(n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.
(v. t.) To furnish with an arras.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets have been filled with poster-sized photographs of a few of the 35,000 Allied soldiers from Britain, Australia, Canada and South Africa who died in the Battle of Arras , along with the flags of all the countries who took part, giving the town an unusually international feel.
(2) Ten minutes later the train stopped at Arras, where police arrested the shooter, described by French investigators as a 26-year-old from Morocco or of Moroccan origin, who was also armed with an automatic pistol and a box cutter.
(3) I'd written my graduate thesis and then a book on Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917.
(4) Whether Hugo is writing about the historical battle of Waterloo or the fictional journey to Arras, his scenes obey the same constraints: a mass of infinite detail, which coalesces to form a trap, an unstoppable destiny.
(5) It is the morning after the night before – when the voters of Arras closely matched the national result of the first round of the presidential election, giving Emmanuel Macron 24.6% and Marine Le Pen 21.49% – and residents and tourists who have come to honour the war dead are enjoying an early lunch in the pretty town hall square.
(6) The inspiration for the original came from Chilton's discovery of his father's name on a war memorial at Arras, in northern France.
(7) Donald Overall Donald Overall's father died of wounds near Arras, in 1917, leaving a widow and two young sons.
(8) Ezért az Európai Roma Jogok Központjával közösen arra vállalkozunk, hogy kiderítsük, milyen valójában az élet napjaink roma családjaiban a világ különböző pontjain.
(9) In Arras, stunned passengers waited to speak to police as the Red Cross distributed bottled water.
(10) "I don't want to exaggerate, but maybe 300,000, maybe more than that because there is no food in South Sudan and the rains start in this region in May, so people will come to Ethiopia to seek refuge," says Ayalew Aweke, deputy director of the Ethiopian Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affairs (Arra).
(11) GS Chaplin, a military policeman who witnessed the execution at Arras on 31 October 1917, of Private JS Adamson, a 30-year-old soldier in the Cameron Highlanders, left this stark account in his journal.
(12) Arras and Shinnar conclude that "admirable goals should not be advanced by improper means."
(13) When I was married, my wife and I often went to Italy for our holidays, and my grandmother said to me one day, "When you're on your way to Italy, do you ever go near Arras?
(14) In the northern French town of Arras they have been commemorating the 100th anniversary of a first world war battle that resulted in almost 280,000 casualties.
(15) Unicef, together with Arra and the regional health bureaux, is supporting a mass immunisation campaign.
(16) Mayer writes that Charles’s court is “every bit as brutal as in the days when a twitching arras might signal a hidden assassin”.
(17) British troops go over the top during a daylight trench raid near Arras in March, 1917.
(18) It turned out that he didn't have a grave, but he was on the Arras memorial to the missing.
(19) A közelmúltban elterjedt történetek roma családokból kiemelt gyerekekről rámutattak arra, hogy a romák médiában való sztereotip bemutatásának elkerülése mennyire fontos.
(20) The soldiers who perished in the Battle of Loos in 1915 were found in 2010 during clearance work for a new prison near Vendin-le-Vieil, north of Arras, in France .
Barras
Definition:
(n.) A resin, called also galipot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(2) In recent years, the violence has shifted away from the terraces into the streets of the capital as rival barras fight for control in a blaze of fire fights, drive-by shootings and mafia-style executions.
(3) – A 16km (10-mile) subway extension to take riders from central Rio to the Olympic Park in the western suburb of Barra da Tijuca is likely to be finished just a few weeks before the games open.
(4) Environmental stewardship and sustainability are part of our business model and core to our operations,” Barra said in GM’s annual sustainability report last year.
(5) In her testimony, Barra describes the report as “brutally tough and deeply troubling.” “It paints a picture of an organization that failed to handle a complex safety issue in a responsible way.
(6) I used to be about fast food but now I’m about salad,” said Manuel Barra, 22, a star member of the the Green Leaf Killer team (motto: Ride.
(7) Barra has long been considered an ‘off world’ for Rio’s emerging upper-middle classes, and there was even a secession attempt in the 1980s,” says Gaffney.
(8) Nearest to Camburi and swimming distance from Praia Preta (Black Beach), this discerning, four-suite luxury home in Barra do Sahy is overseen by a Texan, who has stomped her Big-Oil-Meets-Brazil footprint all over it.
(9) #Trump2016 A post shared by President Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on May 26, 2016 at 2:29pm PDT Mary Barra – chairwoman and CEO of General Motors Barra normally gets to sit to Trump’s left when his business council meets, and that’s clearly where she is in relation to his environmental views.
(10) "Corruption is endemic in Argentina and it is what has allowed the barras to get so powerful," he says.
(11) It has also emerged that the current director of public prosecutions in Northern Ireland, Barra McGrory QC, was Gerry Adams's solicitor in 2007 at a time when the Sinn Féin leader was still allegedly holding back information on his niece's allegations about his brother Liam.
(12) "These people, the bosses who run the barras bravas, they don't care who you are, if you cross them, they will hunt you down and come after you and your family."
(13) Since his glory march through the streets of Fiorito, Mendez has become a barra brava , a self-proclaimed soldier for his club and part of a well-organised and violent network of fans that now wields almost unfettered power over the multi-million-pound business of football in Argentina .
(14) She loved socialising whether through social media or spending time with them down on the beaches of both Barra and Vatersay.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors, presents a Chevrolet concept car at the North American International Auto Show earlier this month.
(16) General Motors boss Mary Barra was grilled again by Congress on Wednesday as the chairman of the House committee investigating its fatal ignition switch scandal said he continued to believe there had been a cover-up at the car giant.
(17) The players had a training camp there in January and if they need inspiration to strut their stuff, they can look to Barra Funda's resident flock of peacocks.
(18) The subway extension will open on 1 August and links the Ipanema and Copacabana beach areas to the western suburb of Barra da Tijuca, site of the Olympic Park.
(19) The amino acid composition of the enzyme is similar to that of Mn-SODs isolated from human and chicken livers, but differs considerably from that of the Escherichia coli enzyme (D. Barra et al.
(20) CaroleTidball Barra de Potosí: pop-up beach restaurants Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy In southern Mexico, Guerrero state’s Pacific coast is perfect for a real taste of the country’s laid-back lifestyle.