(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 .
Shekel
Definition:
(n.) An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
(n.) A jocose term for money.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have already instructed to stop about 30m shekels (£6.3m) in funding to five UN bodies that are especially hostile to Israel ... and there is more to come,” he said, without giving any further details.
(2) Construction costs are expected to vastly exceed the 1.3bn-shekel (£224m) budget.
(3) What can a few shekels do at the end of the day?” Hanan asks.
(4) Then the Red Cross got in contact and said he was in an Israeli prison.” There, Mohammed received two salaries: the 400 shekels a month paid to prisoners by the Palestinian Authority, and another 400 from prison work.
(5) Olmert was found guilty in 2014 of two bribery charges – accepting 500,000 shekels (£90,000) from developers of a Jerusalem real estate project and 60,000 shekels in a separate land deal.
(6) Stanley Fischer, Israel's central bank governor (3 October) There is no doubt that without intervention the shekel would be much stronger.
(7) Chicken – this large one cost 60 shekels (£10.60) – is a once-a-week treat.
(8) The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said the decision by his rightwing cabinet to allocate the extra 70 million shekels was in response to concerns about the security of existing Israeli settlements.
(9) The family say they receive 1,500 shekels (£250), from the Hamas government, approximately every three months.
(10) Ruling in December on his appeal, the supreme court said it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Olmert had solicited the 500,000 shekels, and cut his jail term to 18 months.
(11) According to the central bureau of statistics, 41% of Israelis are in a constant state of overdraft with more than a third owing at least 10,000 shekels (£1,650), and most blaming the high cost of living.
(12) They never reach 10 shekels a day,” says Diab, who adds: “I don’t support Fatah or Hamas – they don’t do anything for the population … We just crave a normal life, like anyone outside of Gaza.
(13) Now the company has demanded payment of the bill, which has risen to 9m shekels including interest.
(14) A virgin automatically becomes the wife of her rapist, who is then required to pay the victim’s father 50 shekels for the loss of his property rights.
(15) Roi's monthly take-home pay of 5,500 shekels (£940) went on nursery fees for their two young daughters, she said.
(16) Five thousand years ago, a shekel was a unit of weight – usually barley.
(17) The ministerial committee for legislation passed two bills, one of which limits all funding for non-governmental organisations from foreign bodies, including the United Nations, to 20,000 shekels (£3,300) a year.
(18) The Israeli prime minister unveiled the proposal during a tour of the Jordan border area in Israel’s south, adding that the project – which would cost billions of shekels – would also be aimed at solving the problem of Hamas infiltration tunnels from Gaza, a recent source of renewed concern.
(19) You can’t pass the checkpoint with a shekel [coin] let alone a knife.
(20) The church, which attracts more than 1 million pilgrims each year, has been issued with a 9m shekel (£1.5m) water bill, backdated 15 years to when the supply was taken over by a new company, Hagihon.