(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.
Flagpole
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Pro-Russian activists beat a pro-Ukraine supporter trying to save the Ukrainian flag after it was removed from a flagpole outside the burned trade union building in Odessa on Saturday.
(2) A woman identified by a protest organizer as Bree Newsome, a 30-year-old youth organizer from Charlotte, North Carolina, climbed the flagpole before 6am and took down the controversial emblem of the antebellum, slaveholding south, with the assistance of another activist.
(3) Earlier 60-year-old Tudy Phipps, a white woman, had rolled in her wheelchair as close as she could to the foot of the flagpole.
(4) The flagpole inside the compound was apparently shortened and the Taliban flag – dark Koranic script on a white background – was still flying but not visible from the street.
(5) He soon got into legal battles with the town over his oversized flag and flagpole (80ft high, nearly double what the local ordinance allowed) and over the fact that the mansion is directly under the flight path for the local airport.
(6) Two model constructs of the lumbar interbody fusion, the tripod concept and flagpole concept, are presented.
(7) It seems like so long ago because the grieving has been so hard.” Haley’s office said it would be taken down from a flagpole near the capitol at 10am the next day, after flying there for nearly 54 years.
(8) Last month , activist Bree Newsome was arrested after climbing the flagpole and pulling down the flag.
(9) And there's a central row of very tall, flagpole-like streetlamps creating a clear sightline all the way from the tube station to the park.
(10) Then, a giant South Sudan flag, six metres by four metres, will be raised on a 32-metre electronically operated flagpole that was installed this week by Chinese contractors who claim it is the tallest on the continent.
(11) Attacks in the two big cities have been directed at pro-Ukraine groups and the military, with targets including the premises of volunteer organisations, bars frequented by activists, military bases, banks, railway lines and even a flagpole.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police surround the flagpole flying the Confederate battle flag as Bree Newsome climbs it.
(13) You aced the McKenzie account, you double-digited Q4 growth and you personally ran more low-hanging fruit up a greater number of flagpoles than the Wilmslow and Harrowgate divisions combined.
(14) Another pro-AKP account promoted the ruling party's recent television broadcast, depicting hundreds running towards a Turkish flagpole – in the fashion of zombies from World War Z – after hearing Erdoğan's voice reading the national anthem.
(15) According to investigators, dozens of police officers were injured in Bolotnaya Square after protesters hurled lumps of asphalt in their direction and charged at them with flagpoles.
(16) The tinkle of the flagpoles is about the only sound on the tarmac.
(17) Obama gives searing speech on race in eulogy for Charleston pastor Read more An activist in South Carolina climbed a flagpole in Columbia early on Saturday morning and removed the Confederate flag flying in front of the capitol building.
(18) The same blue-and-white pattern decorates Scottish trains and flies from flagpoles in Scottish back gardens; notoriously, it was produced from Mrs Salmond's handbag after Murray won Wimbledon.
(19) But 1.5 miles (2.4km) into the march, a gust of wind suddenly snapped the flagpole in two.
(20) A star-spangled banner dangles above him from a 125-foot flagpole, standing guard over the 10-acre field.