How To Use Irregularity In A Sentence
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A council statement added: ‘One concerns a petty cash irregularity and the other concerns the use of council funds.’
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But his features, in spite of irregularity, and a complexion resembling the tone of 'foxed' paper, attracted observation, and rewarded it; his eye had a pleasant twinkle, oddly in contrast with the lines of painful thought upon his forehead, and the severity of strained muscles in the lower part of his face.
The Whirlpool
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‘Sir Alex Ferguson received treatment in hospital following a routine check-up several months ago which revealed a minor heart irregularity,’ it said.
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The great number of windows in the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position, here and elsewhere on the Cape, struck us agreeably, -- as if each of the various occupants who had their _cunabula_ behind had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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Watershed catchments do indeed have much variation in their size, shape, topographic slope and irregularity, soils, land use and cover, and climate setting.
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Lastly, they are to be taught that not only the unjust facts, but the designs and intentions to do them, though by accident hindered, are injustice; which consisteth in the pravity of the will, as well as in the irregularity of the act.
Leviathan
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Therefore, any affection causing a sensation and sign of pain which is increased by the bearing of weight upon the affected member, or by the moving of such a distressed part, results in an irregularity in locomotion, which is known as lameness or claudication.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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He pressed his body up against hers in a more intimate manner and she heard his every breathing irregularity.
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Others think that this proverb admonisheth the guests to forget everything that is spoken or done in company; and agreeably to this, the ancients used to consecrate forgetfulness with a ferula to Bacchus, thereby intimating that we should either not remember any irregularity committed in mirth and company, or apply a gentle and childish correction to the faults.
Symposiacs
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If, theoretically, some irregularity is found and the process must begin again, let us hope that this happens sooner rather than later.
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He says: ‘What a farce when there is so much voting irregularity with postal voting.’
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He has the chalk-stones in his understanding, and from being used to long confinement, cannot bear the slightest jostling or irregularity of motion.
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The X-ray showed a slight irregularity in one lung.
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Investigators found no evidence of financial irregularity.
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But irregularity is even more prominent in Wordsworth's prosody.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
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But it isn't a question so much of fraud, but it's a question at this point of irregularity, which is a little bit different.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Recount - November 9, 2000
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It will allow for a greater fermentation without breaking, give more volume, and is much more desirable when you are looking for irregularity of the interior crumb.
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His features were marked, prominent and irregular, and this irregularity was increased by a "cheekful" of half-chewed tobacco.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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All around us are towering, glowering peaks rising with perfect irregularity from the flat, green waters of the fjord.
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It would appear, then, that there are at least three schools of criticism: the refluent sea-music school; the line-irregularity school, and the school that bids one not criticise but cry.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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A little bit of a holiday from myself, and a pleasant change of pace from the monotonous irregularity of shift work.
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I have been assured by my office that there was no irregularity in the process
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The paint will cover any irregularity in the surface of the walls.
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I don't think right now it's a question of fraud but rather. irregularity, which is a little bit different.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: The Florida Recount - November 9, 2000
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Every irregularity, when detected, was termed as an ‘adjustment’ on account of expenses incurred for defence inspectors.
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A recount of votes in Kermanshah, a Kurdish province, showed that 'there has been no irregularity,' the news agency reported.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
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In the opinion, however, of those who divide interpretative bigamies into ex defectu sacramenti and ex delicto bigamies, it is necessary, in the case where a grave sin is the cause of the irregularity, to name both the irregularity ex delicto (with sin) and the irregularity ex defectu sacramenti (without sin).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The woman's strength and determination contrasted with the man's weakness and vacillation; her reasoning imperturbation, prudent foresight, and love of order and activity, with his excessive irritability and sensitiveness, wanton carelessness, and unconquerable propensity to idleness and every kind of irregularity.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Villagers in Bishopton and the surrounding area started to complain because they were annoyed by the irregularity of the service.
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However there are a small number of allegations alleging electoral irregularity which still need further investigation and inquiries into these matters are continuing.
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But in the second place, admitting that the apostle's design here is to discountenance this practice, not only as weak and illaudable, but also as sinful and disallowable; yet I affirm, that he accounted it not sinful from the very nature of the action, but only the irregularity of the circumstance; that they went to law upon every slight occasion, before unbelievers, in verse 1.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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This technology senses for irregularity in wheel balance and the related steering wheel vibration - or "shimmy" - it can cause.
Autoblog
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Whether such quirks in the irregularity of irrationals have any implications for number theory remains an open question for mathematicians.
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First item on the To Do list: make it get back on its feet after its numerous times tripping over every terrain irregularity.
The Robot Cheetah » E-Mail
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Gross irregularity and corruption in granting the mining lease are involved.
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The irregularity does not go to the merits of our own refusal of leave.
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It is very difficult to judge the age of horses that have deformed mouths or that are in the habit of crib-biting, because of the irregularity in the wear of the incisors.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals
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In tidying up or polishing the former the roughness and irregularity of the latter is discarded like so much adventitious dross.
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Uniformity and conformity, she observed, had their day; but now, thank the stars of the present day, irregularity and difformity bear the bell, and have the majority. '
The Absentee
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This irregularity is very considerable at the surface of the earth.
Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford
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I've done this operation before to correct the same sort of irregularity in the heart.
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The hypothesis of a psychic automatism of a mediumistic type, as a concomitant phenomenon, at least, in experiments of the "new zoopsychology," offers us a point of support for a possible interpretation of the strange uncertainty and irregularity of the successes and failures of different observers and different animals.
Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals
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As Shelley scholar Neil Fraistat assures me, this claim of "irregularity" is rare if not unique in Shelley's work.
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
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A polished surface will appear when coated as a polished surface, and a mat surface as a mat surface; moreover, any local irregularity, such as a speck of a foreign metal, will give rise to an ugly spot in the nickelling bath.
On Laboratory Arts
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The celebrant of Mass must be in the state of grace, fasting from midnight, free of irregularity and censure, and must observe all the rubrics and laws concerning the matter (azyme bread and pure wine), vestments, vessels, and ceremony.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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There is something of the artichoke in their irregularity, something of the pork sausage in their shape and colour.
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It was a world inhabited by sea creatures and whorled growths, forms with a pleasing balance of rigid symmetry and organic irregularity.
Wolfram Blog : Hybrid Logos and a Fortunate Mistake
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That kind of financial irregularity would be inconceivable today, even in Motherwell and Wishaw.
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Indeed, so far as its physical aspect is concerned, with its flat, unvaried surface, covered chiefly with wooden houses, few or none of which pretend to architectural beauty — its irregularity, which is neither picturesque nor quaint, but only tame — its long and lazy street, lounging wearisomely through the whole extent of the peninsula, with Gallows
The Scarlet Letter
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The spokesman, however, said that although the vote tally affected by such an irregularity is over 3 million, "it has yet to be determined whether the amount is decisive in the election results," reported Khabaronline.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 21)
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Sixty-seven percent of women included in the sleep study were classified as premenopausal (no change in menstrual bleeding regularity) and early perimenopasual (menses in the preceding three months with an increase in bleeding irregularity), 21 percent were identified as late perimenopasual (menses in the previous 12 months, but not in the previous three months), and
Medlogs - Recent stories
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A total of 417 cases of this irregularity were noted - a small minority - but ‘a serious breach of regulations’.
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Its slight irregularity could be either intentional or an accident due to the hard-edged woman's discomfort with the beads of meaning.
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Doctors themselves try to let patients down easy by avoiding the c-word, or even “tumor”: instead, what is discovered is a “slight growth,” an “unusual polyp,” “a lesion,” an “irregularity that should be checked.”
In the Valley of the Shadow
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He discovered the Schottky effect, an irregularity in the emission of thermions in a vacuum tube and invented the screen-grid tetrode tube.
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The type and irregularity of fracture bears a complex relation to the breaking of bonds in directions that cut across crystallographic planes.
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Mired in allegations of financial irregularity during his time in government, which he has rejected as a Labour smear, he is one of the least favoured in the party membership, where he is regarded as, at best, hypocritical and two-faced.
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But a high nose, a full, decided, well-opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man.
A Legend of Montrose
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The missing two points are accredited to the high cost and the irregularity of overclockability (which may result in disappointed enthusiasts).
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Many projects have been listed and caught out, but they have not been involved in any irregularity or fraud.
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While some irregularity may be termed normal, it must be understood that frequent periods, heavy bleeding are not due to menopause.
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But as the term taught nothing to him who knew, said nothing to him who did not know, understand, and feel, Chopin afterwards ceased to add this explanation to his music, being persuaded that if one understood it, it was impossible not to divine this rule of irregularity.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Irregularity of menstruation and certain other uterine troubles, the peculiar condition called greensickness or chlorosis, and general debility may lead to some skin lesions.
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Villagers in Bishopton and the surrounding area started to complain because they were annoyed by the irregularity of the service.
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Amateur boxing's ruling body said the Cuban protest was rejected because there was no evidence of serious irregularity.
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Sabbatarianism, with the Lord's Day Alliance, a Canadian invention, in the van; then the gradual tightening of the laws against sexual irregularity, with the unenforceable New York Adultery Act as a typical product; and lastly, the general ploughing up and emotional discussion of sexual matters, with compulsory instruction in "sex hygiene" as its mildest manifestation and the mediaeval fury of the vice crusade as its worst.
A Book of Prefaces
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A structure may be called fractal if it presents the same irregularity at all scales.
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Perhaps you have observed careless practices or unlabeled containers, or maybe you have questioned an order or a clinical irregularity.
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Depending on the irregularity of the terrain, the operator can adjust both the ground clearance of the machine and height of each step.
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This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
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Therefore, all bony structures of the face, including the malar eminences, orbital rims, zygomatic arches, mandible, and teeth, should be carefully inspected and palpated for irregularity or tenderness.
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He was a working astronomer, and he made at least one original discovery of some significance -- namely, the observation of a hitherto unrecorded irregularity of the moon's motion, which came to be spoken of as the moon's evection.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
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To date, however, there have been no formal complaints of irregularity apart from one where a child (not children) received a voters' pack.
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This division was so diligent that in 1940, when a Congressional subcommittee investigated the W.P.A., it couldn't find a single serious irregularity that the division had missed.
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The west of the island is famous for the irregularity of its coastline.
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Shelley's "modern eclogue" is prefaced by a disclaimer similar to that of "Christabel" and possibly influenced by it: "the impulse of the feelings which moulded the conception of the story," says Shelley, "determined the pauses of a measure, which only pretends to be regular inasmuch as it corresponds with, and expresses, the irregularity of the imaginations which inspired it
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
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Voter irregularity, which is something that, as a network, we have been on top of and talking about.
CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2008
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His chief discovery was an irregularity of the lunar motion, called the '_evection_.'
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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Investigators found no evidence of financial irregularity.
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In their ruling yesterday, delivered by Lord Mance, the law lords found there were material irregularity and unfairness in the trial process and ruled against a retrial.
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The X-ray showed a slight irregularity in one lung.
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The west of the island is famous for the irregularity of its coastline.
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Palpation of the nasal structures should be done to elicit any crepitus, indentation, or irregularity of the nasal bone.
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Pulmonary as well as bronchial arterial angiography did not identify any irregularity.
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The paint will cover any irregularity in the surface of the walls.
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Smooth enlargement suggests benign hyperplasia; roughness and irregularity suggest the possibility of cancer.
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If menstrual irregularity occurs in the adolescent with bulimia, a limited evaluation is necessary.
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Our teacher believed in the traditional drill-style method, which in the case of Latin with it's absence of irregularity, was probably the best approach.
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The youthful morainal landscape has significant surface irregularity and high concentrations of wetlands.
Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)
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The great number of windows in the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position, here and elsewhere on the Cape, struck us agreeably, -- as if each of the various occupants who had their cunabula behind had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and, according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect.
Cape Cod
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Also charged with burglary and handling stolen property, Irvine was refused bail because of an irregularity in his visa.
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The service will notify passengers of flight delays and cancellations in case of flight irregularity.
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New Jersey, while it did not disapprove of some of the changes, yet had ‘to recognize the unseasonableness and irregularity of them.’