(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania , whose EU membership was championed by Britain, seemed reluctant to offer him public support.
(2) Presence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in European marine environments, including Western Baltic Sea, was ascertained by several scientists.
(3) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(4) The Baltic nations, Ukraine and the countries of the southern Caucasus did not regain their independence until the final, colossal crash of the Soviet Union three years later.
(5) Nato is getting ready.” Fallon said he was “worried about his [Putin] pressure on the Baltics, the way he is testing Nato”.
(6) The Canadian troops will join a total of 4,000 soldiers Nato is deploying to the Baltic states and Poland to help deter the Kremlin’s threat after its actions in Crimea and its stoking of military conflict in eastern Ukraine .
(7) The authorities have uncovered a money trail that snakes from Russia to the Baltic states – and from there to Europe and America.
(8) His scenario is specific, naming Latvia as the first of the Baltic countries to be invaded, in May next year.
(9) Latvian aeroplanes were scrambled five times in 2010; in 2014 that figure was over a hundred, as Russian planes swooped into Baltic airspace.
(10) Blood cells from Baltic salmon, Salmo salar, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, eel pout, Zoarces viviparus, crucian carp, Carassius carassius, African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and reedfish, Calamoichthys calabaricus, were incubated with tritiated 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione (OHA) or 11-ketoandrostenedione (OA).
(11) The geographical distribution of the 109 cases indicates that tularemia has not spread in Sweden during the last 45 yr, with the exception of an endemic occurrence of the disease on the island of Stora Karlsö in the Baltic sea.
(12) We investigated human exposure to these potentially toxic substances in relation to the consumption of fish from the Baltic Sea.
(13) The US has sent fighter planes to Poland and the Baltics, enabling Nato to reinforce air patrols on its eastern border.
(14) The official noted that there had been an increase in Russian military activity in the Baltic since the Ukraine crisis flared up earlier this year, particularly Russian fighter jets close to Swedish air space.
(15) In 1986-1989, water samples were periodically collected from a number of sampling points in the Lake Zarnowieckie, the Piaśnica river, and from the coastal water of the Baltic Sea.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Grenen sandbar you can stand with one foot in the Baltic and the other in the North Sea.
(17) It became clear at some point between the exhibition packed with people (mid-week) politely jostling each other to examine the tiny fragments of a culture that disappeared over a thousand years ago and the gift shop mugs and tea cloths depicting charts of the seas – North, Baltic, Atlantic – across which the Vikings sailed.
(18) Plus, the catchment area of the Baltic is three times bigger than the sea itself, and is home to 90 million people.
(19) Swiss Re spent about £238m building the Gherkin on the site at St Mary Axe of the Baltic Exchange shipping market, which was badly damaged by an IRA bomb attack in 1992.
(20) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
Lithuanian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).
(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(2) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
(3) French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.
(4) Professor Aleksandravicius calls for a "soft hand", for outsiders to understand how psychologically difficult it is for people to realise that victims can be perpetrators too, to accept that having suffered in the first Soviet rule of 1940-41, "Lithuanians turned on the weakest people of all, the Jews".
(5) Unlike the wave of Polish, Lithuanian and other east European migration since 2004, Romanians and Bulgarians are much more likely to head for London and south-east England rather than be dispersed across the country.
(6) The volte face was a result of Russian blackmail, the Lithuanian president's office said as senior officials in Brussels said Yanukovych was sacrificing the hopes and wishes of most of his countrymen on the altar of Russian money and contracts.
(7) The Post Office is tipping Lithuanian capital Vilnius as the next city break hotspot.
(8) But when the Russians, British and French mark VE Day, their celebrations grate on the Poles, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians and Czechs.
(9) It heads the Post Office list of emerging destinations based on the back of a 42% surge in sales of its currency (Lithuanian litas) during 2012, and Vilnius looks set to emulate the success of Estonia's Tallinn and the Latvian capital, Riga.
(10) I would like to get English friends, but I can't go around and say, 'Oh, be my friends' … Around us, it's mostly Polish and Lithuanians."
(11) Food behavior was studied in schoolchildren of the same age in the GDR (1602) and in the Lithuanian SSR (720 schoolchildren).
(12) Imagine being a Lithuanian cleaner, for instance, and told that you were part of a swamp, a flood, a ruinous invasion made rhetorically part of something akin, say, to the devastation of the lowlands of Somerset last winter.
(13) Let it be stressed that none of this is about the fine, tolerant, welcoming and hardworking people of the region, among whom I have lived happily for over a decade, in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
(14) "I tried, and they said, 'Are you fluent in Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian or Russian?'
(15) She grew up in a Soviet-era Lithuanian town called Elektrenai, before spending a year in Northern Ireland, returning to Lithuania, and then moving to Wisbech four years ago.
(16) One of the accused survivors, Dr Yitzhak Arad (born 1926), a gentle scholar who was founding director of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, was duped into joining the Lithuanian red-brown commission (to give it legitimacy) before being absurdly accused himself.
(17) Lithuanian prosecutors have also asked to see the full report.
(18) As if that were not bad enough – banning a veteran of the anti-Hitler resistance from parading his medals – in May, a Lithuanian court held that the swastika was not a Nazi symbol after all, but part of "Baltic culture" and therefore could be displayed in public.
(19) In respect to sex, the disease is more frequently diagnosed in women, the incidence of which ranges from 53% in Lithuanian SSR to 69.5% in Hungary.
(20) The chemiluminescent signal was registered by means of a special luminometer designed at the Institute of Biochemistry (Lithuanian Acad.