(n.) A native or inhabitant of Catalonia; also, the language of Catalonia.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(2) He describes it as "a sexual revolution: a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl – they fall in love, they get married and they become European, as do their children."
(3) His message was echoed by Albert Royo, of Diplocat, the Catalan body responsible for public diplomacy.
(4) "One way or another, Catalans will vote," he said, noting that municipal and general elections were scheduled for 2015.
(5) The agreement between Junts pel Sí (Together for Yes), a coalition of the centre-right Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) party and leftist Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC) party, and the far-left minority partner Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) gives the separatist bloc a slim majority in the 135-seat Catalan parliament.
(6) The court, in a long and detailed judgment earlier this month, ruled against the Catalans, and managed to add insult to injury by stating that there was only one nation in Spain, and that was the Spanish nation, and that Catalonia, as a historical entity, had only come into being as a result of the Spanish constitution of 1978.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Barcelona coach, Luis Enrique, says he is sure striker Lionel Messi is happy at the Catalan club Sources close to Messi told the newspaper El Confidencial : “… there are other elite sportspeople who have tax problems and they’ve all been settled administratively, as was the case with Real Madrid players Xabi Alonso and Iker Casillas and tennis star Rafa Nadal.
(8) Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Barcelona on September 11 to demand independence, the biggest-ever show of support for a separate Catalan state.
(9) Only one thing could possibly bring such strange bed-companions together, and that is the push towards Catalan independence, with a stated target of 18 months.
(10) They may not be Kurds or Kosovans, but they have much in common with Basques, Bretons and Catalans.
(11) Flag-wrapping reached a new peak this week as Catalan nationalists vowed to hold a referendum on independence or the other options for changing the region's relationship with the rest of Spain – and central government vowed to stop them.
(12) Madrid had not beaten Barcelona by more than a solitary goal in the league since May 2008, the last clash of the pre-Pep Guardiola era at a time when the Catalans were collapsing.
(13) This is our attempt to be democratic in a state that doesn’t respect democracy.” For Jaume Marsany of the Catalan National Assembly, a grassroots, pro-independence group, it was an extraordinary day.
(14) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
(15) The far rightwing La Gaceta on a front page editorial heaped insults on the politicians who had voted for the ban, singling out the man who is likely to become the next Catalan president as "a separatist who hates everything Spanish".
(16) Hundreds packed into Girona’s Independence Square at a rally for leftwing pro-independence party Catalan Republican Left to hear leader Oriol Junqueras urging residents to support independence.
(17) Therapy was carried out in only one language, namely Catalan.
(18) I usually have meetings with my group (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe), with the European commission and the European central bank … I get a lot of petitions from fishermen, cattle breeders and other collectives because in Catalonia it's quite a traditional move to contact a politician from the Convergence [party which is the opposition to the Catalan government].
(19) Josep Lluís Cusidó, mayor of the small Catalan town of Vallmoll, was at the museum as part of a wedding anniversary trip with his wife.
(20) According to the newspaper, the back of the shirt will also incorporate the Catalan flag, as featured on the club’s fourth kit this season.
Salty
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat salt; saltish.
Example Sentences:
(1) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
(2) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
(3) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
(4) Based on the results, it is concluded that the epithelial response to NaCl is produced by sodium transport across the dorsal epithelium of the tongue, and the transport may relate to the mechanism of salty sensation.
(5) Two groups of subjects differing from one another on their elective appetite and taste for two types of food (sweet versus salty) are distinguished.
(6) The electrostimulation of the hypothalamus accelerates the elaboration of conditioned aversion of salty food inhibition of conditioned runnings toward corresponding food-box, and intensifies the existent state of thirst transforming it in the dominant motivation.
(7) Instead, the different taste qualities--sweet, sour, salty, bitter--are subserved by different mechanisms.
(8) On average, monosodium glutamate and seltzer, which mongrel dogs do not normally encounter in their diets, produced lower gastric acid secretion and pancreatic polypeptide release than sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and meaty tastes.
(9) The responses to salty, sour, and bitter solutions shared the same hedonically negative upper- and midface components but differed in the accompanying lower-face actions: lip pursing in response to sour and mouth gaping in response to bitter.
(10) Heidi was nauseous, slept all day and started craving citrus fruits and salty things.
(11) Long-term maintenance of mice on both rice and salty rice diets led to a relative increase of tetrahydrocortisol associated with a concomitant decrease of androgen, progestin, and cholesterol in urine.
(12) The ANAs also generally drank less of the bitter, salty, and sour solutions than the AAs or Wistars but little difference was found between the NPs and Ps with the other tastes.
(13) Read more pieces like this: The great salty mess: pollution threatens US fresh water resources Climate change may ‘bottleneck’ the Panama Canal and disrupt world trade Advertisement Feature : The water, energy and food nexus - animation The water hub is funded by SABMiller.
(14) Sea ice influences the ocean conveyor belt As sea ice forms in the Arctic and Antarctic, dense salty water sinks to the bottom of the ocean starting the “global ocean conveyor belt” that pumps heat and salt around the world’s oceans.
(15) The release of saltiness from suppression is supposed to originate from habituation to sweet stimuli.
(16) Great going by Pedey & Salty #RedSox there ;-P @HunterFelt @BBC5LSX October 20, 2013 3.35am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 6th Prince Fielder is still the MVP for the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS.
(17) The intrapair concordance on the food intake (egg, meat, fish, milk and salty seasoning) was positively correlated with the age of separation.
(18) Forward, stepwise regression analyses indicated that less education was also predictive of shorter breast-feeding duration, earlier introduction of solid foods, addition of salt to infant food, and use of salty foods as snacks.
(19) • Doubles from €72 B&B, +351 282 624 212, memmohotels.com 12 Seaside riad , Olhão Facebook Twitter Pinterest A leading (if reclusive) Portuguese architect and his family run Convento , a very sexy riad-style, nine-bedroom ex-convent house hidden in the medina of this charming, salty fishing town.
(20) Richie (@richiemetsoh) @LengelDavid tremendous play by Salty on both ends says McCarver.