(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(3) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
(4) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(5) A year after hiring, many relationships were found, including professional actual situation with job satisfaction (r = 0.26, P less than 0.05) and alienation with job satisfaction (r = -0.33, P less than 0.01).
(6) Less than 2% of humanitarian funds 'go directly to local NGOs' Read more Suggest to her that she’s too outspoken, that her approach is counterproductive and alienates those who are trying to drive change more gently, and she pauses.
(7) It describes issues related to practice, politics, and understanding of a culture alien to them.
(8) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(9) And how did Africans respond to Western medicine and its alien institutional social and technological structures and relations?
(10) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
(11) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(12) He was fearless and driven, creating music quickly, and without ever stopping to wonder whether his push for new sounds would alienate his audience."
(13) Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” Byrd said in a statement.
(14) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(15) It was hypothesized that incarcerated adolescents would have significantly higher levels of isolation, normlessness, powerlessness, and total alienation than would nonincarcerated adolescents.
(16) The episode accelerated a renewed alienation between party activists and the leadership.
(17) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
(18) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(19) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(20) Utilizing the Gottschalk-Gleser verbal behavior scales of Anxiety, Depression, Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization and Cognitive Impairment a significant correlation was revealed between low platelet MAO activity and high Total Anxiety scale and Shame Anxiety subscale scores.
Lien
Definition:
() of Lie
(obs. p. p.) of Lie. See Lain.
(n.) A legal claim; a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty; a right in one to control or hold and retain the property of another until some claim of the former is paid or satisfied.
Example Sentences:
(1) Through a spokeswoman, Vaccaro said the previous arrests never resulted in a conviction, and that he has paid the tax liens.
(2) Unlike Lien, Liu has no choice in the matter; he is serving 11 years in a prison in northern China.
(3) The Greek government’s willingness to walk into the fire is a dangerous proposition for Europe and the global markets,” said Kathy Lien, managing director of FX strategy for BK Asset Management in New York, in a note to clients.
(4) The results are summarized as follows: 1) Oral administration of 0.5 g of Ko-ken-huang-lien-huang-chin-tang (pueraria, coptis, scute and licorice combination) to piglets at 1 day old was effective in reducing incidence of infection (P less than 0.1) and increasing the body weight gain (P less than 0.05) during the first 10 days of life.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest US President Barack Obama waves after eating dinner at Bun cha Huong Lien with Anthony Bourdain in Hanoi.
(6) A total of 166 Ami and 128 Atayal adolescents were included from their original living area, the Hwa-Lien Hsin and Wa-Lai District, Taiwan, Republic of China.
(7) These results indicate that the properties of the effect of Lien on haemodynamics may be similar to those of verapamil and different from those of Qui.
(8) Sitting amid buckets of rice in the market, Nguyen Thi Lim Lien issues a warning she desperately hopes the world will hear: climate change is turning the rivers of the Mekong Delta salty.
(9) US Secret Service and local police closed down the streets surrounding Bun Cha Huong Lien eatery on Monday evening.
(10) We have had no lien on the Chinese mainland since the Boxer rebellion .
(11) While 54-year-old restaurant owner Nguyen Thi Lien knew a foreign television crew was on the way, she had no idea they would be bringing a very special guest.
(12) Te-An Lien of Chinese Taipei just completed the third round, and he’s in last place (39th, to be precise).
(13) Reporters crammed into the meeting room in a Beijing hotel asked whether the organisers had even spoken to Lien's office.
(14) The problem lies in a part of the business that focuses on "second-lien" loans, often known as piggybank loans because they are taken out as well as mortgages.
(15) We didn't see a huge reaction in the pound because it's late in the New York session but you'll see some more aggressive selling when the market opens (in Asia) on Sunday," Kathy Lien, managing director of BK Asset Management in New York told Reuters.
(16) Koso-san (Hsiang-su-san), Oren-gedoku-to (Huang-lien-chieh-tu-tan), Gorei-san (Wu-ling-san), Kakkon-to (Ko-ken-tang) and Byakkoka-ninjin-to (Pai-hu-chia-jen-sheng-tang) showed no effects.
(17) A 58-year-old housewife from Ar-Lien village, Kao-Hsiung County, was admitted to the National Taiwan University Hospital in July 1988, after suffering from diarrhea, lower leg edema and weight loss for one year.
(18) Fossil fuels will play a large part in that, so CCS has to play a role too,” said Norway’s energy minister Tord Lien.
(19) Thus, in cases where the diagnosis is proven and the course of the disease is reasonably mild and painless, conservative management of intrascrotal hydatid torsion is possible and can be an effective means of treatment in lien of surgical intervention.
(20) Federal tax liens filed against Brockmeyer by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) state that he has tens of thousands of dollars in overdue personal income taxes from joint filings with his wife, Amy.