(n.) A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Mr Bolloré, with a 29% stake in Aegis, vowed to keep calling shareholder meetings until he gets his way.
(2) A symposium entitled "Foetal and Neonatal Cell Transplantation and Retroviral Gene Therapy" recently organized under the aegis of the Mérieux Foundation in Annecy, France, brought together 100 scientists and clinicians from European countries and the United States.
(3) To reach a wider audience, the Aegis Trust has created a travelling exhibition called "Peacemaking after genocide".
(4) Aegis's share price has dropped in recent months - despite issuing an upbeat trading update last month - from 130p to just over 100p today.
(5) Germany wants EU commissioners sitting in authority over national budgets, under the aegis of German bankers.
(6) Reith, “his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama”, was “a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling”.
(7) But if it were to be economically crippled, “its participation in multinational missions under Nato’s aegis would be severely limited or withdrawn altogether”, said Thanos Dokos, the director general of Greece’s international relations thinktank, Eliamep .
(8) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(9) In sorting this out, we distinguished between those repetitions viewed as passive reproductions and those repetitions viewed, as re-creative; the former finding their way essentially into the adult neurosis, the latter finding their way into parts of the personality under the aegis of their ego's organizing activity.
(10) The Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children is an independently elected Council, established under the aegis of the National Children's Bureau in 1975.
(11) Bolloré, who last month failed for a fifth time to gain board representation in a vote at Aegis' annual general meeting , made the comment at a press conference at the Cannes International Advertising Festival today.
(12) And a plethora of exciting projects under the aegis of New Dynamics of Ageing .
(13) Separately, Anaconda Copper and other multinationals, under the aegis of David Rockefeller's Business Group for Latin America, offered $500,000 to buy influence with Chilean congressmen to reject confirmation of Allende's victory.
(14) The Aegis board was seeking a "firmer direction" for the company heading into the downturn, it is thought.
(15) Aegis said that the structure of the deal could potentially land Mitchell a 4% stake in Aegis.
(16) Aegis, which under new chief executive Jerry Buhlmann raised a £175m-plus warchest in March, said the deal would "transform" its Asia Pacific operation.
(17) John Napier, the chairman of media buying group Aegis , said today that it would use the £175m it plans to raise for acquisitions mainly on expanding in the US and China.
(18) Vincent Bolloré failed for a fifth time to gain seats on the board of Aegis at the media company's annual general meeting today, where one shareholder attacked his repeated bids as an "absolute waste" of time and money.
(19) In January, 18 artists from six countries came together under the aegis of the The Nile Project to collaborate on an album inspired by the 4,200-mile-long river, which connects "the polyrhythmic styles of Lake Victoria and the pointed melodies of the Ethiopian highlands with the rich modal traditions of Egypt and Sudan".
(20) Acquisitions of scale were few: Aegis paid more than £200m for Mitchell in Australia and Publicis spent more than $100m (£63.5m) on Talent of Brazil as smaller scale targets continued to be scooped up.
Auspices
Definition:
(pl. ) of Auspice
Example Sentences:
(1) Under the auspices of the US-USSR agreement for cooperative research in environmental health, Soviet methods for setting and enforcing standards for environmental pollutants were observed.
(2) A questionnaire was prepared under the auspices of the Department of Health with the aim of defining the extent and nature of immunocytochemistry use within pathology departments.
(3) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
(4) Project-initiated, low-cost mammography in one town and the unanticipated provision of free mammography services in another town under nonproject auspices permitted a comparison to be made between these towns and towns where mammography screening was provided at the prevailing fees to determine the impact that cost has on physicians' referral of women patients for mammography.
(5) Under the auspices of the Welsh Standing Specialist Advisory Working Group in Microbiology (WMG) 10 clinical microbiology laboratories in Wales undertook a collaborative study to assess 10 commercial kits for the identification of aerobic Gram negative bacilli.
(6) In order to examine the levels of serum selenium in Europe, a collaborative study was conducted under the auspices of "The Working Group on Diet and Cancer" under "The European Organisation for Cooperation in Cancer Prevention Studies".
(7) The study was carried out between 1982 and 1986 under the auspices of the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe.
(8) In a press conference yesterday Ponomarev insisted that the European military observers working under the auspices of Germany's foreign ministry were engaged in espionage.
(9) He told the court in an affidavit that the withdrawal of care by the department, which has rated him 100% permanently disabled and thus eligible for all medical treatment under its auspices, has meant he now has to travel 130 miles from his home to see a doctor for pain relief.
(10) In Somalia, efforts are under way under the auspices of the UN to draw up a constituent assembly, an independent electoral commission, a new federal structure and a smaller parliament with greater representation for women.
(11) This has been the rationale for the present efforts by investigators to form a standardized environmental inventory questionnaire, under the auspices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gas Research Institute (GRI), and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
(12) This was a time when the publication of an anthology launched under the council's auspices was hardly calculated to produce favour- able reviews, however illustrious the editor.
(13) Ignoring the primacy of clinical commissioning groups, it imposed urgent care boards across the country, under the auspices of its local area teams, charged with rapidly producing plans to sort out A&E.
(14) Ostensibly, Ukip’s binding principle was a belief in Britain’s exit from the European Union, a process that has now begun under Tory auspices.
(15) The formation of a Registry for severe hereditary AAT deficiency in the United States, under the auspices of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, is also described.
(16) The totally implantable Novacor LVAS is being tested under NIH auspices to demonstrate safety and efficacy before clinical trials.
(17) This workshop, organized under the auspices of the EC Concerted Action Programme on DNA Repair and Cancer, was held at the CRC Gray Laboratory, Northwood, Middlesex, UK, 23-25 October 1991.
(18) To bring together an update on research in this area, a workshop was held in March at the National Institutes of Health, sponsored by the advisory Breast Cancer Working Group and the Breast Cancer Program of the National Cancer Institutes (Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, Program Director) through the auspices of the Organ Systems Coordinating Center (at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Dr. Clement Ip, Scientific Administrator).
(19) The act was the result of a private member’s bill introduced by the late Malcolm Wicks MP, and leaves an appropriate legacy on the statute books from a man who, prior to entering parliament in 1992, had a long career in research, particularly around family care, under the auspices of the Family Policy Studies Centre.
(20) This article describes the development and operation of a statewide, publicly funded anti-tobacco use campaign currently undertaken by the California Department of Health Services under the auspices of the state's Tobacco Tax and Health Promotion Act of 1988 (Proposition 99), which increased excise taxes on cigarettes by 25 cents per pack sold in the state.