A CONDITION

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Conditions

Verb: make terms, come to terms; (contract); make it a condition, stipulate, insist upon, make a point of; bind, tie up.

That was never a condition of our agreement, nor was giving Han to this bounty hunter! (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

Poverty is a condition with but one advantage, it doesn't take much to improve your lot. (references; author: unknown)

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Note the bowed legs and enlarged right wrist. Nutritional Rickets is a condition in which children's bones are too soft, and do not develop properly due to a deficiency of vitamin D. Credit: CDC.

Moon's- or Mulberry Molar is a condition where the first lower molar tooth has become dome-shaped due to malformation by congenital syphilis. Credit: CDC.

H. ducreyi is the primary cause for a condition know as “Human Genital Ulcer Disease” or “Chancroid”, especially in developing countries. The transmission of this bacterium and HIV has been epidemiologically linked. Credit: CDC.

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This makes him willing to quit a condition, which, however free, is full of fears and continual dangers: and it is not without reason, that he seeks out, and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates, which I call by the general name, property. (Second Treatise of Government)

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But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so, upon mature thoughts, I began to doubt whether I were injured or not.

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Health

Some people develop a condition called macular edema. (references)

Hypoglycemia �" A condition where the blood sugar is lower than normal. (references)

EXENCEPHALY is a condition in which the brain is located outside of the skull. (references)

Business

Moreover, the professional and managerial job market in Korea is competitive such that leading corporations increasingly require English language skills as a condition for employment or potential advancement within the company. (references)

As noted above, the Taiwan authorities have recently begun requiring "industrial cooperation programs (ICP)", which normally contain offset provisions as a condition of all large government procurements, including defense equipment. (references)

It functions as a network between members, provides access to updated information pertinent to the industry, acts as a political voice for dental issues, and has an established Code of Ethics with which members must agree to comply as a condition of membership. (references)

Civil Liberties

Laos

Some detainees and prisoners were forced to sign renunciations of their faith as a condition of their release as well. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Although not sanctioned by law, employers generally require foreign national employees to surrender their passports as a condition of employment. (references)

Central African Republic

The program ended when a group of the refugees demanded amnesty, the release of prisoners, and other actions as a condition of their return; the Government refused their demands. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Maintaining a certain level of employment is a condition in some BOI-approved enterprises. (references)

Romania

There are no performance requirements imposed as a condition for establishing, maintaining or expanding an investment. (references)

Ukraine

License conditions, which under prior law were a condition precedent to issuing a license, are now conditions subsequent. (references)

Human Rights

Syria

Some former prisoners reportedly were required to sign loyalty oaths or admissions of guilt as a condition of their release. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

At year's end, only one RDR member still was in prison; most were released in early October as a condition of RDR participation in the Forum for National Reconciliation. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

One hundred percent offsets are required, as a condition of sale, by the year 2005. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

The contract should state as a condition that a project must begin no later than three months after the signing of a contract. (references)

Peru

As a condition for disbursement of a trade-sector loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, the government agreed to phase out the surcharges over a three-year period ending in 1997. The government began reducing the surcharges in increments in April 1994, and in July 2001 this system was replaced by a "price band system" similar to one used by the Andean Community. (references)

Worker Rights

Mauritania

However, adult females with children have greater difficulties and may be compelled to remain in a condition of servitude. (references)

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Expressions using "A CONDITION": lay down as a condition ♦ make smth. a condition. Additional references.

Danish

ikke opfylde en betingelse (failure to comply with a condition, failure to fulfil a condition, non-compliance with a condition). (various references)

Dutch

vervulling van een voorwaarde (fulfilment of a condition), een voorwaarde niet in acht nemen (failure to comply with a condition, failure to fulfil a condition, non-compliance with a condition). (various references)

Finnish

A-tila (space), merkkiväli (space). (various references)

French

absence d'impulsion, espace, état A. (various references)

German

Null (dead loss, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, nullo, o, zero, zilch). (various references)

Greek 

μη τήρηση ενός όρου (failure to comply with a condition, failure to fulfil a condition, non-compliance with a condition). (various references)

Hungarian

utólag vmilyen feltételt szab (to add a condition as an afterthought). (various references)

Indonesian

bersyaratkan (have something as a condition). (various references)

Italian

impulso di spaziatura (space). (various references)

Pig Latin

aay onditioncay.(various references)

Portuguese

espaço (air, breadth, clear, compasses, distance, elbow-room, room, roominess, space). (various references)

Russian 

ограниченный условием (subject to a condition). (various references)

Spanish

espacio (accommodation, break, clearance, cosmos, delay, distance, elbow room, gap, hiatus, Interspace, interval, item, length, period, room, short program, slot, slowness, space, spacing, spaciousness, span, spot, void). (various references)

Swedish

icke-puls (space). (various references)

Turkish

şart koymak (lay down as a condition, postulate, qualify, stipulate), şart koşmak (condition, lay down, lay down as a condition, provide, stipulate). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: anticodon, condition.

-2 letters: actinoid, anconoid, conation, conidian, diatonic, donation, inaction, indicant, iodation.

-3 letters: actinon, anionic, coition, conidia, contain, diction, indican, nicotin, nonacid.

-4 letters: action, anodic, anoint, atonic, cannot, canton, cation, conoid, dacoit, incant, indict, nation, niacin, notion, tannic.

-5 letters: acini, actin, ancon, anion, antic, canid, canon, canto, coati, codon, condo, conin, conto, cotan, danio, dicot.

+1 letter: conditional.

+2 letters: conditionals, coordinating, coordination.

+3 letters: biconditional, conditionable, conditionally, consideration, consolidating, consolidation, contradiction, coordinations, indoctrinator, nondiplomatic, unconditional.

+4 letters: biconditionals, conditionality, considerations, consolidations, contradictions, dechlorination, decolonization, disconsolation, incoordination, indoctrination, indoctrinators, nondirectional, nondoctrinaire, nonradioactive, xenodiagnostic.

+5 letters: codetermination, dechlorinations, decolonizations, decontamination, disconsolations, discontinuation, disintoxication, inconsideration, incoordinations, indoctrinations, nonconfidential, omnidirectional, reconsideration, reconsolidating, unconditionally.