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"Adverse" in a Sentence (21 examples)
It has been shown in most studies on this subject that intervention of the legislature had adverse effects.
Is there any adverse reaction?
Some of the adverse effects of testosterone treatment may be popping up now.
Our plane was cancelled because of adverse weather conditions.
It's advisable to check whether there'll be any adverse effects if you drink alcohol while taking the medication you've been prescribed.
Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes — indeed, deletes — the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power.
"Then, but for folly or Fate's adverse power, / his word had made us with our trusty glaive / lay bare the Argive ambush, and this hour / should Ilion stand, and thou, O Priam's lofty tower!"
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
Tom said that he wasn't used to working in adverse weather conditions.
Many intelligent people are not adverse to sex.
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adverse weather
Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
Northbound expresses have the hardest work to perform, with adverse grades predominating from Willesden to Tring.
Several types of diesel locomotive have been tested on this working and as a result the probable choice will be Type 2 diesels in pairs, without bankers. The crucial factor in the selection of this method is the higher degree of adhesion obtained than with a single Type 4; on trial one of the latter showed that in very adverse conditions it might slip to a standstill at one of the two tricky spots on the steep climb from Tyne Dock to Consett.
He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.
adverse circumstances
the adverse page
the adverse party
Calpe's adverse height / […] must greet my sight
Now the families of the two lovers were not on very good terms; they were, I believe, rather adverse to one another.
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