(n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
(n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(4) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(5) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(6) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(7) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(8) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
(9) Totò was a legend in the Vesuvian city – a comedian of genius; poignant, mysterious.
(10) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(11) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(12) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(13) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(14) The analysis of blood lead concentration revealed an evident biological response to this environmental change: there was a decrease in blood lead level between 1977 and 1987, in both the countryside (control group) and, to a lesser extent, in the city.
(15) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(16) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(17) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(18) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(19) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(20) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
Shiraz
Definition:
(n.) A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.
Example Sentences:
(1) High school students (100 girls and 100 boys), selected randomly from four high schools in Shiraz, completed the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale.
(2) It has been the impression of clinicians that pineal calcification is infrequent in Shiraz, Iran.
(3) For the academic Shiraz Maher it comes down to identity.
(4) At least 219 Bahá'í in Iran were executed because of their religious allegiance after the 1979 Islamic revolution, and some are believed to have been buried in Shiraz.
(5) In Shiraz, the peak incidence of lymphoma, including intestinal lymphoma, is in the third decade of life; for esophageal carcinoma, it is in the fourth decade, and for gastric carcinoma, in the fifth.
(6) Shiraz Maher, a senior fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, which monitors overseas fighters, said the two had been members of the extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant which has been involved with clashes with the al-Nusra Front.
(7) A case-control study of 99 bladder cancer patients admitted to Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran was evaluated.
(8) The Iranian embassy in Mezze, its turquoise mosaic front giving an exotic glimpse of Isfahan or Shiraz, looks like a fortress.
(9) When I spoke to Shiraz Maher, a senior research fellow at King’s College London who studies radicalisation up close, he put the problem concisely: “You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” Maher suggests that western foreign policy often plays the role of a hook on which jihadis can hang a much larger set of ideological, and theological, motives.
(10) An experimental study on the homogeneous transplantation of the major part of the lateral and medial femoral trochleae and trochlear groove with articular cartilage was carried out in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Pahlavi University, Shiraz.
(11) It’s identity, stupid | Shiraz Maher Read more The Moss Side area has historically had plenty of negative press relating to gang culture.
(12) A light red such as beaujolais or generic côtes du Rhône or a richer off-dry white such as a pinot gris from Alsace or New Zealand works better with the deeper, sweeter flavours that come from a tray of caramelised roast vegetables, while the meaty, earthy characters of slow-cooked vegetable stews with pulses are happiest with the same kind of robust reds (Aussie shiraz, Argentine malbec) you'd have with red meat.
(13) Oh Allah accept him as another green bird.” News of his death was also tweeted by a British-based researcher Shiraz Maher, from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at Kings College in London.
(14) The impact of 4300 serial autopsies performed in Shiraz, Iran, on scientific and clinical medicine is discussed.
(15) Three hundred and ten cultures of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus aureus were tested for antibiotic sensitivity by the Kirby-Bauer method at the Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran.
(16) We graduated from shiraz to the local beer ("Fat Tires"), and the conversation got interesting.
(17) Shiraz Maher, a senior researcher at King’s College’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalism, said: “It is probable that Roshid died in the battle for Kobani as another of his Portsmouth counterparts, Muhammad Mehdi Hasan, is known to be fighting there, although we haven’t been able to independently verify this yet.” Maher said the centre had so far confirmed the deaths of 25 jihadists who travelled from Britain to partake in the Syrian civil war.
(18) The type, frequency, and antimicrobial sensitivity pattern of bacteria were studied at Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran, during 1981, 1985, and 1987.
(19) Such observations at the Shiraz Orphanage are discussed.
(20) Height and weight of school children aged 6-12 years in Shiraz (Iran) are reported.