(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.
Jura
Definition:
(n.) 1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.
(n.) The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The canton of Berne is a heterogeneous region, geographically speaking, extending from the foot of the Jura mountains to high Alpine regions.
(2) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
(3) The daily diet comprised local hams and Morteau sausage, local morels, honey beer, the fortified Macvin du Jura wine, and the extraordinary liqueur de sapin, an aperitif produced in nearby Pontarlier whose distinctive flavour comes from pine-shoot tips.
(4) Even if the Jura is low in comparison with Chamonix (about an hour and a half away), what it has to offer is unique.
(5) The remaining parts of p135 exhibited only limited homology, mainly with pseudorabies virus protein 0, but the entire sequence was highly conserved between two strains of BHV-1 (K22 and Jura).
(6) A five year study of the malformations Registry of the Rhone-Alpes-Auvergne-Jura area shows that the association between renal agenesis and syndactyly (with or without the eye abnormalities) is quite rare.
(7) Total RNA was isolated from Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells which had been infected with BHV-1.2b strain K22 or BHV-1.1 strain Jura in the presence or absence of metabolic inhibitors.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest View of the Jura from Geneva.
(9) The charm of places like the Jura lies in what they are definitively not: resorts designed to push as many people through the slopes as possible.
(10) Examinations performed for three years in a southern Jura's resort allow for securing a preliminary approximation as regards the seasonal population variations.
(11) Elliott and Hanning write: “Soon after his return from Jura, Cameron held a meeting in the Piccadilly offices of Robert Fleming, a merchant banker from the family who was helping to bankroll his campaign.
(12) The authors describe lesions of Echinococcus multilocularis larvae found in one of 476 Clethrionomys glareolus and one of 16 Arvicola terrestris examined from Lorraine and in four Microtus arvalis from Jura.
(13) Drive a few miles west from Geneva airport, with Mont Blanc behind you and the Jura mountains ahead, and you'll soon find yourself 80 metres above a giant underground particle collider, powerful enough to recreate, for a split-second, the earliest moments of the big bang.
(14) 'I think it will be easier to keep warm here,' he wrote to Astor from Jura, 'as we are better off for coal etc.'
(15) Like many residents, Gomes – known locally by the respected moniker Dona Jura – considers the cable car a mixed blessing, but she has taken advantage of its construction to relocate her bar to a viewing platform connected to the Américo Brum cable car station.
(16) The Dental Faculty of Strasbourg studied the following departments: Doubs, Jura, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Territoire de Belfort.
(17) Marriage-first birth intervals are examined in two historical populations, Quebec (1608-1765) and Haut-Jura (1689-1980), comparing intervals in mothers and daughters, and in sister-sister pairs.
(18) Monitoring first covered the Rhône-Alpes region, then was extended to the Auvergne region in 1983 and to the Jura district in 1985.
(19) He had also returned to Jura to finish Nineteen Eighty-Four.
(20) And what is most striking about the Jura is the sense of how its small and charming ski station feels such a part of the community and the landscape.