(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."
Styptic
Definition:
(a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
(n.) A styptic medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) One method relied primarily on hemostatic sutures, and the other involved the use of a styptic solution (Monsel's solution) and vaginal pack, thus avoiding the use of sutures altogether.
(2) The possibility of transmission of virus particles from patient to patient by multi-use silver nitrate sticks and styptic pencils and by cotton wool swabs that have been dipped repeatedly into Dewar flasks of liquid nitrogen was studied.