sister, and to wasting regret of her own causelessly lost felicity. Camilla
She said that she had only highlighted 'the most glaring' errors and infelicities. Times, Sunday Times
Felicity and David's relationship burgeons, despite Meghan giving her mono.
He even had the hypocrisy, at times, to felicitate himself upon his escape, and to draw bleak fireside pictures of the dismal future which would have been had he and Frona incompatibly mated. CHAPTER 15
The story is largely a wasted opportunity to elicit clarifications of ambiguities and contradictions.
They rely heavily on felicitous coincidence for the plots, and the character development is cartoonish.
Noticeably larger effects are only likely to be elicited under implausibly high values of the short-run trade price elasticity.
Several are better written that O'Neill's work, in that the dialogue is neater and more felicitous.
And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus. 2009 February « Anglican Samizdat
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Felicity seemed pleased at the suggestion.
It's with considerable pain that I write that statement; for while I love music, and I love theater, I am acutely aware of the stigma of the term "musical theater," of all it has come to connote and the kneejerk reactions the genre tends to elicit. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
He hypnotized over 150 subjects and elicited autonomic reactions that led to the evocations of disorders including eczema, asthma, and migraine headache.
The structure and language of the summary of contentions had some infelicities, but it was clearly enough framed on the basis that the Bank was not entitled to dishonour cheques because the limit was exceeded.
Plantation "of James I., had been turned over exclusively to British settlers, whose" cagework "houses, and four acres of garden ground each, had elicited the approval of the surveyor Pynnar, twenty years before. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete

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