(n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
Example Sentences:
(1) The centre of an ancient Greek city state was its agora – a place of assembly, for the exchange of ideas among the free-born as well as of goods.
(2) The move follows an equally controversial decision by the country's powerful archaeological council (Kas) to allow two of Athens' most significant ancient sites – the Stoa of Attalos in the ancient agora and Panathenaic Stadium – to be leased to companies for private functions.
(3) Agora said it was the first instance of a court banning an NGO.
(4) "They didn't get fair trial here in Russia so they want to get it finally in the European court of human rights ," said Pavel Chikov, the head of the human rights legal group Agora, which is representing the two women.
(5) He himself drew on the concept of the agora, the place in the cities of ancient Greece where citizens assembled.
(6) He expected further destruction in the coming weeks, including the agora or meeting place, colonnades and burial grounds.
(7) Kos Town Facebook Twitter Pinterest Agora, Kos Town.
(8) The internet has become our agora, the meeting place where diverse opinions can be debated alongside comments on last night's football match.
(9) As for “a truly European culture”, when German journalists accuse Greek ministers of “psychosis”, that mythic agora of nations is a long way off.
(10) We are disciples of the idea that the novel is the agora of many points of view, but also of not only a psychological reality or a political reality, but of many aesthetic realities that would otherwise have no languages."
(11) An interviewer rating scale for the measurement of (agora)phobic avoidance, the Phobic Avoidance Rating Scale (PARS), is described and psychometrically evaluated.
(12) On Wednesday, the supreme court of Russia’s Tatarstan republic ordered the closure of human rights group Agora, whose lawyers have represented opposition figures such as Pussy Riot , for violating the “foreign agents” law that prohibits foreign-funded NGOs from engaging in allegedly political activities.
(13) Prosecutors, tax inspectors and officials from the justice ministry have conducted unannounced "checks" on more than 80 organisations around Russia, said Pavel Chikov, the head of Agora, a legal group that provides assistance to civic and political activists.
(14) He defined the power of the novel as that of the agora , "where all voices are heard, where all voices are respected.
(15) Based on the extensive associations of these proteins to form very large detergent-insoluble structures, we propose that they may be named agorin I, the 20-kD protein, and agorin II, the 40-kD protein, from the Greek agora meaning assembly.
(16) Peppered throughout disconnected suburbs, they were a place to see and be seen, something shoppers have craved since the days of the Greek agora.
(17) Photograph: Reuters However, some of Palmyra’s ruins appear to have survived, including the Agora and the celebrated Roman theatre.
(18) I really think journalism ethics right now are really concerned with whether democracy can function,” said McBride, “When we talk about democracy, we’re really talking about the marketplace of ideas, and whether your idea can surface in a marketplace of ideas,” she said, harking back to the physical Agora gathering places in ancient Greek cities.
(19) Ideas have been swapped over a myriad of internet sites, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds with cyber-assemblies that continued the trademark popular open meetings of last May that saw the Puerta del Sol hailed as a new incarnation of the ancient Greek agora, or debating place.
(20) This time, Agora said Verwey would have “a direct line of communication with the prime minister’s office”, as requested by the commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker .
Angora
Definition:
(n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of Angora goats in the United States are in Texas, although several other states have significant populations.
(2) Despite physiological differences, acidified milk replacer can be used successfully to raise Angora kids.
(3) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
(4) Mineral requirements and plant toxicities may vary between regions where Angora goats are raised.
(5) In the first of two experiments, four wether lambs (BW = 26.8 kg) and four wether Angora goats (BW = 31.7 kg) were used in two simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin squares to study the influence of condensed tannins (CT) on nutrient usage and concentrations of serum urea N, somatotropin (GH), and insulin (INS) when the animals were fed low-quality diets containing mountain mahogany (MM; Cercocarpus montanus) leaves.
(6) Adult ixodid ticks were collected at 2-weekly intervals for a period of 23 consecutive months from 15 to 20 Angora goats on a farm in the south western Orange Free State.
(7) Faecal egg counts and serum prolactin concentrations in 13 pregnant and five non-pregnant Angora goats were monitored over a period of 20 weeks.
(8) Helminth parasites were collected from 13 grysbok, Raphicerus melanotis, 12 common duikers, Sylvicapra grimmia, 24 Angora goats and 24 Boer goats killed on a farm in Valley Bushveld in the eastern Cape Province.
(9) Because of the high protein requirement, the marginal dietary protein in many Angora diets, and the traditional raising of Angoras in arid regions where browsing of plants off the ground is typical, Angoras in wet regions that are forced to graze seem to be especially susceptible to internal parasitism with Haemonchus contortus.
(10) Young and adult Angora goats were exposed to infestation during two paralysis tick seasons.
(11) These results suggest that artificial insemination may be utilized to improve reproductive performance in French Angora rabbits.
(12) Natural bluetongue infection has not been observed in Angora or dairy goats.
(13) In Angora goats three different phenotypes have been recognized: F, S, and FS.
(14) In the eastern Cape Province every helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; all but 1 of the 22 domestic cattle examined on the farm "Bucklands"; and all Angora goats plus nearly all Boer goats examined on the farm "Brakhill" were infested with this tick.
(15) Eight castrated male Angora goats were used in a repeated, simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin square designed experiment to evaluate metabolic and mohair responses of Angora goats to sulfate supplementation.
(16) Angora kids were blocked by birth weight and sex and assigned randomly to goat milk or acidified milk replacer.
(17) Angora goat farmers experienced the same, but with higher mortalities, probably due to the apparently high susceptibility of Angora goats to heartwater.
(18) GCC was found only in Australian Angora and Cashmere animals.
(19) Coccidiosis can also be a severe problem in young Angoras that are congregated in small areas.
(20) Fresh blood from nine mature non-pregnant angora goats was found to contain a varying proportion of spindle-shaped, fusiform, triangular, pear-shaped, and other bizarre forms of erythrocytes in addition to normal discoid biconcave erythrocytes.