Sentences with phrase «described as a substance»

WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP: A metabolite could be MOST accurately described as a substance which: a. may or may not be pharmacologically active b. triggers therapeutic reactions in the body...

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During the former Heisman Trophy winner's 11 season career, he received quite a bit of criticism, both for his unapologetic marijuana use (which resulted in multiple suspensions for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy) and for his demeanor, which was described as «aloof» and even «weird.»

Despite being described by Burney and Hampson as being hobbled by a commitment to process and procedure over real substance, ASEAN has managed to hammer out a free trade agreement among its own members, as well as with Japan, Korea, China, India and Australia / New Zealand.

Light described as a particle means nothing, if it has no mass since it would be impossible to distinguish from nothing because no mass means void of substance.

I would venture to guess many of the evangelical pastors she speaks to (as described in this essay) don't «get» what she's arguing, because they take for granted that she's an evangelical in essence, just an edgy one; whereas, by her own admission, she is talking about «not a change in style but a change in substance.»

Queen Christina is now an A-III, as are Of Human Bondage and Gay Divorcee, described as «dated musical fluff» and «a lighthearted musical comedy with no real substance beyond its charming songs and dances.»

Thus, after all, the fundamental constituents of the world are for him «events,» each actualizing its own essence, together with (as the obscure bond between them is most readily described) the substance which they inherit from their predecessors and pass on to their successors, rather than persisting continuants changing their accidental properties while retaining their essence.

The models often used to describe this have been unsatisfactory, to be sure: talk of «substance» has led to much confusion and misunderstanding, as has talk of the union of wills or the association of divine / human consciousnesses.

In Descartes» works, God always remains respected and honoured, while man is always described as a creature of God, composed of a mysterious mixture of substances.

From then on he hailed as a victory what he had earlier described as a disaster: the inability of the spiritual substance to find its own historical setting.

In virtue of its comprehensiveness as a metaphysical category, therefore, the term society is much more suitable than the term substance to describe the various ontological totalities encountered in human experience.4 Yet this key insight into the ontological actuality of Whiteheadian societies is easily lost from view unless one ponders what Hegel was trying to express with the somewhat elusive notion of Spirit.

The analysis of the subatomic entities leads to quanta of energy that are much better described as energy - events than as substances.

For example, the modes and aspects that he introduced to describe the activity of substance can be understood as relatively autonomous orders of movement.

Those who take this view would say, for example, that it is absurd to speak of «human nature» as if it were an entity that could be described in categories of substance, if by substance we mean immutable and unchanging thing.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

We can trace the problems of describing LSD as consciousness - expanding to the Cartesian tradition, which conceives consciousness (and its modern partner, the unconscious) as a substance that contains our thoughts, perceptions, and feelings.

Minority in Parliament has passed a scathingly damning verdict on President Akufo - Addo's maiden State of the Nation Address, describing it as «high on platitudes and short of substance.»

Describing herself as a woman of «substance» and «incorruptible» Ms. Essiam hinted that she would seek legal action against the company's Board chairman for impugning her integrity.

Gordon Brown could help Labour rediscover its passion, he indicated, describing the chancellor as the antithesis of David Cameron's style over substance.

Governor Nasiru Ahmef El - Rufai has described the Kaduna Restoration Group as an» epistle of elite frustration, lengthy on lame lamentations and short on substance and facts.»

He is later said to have described, Brown as having «substance», while Cameron was all «sizzle» but Blair was «sizzle and substance».

The article, entitled «EXCLUSIVE: Minister Adeosun, Saraki, Dogara, Accountant General in N10 billion fraud scandal», in its style, substance, and deliberate spin struggles to connect the Senate President to the receipt and apportioning of funds which the publication describes as «illegal.»

The PDP had in a statement on Monday described the President's speech as «depressing, annoying» and lacking in substance.

To applause from delegates, he described this as «hasty and misguided», adding: «The substance of the act we now have on the statute book is potentially a very significance threat to the stability, fairness and viability of our education system.»

The students described BacillaFilla as the first step toward «self - healing concrete,» and their efforts are just one among many to create biological substances that could heal ship hulls, metal girders and more.

Using a mathematical model known as the Ising model, invented to describe phase transitions in statistical physics, such as how a substance changes from liquid to gas, the Johns Hopkins researchers calculated the probability distribution of methylation along the genome in several different human cell types, including normal and cancerous colon, lung and liver cells, as well as brain, skin, blood and embryonic stem cells.

But most substances, and especially those we handle every day, such as the metals, must be described as masses of small separate crystals.

As Agnieszka Janina Zygadlo Nielsen describes, the problem with many of these substances today is namely that they are extremely expensive and difficult to make, and therefore produced only in small quantities in the medicinal plants.

In other words, «biomass» describes the mass of all biological organisms, dead or alive, excluding biological mass that has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum.

Density refers to the packing of molecules within any substance (gas, liquid or solid), while viscosity is commonly described as the thickness of a fluid or semi-solid.

As for the future of adolescent substance use treatment, Drs. Chung & Black describe a need to focus on the «active ingredients» of therapies and their respective «targets.»

«This paper shows that several A-CRA procedures are consistent with procedures in evidence - supported treatments for common co-occurring mental health problems, and as an example, describes in detail how A-CRA can be used in the treatment of co-occurring substance use and depression disorders.»

The procedures he should have followed, described in a U.K. document known as Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH), have been in place for nearly 20 years.

«To describe electronic cigarette use as «a new drug use option» and part of «at - risk teenagers» substance using repertoires» is unnecessarily alarmist, given the evidence that regular use among never smokers is negligible, the lack of evidence that electronic cigarette use acts as a gateway to tobacco use, and the likely low level of harm associated with electronic cigarette use.»

Lipid peroxidation was estimated as thiobarbituric acid reacting substances (TBARS) in pancreas, lung and liver by the method described earlier and expressed in nmol / mg protein.

In a video of a talk she gave on New Year's Eve 2014, Gannon, robed in white and wearing a playful gold party hat, describes complaining — about anything — as «more poisonous than ingesting a poisonous substance.»

In most people caffeine is an addictive substance to some degree, although some would describe it as highly addictive.

Goitrogen is a word that was coined in the 1950's to describe a substance that causes the formation of a goiter, also knows as an enlarged thyroid gland.

Experts describe belly fat as an active «organ» that continuously produces dangerous hormones and inflammatory substances.

This is a substance that's extracted from root plants and is described by many as a natural aphrodisiac.

Whirlwind celebrity marriages and the clichéd quickie Vegas wedding can often be described as fatuous love, as can any ardent, committed connection built without much substance behind it.

A talented singer, good actor and naturally good looking, she can be described as a woman of substance.

Still, those of us who sat through Refn's visually arresting but distressingly empty thriller (aptly described by my colleague Peter Debruge as «an exercise in supreme style and minimal substance») had our worst suspicions confirmed, based on early rumors that «Only God Forgives» had been slotted in competition at the producers» insistence.

Every Refn film can be described as style over substance.

And when a substance of hers, that Buchannon describes as stronger than «bath salts on meth,» washes up on shore, the gang goes into action to solve the crime, but also for additional phallic jokes (more than just Oscar's member is sacrificed on the alter of cheap laughs), near drownings, shootings, various vomiting scenes (a body function that seems to have totally replaced farting in the screenwriter's lowest denomination guidebook), shipboard fires, shark attacks, Mitch getting fired and replaced by Brody, and slow - motion shots of well - endowed women running up and down the beach.

Sometimes catastrophic head failures don't contaminate the oil (which does indeed produce a frothy substance as you describe); the head could be cracked from the outside into a coolant passage, or, rarely and usually only in poorly manufactured or improperly installed gaskets, the head gasket can blow outward from a coolant passage.

Technically, what we see and describe as «glands» are actually anal sacs, which contain the glands that secrete an oily, strong - smelling substance.

The new American Kennel Club - approved standard describes the breed as «a well - balanced, medium - sized dog of athletic appearance, displaying grace and agility in equal measure with substance and stamina» and as «energetic, alert, and eager.»

The official standard describes the Pembroke's general appearance as «low set, strong, sturdily built and active, giving an impression of substance and stamina in a small space.»

The AKC describes the Pembroke as sturdy dog that is «low - set» and gives «substance in a small space».