(a.) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(2) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(3) She could not leave the house.” Caroline Abrahams, charity director for Age UK said about the significance of the benefit: “Attendance allowance is a hugely important benefit which helps older people to meet the extra costs associated with living with disability.
(4) Abraham responded by saying that Channel 4 regretted the incident and would learn from the experience.
(5) A lthough Steven Spielberg's new movie Lincoln barely shows the event, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor – in a theatre, no less – so it seems especially appropriate that, a century and a half later, his resurrection should be conducted by a member of the same profession.
(6) McArdle – who plays Abrahams, the Jewish runner who sees proving himself on the track as a way of combatting antisemitism – is glistening with sweat.
(7) A program in maxillofacial prosthetics for medical artists was initiated at the University of Illinois Medical Center in 1966 as a joint enterprise of the Center for Craniofacial Anomalies of the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine and the Department of Medical Art of the School of Associated Medical Sciences.
(8) Abraham Gonzalez 31: Tina Modotti and Frances Toor: Aesthetics Of Revolution?
(9) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(10) Abraham added that the broadcaster is "analysing what is going on".
(11) The more preventive services like meals on wheels and daycare are being especially hard hit, leaving the system increasingly the preserve of older people in the most acute need, storing up big problems for the future.” Hundreds of thousands of older people are “being left high and dry” as a result of Whitehall cuts to town hall budgets across England, Abrahams added.
(12) "Whites don't own Abraham Lincoln, blacks don't own Martin Luther King," he has said.
(13) It was clear from the proceedings that we and Ms Gabriel-Abraham felt equally strongly about our respective positions and that each had different perceptions of the events that took place.
(14) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(15) The Heights Of Abraham caverns, cable car and more near Matlock Bath.
(16) Names like Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan are examples of politicians who marked the beginning of new political eras.
(17) While these machinations have been taking place behind the scenes, chief executive David Abraham has masterminded a rolling rebrand that has seen the company's 10 channels gradually drop the UKTV prefix on-screen in favour of attention-seeking one-word names.
(18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
(19) However, David Abraham, the UKTV chief executive who is moving to the same job at Channel 4 later this year, may become instrumental in getting the talks going again.
(20) Gabriel-Abraham is far more of a hero than the footballers whose replica shirts she sold.
Noah
Definition:
(n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They are essentially abandoning wolf recovery before the job is done," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Centre for Biological Diversity.
(2) She was four years old and recalls watching Yannick Noah - still a hero of hers and now a close friend - beat Mats Wilander to become the first French winner of the men's title for 37 years.
(3) "Because," Noah says in a midrash, speaking as the rabbis need him to, "nobody likes you.
(4) Noah, who is currently touring in the Middle East, immediately changed his Twitter photo to a picture of himself and Stewart, saying in his first tweet since news of the appointment broke: “No-one can replace Jon Stewart.
(5) Noah has just opened at No 1 at the US box office despite facing a mixed reaction from religious audiences for its fast and loose interpretation of the story of the antediluvian patriarch.
(6) It's now big enough to see Noah through all 40 of those drizzly days and nights.
(7) But still, according to the law, the jury has to make a decision, and that decision is: ‘Do you think this policeman was justified in thinking that his life was in danger?’ And their opinion, having watched that video, having listened to that exchange, still says: ‘Yes, I can see why that cop was afraid.’ “But why?” Noah asked.
(8) He could flog his fish to the secondhand shop, or maybe sell them on the street, the way his neighbour does stolen trainers, maybe diversifying into Noah’s Arks.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This is the exact moment that Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers essentially ended the Los Angeles Lakers season Joakim Noah doesn’t do “rebuilding” Despite losing Derrick Rose and Luol Deng, the Chicago Bulls have kept on fighting and kept on winning.
(10) Trevor Noah: should his Twitter 'jokes' cost him the Daily Show job?
(11) In the eye of the Trevor Noah Twitterstorm this week , which saw the new host of Comedy Central’s Daily Show shamed by some off-colour tweets excavated by the media, it was calculated that Noah had tweeted four times daily over the last five years.
(12) Mauresmo claims to recall very clearly the moment when she fell in love with tennis when, as a three-year-old, she watched her compatriot Yannick Noah triumph in the 1983 French Open .
(13) Even the rabbis, though, fail to squeeze much in the way of laughs out of the coda to Noah's story.
(14) Noah Sneider (@NoahSneider) "I've never seen anything like it," one local rebel fighter tells me.
(15) In an interview, Noah likened himself to Stewart, his soon-to-be-predecessor, as a fellow progressive.
(16) Sian Martin and her son Noah, who is being schooled at home "They are all academies around here or are run on similar lines," she says.
(17) Noah Greenwald of the Centre for Biological Diversity welcomed the move but warned: "The majority of regulations threatening our environment, health and economy, however, will need to be undone by Congress, the courts or new rule-making."
(18) But not this year, which has seen box-office success for studio-backed movies such as Son of God ($67m since its debut in late February), Darren Aronofsky’s Noah ($359m), God’s Not Dead ($60m), Heaven is for Real ($91m), and, soon Ridley Scott’s retelling of the story of Moses, Exodus.
(19) It’s a Noah’s Ark approach, which is appropriate Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat “The vast majority of Republicans in private buy the science – the likes of Inhofe are in the minority,” said Danny Richter, legislative director of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby , a non-profit group that painstakingly helped put together the caucus.
(20) You know what’s the most painful thing?” Noah asked.