(n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
(n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
Example Sentences:
(1) A coronial inquiry will be undertaken into the circumstances surrounding the death of Haider.
(2) He lived by the premise that he was always right,” Phillips told the coronial inquest into the siege which took place over two days in December 2014.
(3) A coronial inquest into the death in custody of a 22-year-old Yamitji woman in a South Hedland police cell will begin in two months time, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, told her family this week.
(4) Police can now act on the spot to protect victims whenever and wherever family violence occurs.” A coronial inquest is under way into the murder of Luke Batty by his father in February on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria.
(5) The coronial inquest into Dhu’s death, which resumes next month, heard that police at the Port Hedland lock-up did not believe she was seriously ill and told the triage nurse she was “faking it” when she may have already slipped into cardiac arrest.
(6) Ms Dhu, an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody in Western Australia last year, was “treated like a dog” by police and hospital staff, a coronial inquest has heard.
(7) A coronial inquest is supposed to be non-adversarial.
(8) The coronial inquest, which was established because of the deaths of two hostages , held a short hearing in January and is to reopen on Monday to examine every aspect of the siege and the way it was handled by authorities.
(9) The coronial inquests had provided “valuable information”.
(10) For me, the coronial inquest and the horrifying victim blaming that it brought to the fore really enabled me to see victim blaming for what it was: a misguided and damaging narrative that ultimately lets perpetrators off the hook,” Batty will tell reporters.
(11) On Wednesday, the coronial inquest into Anderson’s death will begin, and is expected to conclude the same day.
(12) The work was put to tender in 2009 as part of a statewide program based on coronial recommendations after a death in custody at Roebourne prison in 2007, and was supposed to be completed in 2012.
(13) But Glenda Lindsay, the nurse who performed the triage assessment on 2 August, told the coronial inquest in Perth on Wednesday that Ms Dhu was calm, compliant and alert when she saw her, minutes before she was seen by a second nurse and a doctor.
(14) Coronial autopsy data were obtained from the Brisbane Laboratory of Pathology and Microbiology.
(15) All deaths in custody are subject to a coronial inquest, although most on this list have not yet been assigned an inquest date.
(16) The attorney-general, John Elferink said he believed the man had pre-existing medical conditions but the government would wait for the coronial inquest findings.
(17) Hours later Langdon died of heart failure , alone in the concrete cell, and a coronial inquiry last week ruled he should have been a free man.
(18) The Auckland coronial district experience of 65 childhood pedestrian deaths over a seven year period is presented.
(19) The coronial inquest related to the deaths of Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, who were all killed between October 2009 and February 2010 while fitting insulation in Queensland homes as part of a federal government scheme under the Rudd government.
(20) Any follow up questions are referred to the coronial office within WA police, which does not comment.
Flourish
Definition:
(v. i.) To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
(v. i.) To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
(v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
(v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
(v. i.) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
(v. i.) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
(v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
(v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
(v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
(v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
(v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
(n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.
(n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.
(n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
(n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
(n.) A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.
(n.) The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) was conceptualized more than 35 years ago, but its clinical application only flourished in the past 10 years after a number of technical refinements.
(3) For creativity to flourish, schools have to feel free to innovate without the constant fear of being penalised for not keeping with the programme.
(4) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(5) Let's stay together Modern love places more value on how an individual can flourish in relationships, according to a 2013 study in the Journal of Communication , and thus Generation Y have a different romantic dynamic than their parents.
(6) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(7) A successful economy and a healthy, creative, open and vibrant democratic society depend on a flourishing creative sector,” Corbyn said.
(8) The lessons from successful, modern economies is that the state has to be active in supporting, promoting, and demanding innovation in order to flourish.
(9) The contrast between these two worlds – one legal and flourishing, the other illegal and stubbornly disregarding of state lines – can seem baffling, yet it may have profound consequences for whether this unique experiment spreads.
(10) They opened it with a flourish to reveal a packet of Trill bird seed.
(11) The prospect of that tap being turned off has already seen capital pouring out of emerging markets and currencies, potentially exposing underlying weaknesses in economies that have been flourishing on a ready supply of cheap credit.
(12) The second-best team in the Bundesliga were inhibited by Klopp’s return to the Westfalenstadion last week but initially would flourish at Anfield – another Tuchel prediction.
(13) The arts will flourish, teachers will be admired and respected, and in charge of their own profession again.
(14) Unless comprehensive studies are set up to review past evidence and carry out lifespan studies of those exposed, speculation will flourish.
(15) Not only did erections survive unscathed, but sexual harassment continued to flourish.
(16) "Our proposals remain unchanged and will create an open standards-based internet-connected TV environment within which competition and innovation can flourish.
(17) We will celebrate that the centre is still in existence, is still flourishing and is probably one of the most successful CILs in the country.” Without the momentum created by the independent living movement, he adds, broader policy initiatives in social care, such as personalisation and co-production – involving users of services as partners in making policy and designing services – would never have happened.
(18) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(19) The house flourished but the marriage was bitterly unhappy and ended in divorce.
(20) Ahrendts' exit may also be delayed as she helps put the final flourishes to Burberry's plan to take back its Japanese licence in-house when it comes up for renewal next year.