(a.) Careful; wary; cautious; not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1894 : Area named Ubangi-Chari and set up as a dependency by the French 1910 : Integrated in the Federation of French Equatorial Africa 1958 : The territory gains self-government within French Equatorial Africa and Barthélemy Boganda becomes prime minister 1960 : David Dacko becomes president of now-independent Central African Republic (CAR) 1962 : President makes the country a one-party state.
(2) British leaders of the postwar and cold-war eras were chary of wars of intervention.
(3) The lake is fed by the Chari and Logone rivers, flowing into it from southwest.
(4) I had suggested doing an "at home" in Sussex, but he was chary about me describing the "soft furnishings, stuffed lions illegally shot, etc".
(5) Governments have been chary of the question of who pays, how much and when.
(6) These findings fully corroborate a prediction made by us on the basis of mechanistic and stereochemical analyses of CMLE and MLE [Chari, R. V. J., Whitman, C. P., Kozarich, J. W., Ngai, K.-L., & Ornston, L. N. (1987) J.
(7) The new species differs from M. charis in an oval shape and size of the body of females, large stylet of females and larvae, low place of the entry of the dorsal duct into the oesophagal lumen, long and slender tail of larvae.
(8) However, one should be chary of referring AEBP change of vascular origin to any particular section on the basis of these deductions alone.
(9) Electric organ discharges (EODs) of Gymnarchus niloticus in its natural habitat (Chari River, Chad Basin) and accompanying ecological data (pH, conductivity, temperature, turbidity, O2 dissolved) were recorded.
(10) Among a few others, studies carried out in India (K. R. Nair & Virmani, 1973 Indian Journal of Medical Research, 61, 9; P. Chary, 1986, In Language processing in bilinguals: Psycholinguistic and neuropsychological perspectives) have lent support to the notion of a higher incidence of crossed aphasia among bi- and multilinguals and form major citations in support of the hypothesis that bilingualism could lead to a greater bilateral cerebral representation of languages.
(11) 1.49pm BST Paolo Di Canio has now officially signed a brand-new team at Sunderland with the teenage Greek winger Charis Mavrias signing for £2.5m from Panathinaikos.
(12) The definitive chorioallantoic placental barrier in this bat thus differs from the organization earlier proposed by Chari and Gopalakrishna [Proc.
(13) An earlier cursory analysis of distinctive features in these data (Chari, N.C.A., Herman, G. and Danhauer, J.L.
(14) The authors report on an outbreak of Schistosoma mansoni infestation involving 113 military men who had been contaminated together in a tributary of the Chari river in the Central African Republic.
(15) In light of current discussions on multiple forms of inhibin, it was thought of interest to ascertain the identity of the postulated 'iso-hormones' of bull seminal plasma inhibin (Chari et al., 1978).
(16) An epidemic of human and animal anthrax raged in Chad mainly in the Department of Chari Baguirmi from September to December 1988, infesting more than 50% of donkeys and horses.
(17) The authors give on historical record of the focus of the sleeping disease in Moyen-Chari (South of Chad) from 1914 to 1989.
(18) Resisting the temptation to unleash Fletcher, Di Canio moved Sebastian Larsson and Charis Mavrias off the bench and into the equation and, almost imperceptibly, Sunderland regained a foothold in the tie.
Grievous
Definition:
(a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
(a.) Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.
(a.) Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.
Example Sentences:
(1) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(2) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
(3) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(4) "This has very serious ramifications with potentially grievous consequences for the country," the military said.
(5) Yet his team held out when the consequences could have been much more grievous.
(6) On Sunday, his department was confronted with the deadliest mass shooting in American history: at least 50 dead, 53 wounded, many in grievous condition.
(7) Meanwhile he was grievously wanting in that other great, complementary task - the building of his state in the making.
(8) But they did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a grievous, hurtful, harmful wrong on many levels and this includes failing to include a single positive word about us anywhere in the constitution of modern Australia.
(9) The Chelsea manager responded with a smile and a little wave, then settled back to watch his team inflict another grievous setback to Moyes's first season at this level.
(10) For Arsenal it would have been a grievous setback if they had allowed a side with these shortcomings to pinch a late equaliser.
(11) It adds grievous insult to injury that a mother going through the turmoil that Fatima was experiencing should have to listen to this response.
(12) When Blair Peach was struck on the head during the demonstration against the National Front, he was a victim not only of the police but of a barely suppressed public attitude – encouraged by a large portion of the media – that people who went on such protests were troublemakers who deserved all that they got – and if police officers cracked a few heads, then they had probably been grievously provoked by the troublemakers.
(13) For him, "a world in which we are no longer burdened by debt, credit, hock, mortgage, HP, might not be a grievous loss but a deliverance … a more modest and more prudent way of living".
(14) Wolfsburg’s André Schürrle ends CSKA Moscow’s Champions League hopes Read more Depay had a difficult game against his old club and his first half-season at Old Trafford is straying dangerously close to the point where his confidence suffers grievous damage.
(15) But in 2000 he was jailed for grievous bodily harm after stabbing a man in the face following a row that was reported at the time to have had racial overtones.
(16) Abortion law "ijhad" in Kuwait was amended in 1982 to permit abortion where either grievous bodily harm to the mother is imminent or it is proved that the baby will suffer incurable brain damage or severe mental retardation.
(17) My friend was grievously injured and bleeding profusely.
(18) All three deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
(19) Asked about the potential consequences of the executions, Abbott said: “We will be letting Indonesia know in absolutely unambiguous terms that we feel grievously let down.” He said he did not want to “prejudice the best possible relations with a very important friend and neighbour but I’ve got to say that we can’t just ignore this kind of thing if the perfectly reasonable representations we are making to Indonesia are ignored by them”.
(20) March 2009 Butler is convicted of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to 19 months in prison.