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  • verb Present participle of remit.

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Examples

  • While both groups showed brain differences compared with non-criminals in the study, Pardini and his colleagues uncovered few brain differences between chronic offenders and so-called remitting offenders.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • There are three types of MS, Dinsmore said, which are secondary progressive, primary progressive and relapsing remitting, which is the most common form.

    The Daily Mining Gazette 2009

  • Biogen's BG-12 was tested in the relapsing, remitting form of the disease, which has flare-ups of the disease rather than consistent progression, and comprises the majority of MS cases.

    Biogen Net Up; Shares Soar Thomas Gryta 2011

  • Foreign companies operating in China usually must convert yuan revenues to U.S. dollars before remitting the money to their headquarters.

    China Pushing for Yuan to be Global Currency 2011

  • "It means patients in Europe with highly active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis could soon benefit from Gilenya's significant efficacy in a once-daily capsule," said David Epstein , division head of Novartis Pharmaceuticals.

    Novartis Wins European Backing for MS Pill Goran Mijuk 2011

  • In an interview yesterday Michaele described herself as a "denial" patient with relapsing and remitting MS -- while she deals with this chronic illness she rarely shares her diagnosis because "I never wanted to hear 'she can't do it'".

    Nancy Doyle Palmer: Real Housewives of DC Season Ender -- She Said, She Said Nancy Doyle Palmer 2010

  • "It wouldn't be incorrect that it's on the agenda for the government to cool down the property sector," he says, but he doesn't believe there's any specific regulation preventing property developers from remitting yuan from offshore into China.

    Behind the Yuan Bond Boom: Dollars Peter Stein 2011

  • Foreign companies operating in China usually must convert yuan revenues to U.S. dollars before remitting the money to their headquarters.

    China Pushing for Yuan to be Global Currency 2011

  • The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended the orally taken drug be used in Europe at a 0.5-milligram daily dose to treat patients with highly active relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

    Business Watch 2011

  • They demanded tax breaks or transfers, and insisted on remitting less revenue to the central budget.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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  • My adjectival use: 'The remitting customer must pay the fee.'

    August 24, 2011