(a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.
Example Sentences:
(1) They may not be Kurds or Kosovans, but they have much in common with Basques, Bretons and Catalans.
(2) He dismisses as "recycling" a pact announced by the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault – a former Breton mayor – last month to defuse the red caps' protests, providing for €2m of investment in the region.
(3) When Claudie Le Bail joined tens of thousands of Breton "red cap" demonstrators protesting in Carhaix at the end of November to oppose regional job losses and a green tax on road freight, she took her 79-year-old mother with her.
(4) The area is part of a chain of uninhabited barrier islands in the Breton national wildlife refuge.
(5) By 6 May oil was reported as reaching the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana and Freemason Island in the Breton national wildlife refuge .
(6) Tips: Hook a mackerel and fry it for dinner just off the Cabot Trail, and learn to make Acadian potato pancakes for $22pp while savouring the cultural lore of Cape Breton.
(7) It has been highly commended in the Michelin guide and serves Breton food with a strong seafood theme.
(8) An epidemic of hepatitis B occurring in 1988 and 1989 in Cape Breton brought to light the existence of a group of "buddies" who engaged in injection drug use.
(9) 187, 227-232; Mäntele, W., Wollenweber, A., Nabedryk, E., & Breton, J.
(10) The pairing of owners Stephen Toman in the kitchen and Breton Alain Kerloc'h out front brings a superb balance of fine dining on the plate, with a fist-pumpingly rocking atmosphere.
(11) Seafood stalls are loaded with locally caught fish and fruits de mer , and look out for the excellent Breton oysters.
(12) At the foot of the hill lies the contemporary tide line of sex-sleaze – the surrealist André Breton once called it "diamantiferous mud", but nowadays it is all mud and any diamonds are paste.
(13) Earlier this year, a radio announcer in Canada set up a website inviting Americans to move to Cape Breton, population 100,000, should Trump win.
(14) She’s a locavore (where possible, she eats locally produced food) and has been recycling since the 80s, a habit learned from her Breton grandmother.
(15) Concentrations of progesterone and oestrogens were determined by radioimmunoassay in the peripheral blood of 22 Percheron and Breton breed mares from the 6th day of oestrus to the 150th day of pregnancy.
(16) This latter result is in agreement with previous photoselection studies on the same bacterial species (Vermeglio, A., Breton, J., Paillotin, G. and Cogdell, R. (1978) Biochim.
(17) The close linkage between the disease locus and several DNA markers allowed a study of the DNA restriction polymorphism pattern in 30 Breton families.
(18) But his main focus now is preparing for the second act of the revolt with a big congress in March which will formally take up Breton grievances.
(19) We have previously described a monoclonal antibody (FA6-152), obtained by immunizing mice with fetal human erythrocytes [Edelman, Vinci, Villeval, Vainchenker, Henri, Miglierina, Rouger, Reviron, Breton-Gorius, Sureau & Edelman (1986) Blood 67, 56-63].
(20) Delicious crepes and galettes , and Breton cider, are found on other stalls.
Hastily
Definition:
(adv.) In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
(adv.) Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.
(adv.) Passionately; impatiently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
(2) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
(3) January 12, 2016 Shorten hastily responded to that debate on Twitter with a pun-laden non-answer, saying: “Cos you asked … my favourite lettuce is one that doesn’t have a 15 per cent GST on it.” Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) Cos you asked @workmanalice - my favourite lettuce is one that doesn't have a 15 per cent GST on it.
(4) Amid fears in Downing Street that a traditional trade visit would have looked out of place, as protests sweep across the Arab world, the PM hastily added a six-hour stopover in Cairo, including a walkabout in Tahrir Square.
(5) The announcement comes ahead of two hastily scheduled press conferences by senior officials in the national development and reform commission, which heads China's climate policies, raising expectations that China may soon unveil a target, or set of targets, for easing the country's huge carbon footprint.
(6) The school is a collection of hastily built thatched huts scattered round a patch of empty land.
(7) Rhodes said the Paris talks will be approached differently to Copenhagen, which is widely viewed as a hastily patched-together failure .
(8) Some early concepts, sometimes hastily postulated, are being questioned.
(9) The Coalition wants to scrap this agreement, arguing that it was hastily conceived by vested interests and unfairly locked out local communities and the logging industry.
(10) The commission, however, was hastily wound up in 1948 and quickly forgotten – thanks to the US, which believed the trials were impeding Germany’s rehabilitation.
(11) Professor Steve Field, former chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, will chair a hastily assembled forum of medical experts that will report by the end of May or the beginning of June.
(12) In response to staff protests in October, Kim led a hastily-arranged “town hall” meeting to listen to concerns, which thousands of employees are thought to have attended, many connecting over the internet in the middle of the night from overseas posts.
(13) Theresa May, who backed remain during the referendum and endorsed a status quo which has been failing working-class communities badly, has enjoyed a boost in the polls because she hastily adopted a series of popular Ukip policies on things such as grammar schools and national security.
(14) The ceasefire, declared on Monday night, had brought a palpable sense of relief and optimism to Gaza, but on Friday streets were deserted once more and any shops that had opened were hastily bring down their shutters.
(15) This is in part due to planned obsolescence – a devious ploy by manufacturers bolstered by marketing strategies to make us fall out of love with a product hastily.
(16) But the high-flying lifestyle of the billionaire Wall Street financier Raj Rajaratnam began to crumble when a hastily typed, barely intelligible instant message popped on to his screen in January 2006.
(17) Yet instead of hastily concluding that it would cost nothing to treat a financially weak Russia as a complete pariah, the time may have come for a burst of diplomatic creativity.
(18) He hastily added that though the speech was being given in the heart of the Arab world, it was aimed not just at Arabs but Muslims throughout the world.
(19) Acknowledging dissent from one table, he hastily added: "Apologies to Fox."
(20) McDermott, ironically, has become something of an ally of Cellino's, despite being sacked by his lawyer by phone in February, then hastily reinstated after an outpouring of support for the manager at the next day's win over Huddersfield.