(n.) A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
Example Sentences:
(1) By late afternoon, the intersection of North Avenue and Fulton Avenue had been turned into what one man – bottles of cognac in each hand – called an “open bar”.
(2) Chronic beer and wine intake and acute intoxication with cognac suggest - up to now - the enhancing effect of beverage congeners.
(3) Back in the good old days of le Tour, riders would stop en route at local bars and fill their bidons with wine and cognac.
(4) He probably had an inkling he wasn't going to share a cognac with Kissinger that evening, but it spoke volumes that he tried.
(5) Drunk on cognac and disoriented by the darkness as he stumbled down onto the tarmac at Genoa’s Christopher Columbus airport at around 3.40am on 22 July, 1966, the defender could not immediately identify the fruit but he did know one thing: “It definitely wasn’t fresh” .
(6) Among the buyers was a Shanghai-based Chinese importer of French wines who bought half the Cognac on sale and the most expensive Petrus.
(7) Born into a family of cognac merchants, Monnet became the greatest behind-the-scenes fixer in modern history.
(8) Very frequently it is not money that is given, but some expensive gift, like expensive cognac.
(9) The drugs employed were: ethyl alcohol, cognac, hexobarbital, diazepam, imipramine and chloralose.
(10) As with the response to the tests of 2006, 2009 and 2013, the UN is considering punitive sanctions but Korean specialist Andrei Lankov argued that this would merely result in depriving the elite of their “Hennessey cognac and Godiva chocolate”.
(11) There’s more to Armenia than cognac, carpets and its most famous daughter, Kim Kardashian .
(12) Foreign media wrote about his love for sushi and cognac.
(13) Such sanctions will allow politicians to explain to their voters that they are punishing a rogue regime in all ways imaginable – for instance, depriving the leadership of Hennessey cognac and Godiva chocolate.
(14) Sexual parameters indicated that sexual behaviour is drastically affected by cognac consumption.
(15) Tweet of the week Top-tier trolling (or on-message post-Brexit optimism) from the Foreign Office: Foreign Office (FCO) (@foreignoffice) More Scotch Whisky is sold in one month in France than Cognac in a year.
(16) If you are unable to get online on Thursday, email your views to globaldevpros@theguardian.com or follow our tweets using the hashtag #globaldevlive Panelists Matthieu Cognac, youth employment specialist, International Labour Organisation , Bangkok, Thailand.
(17) Is there a reason why the world's powerful, gathering at the exclusive resort to sip cognac and eat blinis, should care?
(18) The effects of chronic consumption of some beverages (plum-brandy 24% and cognac 20%) upon preimplantation development in rats were studied.
(19) The results showed that the ingestion of cognac leads to significant alterations in the sexual behaviour of the male rat.
(20) Oral, intragastric, and intraduodenal administrations of ethanol do not release gastrin, whereas beer and white and red wine but not whisky and cognac are potent stimulants of gastric acid secretion and release gastrin in humans.
Region
Definition:
(n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
(n.) Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
(n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
(n.) The inhabitants of a district.
(n.) Place; rank; station.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(4) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(5) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
(6) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(7) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(8) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
(9) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(10) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(11) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(12) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(13) Three overlapping clones, spanning a total of 19 kb of the human SC gene, including 3 kb of the 5' flanking region, were characterized.
(14) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(15) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
(16) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
(17) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(18) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(19) The regional distribution of beta-adrenoceptor subtypes was found to be similar to that seen in the rat brain.
(20) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.