What's the difference between alan and ulan?

Alan


Definition:

  • (n.) A wolfhound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
  • (2) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
  • (3) The last complete count of the number of US abortions was made by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) in 1982.
  • (4) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
  • (5) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
  • (6) A film sequel to 2013’s Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is also on the cards.
  • (7) You had to admire the party’s commitment to its Alan Partridge roots.
  • (8) If Alan Sugar did The Apprentice for older people, I would love to be on it.
  • (9) London might have Nelson’s column, the north its angel, Manchester its Alan Turing .
  • (10) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
  • (11) The 24-year-old becomes Alan Pardew’s fifth signing of the summer and offers much-needed support up front after the departures of the loan signing Loic Rémy and the out-of-contract Shola Ameobi.
  • (12) Alan's pathology is highlighted by his psychotic identification with Equus and his binding of the horses.
  • (13) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
  • (14) Edmund White I think the sexiest passages are those about Luc in Alan Hollinghurst's The Folding Star .
  • (15) Analysts and industry watchers say it is too soon to judge the mettle of Lewis and new finance director Alan Stewart, whose tenure can still be measured in weeks.
  • (16) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
  • (17) Alan Pardew's side have forgotten how to win at home and, resorting to too many aimless long, high balls, could find no way beyond the excellent James Collins and his fellow West Ham United defenders.
  • (18) Updated at 7.54pm GMT 7.34pm GMT The Guardian’s Alan Yuhas has a roundup of recommended commentary and analysis on the situation in Ukraine.
  • (19) Fourteen of these fragments have been found by one man, Blaine Alan Gibson, the result of an independent, self-funded investigation he began 18 months ago.
  • (20) The right-back, Alan Hutton, was comfortably Villa’s most potent attacker, with a run and a shot midway through the first half that had Tim Howard worried for the first time, then a blistering break down the right that caught out Baines and led to a chance for Tom Cleverley that James McCarthy had to come across and intercept.

Ulan


Definition:

  • (n.) See Uhlan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I would like to apologise from the bottom of my heart for the concern and trouble I have caused my fans," the Mongolian grand champion told a packed press conference in Tokyo after flying in from Ulan Bator.
  • (2) Dorji Batomunkuev, military unit number 46108, is 20 years old and part of the Russian fifth tank brigade from Ulan-Ude, a city near the Mongolian border.
  • (3) In summer and winter of 1986 two outbreaks of alimentary enteric diseases occurred among Soviet specialists and members of their families in Ulan Bator.
  • (4) Back in Ulan-Ude, the numbers and emblems on some of the tanks were painted over, and our patches and chevrons were removed when we arrived at the firing range.
  • (5) The authors present the results of studying the effect of the social-hygienic factors in diabetes mellitus morbidity in the population of Ulan-Ude.
  • (6) We were around 300 men, all from Ulan-Ude, mostly Buryats [the largest indigenous group in Siberia].” From mid-January separatist forces were trying to recapture the city of Debaltseve which had fallen under Ukrainian control.
  • (7) The authors present the results of studying the diabetes mellitus morbidity and its incidence in Ulan-Ude.
  • (8) Though the ban will not affect his status, it will please traditionalists who believe that the young upstart from Ulan Bator does not posses the right personal attributes to be a yokozuna.
  • (9) In October and November 1971 an outbreak of influenza (type A virus) occurred in the town of Ulan Bator.
  • (10) Four years later he became the first grand champion to be suspended after he was filmed playing in a charity football match in Ulan Bator, days after pulling out of a goodwill sumo tournament claiming he was injured.
  • (11) The comparison of the B-chromosome system variants in mice from Buryatia, Chita Province (USSR) and the North Mongolia, showed an increase in the number of B chromosomes, mainly at the expense of the number of dot-like B chromosomes, in the direction from Ulan-Ude to the south and to the east.
  • (12) Variability of ten polymorphic loci (ABO, RhD, PGD, ACP, PGM1, GLO, ESD, ADA, GC, TF) was studied in 326 Buryat and 310 Russian newborns from Ulan-Ude city.

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