(a.) Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.
(a.) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
(n.) Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.
(n.) Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(2) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(3) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
(5) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(6) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(7) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(8) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(9) That's why the big dreams have come from the smaller candidates such as the radical left's Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
(10) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(11) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
(12) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(13) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(15) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(16) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(17) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(18) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(19) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(20) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
Gnomic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Gnomical
Example Sentences:
(1) We have different values and allies,” Rogozin’s caption gnomically declared.
(2) 'Positive points are difficult to find today,' he said in that gnomic way of his that falls between irony and mischief.
(3) Centre stage was instead ceded to actor Shia LaBeouf whose only utterance was to repeat Eric Cantona's famously gnomic saying – "When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" – before walking out of the room, to the consternation of his fellow actors.
(4) For the second day running , Google Translate hasn't been able to cope with the gnomic utterances of Jock Wallace.
(5) "I'm sitting on the gnomic fence," said Jinny Blom, who has designed a sentimental garden of forget-me-nots and baby's tears plants for Prince Harry's Lesotho children's charity, Sentebale.
(6) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
(7) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
(8) All attempts to penetrate the veil of secrecy fail: the rare interviews he gives are pretty gnomic – a state of affairs compounded by his refusal to allow journalists to record their conversations .
(9) Rosa portrays himself melodramatically, and with a gnomic tablet saying that silence is the best policy.
(10) This essay on the last years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life exhibits all of Sebald's strengths as a writer – and all of his strange, gnomic, secretive foibles.
(11) Grimacing mystics guffing out plumes of gnomic "wisdom" while using their genitals as a mortar and pestle.
(12) "You've seen Bergerac ," my mother replied, gnomically, closing the conversation down, to my infinite confusion.
(13) But Wu Lyf resisted all advances, preferring instead to issue, via their website , gnomic utterances and enigmatic mission statements, written in a barely comprehensible language that suggested Wu Lyf – which stands for World Unite!
(14) Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – " You are water.
(15) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
(16) Given the choice, they favour a gnomic utterance over plain speaking.
(17) For a band with such mainstream appeal, their lyrics are remarkably gnomic.
(18) Compared to her somewhat gnomic boss, she is a model of clarity.
(19) Mischievous and mysterious at all times, Jean-Luc Godard presented Cannes with his latest and possibly even last work, Film Socialism , playing in the Un Certain Regard category: it's a complex fragmented poem of a movie, flashing up on to the screen images, sequences, archive-reel material and, as ever with this film-maker, gnomic slogans and phrases, here in bold, sans-serif capitals, white on black.
(20) As they sent work-in-progress off to Fincher, who was on location in Europe, the director would respond with gnomic emails.