Sentence examples for increased lay from inspiring English sources

Increased lay participation in the liturgy has led to an extension of lay religious dress in more than one communion.

The Dutch church largely shared this view and it began to experiment in the late 1960s with new structures that increased lay involvement and generated great enthusiasm in parishes.

FutureChurch, a group based in Cleveland that advocates women in the priesthood and increased lay involvement, now has 5,000 members nationally, up from 4,200 a few months ago, said Sister Christine Schenk, the group's director.

Cows demonstrate increased lying times on stalls with cushion in comparison to hard surface stalls.

Ad libitum straw did not reduce feeding motivation, but more lateral lying in sows with ad libitum straw suggests that the straw provided increased lying comfort.

Approximately half of this extra milk was attributed to grass intake, and increased lying, improved comfort and/or lower stress probably accounted for the rest.

In experiment 2, cows increased lying time by 12 min for every additional kilogram of straw (11.2, 12.0, 11.8, and 12.4 ± 0.24 h/d for 1, 3, 5, and 7 kg/stall of straw, respectively).

Both 100 kg calves and 150 kg calves showed less synchronous lying (100 kg: P < 0.05/150 kg: P < 0.01), decreased recumbent lying time (100 kg: P < 0.01/150 kg: P < 0.05), and increased lying time close to another calf (P < 0.001) on the smallest lying area.

In the short-term, providing heifers a HCR + S followed by ad libitum access to wheat straw allowed for better targeting of nutrient intakes relative to growth requirements, but the LCR fed ad libitum promoted more natural diurnal feeding and meal patterns, increased lying times and decreased inactive standing times.

"Although we know that parents often lie to their children, we didn't want to encourage them in the lab to lie to their kids when we suspected that increased lying on the part of the child might be the outcome," UC San Diego psychologist Leslie Carver, one of the study's authors, said in an email to The Huffington Post.

Swelling, stiffness and increased lying time were the most prevalent adverse events observed following castration.