(n.) An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(2) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
(3) PCAb and ANNA-I are not species-restricted in their specificities.
(4) Brodetsky, Anna M. (University of California, Los Angeles), and W. R. Romig.
(5) The St Anna parish – Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri in Italian – accepted one of two families it promised to take in: a father, mother and two children who fled their home in Damascus.
(6) Annas reviews the 6-to-3 decision in which a majority of the Court concluded that a prisoner's right to avoid the unwanted administration of antipsychotic drugs must yield to the state's interest in treatment and in maintaining prison order.
(7) & I'm like, babes, listen, I think Anna really is going to come & he's like, so I'll have what she's having, boom :(
(8) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(9) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(10) His second marriage, in the mid-1950s, was to the Russian Anya Bostock (nee Anna Sisserman); they split up in 1970s.
(11) Anna Gautheron only learned what the term "street harassment" meant when she read about it online.
(12) Lyle Shelton, the head of the vocal conservative ACL, locked horns with his fellow panellists, particularly the health advocate, author and civil rights activist Dr Kerryn Phelps and the former federal Labor speaker Anna Burke.
(13) Former Labor speaker Anna Burke, a non-aligned party member, said Shorten should have allowed the debate on the floor of the Labor conference rather than stating a fixed preference for boat turnbacks before members had a chance to debate.
(14) The profile was published on the Schools Week website at 5am on Friday; at 6.29am Young had received a call from Anna Davis, the education correspondent of the London Evening Standard.
(15) One witness, Anna Branthwaite, a photographer, described how in the minutes before the video was shot, she saw Tomlinson walking towards Cornhill Street.
(16) In an interview, Dr Annas said the force-feeding went against international standards of medical ethics.
(17) Freelance reporter Anna Therese Day and her camera crew were charged with illegally assembling with intent to commit a crime.
(18) Anna Rosso, a research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and editor of the review's special issue on immigration, said: "The result has been a reduction in the pool of talent available to businesses in the UK.
(19) In IBD the titre of ANNA was significantly higher in patients with recently active disease.
(20) That was the verdict of Anna Ford on Buerk's advance publicity for a Channel Five programme in which he bemoaned the fact that men have become mere "sperm donors" in a female-dominated society.
Rupee
Definition:
(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(2) Bond, rupee and share prices rose last week after exit polls predicted a strong BJP performance.
(3) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(4) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
(5) According to the Indian Tea Association, all workers in the main Brahmaputra valley estates receive a basic cash wage of 89 rupees (£1) a day – a little over half the minimum legal wage.
(6) Sometimes they come even though they know someone in the same area, just down the street, has been shot.” She attributes this to a “continuous engagement with the workers and constant direction with local government officials”, while others at the centre point out that even though the money the workers receive is only 500 rupees (about £3) a day, for impoverished inhabitants of Karachi, it is too good a wage to pass up – whatever the risk.
(7) It sells for 140 rupees a kilogram at auction in Assam, but according to a joint report by Oxfam and the Ethical Tea Partnership , workers there are paid at rates equivalent to just 40% of the average Indian wage.
(8) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
(9) The government announced a 50m-rupee (£300,000) bounty on his head; the following year, the US priced him at $5m (£3.1m).
(10) The most recent figures released by the Reserve Bank of India show that about 12.6tn rupees have been deposited since the rupee recall was announced, far more than the Modi government had predicted, indicating that it may have underestimated the amount of untaxed wealth being hoarded by citizens.
(11) In the past, established banks have shown reluctance to expand their countryside operations when their current rural branches are already hit by high costs, poor connectivity and low savings in areas where the average per capita income is around 16,000 rupees, compared with 44,000 rupees in urban areas .
(12) The informality with which the boys are selling property worth millions of rupees makes the flats sound like cheap, dispensable goods.
(13) We have espoused unpopular causes, stood up for those too feeble to stand up for themselves, locked horns with the high and mighty so swollen with power that they have forgotten their roots, exposed corruption and the waste of your hard-earned tax rupees, and made sure that whatever the propaganda of the day, you were allowed to hear a contrary view.
(14) In the urban slums of Mandawali, eastern Delhi, her mother scratches out a living as a 'presswoman', earning up to three rupees for each item of clothing she neatly irons.
(15) The state government has already announced compensation packages of 200,000 rupees for the families of the women who died and 50,000 rupees for those hospitalised.
(16) Off the standard tourist trail is Purana Qila, Delhi’s oldest Mughal monument, where 100 rupees will buy you half-an-hour’s pedalo ride on a beautiful boating lake in the shadow of the citadel’s walls.
(17) According to the department of foreign employment, more than 200 agencies have been punished since mid-February, with suspensions and fines of up to 200,000 rupees (£1,250).
(18) The unsophisticated will imagine this works crudely, with Cameron pulling out his notepad and taking dictation from Uncle Rupe.
(19) None of the mothers will admit that they took money in exchange for their children, but activists working in the villages say that a price of between 1,000 rupees and 3,000 rupees is the norm.
(20) "My employer's wife used to taunt me by saying: 'I've bought you for 30,000 rupees, so do as I say,'" she says.