(a.) Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
(n.) One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.
(n.) The language spoken by the Basque people.
(n.) A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(2) How is it possible that the official mail service can say no to distributing correspondence between the mayor and his electorate?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro-independence Basque demonstrators supporting Catalonia independence clash with anti-independence and unionist protesters.
(3) This has been interpreted in Madrid to mean that no bailout will be announced before the regional elections, which are due on 21 October in his native Galicia and in the Basque Country.
(4) Last week, acclaimed Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, owners the famous Arzak restaurant in San Sebastián, opened Ametsa , their long awaited London outpost.
(5) Digital dermatoglyphics of an indigenous sample of 87 males and 101 females from the Urola Valley in the Spanish Basque Country are compared with those from the nine other Basque valleys previously analyzed.
(6) Already known internationally for its food and its glittering annual film festival, the city will feature choral groups in the open air and an art project, Waves of Energy, bringing to life a surge of ideas suggested by the public, as well as performances and exhibitions inside sleek venues such as Basque music’s new home, Musikene, the San Telmo museum or the cube-shaped Kursaal on the edge of the sea.
(7) They may not be Kurds or Kosovans, but they have much in common with Basques, Bretons and Catalans.
(8) A total diet study has been initiated in the Basque country (Spain), the purpose of which is to provide estimates of the average intake of both food contaminants and certain nutrients.
(9) We have analyzed the digital and palmar dermatoglyphics in a sample of autistic children from the Basque Country.
(10) The genetic polymorphism of human alpha 2 HS-glycoprotein (AHSG) was studied in a sample of 466 healthy unrelated individuals resident in the Basque Country (Northern Spain) by isoelectric focusing on micro-ultrathin polyacrylamide gels followed by immunoblotting.
(11) Basques were found to dominate the sheep industry of California's Central Valley from Sacramento south, but to be virtually absent from other sheep-raising areas of the state.
(12) "Unfortunately for Basque people, due to a very old and violent conflict, their story has been told by others in Spain," says Villenueva.
(13) The whole world wants to see our game.” Considering that Boro’s Basque manager is not given to hyperbole, his words serve as a reminder that Brighton & Hove Albion’s visit to Teesside represents the highest of high-stakes fixtures.
(14) The allelic frequencies have been compared with those of other Basque and other European populations.
(15) Digital dermatoglyphics of a sample from the Basque Valley of Salazar, situated in the West of the Pyrenees, were analysed.
(16) Garzón was already well known in Spain for investigating Basque separatist group Eta.
(17) I was a passionate fan of the great French team led by Zinedine Zidane, in part because the Basque, North African and black players plausibly conveyed an idea of a rainbow France.
(18) Given the importance of ischemic cardiopathy (IC) as a cause of death in industrialized countries, the trend of mortality by IC in people from 30 to 69 years of age residing in the Basque Country between 1975-1990 were studied.
(19) Different analyses of genetic polymorphisms performed on the Basque population have suggested a possible heterogeneity of the Basques and a singularity of their genetic characteristics.
(20) Basque specials include grilled kokotxas (gelatinous, subtly flavoured hake glands, an acquired taste) in green sauce, silky red piquillo pepper stuffed with oxtail, grilled scallop and spherical steak croquetas .
Bologna
Definition:
(n.) A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
(n.) A Bologna sausage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
(2) | Amy Lawrence Read more Sampdoria have already expressed their interest in bringing Balotelli back to the league where he has represented both Internazionale and Milan, and now Bologna’s director of sport, Pantaleo Corvino, has hinted at a loan deal.
(3) A large series of patients submitted to cerebral angiography at the Bellaria Hospital in Bologna are presented in a preliminary report.
(4) The kidnap and execution of the then Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades , the murderous bomb in Bologna station in 1980 and others in Milan, Brescia and aboard a train were, differently, expressions of what Italians call the “strategy of tension” by the state.
(5) Sunderland and Middlesbrough in Premier League peril Read more Karanka is not alone in observing that “when Gastón plays well, it makes a big difference to us” but acknowledges he has never quite fulfilled the hype which accompanied his £12m move from Bologna to Southampton four years ago.
(6) Ansa said that by monitoring mobile conversations between the two men, police were able to follow the suspect's movements, from England to Milan and Bologna and finally to Rome.
(7) The authors report their experience in the use of the Conseal (Coloplast S.p.A., Bologna, Italy) Colostomy Plug, a new device for the regulation of continence in patients with colostomies.
(8) The results of experiences carryed out at the "Istituto di Industrie Agrarie" of the University of Bologna in the last five years, applying the techniques of vinification by carbonic maceration (CM) and by heat treatment of the crushed in the production of Emilia-Romagna wines, are reported.
(9) The statements are explained by examples from the universities in Bologna, Paris, Padua, Vienna, Leipzig, Greifswald, Basle and Strasbourg.
(10) Growth of salmonellae in Bologna sausage ("frische Mettwurst") can be inhibited by adding of at least 2.5% nitrit curing salt, 0.3% glucono-delta-lactone, and lactic acid starter cultures, even if the product is stored at temperatures up to 25 degrees C. Likewise in spreadible and sliceable fermented sausage ("streichfähige und schnittfeste Rohwurst") no growth of salmonellae is to be expected, if a similar technology secures a sufficient microbiological stability during the ripening and smoking process.
(11) The radiation exposure of the medical team involved in 35 consecutive cardiac catheterisation procedures performed at the Istituto di Malattie dell'Apparato Cardiovascolare, University of Bologna, was calculated.
(12) We studied the pancreata of 280 (140 males and 140 females) olive-oil-treated and 240 (120 males and 120 females) untreated Sprague-Dawley rats of the breed used at the BT Experimental Unit of the Bologna Institute of Oncology.
(13) On loan at Watford from Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande, Alessandro Diamanti ’s time at Vicarage Road also looks to be drawing to a close, with Udinese, Bologna and Livorno all being touted as likely destinations for the former West Ham striker.
(14) Jonathan Pearce Once best known for Robot Wars and a classic intro to 1993’s England v San Marino game where England conceded after eight seconds – “Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold Sport for England versus San Marino with Tennent’s Pilsner brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down.” Now best known for shouting at goalline technology.
(15) "University has to be about developing our minds, too," says Caterina Moruzzi, 22, a philosophy master's student at Bologna.
(16) In Bologna, Martinelli feels much the same: "I know I'll never have a job like my mother had, teaching English all her life," she says.
(17) In Bologna’s university quarter – scene of faculty occupations and violent clashes in 1977 – the walls of Via Zamboni are covered with posters advocating a No vote.
(18) "A wholesale destruction," a Bologna University professor says, "of human capital".
(19) "The family," says Andrea Pareschi, 21, a political sciences graduate from Bologna, "has become the primary social security system."
(20) The respiratory-dependent pacemaker (RDP3 or MB-1, Biorate, Biotec International, S.p.A., Bologna, Italy) detects the respiratory rate by measuring thoracic impedance using a subcutaneous auxiliary lead.