(adv.) A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship.
(adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.
(adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
(adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country.
(adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn.
(adv.) The rock through which a vein runs.
(a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.
(a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners.
(a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) In some other countries the patient-to-nurse ratio was significantly smaller.
(3) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(4) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(5) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(6) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(7) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(8) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(9) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(10) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(11) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(12) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(13) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(15) In differing, incomparable ways it will affect every society, industry and region in the country.
(16) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(17) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(18) No report can be taken seriously if its authors weren’t even in Yemen to conduct investigations.” The UN team was not given permission to enter the country.
(19) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
(20) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
Domino
Definition:
(n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
(n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
(n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
(n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
(n.) A person wearing a domino.
(n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
(n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
(2) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(3) De Blasio's first significant act as mayor was to challenge a development plan for the iconic Domino's Sugar factory in Brooklyn – a typical late-Bloomberg, large-scale building project.
(4) I love it when musicians and their instruments sort of become an entity in themselves – you see it with Nina Simone and Ray Charles as well as Fats Domino.
(5) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(6) Driscroll told 3AW that he had not yet received the payment from Domino’s Pizza.
(7) Of course, I am very worried about them.” Separately, at least three people were killed in clashes in the south-western city of Odessa, which has largely resisted the domino effect of pro-Russian separatists taking over Ukrainian cities in the east.
(8) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(9) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
(10) The Domino system and a 1-2 days stay were the preferred options (25 and 24 per cent respectively).
(11) When Domino’s Pizza did not acknowledge or participate in the proceedings, Driscoll was awarded the case by default, with the chain ordered to pay $1,203.27 to cover his legal fees as well as the $37.35 order.
(12) Then there is a domino effect, as reefs fail so will other ecosystems.
(13) The action spread by phone in "a domino effect", stewards said.
(14) On Thursday, Domino’s Australia unveiled a pizza delivery robot in Brisbane.
(15) Domino theorists argue that the impact on the economy, growth and employment would be catastrophic and incalculable.
(16) In what Brown has described as a "domino" strategy, his meetings today with developing countries were planned to produce an agreement about a pledge to curb emissions.
(17) "The more countries that go down this path, the bigger the domino effect.
(18) At the start of this decade Iceland would have made an unlikely candidate for the first sovereign-state domino to fall in the financial meltdown.
(19) An algorithm for the calculation of plausibilities of paternity for the HLA system is presented, which is based on the concept of the game of domino.
(20) … I knew I would be like a domino in the line of fire Christopher Hansen Hansen was at the bar.