(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be economically crippled, “its participation in multinational missions under Nato’s aegis would be severely limited or withdrawn altogether”, said Thanos Dokos, the director general of Greece’s international relations thinktank, Eliamep .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.
Medusa
Definition:
(n.) The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
(n.) Any free swimming acaleph; a jellyfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I keep seeing visions of a woman with Medusa-like grey hair," Langdon murmured.
(2) Investigation on important medusae and the chemistry of their nematocyst venoms have been expanding.
(3) Complications worth mentioning included three slight losses of vitreous, bleeding into the anterior chamber in four cases, and one loss of the anterior chamber with caput medusae of the iris and secondary opacification of the lens.
(4) Bacillus medusa was found to carry three phages or phagelike structures named phi med-1, phi med-2, and phi med-3.
(5) Small medusae possess a circulatory system of narrow tubes subdivided into several compartments by functional "sphincters."
(6) B. medusa produced small numbers of phi med-2 during growth.
(7) Normally, vertebral pathways with sufficient circulation prevent oedema of the limbs, bilateral varicoceles and caput medusae of the abdominal wall.
(8) It appears to participate in the formation of a surface layer on the parasporal inclusion of B. medusa.
(9) The responses of Aurelia medusae to pharmacological agents and ionic variation were classified into four response types: Type I, no response; Type II, inhibition of pacemaker activity; Type III, inhibition of both pacemakers and swimming muscles; and Type IV, increase in pacemaker output.
(10) In portal hypertension, three types of cutaneous portosystemic collaterals may develop: the 'classical' caput Medusae, enterostomal varices and scar or adhesion-related abdominal collaterals.
(11) The diagnosis was made by real-time ultrasonography, which showed echographic caput medusae with large afferent umbilical veins and efferent inferior superficial epigastric veins.
(12) Consideration of these properties of the organisation of this species suggests that normal slow swimming is controlled by a mechanism similar to that found in other medusae, while the escape response is the result of the action of the giant axons.
(13) The "RS" variant ("medusae head" surface colonies) is not pathogenic for mice and guinea pigs (even B. anthracis) if the tested strains are cultivated for years in ordinary solid nutrient media; the same morphological variants are strongly pathogenic (also B. subtilis), when the strains are recently isolated from infected animals.
(14) The comparison of the responses to the test solutions between the medusa, scyphistoma, and strobila showed that the neuromuscular systems are physiologically different.
(15) Abdominal varices consisting of a caput medusae and dilated mesenteric veins resulted in pooling of Tc-99m tagged red blood cells (RBC) within these dilated vessels in a 57-year-old man with severe Laennec's cirrhosis.
(16) Using a radioimmunoassay for the peptide sequence Arg-Phe-NH2 (RFamide), two peptides have now been purified from acetic acid extracts of this medusa.
(17) A novel method for separating porphyrin polycarboxylic acids is described and illustrated by its application to the direct analysis of biological (deep-sea medusae), clinical (urine) and chemical ('haematoporphyrin derivative') samples.
(18) Dr Elizabeth Sinskey, CEO of the World Health Organisation, combed her Medusa-like grey hair and thought unnecessarily of the glucocorticoid treatment that had destroyed her reproductive system.
(19) Angiography with Tc-99m labeled RBCs demonstrated an arterioportal fistula and a caput medusa.
(20) Similarly, the responses of adult medusae to ionic variation show no consistent pattern within various scyphomedusae.