(1) When the eminent biologist TH Huxley met Gladstone for the first time in 1877, in the company of Darwin , he exclaimed afterwards: “Why, put him in the middle of a moor, with nothing in the world but his shirt, and you could not prevent him being anything he liked.” This is my view of Cicero: drop him into Westminster or Washington or any other political culture and he would instantly begin clambering to the top.
(2) I was reading Roman Life In The Days Of Cicero, which he found interesting, but we could as soon be talking about Peter Cook or Spike Milligan .
(3) But when recent observations about the atmospheric height of soot particles were used, a model simulation by the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research-Oslo (Cicero), published in the journal Nature Communications , found that its warming impacts were roughly halved.
(4) Had the German Democratic Republic never collapsed, Merkel would have retired this week, as Left party politician Stefan Liebich points out in a surprisingly approving piece on her legacy in political magazine Cicero .
(5) Plato, Aristotle and Chrysippus, the Hippocratic authors and Erasistratus in the testimony of Aulus Gellius, Plutarch and indirectly also of Cicero, and then Galen and Macrobius have a special place in the development of this topic.
(6) He recalls discussing Cicero, the Alhambra, Aids, Buddhism and everything else under the sun with the nephew who loved Latin and basketball.
(7) In the end, I settled on having his career related by his long-term, and long-suffering, secretary, Tiro: another real historical figure who wrote a biography of Cicero that is, fortunately for my purposes, lost.
(8) Lord Beaverbrook, Daniel Defoe and even Cicero were brought before the Leveson inquiry by the UK's polymath-in-chief Michael Gove.
(9) In the 'manual' position and with the soda-lime canister and the volumeter (or flow-sensor) included, the following leak rates were determined: Dräger Cicero, 5.0 ml min-1; Dräger Sulla, 22.8 ml min-1; Dräger AV1, 7.7 ml min-1; Gambro Engström Elsa, 33.4 ml min-1; Megamed 700A, 11.5 ml min-1; Ohmeda Modulus II Plus, less than 0.1 ml min-1; Siemens Ventilator 710, 0.3 ml min-1; Siemens Servo Ventilator 900D with circle system 985, 9.6 ml min-1; Megamed 077, 47.5 ml min-1.
(10) The dry and heated gases of the CICERO are not acceptable in the daily practice of paediatric anaesthesia.
(11) In his new book The Writing on the Wall, Tom Standage has sketched a history of the first 2,000 years of social media – from the messaging network that kept intellectuals such as Cicero abreast of public affairs at the dawn of the Roman empire to Twitter and Facebook – attempting to show how the study of what he calls "really old" media (based on the capillary distribution of information from person to person, as opposed to the mass model of newspapers and television) can assist in understanding not just digital media but also the debates that surround them, for instance concerning their political impact.
(12) He lists his recreations in Who's Who as food, wine, and the Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.
(13) At FGF 3 litre min-1, FGU was: Gambro Engström Elsa 97.8%, Siemens Servo Ventilator 900 D with circle system 96.1%, Dräger Cicero 93.4%, Ohmeda Modulus II Plus 93.1%, Dräger 8 ISO 92.3%, Dräger AV1 87.6%, Megamed 700A 77.0% and Siemens Ventilator 710 74.1%.
(14) The mnemonics, collectively known as the Ancient Art of Memory, were discovered in 447 BC by a Greek poet, Simonides, and were adequately described by Cicero, Quintilian, and Pliny.
(15) But if there's a train there, I take off down Cicero Avenue and watch those crossings.
(16) He would soon base the 1970 novel Arfur: Teenage Pinball Queen in his fictionalised New Orleans, now renamed Moriarty (“the foremost city of the nation, a compound of refinement and squalor, grace and depravity”), where there were now beautifully named quarters of Cohn’s own making – Jitney, Cicero and Savoy, “the wealthy St Jude and the shanty Canrush”.
(17) As predecessor of the absolute refusal of suicide in the Christian era can be mentioned Cicero, who had regarded suicide in a special paper on the old age as the desertion without order of the commander-in-chief.
(18) In a speech in the lawcourts, Cicero referred disparagingly to her colourfully louche life of affairs, adulteries, beach parties, banquets and drinking sessions.
(19) Well known for his wit …Cicero addressing the Roman senate.
(20) It’s pouring rain by the time the buses arrive at the second McDonald’s location in west suburban Cicero, outside of Chicago.
Statesman
Definition:
(n.) A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
(n.) One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
(n.) A small landholder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modi had to isolate and sideline the BJP's octogenarian elder statesman, LK Advani , before he could become its frontrunner.
(2) Now, following parental objections, the school board in the Meridian district in Idaho has voted to remove it from the high-school supplemental reading list, where it has been used since 2010, reported local paper the Idaho Statesman.
(3) She is now suing the French statesman in a civil court, which could result in a hefty damages award.
(4) Not for them clipboards, iPads and a rolled-up copy of the New Statesman peeping out of their pockets.
(5) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
(6) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(7) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(8) Last week he began that process in a New Statesman interview in which he said: "I'm caricatured as a tribalist.
(9) No glasses were raised on Friday to one of the real architects of their devastating success: Donald Dewar, the celebrated Labour senior statesman and the man who drove through devolution.
(10) In making my choice, I was looking for a statesman who has already some track record in the administration,” said a 30-year-old bank employee who gave her name only as Sawssen.
(11) At 73, Scott is a Hollywood elder statesman and will no doubt have secured final cut as part of his deal to return as director.
(12) Those who overheard, McLaren remembers, clustered round afterwards and pressed the idea on him; and coincidentally, the very next day, as the idea was taking root, he went to a New Statesman lunch, fell to discussing the mayor, and ended up leaving with a commission to write his own manifesto, which the NS published last week.
(13) The visionary statesman of the 2009 Cairo speech failed to seize the opportunity of the Arab spring, especially in Egypt, where well over $1bn in aid gave the US real leverage with Egypt’s now again dominant, repressive military.
(14) And Tony Abbott is yet to reveal whether his pitch as the “statesman seeking bipartisan solutions” is actually about real, negotiated, bipartisan solutions, or is just another way of saying that Labor, and everyone else for that matter, should down tools and agree with him.
(15) The New Statesman has hired new columnists including comedian Mark Watson on ethical dilemmas; David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, on economics; and Phillip Blond, the director of the thinktank ResPublica, each fortnight on political ideas.
(16) This is what Dugher said in an article for the New Statesman at the end of last month: In recent weeks, we’ve seen repeated media stories that Jeremy Corbyn is planning a ‘revenge reshuffle’.
(17) What will disturb the Labour party high command is the speed with which MPs appeared to be gripped by neurosis once the normally loyal New Statesman called him “an old-style Hampstead socialist” out of touch with the “lower middle class or material aspiration”.
(18) By the summer of 1793, the revolution had plunged into such turmoil that it is hard to see how any statesman, no matter how gifted, could have saved the situation.
(19) The chief argument against Sanders for his entire campaign is that he’s unelectable in a national election and, by extension, ineffective as a candidate or a statesman.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Berger interviewed on Newsnight, BBC2, in 2011 His first published collection of essays in 1960 was mostly drawn from his New Statesman reviews.