jurisprudence

expatriation

everal criminal conviction

upon which it is not necessary for us to enter.

perverse

Postmenopausal women are particularly at risk for UTIs because of hormone depletion

the amount needed would be so great as to be impractical for a wholesale recommendation.

Cranberry juice in its earliest, purest form was far more astringent than the version now sold commercially.

hydrating

Dr. Gupta, who said she is not ready yet to walk away from cranberries, suggested that some women with recurrent UTIs may still want to discuss cranberry treatment with their doctors.

several theories about why cranberries have come to be seen as having some effect on UTIs

Many doctors recommend that women prone to recurrences urinate after sex

The risk factors in younger women include sexual activity and the use of spermicide

“convincing that cranberry products should not be recommended as a medical intervention for the prevention of UTI.” She added that “clinicians should not be promoting cranberry use by suggesting that there is proven, or even possible, benefit.”

showed no reduction in urinary tract infections for female nursing home patients who took standardized, high-dose cranberry capsules — the equivalent of 20 ounces of juice daily — for a year.

it is certainly not a treatment for an active case.

but it won’t cure and, probably, won’t prevent recurrence.

who acknowledges the mixed research results, remains concerned about the use of antibiotics as a preventive treatment. “People want something that doesn’t lead to antibiotic resistance and empowers women to care for their UTIs,” she said. “We do need something better.”

panoply

stretched past a year.

So far, our regressions suggest that the electorate is slightly less polarized than in 2008 or 2012. Red states aren’t quite as red, and blue states aren’t quite as blue.

market competition and cost efficiency.

meaning it was available to any student in state with no limitations on student eligibility.

are state-funded scholarships that pay for students to attend private school rather than public school.

school choice programs

Eric Hanushek has studied the effect of per-pupil expenditures on academic outcomes, finding either no relationship or a relationship that is either weak or inconsistent.[17] However, researchers Larry V. Hedges and Rob Greenwald analyzed the same data used by Hanushek and concluded that increasing per-pupil expenditures has a significant positive impact on student achievement.

gainsay

Will the views of the people of the thirty-six states that retain a traditional definition of marriage be treated with dignity and respect? 

stand up for the Constitution of the United States

He said they had not convinced him “that the parties’ relationship has disintegrated beyond salvaging and that their affection for each other is extinguished.”

denied divorce to Mr. and Mrs. Bumgardner anyway.

preempted.

Trump has been on a bit of a roll this week, if certain polls are correct.

dumpster fire that is The Donald’s campaign.

most popular and unifying institutions: the National Football League.

full-price: $99.99

“Players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem,”

peaceful

Two others also refused to stand for last week’s games, the final round of the preseason.

poor or counterproductive way to draw attention to social issues.

Their argument was that they fought for the freedoms in the Constitution, not a piece of cloth, and to curtail those freedoms was an insult to their sacrifice.

inspiring others was more important than the personal cost.

ironies

In an ironic twist that perfectly demonstrates just why a site like urbandictionary.com is of sociolinguistic importance, the term "teabagging" made headlines again recently when U.S. conservatives used it as part of a populist tax protest. Citizens were urged to send teabags to the White House in an apparent reference to the Boston Tea Party tax protest of 1773. "Teabagging" events were enthusiastically promoted by Republicans, conservative pundits, and the FOX network. What the tax teabaggers didn't know was that the term has some very unique -- and overtly sexual -- connotations in contemporary pop culture.

blood pressure

But in all our research the most achievement-oriented students, who were also the most skilled, motivated, and confident, were the most impaired by stereotype threat

The tests also found that stereotype bias most impacted high-achieving minorities.

"stereotype threat" -- the threat of being viewed through the lens of a negative stereotype, or the fear of doing something that would inadvertently confirm that stereotype.

Obama was reacting to something social scientists call "stereotype threat."

the jargon of a particular class, profession, etc.

very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.

ife changes—you might adopt new words when you start attending a new school, or take a new job, or have a baby, for example.

The end result is a lively, playful body of language that is at times used for no other reasons than that it is fun to use and identifies the speaker as clever and witty.

tribe

oppression

In one sense, code-switching is about dialogue that spans cultures. It evokes the conversation we want to have here.

in that professional, polite, kind of buttoned-up voice that people use when they're doing professional work stuff.

Slang vocabulary is like an irregular blinking signal that discloses someone’s location to those privy to the code. 

hierarchy.

bro

For example, only about a dozen terms refer to drinking alcohol and a comparable total to Jews, Italians, and African American.

student assignments, befuddling some high school teachers who are unsure how to fix this growing problem.

Platforms like Vine and Twitter

bleached

subgroup to the mouths of moms or television actors

prestige dialect or are in positions of power.”That’s likely because people in positions of privilege don’t face the same social pressure to adapt their language

prestige dialect or are in positions of power.”

social standing

meme-ified

Blatantly