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How to use the word inhibit in a Sentence?

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One means by which organisms engage in this battle (competition with other organisms) is through the synthesis of chemicals that may inhibit the growth of or kill other organisms.

Matt Nelsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But it does inhibit us from having a higher percentage of returns available within the first 24, 48 hours.

Stephen Richer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re all trying to figure out what to do about grades, there is no way to know what mayhem is going on to promote or inhibit performance.

Deborah Alexander

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The executive order itself does not do anything that carries legal consequences, the( executive order) is actually pretty toothless in that all of the sections of law he invokes do not deprive the Department of Health of its power as the ultimate decision maker regarding measures necessary to inhibit the spread of communicable diseases as outlined in Section 1003.22( 3) of Florida Statutes.

Law School professor Richard Briffault

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you think about it, it's realistic that we could shut down ALK and reduce ALK function to see if we did stay skinny, aLK inhibitors are used in cancer treatments already. It's targetable. We could possibly inhibit ALK, and we actually will try to do this in the future.

Josef Penninger

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Because we had this Munich cohort right at the start ... it became clear that with a big push we could inhibit this spreading further.

Christian Drosten

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The standard of care in most cases is to give injections of drugs that inhibit the growth hormones that is called vascular epithelial growth factor, or VEGF, for most people, it at least slows the progression and in some cases actually improves visual acuity.

Michael Iuvone

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Our voluntary incentive program clearly does not prevent or inhibit other brands from getting to market.

Gemma Hart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected

Michael McCaul

added by joaquintaylor
8 years ago

So we want to make sure that these reforms are not so onerous that they inhibit our participation in the international economy, but of course our national security interests come first.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the lenders, the most obvious risk is making an investment in a school that doesn't last very long, you can mitigate that risk if there's really good communication between the authorizer and the lender over the school's current status, anything that will inhibit clear renewal of the charter and any underlying strengths and weaknesses.

Nelson Smith

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

All varieties are rich in phytosterols, which have been shown in lab and animal studies to inhibit tumor development.

Suzanne Dixon

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The House will make the deadline. Of course, the Senate probably won't, and the President wouldn't sign it, but at least the American people will know where the House of Representatives stands on pushing back on the attempts of the D.C. city council to inhibit religious liberty.

Bill Flores

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They [police] may subjectively feel that the spotlight on them does inhibit their ability to act, but that subjective feeling cannot trump the First Amendment.

William Jacobson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Horse dung is a very rich substrate that harbours a diversity of micro-organisms, including fungi and bacteria, now these micro-organisms are in a constant competition for nutrients and space and it's therefore very likely to find potent antibiotics in such an environment, which are used by the different organisms to inhibit the growth of the competitors.

Andreas Essig

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As an official representative of a governmental agency, schools aren’t allowed to promote or inhibit religion, individual students are certainly permitted to express their religious beliefs but not on behalf of the governmental body.

Sharyl Wood

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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