(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.
Sion
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 6 years a Swiss national emission monitoring network measures several air pollutants (sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide, suspended particulates, particle deposition and precipitations) at 8 sites with different pollution levels (Dübendorf, Zürich, Basel, Sion, Payerne, Lugano, Tänikon, Jungfraujoch).
(2) Sion Simon, the minister for the internet, insists the government will not allow arbitrary disconnection.
(3) Sion Kearsey, the managing partner of Kelso Place, told the Guardian: “Kelso Place invests solely with a view to generating a return for its investors, and across its 15-year history has made numerous investments across a number of industry sectors, and has returned a multiple of total funds invested.” The Fleming family, who have given the Conservatives more £1.5m, also took a holding in Holdsmyth through the RF Trustee company and as individuals.
(4) Celtic will therefore take Sion's place in Group I, which also includes Rennes, Atlético Madrid and Udinese.
(5) Boos greeted the final whistle for the third time in four matches at Anfield after a persistent flaw cost Brendan Rodgers’ team against FC Sion.
(6) Sixty-seven cases were evaluated by performing the Sion test using endosonography to check for tubal patency.
(7) He further showed his pas sion for Scotland in his love of Scottish football, attending most of the national team's games, sometimes in the company of his friend, the chancellor, Gordon Brown.
(8) Also moving last week: • Switzerland, 26 April: Sion president Christian Constantin says reports that he could sack his fifth coach of the season are scurrilous: "Gattuso is going nowhere, he calls the shots – nothing will be done here without his say so."
(9) We offer The Sion Test not as a substitute for hysterosalpingography, laparoscopy or hysteroscopy but as a screening technique in infertility investigation.
(10) A Uefa spokesperson said: "The Uefa control and disciplinary body dealt with the two protests lodged by Celtic FC against the validity of their Uefa Europa League play-off ties played against FC Sion on 18 and 25 August.
(11) The current global reserves of oil, gas and coal are several times larger than this limit, even if emis- sions are progressively reduced via carbon cap ture and storage.
(12) Best nostalgia Gennaro Gattuso , reflecting on life under two of his former chairmen: a) Sion's Christian Constantin, who sacked him after three months .
(13) Sion Kearsey, of Kelso Place, told the Guardian that the decision to donate to the Conservative party was completely separate from their involvement with Smythson.
(14) Michele Poretti is a researcher at the children's rights unit at University Institute Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Sion, Switzerland.
(15) All went begging and another defensive lapse presented a Sion team high on commitment but low on quality with the chance they needed to top the group.
(16) In 1989-90 in India, physicians used 4 different methods to induce second trimester abortion (14-20 weeks gestation) in 200 women at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion in Bombay.
(17) The Sion procedure includes filling up the pouch of Douglas with approximately 300 mL of sterile normal saline to elucidate not only the patency but visualize the motility, the fimbriae, and peritubal adhesions, if present.
(18) Realistically he had to demonstrate clear signs of progress in the run of four consecutive home games against Norwich, Carlisle, Aston Villa and FC Sion.
(19) Uefa's judgment and Celtic's protest relates to the fielding of five ineligible players by Sion against the Scottish club.
(20) The police were accused of investigating anyone who was a nationalist, and although one man, Sion Aubrey Roberts, was convicted in 1993 of posting letter bombs, many other cases were unsolved.