(a.) Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was taking time out from frontlines in Bosnia, back across the Adriatic where no one gave a damn, for a bit of dolce vita .
(2) Now aged 60 he swims regularly in the cold, grey Adriatic, visible from the window of the cafe at the port of Durrës where we met him.
(3) appears to be prevalent in Thyrrenean foci which are characterized by VL cases and by high density of Phlebotomus perniciosus, and L. infantum NH140 variant is present in Adriatic areas where CL is diffuse and P. perfiliewi is the probable vector.
(4) Isolated humic acids from offshore sediments from the North Adriatic (Lim channel, near Rovinj, Yugoslavia) were characterized according to their elementary composition, the amount of products of hydrolysis, and the trace elements bound.
(5) The weapons are understood to have been seized on board a ship intercepted by British and Italian warships at the mouth of the Adriatic during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
(6) The results show that grass pollen is actual allergen in the north and middle Adriatic area, while in the south Adriatic it is without any importance.
(7) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(8) Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
(9) Đjukanović has been instrumental in pulling his country to the verge of Nato membership – an accession protocol was signed in May – which has dashed Russian hopes of securing a naval foothold on the Adriatic.
(10) An epidemiological survey on headache was performed in the Republic of San Marino, which is the smallest independent State in the world, located near the Adriatic Coast, within Italy.
(11) Seven kilometres out into the azure waters of the Adriatic, the Provost – the head of a top-secret organisation called the Cornsortium, which specialised in contriving idiotic plotlines – stood at the prow of his 237m yacht, the Mendacium.
(12) Experts reckon that within 20 years the Adriatic islands could be among the region's biggest tourist attractions.
(13) The total mercury and methylmercury content of seafood was studied in an area of the Adriatic Sea polluted with inorganic mercury from a local industrial plant.
(14) Forty-six samples of fish caught in the Central Adriatic's littoral, 11 of which in a control, non-industrialized area, and 35 in an urbanized area strongly affected by industry, were collected.
(15) For others, the communist-era concrete bunkers that litter the small Adriatic state are a piece of cultural heritage that should not be lost.
(16) "It's a biodiversity hotspot," says Marina Radic of the environmental lobby group Sunce in Split, the Dalmatian capital on the mainland and the gateway to the Adriatic islands.
(17) We compared parameters of the model with those already published for various populations in the eastern Adriatic and other parts of the world.
(18) Measurements of radioactive contamination of cistern waters with 90Sr, 134Cs and 137Cs have been carried out along the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea.
(19) Alpine chain and Adriatic Sea) and the mesoscale atmospheric circulation system, a correlation between pollution events and synoptic conditions is made.
(20) Sardines from the Adriatic Sea were examined fresh and after 4 and 8 days of storage in ice.
Aegean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the door closing on the Aegean, it’s quite possible that numbers will rise.” The UNHCR says that Libya already has at least 100,000 migrants, who are packed into towns and cities along its western coast.
(2) Finally, they had created a means of curbing the Aegean smuggling route, which brought more than 850,000 people to Europe via the Greek islands in 2015.
(3) The sight of children drowning off Aegean islands, the sheer scale of the crisis and Europe’s inability to deal with it have all played a role in her decision to volunteer.
(4) There are also worries that children could become more vulnerable to death at sea, if the effective closure of the route across the Aegean from Turkey to Greece means trafficking shifts towards more dangerous routes , such as from Libya to Italy, Crowe said.
(5) The controversial one-for-one deal remains intact: for every Syrian refugee the EU sends back across the Aegean, a Syrian in Turkey will be given a new home in Europe.
(6) A total of 284 dried fig samples, collected from fields during drying, and from warehouse and processing units in the Aegean region of Turkey in 1986, were examined for aflatoxin contamination.
(7) Angela Merkel has promised to take refugees directly from Turkey into Europe and called for Nato patrols in the Aegean on her second visit to Ankara in three months as she desperately tried to enlist Turkey’s help in easing the refugee crisis, the biggest threat to her power at home and the stability of the European Union .
(8) The Guardian: From 'lightweight' to likely PM - how David Cameron convinced Rupert Murdoch to back him 16 Jun 2008 Rupert Murdoch meets David Cameron at the News Corporation summer party 15 Jul 2008 The Camerons dine with James Murdoch and his wife 16 Aug 2008 Cameron flies out on Matthew Freud's plane to meet Rupert Murdoch on his yacht off Santorini The Guardian: Tories try to play down Aegean dinner 29 Oct 2008 The Camerons have James Murdoch and his wife to dinner, along with William Hague and his wife.
(9) On Tuesday, Greece’s leftist-led government criticised Austria for colluding with Balkan countries to its south in tightening restrictions after its defence minister appealed to N ato to deploy a task force to stop yet more from crossing the Aegean.
(10) What I can say is that it’s the conviction of the whole of Europe that we urgently need an orderly situation in the EU’s outer border regions, as well as in the Aegean between Greece and Turkey.
(11) In theory this means the closure of the Aegean smuggling route, via which more than 850,000 people reached Greece from Turkey last year.
(12) Meanwhile, a fragile wooden boat with more than 80 people aboard ran aground off the Aegean island of Rhodes.
(13) Even as the expulsions were under way, a rubber dinghy with about 40 men, women and children arrived from the shores of Turkey; on the other side of the Aegean, dozens of others were arrested trying to follow in their wake.
(14) The Dutch, currently chairing the EU, are pushing a scheme for EU volunteer countries, including Germany, to take 250,000 refugees a year from Turkey, but only if Ankara succeeds in closing the Aegean sea routes on which hundreds of thousands are travelling to Greece .
(15) The helicopters fly over the city and they bomb.” The Greek government chartered two extra ferries and sent more registration staff to relieve overcrowding on the Aegean island, where up to 20,000 people have arrived after making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey and more boats continue to land daily.
(16) Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
(17) Leading 59,999 of his disciples to the island of Pean in the Aegean Sea, he grafted a new race from the germs of black people.
(18) Aegean Airlines ( aegeanair.com ) flies to Athens from Heathrow, Manchester and Birmingham, from £110 return.
(19) Unlike income, which has been vigorously taxed since the mid-19th century and therefore recorded, personal wealth was, after 1979, the subject of a half-hearted cat-and-mouse game in which the cat and the mouse were wont to share yachting trips to the Aegean on a regular basis.
(20) Four babies and 11 young children – six boys and five girls – were among those on the stricken wooden boat when it sank off the Aegean island of Farmakonisi.