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Justin Stebbing, professor of cancer medicine at Imperial College, London, says that many people turn to herbal medicine and complementary therapies when they feel shortchanged by conventional medicine.
Will you be switching from Netflix or do you consider Amazon Prime to be a complementary service?
Because a family needed both plant foods and meat, a masculine female hunter, in turn, usually married a feminine female, to provide these complementary gender roles for economic survival.
It suggested that the programme makers were "under instructions from higher up" to make "a happy story about complementary medicine"; that the production could not distinguish evidence from anecdote; even that the series producer was promoting "US-style anti-science".
We met at university and since day one we knew that our personalities were really complementary.
After promising to look into an NHS trial in England of the prince's favoured complementary medicines, the current hot contender for Labour leadership gushed, as per Debrett's advice: "I have the honour to remain, Sir, your Royal Highness's most humble and obedient servant".
"The Chinese and Greek economies are mutually complementary ," Li wrote on Wednesday in the conservative daily Kathimerini.
He wanted ministers to reverse spending cuts that were being lined up in homeopathic medicine, urged them to conduct a trial of complementary medicine in England, and demanded a say over the allocation of taxpayers' money for community projects.
Edzard Ernst, emeritus professor of complementary medicine at Exeter University, says they should be judged in the same way as conventional ones: "If a therapy demonstrably generates more good than harm, it should be considered for routine use".
When that failed and the goalposts were perceived to have been moved again – with British Museum trustees saying exhibiting the marbles in London "allows different complementary stories to be told about them" – Greece resorted to diplomatic channels.
On Tuesday, three congressmen, Republican Justin Amash of Michigan and Democrats John Conyers of Michigan and Jared Polis of Colorado, introduced a complementary bill that would restrict the NSA's ability to collect phone data on any American unconnected to an ongoing investigation.
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The word "complementary" primarily functions as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe something that enhances or completes another. Ludwig examples show it qualifying terms like "therapies", "service", and "skills".
Expression frequency: Very common
