(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.
Persian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia.
(n.) The language spoken in Persia.
(n.) A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.
(n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
(2) They were hoping to escape attacks from yet another invading army; this time the forces of Khosrau II, the last great Persian king before the Muslims conquered Iran.
(3) During the Persian Gulf war, the entire Israeli population was under the threat of chemical missiles.
(4) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.
(5) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
(6) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(7) The 'Desert Storm Operation' (Persian Gulf, January-February 1991) as it affected the elderly and disabled in Israel is described.
(8) He said Turkey was at pains to maintain a friendly relationship with its Persian neighbour.
(9) An analysis of ages and ranks of hospital-based physicians in one area of the Persian Gulf War was used for a comparison with similar data from the Vietnam War.
(10) Before this, the 66-year-old served as a senior assistant to Obama administration defense secretary Leon Panetta and completed numerous postings in the Persian Gulf war and the Iraq war.
(11) Ali Motahari, an influential MP, said after Trump’s win that his presidency was to Iran’s advantage because Democrats “would chop your head with cotton”, a Persian idiom which means killing someone with kindness, and reflecting a view that the Islamic Republic has historically coped better with the Republicans.
(12) An analogy is made between the Persian Gulf War and its effective, high tech weaponry and future vector control program planning.
(13) These results cannot be explained only by the socioeconomic differences between the five groups, as the North Africans and Persians both belong to the lower urban socioeconomic class and the Arabs to the low rural socioeconomic class, with the Europeans belonging to the middle urban class.
(14) BBC Persian TV, due to launch next week, will broadcast in Farsi at peak time and be available free to the millions of Iranians who have a satellite dish.
(15) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(16) A Mycoplasma sp was isolated from an abscess of the right cranial lung lobe in a 6-year-old Persian cat.
(17) Two Persian cats kept in common, 3 months and 2 years old, presented a heavy infestation with Cheyletiella mites.
(18) During the Persian Gulf war the unified civilian and military command--the supreme hospitalization authority--implemented a national hospital and emergency medical services preparedness system designed to treat the victims of chemical warfare attacks.
(19) Persian Jews appear to have a unique variant of PDS.
(20) The Rosenberg Self-esteem scale was translated into Persian and 12 Iranian bilingual judges confirmed the soundness of translation.