(n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(2) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
(3) The other officials sanctioned were Ismael Bhamjee of Botswana, who was handed a four-year ban, Amadou Diakite of Mali and Ahongalu Fusimalohi of Tonga who were suspended for three years and Tunisian official Slim Aloulou for two.
(4) Mali's coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, responded to the threat of sanctions on Friday by saying he planned to hold elections and rapidly return the country to its established order.
(5) One of the best things I've ever seen at Glastonbury was Amadou and Mariam on the Pyramid stage in 2009."
(6) Captain Amadou Sanogo added that he would hold a national convention to agree a transitional government which would organise free and fair elections, but he did not announce a timetable.
(7) It was also a catchphrase that came to define Positive Black Soul, the hip-hop group that Awadi started with Amadou "Doug E Tee" Barry in the late 1980s.
(8) Africa Stop Ebola was recorded before the release of Sir Bob’s third rehash of the charity single , and includes well-known African musicians such as Tiken Jah Fakoly from the Ivory Coast and Malian artists Amadou and Mariam, Salif Keita and Oumou Sangare.
(9) During the campaign the leader of the junta that toppled Touré last year, Captain Amadou Sanogo, came out in support of Keita.
(10) Africa rising Since the Arab revolutions of 2011 there have been at least six coups and coup attempts in Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo, 27 February 2011 An attempted coup against the president, Joseph Kabila Mali, 22 March 2012 Military coup ousts the president, Amadou Toumani Touré.
(11) "The same thing is going to happen again – it is already happening," said Amadou Diop, whose office is located near the US embassy in Dakar.
(12) Three important changes have already occurred in Bamako: First – and strikingly – even Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, who led the coup in March and who still holds a great deal of political power, has welcomed the arrival of French troops.
(13) The adoption of this law aims essentially to protect the frontiers of our country,” said the justice minister, Marou Amadou.
(14) He didn't fight the fake consensus … that prevailed under [the previous] President Amadou Toumani Touré, only to restore the same system," says his long-standing comrade Albert Bourgi.
(15) Amadou Aly Kane, a human rights lawyer, believes the country's parajuristes , while not unique in Africa, played a crucial role in improving access to justice for ordinary people.
(16) The African Union has suspended Mali following Thursday's military coup, which deposed long-time president Amadou Toumani Touré.
(17) Those represented by family members included Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old shot who was dead by a white police officer in Ferguson in August; Garner, 43, who was killed in July after a police officer on Staten Island placed him in a banned chokehold; Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot dead by police in Cleveland in November ; Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old shot dead in Brooklyn last month ; Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old shot dead by a neighborhood watch leader in 2012 in Florida; and Amadou Diallo , who was shot 41 times by New York police officers in 1999.
(18) The soldier heading the rebellion, Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, gave an interview to Malian state television saying that Touré is "doing well and is safe".
(19) His coup reversed 21 years of democracy, and sent President Amadou Toumani Touré into hiding.
(20) "Bhamjee said … Issa Hayatou of Cameroon, Slim Aloulou of Tunisia and Amadou Diakite of the Ivory Coast had each been paid for their votes by Morocco when it was bidding against South Africa in the contest for the 2010 World Cup."
Spongy
Definition:
(a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
(a.) Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
(a.) Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) No AbMV DNA was found in cells from palisade and spongy parenchyma, the tissues which show the predominant cytopathological effects.
(3) The anterior superior iliac crest, the usual donor site for cortico-spongy bone grafts is unsuitable for the removal of large quantities of spongy bone.
(4) These stones contained little cholesterol and exhibited a spongy microstructure characterized by small tubules with a diameter of 1 micrometer.
(5) The article deals with study of some patterns of long spongy rib bone destruction in static and dynamic load of thorax.
(6) The spongy zone then dwindled in size just before parturition.
(7) Tissues in which concentrations were measured included cortical bone, spongy bone, muscle, fascia, cutis and subcutis.
(8) The specimens included the surrounding cortical bone and its internal spongy substance.
(9) The experimental findings can be satisfactorily treated in a quantitative way with the help of a model which contains the three components of spongy bone (mineral, fat and fat-free connective tissue.
(10) In both mutant types, the presence of many vacuoles gives the central nervous system a spongy appearance.
(11) An astrocytic hypertrophy was usually associated with the spongy change.
(12) The low density was due to a microcystic structure, which caused a spongy appearance and consistency.
(13) This tablets had a spongy aspect, with a desaggregation time of 1-2 min.
(14) The MA were restricted to spongy areas in Canavan's disease and Alpers' syndrome, whereas they were distributed throughout the brain in Leigh's disease.
(15) There was severe cerebral involvement with multifocal cystic necrosis, dystrophic calcification, spongy change, and vacuolization that had produced profound neurologic deficits.
(16) A certain regularity between enlargement of the teeth size, increasing angle of the lower jaw and decreasing size of the longitudinal and expressive dimensions of the jaws (in accordance with decreasing size of the spongy substance and its cells) has been revealed.
(17) An intraarticular surgical approach allows complete resection, but one case required spongy bone grafts.
(18) The major histological findings consisted of severe ependymal destruction, spongy changes in the periventricular white matter, increased density of capillaries in this area, and varying degrees of thickening, fibrosis, and fusion of the choroid villi.
(19) Eventually a steady state is reached in which mature chondrocytes resurface the defect while in the deeper areas spongy bone replaces the hypertrophic chondrocytes.
(20) The spongy changes, similar to Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease, resulted from intramyelinic edema.