How To Use Twofold In A Sentence

The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
Their aim is twofold: to increase productivity and to improve morale by giving employees a feeling of participation in and identification with the company. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
The deaths in Cianjur, according to him, represent a twofold increase from previous years and so the health ministry has declared it an extraordinary incidence.
This process is commonly manifested in chromosomal monosomics in which the most common effect is an approximate twofold increase of target gene expression throughout the genome.
The aim is twofold and according to senior commanders it can be realised: the toppling of the leader and the steady elimination of the terrorists.

The most effective way of ensuring that Greece retains the currency peg is twofold. Times, Sunday Times
the price increased twofold last year
There was a more than twofold increase in survival among recipients of combination antibiotic therapy as compared with that for recipients of monotherapy regimens.
a twofold increase
Visits to Amnesty's US website reportedly increased sixfold, donations threefold and the rate of new memberships twofold.
The potential teratogenicity of benzodiazepines remains controversial, but a recent meta-analysis suggested a twofold increase, at most, in the risk of orofacial clefts.
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Since the distribution of values for genes whose expression decreased twofold or more were bounded between 0 and 0.5, we assumed that the variances were not equal for the comparison of these genes.
The benefits of the scheme are twofold.
But he again affirms, in the same chapter, “That the justice of God is twofold: that one kind he always uses when he punishes abandonedly wicked and obstinate sinners, sometimes, according to his law; the other kind, when he punishes sinners neither obstinate nor altogether desperate, but whose repentance is not expected.” A Dissertation on Divine Justice
Among the cases examined, it appeared that there was, at most, a twofold increase in transposase activity when an acidic amino acid was substituted for a potential phosphorylation site.
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Our Hundred Days in Europe
For me, the art of udon is twofold: the freshness of the noodle and the flavour of the soup or dipping sauce.
The Bruker machine runs at 750 MHz radio frequency, which is a twofold increase on solid state NMR used for biochemical studies and marks a 60% increase in sensitivity.
The nannoplankton crisis was twofold: a decrease in size and low calcified specimens are observed in addition to a drastic decrease in absolute abundance.
I have remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold condition of determination. The Works of Frederich Schiller
It is notable that transformation efficiency is increased at least twofold in both wild-type and mutant strains at 36° (data not shown).
The flaw with this argument is twofold. Times, Sunday Times
The question was, indeed, broached by the greatest thinkers among the great Greeks; howeer, their answer was always with reference to the presencing of the present Anwesen des Anwesenden, and the ambiguity contained in this "twofold," the tragic flaw contained in this failure to make what Heidegger calls the "ontological difference" was to haunt western thought concerning the tiny word "is" from Parmenides' famous maxim to the "is" of Hegel's speculative propositions. Enowning
The ostensible reason for these archive repeats is twofold. Times, Sunday Times
The magnitude of the associations between CSA and subsequent high-risk sexual behaviors in these studies varied from a twofold to a ninefold increase in risk.
During the four following months it goes in and out, and strolls about between meals, like other young ones of its class, and is then an animal at nurse affording thus a twofold example of the tendency of the great Creator to repeat Himself in His conceptions, here using for the infancy of the mammal the system invented for adult insects -- elsewhere repeating the butterfly in the humming-bird, who may fairly be called a vertebrated butterfly, and reproducing the gnat in the vampire-bat, which I look upon as an enlarged and perfected revise of the original pattern, whence comes the scourge of our sweet summer nights. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
In addition, ‘there was also a twofold increase in the number of [simulated] rear-end collisions when drivers were conversing on cell phones,’ the study says.
I HAVE remarked in the beginning of the foregoing letter that there is a twofold condition of determinableness and a twofold condition of determination. >Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man. Letter XXI.
Many of the researchers use a twofold definition: forgiveness is releasing the other person from retaliation and wishing the other person well. Christianity Today
But it means that there is at least the possibility of a twofold ecclesial reality in view in the middle distance: that is, a 'covenanted' Anglican global body, fully sharing certain aspects of a vision of how the Church should be and behave, able to take part as a body in ecumenical and interfaith dialogue; and, related to this body, but in less formal ways with fewer formal expectations, there may be associated local churches in various kinds of mutual partnership and solidarity with one another and with 'covenanted' provinces. Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future
Nevertheless, one observational study suggests a twofold increased risk of urolithiasis for men under 45 years for up to 14 years after surgery.
In a way, we are faced here with something like yet another reworking of the Husserlian analysis of temporality, and of the tension retention-protension that characterizes it: with the significant difference that time is no longer so much constituted for and by a consciousness, or even by an ex-sistence, as it is temporalized from out of the twofold horizon of the event of being. Enowning
The well-studied ion channels all have low-order symmetries ranging between twofold and fivefold.
Your line of credit business may be a distributional pyxie or a twofold tubman patriarchy or semiweekly an nobelist haemal in stanhope. Rational Review
Recall that decibels are on a logarithmic scale, so this 4dB increase represents more than a twofold increase in the sound level of the overall fan noise output of the test machine we used.
The reason may be twofold. Times, Sunday Times
The Alliance for Better Campaigns, which supports free ad time for candidates, blamed the broadcast industry for the twofold increase.
In column 3 (Maximum symmetry, axes), the pairs of figures denote numbers and types of axes of symmetry: thus, for example, the tetragonal system has one fourfold symmetry axis and four twofold axes.
This is certainly a characteristic of Maine where port cities were thriving in the eighteenth century and then suffered a twofold economic downturn in the wake of the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812.
The findings are not compatible with the assertion that third generation oral contraceptives are associated with a twofold increase in risk of venous thromboembolism compared with older progestogens.
Although there are other facets of the history and historiography of Islamic iconoclasm that merit analysis, my aim here is twofold.
In 1988 there was a fivefold high rate of incidental appendectomy in women compared to men, and by 1997 this had decreased to about twofold.
Greater hatching success was correlated with longer guarding durations, and a removal experiment verified that female presence was responsible for a twofold increase in hatching success.
It will be sufficient to explain my reason for having assigned it to them, by the avowal, that I regard them in a twofold point of view: 1st, as the residue and product of vegetable and animal life; 2d, as manifesting the tendencies of the Life of Nature to vegetation or animalization. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
The reasons are typically twofold: poor investment returns and high charges. Times, Sunday Times
My object, dear friend, in making this small selection from a great mass of material, has been twofold.
A people has, therefore, a twofold location, an immediate one, based upon their actual territory, and a mediate or vicinal one, growing out of its relations to the countries nearest them. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
There is a twofold fiducial trust; -- one whereby we trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin; which you may call adherence. The Sermons of John Owen
Recall that a twofold increase in secondary mutation frequency in recD was also seen for chromosomal loci.
This suggests that severely distorted transmission might have contributed to an approximately twofold increase in estimated map distances around the CYC locus.
Just staying still for five minutes burns six calories, but you can increase that twofold by making your bed, fourfold by walking, sixfold by gardening, and ninefold by climbing stairs.
Mattins, they were set as a Prayer-Anthem -- beginning with the jubilance which is expressed by the twofold Hallelujah, and gradually modulating the jubilance in preparation for the Service which followed. The Prayer Book Explained
Rowley '-- issued in thick succession from this wonderful, and, to use the Shakspearean word in a twofold sense,' forgetive 'brain. Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
Flint said the impact might be twofold, lower demand from the US brought about by the weaker dollar may result in a slow down in imports from sub-Saharan Africa.
Retractions related to fraud showed a more than sevenfold increase between 2004 and 2009, exceeding the twofold rise in retractions related to mere error, according to an analysis published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Mistakes in Scientific Studies Surge
It records the twofold effect of every business transaction.
The moral dilemma the case raises is twofold. Times, Sunday Times
Whether this was the Octateuch of Moses it is neither certain nor much worth our inquiry; for Photius judgeth him a corrupt author: besides that it may be shewn by and by, that there was a twofold Octateuch besides that of Moses. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Deletion of this sequence resulted in a twofold increase in ADH activity due to an underlying twofold increase in mRNA levels, suggesting a functional role in the negative regulation of mRNA.
Greek menologies of a later date at least mention St. Joseph on 25 or 26 December, and a twofold commemoration of him along with other saints was made on the two The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Her original investment had increased twofold.
the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence
Based on our broader definition of asthma, the prevalence of non-atopic asthma did not change between 1972-6 and 1996, but the prevalence of atopic asthma increased more than twofold.
The most effective way of ensuring that Greece retains the currency peg is twofold. Times, Sunday Times
The moral dilemma the case raises is twofold. Times, Sunday Times
His aims were twofold:to become leader of the Opposition and to unite the party around him.
A family history of suicide gives a twofold increase in risk. Times, Sunday Times
Sahteen is the Arabic toast - ‘May your good health be twofold.’
The advantages of this direct approach are twofold and quintessentially Melbourne.
He then draws it alow; twofold is the reason why he must draw it alow.
His function in the history of linguistics is twofold: he continues the tradition of language classification into families (though he enter - tains the notion of a possible common descent for all); an important aspect of this classification is its chrono - logical-historical interpretation (he dwells on the im - portance of such studies as a tool for the writing of history). LINGUISTICS
Every act rewards itself, or, in other words integrates itself, in a twofold manner; first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. Essays — First Series
The problems are twofold - firstly, economic, and secondly, political.
A few tickets remain for today, but concerns must be twofold. Times, Sunday Times
The weakness of any such case is twofold. Fascists and Conservatives
Her original investment has increased twofold.
These peaks, together with a crystallographic twofold axis, were interpreted as possibly resulting from 52 point-group symmetry.
_I answer that, _ As Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iv, 12), since we are composed of a twofold nature, intellectual and sensible, we offer Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
At the beginning of each mission, there's a narrative that outlines the background to the impending scenario, in addition to the objectives that must be resolved, the latter of which may be twofold or threefold in nature.
The long-term concerns have been twofold. Times, Sunday Times
Just staying still for five minutes burns six calories, but you can increase that twofold by making your bed, fourfold by walking, sixfold by gardening, and ninefold by climbing stairs.
There are passages from the Zend-Avesta which seem to rise above this necessary dualism or essential twofoldness of evil as well as good in the composition of the world. Christian Doctrine of Sin
Every act rewards itself, or in other words integrates itself, in a twofold manner: first in the thing, or in real nature; and secondly in the circumstance, or in apparent nature. V. Essays. Compensation. 1841
In tact, a family history of alcoholism is one of the strongest predictors of alcoholism in women, with those having a first-degree relative with alcoholism at a twofold to fourfold increased risk of alcoholism.
Its devastating effect is twofold: first, from the heat of the thermonuclear reaction, and second, from the radioactive fallout which continues after the bomb has been deployed.
And the lesson learned on this odyssey was twofold: first, the treasures of solitude and eager trout are there for the asking if you're willing to hike, bushwhack, and sweat a bit; second, these fish still hang in a very fragile balance, and it's up to us to keep them. The Three-Day Cutt Slam...
When, therefore, any one shall receive the name of abbot, he ought to rule his disciples with a twofold teaching: that is, he should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
After having made himself double, he makes nature in like manner twofold, and then he supposes she is vivified by an intelligence, which he borrows from himself, Placed in an impossibility of becoming acquainted with this agent, as well as with that which he has gratuitously distinguished from his own body; he has invented the word spiritual to cover up his ignorance; which is only in other words avowing it is a substance entirely unknown to him. The System of Nature, Volume 2
There is a twofold kind of debt upon the creature, one remissible and pardonable, another irremissible and unpardonable, (so to speak,) the debt of sin, and that is the guilt of it, which is nothing else than the obligation of the sinner over to eternal condemnation by virtue of the curse of God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
There was, in truth, a twofold epocha of the persecution of the apostolical church, namely, both before that apostasy of which we have such frequent mention, and also after it. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Concerns are twofold: that strong local currencies may hit exports, and that short-term inflows can quickly reverse, in a destabilizing manner. South Africa Split Over Capital Controls
That is, he that lives wilfully and allowedly in any one sin, brings the guilt of the violation of the whole law of God upon his soul, and that upon a twofold account. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
Applying SPR to the SeeDs method has successfully ascertained why isoxazole is a much more potent growth inhibitor than pyrazole, although they both have the same IC50 against Hsp90 (pyrazole is twofold faster on, but isoxazole is 15-fold slower off). GEN News Highlights
In this respect, we have increased the minimum salary by 29 per cent, we have also increased the family allowance twofold, and taxes have been significantly reduced.
The subject is essentially twofold - beach and palm trees, so thought must be given to each.
And yet, to kill her unshriven will be a twofold crime. Rookwood
The answer is twofold: firstly, the media is run and controlled by New Labour 'luvvies'; secondly, satire requires humour and there is nothing faintly amusing about New Labour. Army Rumour Service
Student numbers have expanded twofold in ten years.
The goals of this article are twofold and interdependent.
The reasons are twofold and closely connected. Times, Sunday Times
If this guy stays there will be some kind of suffering and if he goes, that hardship will be twofold.
The case against is twofold: too risky and too expensive.
Now the twofold ritual of the _pesah_ and the maccoth points to a twofold character of the feast. Prolegomena
Applying SPR to the SeeDs method has successfully ascertained why isoxazole is a much more potent growth inhibitor than pyrazole, although they both have the same IC50 against Hsp90 (pyrazole is twofold faster on, but isoxazole is 15-fold slower off). GEN News Highlights
Although it is not possible to differentiate among these models here, we note that rates of protein evolution and intron evolution both exhibit an approximate twofold increase after gene duplication.
Emblem books and tragedy can be considered as the two literary genres in which this twofold image of death is best exemplified.
Minor congenital anomalies affect 7 to 15 percent of infants exposed to antiepileptic drugs, which represents a twofold increase over that in the general population.
Well the literature's full of studies of this, which show that there's a twofold to threefold increase risk of prostate cancer if you have a first degree relative, your dad, your brother or your child, your son has it.
He had been a staymaker, a sailor, an exciseman, a teacher, a shopkeeper, and an author, to say nothing of his twofold matrimonial experience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
The internationalization of English has begun to provoke a twofold enervation .
In other settings, it has been shown that premature hospital discharge of patients with unstable vital signs was responsible for a twofold increase in 30-day mortality.
He can feel Pristine's power increase twofold.
The problems are twofold - firstly, economic, and secondly, political.
This could yet be attained, utilising the twofold British attributes of the profession's freedom to prescribe and universal access to treatment under the NHS.
The reasons are typically twofold: poor investment returns and high charges. Times, Sunday Times
If my part in the conversation seems halting, the reasons twofold. Times, Sunday Times
Your line of credit business may be a distributional pyxie or a twofold tubman patriarchy or semiweekly an nobelist haemal in stanhope. Rational Review
It cannot even now be said that the fundamental forms of vegetable structure have been precisely determined; some, with Schleiden himself, finding a radical twofoldness, and others aiming to establish a unity [100] as the most general plan of the plant. Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.
Hence the name Paraclete, and hence the twofold application of this name to the Son and to the Spirit, for both are our representatives and our advocates with God. The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II.
Experiencing sad or hopeless feelings and having a history of attempted suicide were associated with roughly a twofold increase in the likelihood of being the recipient of physical dating violence.
The mean number of office-based visits documenting a diagnosis of ADHD among girls tripled in the 1990s, whereas the number for boys increased about twofold.
The reasons are typically twofold: poor investment returns and high charges. Times, Sunday Times
In Connemara their twofold national rivalry becomes a three-way affair as notions of Englishness and Irishness become entwined with the fact of political union and also with issues of class status.
The aim was twofold: first, to discover whether informants really did understand storytelling primarily in rationalised terms; and second, if they did, to obtain unprompted testimony as to the content of these rationalisations.
But the concerns are twofold. Times, Sunday Times
Buybacks jumped nearly twofold in the fiscal year that ended in March, to $23 billion.
The government's role in healthcare is twofold: first, to provide the resources and, second, to make them work better for patients.
He says his plans are twofold and, so far, do not involve working for the BBC.
The government's role in healthcare is twofold: first, to provide the resources and, second, to make them work better for patients.
The reason for twin leads is twofold: on one hand, to double your pleasure with the most baits on one rod allowed by law (check local regulations); on the other, to catch walleyes on the trailing bait when they swing and miss at the first but have their eyes wide open for a second chance. River Tactics for Running Walleyes
Lighting in these environments presents a twofold problem: The canopy of treetops makes it dim, and it is almost always dappled and contrasty.
The government's role in healthcare is twofold: first, to provide the resources and, second, to make them work better for patients.
If there be a twofold judicature appointed for the same person, for the same crime, is it not because one crime may in divers respects fall under several considerations? and must not these considerations be preserved immixed, that the formal reason of proceeding in one court may not be of any weight in the other? The Sermons of John Owen
According to the Journal of Periodontology, high levels of stress and poor coping skills increase twofold the likelihood of development of periodontal disease.
The reasons for adopting this view that syntactic production and the accessibility of individual lexical items are closely related are twofold.
The reason for this is twofold: an exceptionally mild climate and a remarkable quality of life.
His education is twofold, and always is imparted in "pairs" of subjects – that is, while he is being instructed in the requisites of fighting, hunting, food getting, and his national sports, he takes with each "subject" a very rigid training in etiquette, for it would be as great a disgrace for him to fail in manners of good breeding as to fail to take the war-path when he reaches the age of seventeen. The Shagganappi
Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare. Rational Review
Dect philips phone unentitled twofold bibliotics unresisting to otterhound solemnity, i scaphoid to balfour how to nyctalopia the fearsome error that were one of the pampas executability of his compare. Rational Review
This would have the twofold effect of making them more mature when they reach college and more aware of the world around them. The Sun
This model predicts that the incidence of primary cancer of the liver also called primary hepatocellular carcinoma, or hepatoma due to HCV will increase twofold. DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK
Yea, you gain twofold what you lose. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Her original investment has increased twofold.
“This twofoldness (_duplicité_),” he says, “is so visible, that some have conceived that man must have two souls — a simple subject appearing to them incapable of such and so sudden variations; an immeasurable presumption on the one hand, a horrible abasement on the other. Pascal
The renegades, aptly named the Wolves, were formed when, having deserted their battalions for unknown reasons, they met in a gully off the coast somewhere below Twofold Bay.
Establishing the nobiliary status of such families depends upon various factors and is essentially twofold.
A family history of suicide appears to contribute about a twofold increase in risk. Times, Sunday Times
Meta-analysis led in this case to a twofold increase in the precision in QTL position estimation, when compared to the most precise initial QTL position within the corresponding region.
As to a dear friend Mother Church bids farewell to her beloved Alleluia on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday, when at the end of Vespers the acclamation is sung twice after the Benedicamus Domino and the choir responds with its twofold repetition following the Deo gratias. From the Mail
We grow this herb, they pay us for it, and their crop yields have increased twofold. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
Now rectitude of judgment is twofold: first, on account of perfect use of reason, secondly, on account of a certain connaturality with the matter about which one has to judge. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
The reasons for adopting this view that syntactic production and the accessibility of individual lexical items are closely related are twofold.
The solution appeared to him perfect, according to his study and analysis of the problem — the twofoldness that he found in man, of divine dignity on the one hand, and frivolous, sensual degradation on the other. Pascal
The twofold number of the Eucharistic elements of bread and wine does not interfere with the unity of the sacrament; for the idea of refection embraces both eating and drinking, nor do our meals in consequence double their number. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The reasons are typically twofold: poor investment returns and high charges. Times, Sunday Times
Deeper than this golden mean, however, runs the idea here; the dialectic of existence, the twofoldness which must be made one, the higher synthesis over all analysis are dimly intimated in the marvelous tale. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
The increase in domestic demand has a twofold effect. Collins Dictionary of Economics
It is dynamic, determined and intelligent, and its plan is twofold. Times, Sunday Times
This, combined with a sufficiently high rate of deleterious mutation, can allow sexual genotypes to outcompete asexual genotypes in the face of the twofold cost of sex.
Biomass was twofold to fourfold and the production was threefold to sevenfold greater in subarctic than in subtropical regions.
Aspinet himself; while the first red man allowed to come on board the shallop was the owner of the corn "borrowed" by the Pilgrims, who now repaid its value twofold by an order for goods to be delivered at Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
His aims were twofold:to become leader of the Opposition and to unite the party around him.
At the beginning of each mission, there's a narrative that outlines the background to the impending scenario, in addition to the objectives that must be resolved, the latter of which may be twofold or threefold in nature.
Because infants and toddlers normally can have three or more loose stools, an alternate definition of diarrhea in this age group is a twofold increase in the frequency of unformed stool.
Following this, a twofold tradition - in Jerusalem and in Ephesus - attests to her 'dormition', as the Eastern Christians call it, her 'falling asleep' in God. Archive 2008-08-10
The city's population tripled within five years of von Braun's arrival, increased twofold during the following decade, and has been climbing steadily, if less spectacularly, since.
The principal findings of the Implications Team, concurred in by the 350 members of the plenary, were twofold.
Comparing the top and bottom tenth percentiles, there was more than an eightfold difference in the proportion of patients monitored every 3 months and more than a twofold difference in the proportion of patients monitored every 6 months.
The message was twofold, I suppose. Times, Sunday Times

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