(n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two terrestrial species autotomized their chelipeds after the chelae were firmly attached to the predator.
(2) He played poorly when he lost against Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela in the first round of the Australian Open in January, seemingly uncertain whether to attack or stay back.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chela Praeli cheers with her daughter Lorella, left, and friends Ligia Jimenez Moreta and daughter Cristina as Barack Obama delivers remarks on immigration at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas on Friday.
(4) Both indirect (using logarithms of distance measures) and direct (using per molt cycle calculated values) comparisons of specific growth rates indicate that test individuals exhibited reduced growth of the right chela relative to the anterior carapace, while control individuals did not.
(5) Oduor, who is now working on her first novel, had been shortlisted with South Africa’s Diane Awerbuck for her short story Phosphorescence, Efemia Chela from both Ghana and Zambia for Chicken, Zimbabwe’s Tendai Huchu for The Intervention, and Kenya’s Billy Kahora for The Gorilla’s Apprentice.
Hinduism
Definition:
(n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.
Example Sentences:
(1) But those who know the Londoner – who was born Siddhartha Dhar and changed his name after converting from Hinduism to Islam – struggle to agree on whether he can be identified as Isis’s latest propaganda figure.
(2) His Glass family argued their way through issues of religion and compromise in a succession of stories published in the New Yorker, including Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Franny; Zooey; and Seymour: An Introduction, while rumours of their author's experiments with Buddhism, Hinduism, Christian Science, acupunture and diet continued to spread.
(3) Growing religious intolerance, including attacks on churches and forced conversions to Hinduism, recently drew critical comments from Barack Obama .
(4) Hindu nationalists want to make India great again.” Hindu nationalism is rooted in the belief that Muslim and British invasions defiled Hindu culture and values, which are seen as synonymous with those of India, writes Syracuse professor Prema Kurien in her book A Place at the Multicultural Table: the Development of an American Hinduism .
(5) Rajendra Agrawal, the BJP member of parliament representing Meerut's 1.4 million voters, stresses that Hinduism's message is one of peace and tolerance but "one day … Islamic aggression will have to be dealt with".
(6) Earlier experiences with psychedelic drugs appeared to have influenced many of the subjects to Hinduism and the guru.
(7) I once did a series called painting from the nine religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and everything else ism.
(8) Christian convert from Hinduism; peddler of Muslim “no-go zone” nonsense.
(9) Asian religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, are under-represented and funding is a major issue in preventing their equal access, it said.
(10) Stephen and Jennifer Sedlock and their two children had brought the lawsuit claiming yoga promoted Hinduism and inhibited Christianity.
(11) His religion, just like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and others, is complex, contradictory and open to various interpretations – but figuring that out can’t be done in an instant.
(12) This principle of "two units combining to form one", this unification of two opposing and complementary principles has been depicted in a model manner in the iconography of Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism.
(13) Photograph: Reuters Irina Bokova, the head of the UN cultural agency, Unesco, described the destruction to the country’s unique cultural blend of Hinduism and Buddhism as “heartbreaking”.
(14) Many were worried by the recent withdrawal by publishers Penguin of a book on Hinduism after legal challenges by rightwing organisations .
(15) She didn't think any more about it until she became interested in Hinduism.
(16) But this has not happened in India, perhaps on account on Hinduism and strong religious attachments to a host of animals .
(17) In Hinduism, the Hijra community (eunuchs) – neither born male nor female, but self-identified as female – are historically believed to have the power to grant wishes and cast spells, and are often present at weddings and births.
(18) It is, however, the holistic approach to health in Hinduism that calls attention to such causes of ill health as climatic extremes, bacterial attack, nutritional deviance, stress, and other forms of emotional imbalance.
(19) Saffron is the colour of the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), of which he is the candidate in national polls next month, and is powerfully symbolic in Hinduism.
(20) The young men are from the Bajrang Dal, a youth organisation dedicated to advancing a rigorous and revivalist version of Hinduism .