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Sentence Examples The American Fenians then organized an abortive attack upon Canada, a rather devious way of liberating Ireland. More hypocritically still, Missing pursued an abortive licensing agreement with a skateboard company to use his anarchist icon. People who have abortive polio or nonparalytic polio usually make a full recovery. We used an earlier, abortive, suicide attempt to show that Sylvia had taken a decision not to commit suicide, for the sake of the children. The most significant of these advances has been in the area of migraine abortive drugs such as sumatriptan. Over the years, I have made abortive attempts at almost every classified form of writing. I also made an abortive attempt at creativity with tin snips and a tin can. Treatment of basilar migraines should avoid vasoconstrictors, otherwise standard abortive and prophylactic migraine medications are appropriate. The popular Aussie made some abortive attempts at comebacks, with dismal results, and then turned to fulltime television golf commentaries. Moreover, she remembers my abortive but long-drawn-out attempt to learn standard Chinese after I started my job. Many contraceptives, such as the coil or the morning after pill, are abortive tools. The only solace we find is that the result of the abortive poll was nullified. I refuse to talk about my abortive attempt at qualifying for the Hanley Cup lest I depress myself even more. Historically, home treatment for paralytic polio and abortive polio with neurological symptoms wasn't sufficient. The invasion of Egypt was abortive, as was Demetrius' year-long siege of Rhodes Finally the coalition of 315 was reforged. The deletion affected gene yajF with unknown function, but associated with genes involved in phage resistance through abortive infection. It is generally reserved for abortive therapy of severe migraines, and rebound headache is unlikely. Foreign policy concerns in the 1930s centered on Soviet and German expansionism, which stimulated abortive efforts at Nordic defense cooperation. Not uncommonly, squamous differentiation and abortive gland formation is noted. Jaw prehension is common in aquatic frogs, often in combination with abortive tongue protraction, but suction feeding is present only in pipids. Show More Sentences In addition, the host pericycle and endodermis in contact with abortive haustoria were deformed in many cases. Some of the larger dilated channels exhibit abortive fibrous tufts, which are slender and poorly cellular. Eight inflorescences carried one or two abortive ovaries that turned yellow, instead of green, and dropped off when touched with a probe. An abortive attempt at a psychology degree followed, then he jostled with the idea of becoming a drugs and drink counsellor. Safflower is simply a safe cooking oil, but pennyroyal is known to have potential abortive effects. In the wake of that, at college in Bagdhad, he joined the Baath party and in 1956, as Britain withdrew from Suez, he took part in an abortive coup attempt. My wife and I made abortive attempts at ordinary conversation. A case in point was his abortive effort to cut aircraft procurement costs by developing a single fighter-bomber, the TFX, for both the air force and the navy. All I wanted was a bath, so after the abortive trip to Kevin's front door I came home to defrost soup and ran a deep, hot bath that I soaked in as the soup slowly cooked. Her intention is not, at that moment, contraceptive, as implied by the advocates of post-coital contraception: her intention is abortive. The fleet is becalmed at Aulis after its first abortive attempt because Agamemnon has angered the goddess Artemis by killing a stag in her sacred grove. After more abortive attempts, the Admiralty decided, in 1845, to send Sir John Franklin with two steamers, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to resolve the problem. First came the abortive attempt in 1999 by the Bank of Scotland to take over the much larger NatWest, only to be gazumped by its local rival the Royal Bank of Scotland. Last night's abortive attempts at a barbeque, despite lashings of the odd smelling spray, proved that the only way of avoiding midges is to stay indoors. After several abortive attempts at spelling the name of the street correctly in his notebook, the officer co-opted some bystanders and dragged the poor horse into Hoe Street. The Reichstag, in its turn, passed a law that restricted the national distribution of abortive and contraceptive means and planned a new law regulating cinemas. The first is that its abortive potential has been glossed over in the media and your press release. One month later, lobstermen in Western Long Island Sound began to report sightings of gravid female lobsters dying in the throes of abortive molts. This abortive plan made a negative impact on the whole capital master plan. The abortive attacks on London and Glasgow took place in 2007, not 2006 as originally stated. Show More Sentences The second point concerns the abortive fisheries agreement with Morocco, which has been mentioned by several speakers here. As such, it is essential to coordinate between these two Actions to avoid abortive efforts. TalentSoft was selected after an abortive attempt to deploy one of its competitors. Its present form comprises the sum of several abortive attempts as well as considerable testing and trial applications of drafts. In Sierra Leone, no women were present at the first peace talks in 1996 which led to the abortive Abidjan Peace Accord. The abortive and destructive action is localised at the place of application of the product. László Kontler was born three years after the abortive 1956 Hungarian revolution against Soviet rule. I made an abortive attempt to excavate a burrow today and catch one. One time was an abortive interview about the U.S. wars in Indochina which ended with him stomping off. There is an urgent need to redefine the criteria for revaccination in abortive reactors who show preliminary response stages but do not develop a scar. I suspect his obstruction of Johnson's appointment due to the abortive toxics study is related more to political posturing than to anyone's health or safety. The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple. With its abortive abortion bill, GOP fundraising efforts may get a boost and Republicans may enjoy a renewed sense of common purpose in the wake of the NSA revelations that have divided conservatives. The mealy-mouthed and abortive reform, the accounting system's obsolescence and vulnerability to fraud and the Eurostat affair are just three examples that speak volumes. Following an abortive attempt to contact the CLA, a decision was taken that the convoy should return to the UNRWA Field Office compound, which it did without further incident. He stayed on and worked together with the ASU, planning the abortive seaside campaign in 1985 when he was finally arrested again following another surveillance operation. After the abortive uprising of 1987, many officials in the Administration of American President  Ronald Reagan admitted that 'the United States did not react sufficiently strongly to Chinese repression. There were, however, two more abortive attempts to rectify the situation. Undoubtedly, the ugliest side of Vichy's abortive moral revolution was its vicious racism, and in particular its own special brand of anti-Semitism. Money is the only sticking point, not the amount the cash-rich Fox has, especially after its bid for Time Warner collapsed last year, but the amount coughed up by Sky shareholders since the abortive 2011 bid. Show More Sentences In reality, the real anti-democratic menace comes from the US's own allies, who launched abortive coups against both Chávez and Correa – and successful ones in Honduras in 2009 and Paraguay last year. Soros was accused of having obtained insider information before the abortive corporate raid pushed up the stock price. Governments on all levels from municipal to federal are learning this through their abortive efforts to impose neighbourhood redevelopment programmes without consulting and involving the people who live there. The review mechanism appeared to be abortive for the larger part. He made a salutation, or, to speak nearer the truth, an ill-defined, abortive attempt at curtsy. The decline of Jacobitism left Charles making futile attempts to enlist assistance, and another abortive plot to raise support in England. The abortive siege of Roxborugh in 1436 under James I was probably the first conflict in which the Scots made serious use of artillery. The British then launched an abortive assault on Charleston, South Carolina. There were repeated abortive attempts to turn the buildings into a grammar school. In 1462, during the Wars of the Roses, Margaret of Anjou made an abortive attempt to seize the Northumbrian castles. Several attempts to close the Flanders ports by bombardment failed and Operation Hush, a 1917 plan to advance up the coast, proved abortive. On 30 August 2014, an abortive military coup took place forcing then Prime Minister Thomas Thabane to flee to South Africa for three days. Besides, most of these designes were abortive, or aborsive rather, like those untimely miscarriages not honoured with a soul or the shape and lineaments of an infant. As evidence, Dodoma points to the successful SPLM Arusha Unification Agreement, which unfortunately is now defunct following the failure of the abortive final round of talks. By Claudius' time Roman knowledge of the island would have been considerably increased by a century of trade and diplomacy, and four abortive invasion attempts. Ayutthaya launched several abortive conquests against Malacca which was diplomatically and economically fortified by the military support of Ming China. Townshend had written it as a slow blues, but after several abortive attempts, it was turned into a more powerful song with a bass solo from Entwistle. The abortive coup was masterminded by a low ranked Air Force serviceman, Senior Private Hezekiah Ochuka, and was staged mainly by enlisted men in the Air Force. The rising enjoyed initial success, with Highland armies defeating Hanoverian forces and occupying Edinburgh before an abortive march that reached Derby in England. He completely dominated Dutch politics and diplomacy in his first years afterwards, even monopolising the abortive peace talks before the expiration of the Truce. Show More Sentences Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. Lombe had obtained employment at an abortive silk mill built in Derby by George Sorocold for the silk spinner Thomas Cotchett of Derby, built on the River Derwent. These authors suggest that the high abortion rates for the Orchidaceae under natural conditions may be due to hydric stress, which is a strong abortive feature. Examples from Classical Literature There had been in the early part of the day an abortive effort at a procession. And yet it was ministered to, in a dull and abortive manner, by all who made this feint. Thus the efforts of Malique proved as abortive as the ravings of his master. The cup in question would thus seem to have been formed from the connation of two stipules which are ordinarily abortive. That is abortive that is untimely, that has not been borne its full time, that is immature. The abortive method consists in cutting short the attack by the administration of colchicum, veratria, or the salicin compounds. All other measures will prove abortive, and you will depopulate the country. And as passive resistance was their attitude, his purging scheme was abortive. In spite of his efforts it was abortive, and he was compelled to use another. Thus we describe certain cases as ambulant, abortive, larval and fulminant. Sometimes, as in Canna, one of the anther-lobes becomes abortive, and a petaloid appendage is produced. One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth. Earlier Thursday, two men who had been detained for questioning about an abortive car bombing in Belfast were released without charge. They are abortive births of an imperfect or vitiated instinct. Those who felt a sympathy for her on account of her good qualities, and others on account of her defects, now made fun of her abortive marriages. If he were mad, it was the consequence, and not the cause, of an aimless and abortive life. To make up for this abortive experiment, he proposed to take her portrait by a scientific process of his own invention. I proceed, then, from the morning which followed our abortive chase of the convict and our other strange experiences upon the moor. Every attempt to subdue or extirpate them, has proved abortive. The man regarded his back for a moment, was struck with an idea, began an abortive gesture, sighed, gave it up, and went on also with a depressed countenance. Show More Sentences These past, if any pass, the void profound Of unessential Night receives him next Wide gaping, and with utter loss of being Threatens him, plung'd in that abortive gulf. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of abortive? Words that rhyme with abortive What is the past tense of abortive? What is the plural of abortive? What is the adverb for abortive? What is the adjective for abortive? What is the noun for abortive? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words abortions abortionists abortionist abortion aborting abortifacient abortively aborts abortus abou Aboud aboulia 8-letter Words Starting With a ab abo abor abort aborti abortiv