(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.
Tamil
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
(n.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
(n.) The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s.
(2) • The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) were guilty of human rights abuses and demanded a cut of international NGOs' spending in the areas they controlled.
(3) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(4) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(5) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(6) Neither should our distaste for the war be interpreted to mean that we support the Tamil Tigers.
(7) The UN report said most of the casualties came from government shelling and called for an independent international inquiry into what it called credible claims against Colombo and the Tamil Tigers .
(8) Sri Lanka mounted a merciless final assault on the Tamil Tiger insurgency in 2009 .
(9) The announcement will mean scrapping a review process set up by Labor in October 2012 to examine the cases of 55 mostly Tamil refugees, deemed to be a threat by Asio.
(10) It is believed that nine of the detainees adversely assessed by Asio, all Tamils, are refugees.
(11) Only a handful of local reporters have been permitted to visit the former territories held by the LTTE, who were fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, since the bloody and controversial end to the 26-year civil conflict in May last year.
(12) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
(13) Blood samples from 240 unrelated healthy Tamil-speaking South Indian Hindus residing in Madras (capital city of Tamil Nadu, India) were screened for HLA-A and -B antigen profiles.
(14) Fox's decision came after talks with Hague, the foreign secretary, and a warning by the British Tamils Forum that his trip would send mixed messages to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is facing strong international pressure for an investigation into allegations that Sri Lanka forces committed war crimes.
(15) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
(16) 20 July 2006: The Tamil Tigers close the sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people, prompting the government to launch its first major offensive on Tiger territory since the 2002 ceasefire.
(17) Recounting how the rebels, known formally as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (LTTE) once controlled a wide swathe of the north and much of the east, Rajapaksa said that for the first time in 30 years, the country was unified under its elected government.
(18) Victims of Tamil Tiger attacks filed a lawsuit against Rajaratnam in New Jersey on Thursday, accusing him of assisting "crimes against humanity".
(19) Quietly, two weeks ago, a Tamil woman called Ranjini and her toddler son walked free from the gates of Villawood detention centre.
(20) The US state department and human rights groups have accused Sri Lanka's government and the rebels of war crimes against civilians during the final months of fighting, when government forces crushed the Tamil Tigers and ended the conflict.