(n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(2) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(3) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
(4) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(5) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(6) According to research by Tiga, the trade body representing the UK games industry, women make up just 12% of the development workforce in Britain – a percentage reflected by similar surveys in the US and Canada.
(7) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
(8) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
(9) A registry, established by the Committee on Prevention of Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Hockey, of major injuries to the spine or spinal cord sustained while playing ice hockey contains 117 cases entered between January 1966 and March 1987; 112 of these injuries were sustained in Canada.
(10) Students of three different levels and the chairman of the MD-Program evaluated the educational system of McMaster University, Canada, using the six criteria of the case method as defined by Renschler.
(11) Opposition to Harper is evenly divided between two major opposition parties – the Liberals and the New Democrats – so the one-third of voters who vote Conservative are set once again to choose Canada’s national government.
(12) It stated that, at the Place du Canada rally, prime minister Pierre Trudeau pleaded with Quebecers to vote no.
(13) It is hypothesized that more understanding and progress may come from an insightful review of the historical development of Canadian Mental Health Services and the goals of organized Psychiatry in Canada than will result from developing a defensive and confrontational attitude towards current events in the field.
(14) Yasuni is among the most biodiverse regions on Earth, with each hectare containing more tree species than the US and Canada combined.
(15) A total of 922 postsecondary students enrolled in 6 health-care disciplines in Ottawa, Canada were surveyed for hepatitis-B immunization status.
(16) Who wants to be seen with that narrow, ungenerous and (to the rest of Canada) irritating thing, a separatist?
(17) A survey of 5300 allergists was conducted to determine the number and geographic distribution of patients receiving immunotherapy for imported fire ant (IFA) allergy in the United States and Canada.
(18) The present report is described the histopathological findings of the gastrointestinal lesions with Cronkhite-Canada syndrome and discussed with literature.
(19) It is difficult to accept lectures on outsourcing from the party that introduced the North American Free Trade Agreement – an outsourcers' charter liberalising trade between the US, Mexico and Canada.
(20) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.
Laurentian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or near, the St. Lawrence River; as, the Laurentian hills.
Example Sentences:
(1) Police said Bain, 62, was from near Mont Tremblant, a small town in the Laurentian mountains about 80 miles north-west of Montreal.
(2) 142 second year university students from both Memorial University of Newfoundland (n = 81) and Laurentian University (n = 61) wrote their own signatures as they imagined the following people would do: (a) faculty member (high status) with high self-esteem, (b) faculty member (high status) with low self-esteem, (c) student (low status) with high self-esteem, and (d) student (low status) with low self-esteem.
(3) La Mauricie , Quebec Facebook Twitter Pinterest Breathtaking Laurentian forests of evergreens and hardwoods and 150 crystal-clear lakes make this the quintessential Canadian park experience.
(4) In response to this problem a longitudinal investigation, the Laurentian Study of Biomechanical Development, was launched and in this paper the effects of growth on selected segmental size and inertial parameters are reported for boys between the ages of 4 and 15 yr.
(5) Studies of radioactivity in the Laurentian Great Lakes are reviewed to evaluate the impact of radionuclide dissemination on the world's foremost freshwater aquatic ecosystem.
(6) For 25 secretaries employed at Laurentian University, scores on the MMPI Depression Scale, State-Trait Anxiety Questionnaire, Self-esteem Inventory, Jenkins Activity Survey, and Occupational Stress Questionnaires showed no significant change in behavior associated with occupational stress.
(7) Local media in Montreal identified Bain as the owner of a fishing camp on the shores of Lake Wade in La Conception , near Mont Tremblant in the Laurentian mountains.
(8) Epidemiological criteria were used to examine the influence of environmental contamination on reproductive success of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in the Laurentian Great Lakes.
(9) Montreal police identified the gunman as Richard Henry Bain, 62, from Mont Tremblant, a small town in the Laurentian mountains about 80 miles north-west of Montreal.