67 examples of inhibiting in sentences

<Hab, hib> (have, hold): (1) habit, habitation, inhabitant, exhibit, prohibition, ability, debit, debt; (2) habituate, habiliment, habeas corpus, cohabit, dishabille, inhibit.

He obtained a verdict in the Consistorial Court inhibiting Jones and Taylor and closing the church.

It appears to do so by inhibiting the activity of the testes or ovaries.

For the internal secretion of the thyroid has a selective affinity for the autonomic or activating system, while that of the adrenals has a selective affinity for the sympathetic or inhibiting system.

In the female, the ovary, that is to say, the interstitial cells of the ovary, inhibit the growth of hair upon the face.

That is why in women after the grand sex change of life, the menopause, hair often grows in the typically male regions because of loss of the inhibiting influence of the ovarian internal secretion upon them.

It seems as if, once successful impregnation has been achieved, the feminine organism adrenalizes itself, makes itself more masculine and less feminine, inhibiting the posterior pituitary and the adrenal medulla, as well as the ovaries.

They push down the pan of the scale to inhibit the post-pituitary.

Indeed, as education and environment affect the body (in so far as they influence it as a whole) by exciting or inhibiting the glands of internal secretion, sex-arousing stimuli from without must be considered to evoke their effects as stimulants of the latent puberty glands.

In the ability of one endocrine system to inhibit another we have the germ of the unconscious.

Vague anxiety, depressive fancies and fears, imaginative overactivity can be removed by inhibiting the post-pituitary.

In persons afflicted with uncontrollable impulses, the inhibiting hormones may not be present in sufficient quantity.

It performs its service mainly, in all probability, by inhibiting the sex stimulating effect of light playing upon the skin.

If religion, good discipline, honest education, wholesome exhortation, fair promises, fame and loss of good name cannot inhibit and deter such, (which to chaste and sober maids cannot choose but avail much,) labour and exercise, strict diet, rigour and threats may more opportunely be used, and are able of themselves to qualify and divert an ill-disposed temperament.

There are in literature two conspicuous examples of the blind-alley themetwo famous plays, wherein two heroines are placed in somewhat similar dilemmas, which merely paralyse our sympathies and inhibit our moral judgment.

By education we mean the training and developing of desirable instincts and capacities and the inhibiting of undesirable ones so that the child may be able constantly to adjust himself to an ever-changing environment.

Much of the training and education of the child consists, therefore, in acquiring a series of useful habits and in inhibiting acts that might result in habits that are undesirable.

Nothing else is more powerful than religious conviction and sentiment to reinforce good conduct and to inhibit wrong action.

If they wish to inhibit such importation, they may do so.

If they wish to inhibit such importation, they may do so.

The higher power of Eastern hypnotism, totally unknown in the West, consists of inhibiting the subtle vibrations of the astral vehicle also, permitting the consciousness to revert to its "pure" condition.

Nor does the fact that the tabu of society has actually in many cases enabled a woman to inhibit the development of her own nature, obviate the fact that she does so at great cost, even when she least understands what she does.

The extent to which social tabus and prudery may actually inhibit a woman's natural sexual development makes it possible, as we have seen, for her to marry in ignorance of what marriage implies.

Help does not come so much from directly inhibiting the bad as by extending the area of the higher emotions.

As for the pulpit, that great instrument of political guidance at a period when politics consisted chiefly of religious contentions, it is well known that Elizabeth and her advisors grasped at once its paramount importance, and that she had been on the throne but little over a month when she issued her proclamation inhibiting all preaching and teaching for the time being.

67 examples of  inhibiting  in sentences