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Crete


Definition:

  • (n.) A Cretan

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • £585, +30 22710 32217, perleas.gr Greek island holiday guide: Crete Read more Where to eat Fabrika In an old olive press in the market town of Volissos, this taverna specialises in grilled meat (done properly over charcoal).
  • (2) In Crete, 459 patients with a hip fracture were treated during 1986 and studied prospectively.
  • (3) "But what we would like to avoid is where an apology leads to con crete commitments.
  • (4) The Russian bomber flights, he said, spanned “from Japan to Gibraltar, from Crete to California, and from the Baltic sea to the Black Sea.” The Guardian view on eastern Europe and the EU: get it right in Riga | Editorial Read more Russia was failing to draw on the lessons of the Cold War, including that “when it comes to nuclear weapons, caution, predictability and transparency are vital,” he said.
  • (5) Photograph: Alamy The Cyclades are not an obvious destination for walkers, but in spring and autumn the smaller islands offer a peaceful alternative to the more popular hiking trails of Crete and the Peloponnese.
  • (6) Away from the package tours and resorts of Crete, it’s a step back in time.
  • (7) Manager of the week Greece, September: OFI Crete’s Italian manager Gennaro Gattuso shouts at the Greek press in English : “No leave.
  • (8) In Crete, males were just as likely to visit the health center as females (55% vs. 57%), but females were more likely to visit the health center than males in Sweden (64% vs. 50%).
  • (9) Although presenting with a variety of delusional complaints in individual cases, the condition appears to represent a relatively dis crete diagnostic entity.
  • (10) For more on holidays in Greece use our travel guides to the Cyclades , t he Dodecanese , Crete , top 10 family holidays on Greek islands , and our readers’ tips on Greece’s best beach cafes and tavernas
  • (11) But I found my way to Pina's studio, knocked on the door, and said, 'Good morning, I'm Daphnis from Crete.'"
  • (12) The last section of the paper focuses on the discussion of the experimental use of an integrated "low cost" system for interconnection among the Metaxas Pathology laboratory, the Pathology Department of the University of Crete, and the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens.
  • (13) There are people who have nowhere to sleep at all.” Greece crisis: a disaster for Athens and a colossal failure for the EU Read more According to a University of Crete study earlier this year, there are now 17,700 people without proper and secure housing in Athens alone.
  • (14) Over the past year the group has been blamed for a rash of arson attacks on cemeteries and synagogues in Athens, Salonika and Crete.
  • (15) He was installed on an elegantly spread foil blanket, his laptop balanced on his cabin bag, at his side the food, water and toilet roll he brought when he left his home in Oxford at 5pm on Saturday afternoon expecting to end the day with a late supper in Crete.
  • (16) Zombanakis, a rags-to-riches success story who talked his way into Harvard after an impoverished childhood in Crete, acknowledges that the world of international finance has been transformed in the intervening years.
  • (17) Personally I don’t see any signs of recovery.” “Healthcare increasingly a major financial concern” “I work as a journalist, with two university degrees,” says Zoe Georgoula, 40, from Crete.
  • (18) Two children born on Crete of consanguinous parents presented the following manifestations of the ocular type of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS): blue sclerae, keratoglobus and rupture of cornea following minor trauma.
  • (19) Job of the week Greece: OFI Crete’s translator , asked to convert under-pressure Italian manager Gennaro Gattuso’s shouted English into Greek in real time.
  • (20) They had been travelling from Crete and had been at sea for about 30 hours," she said.

Minotaur


Definition:

  • (n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his recent book The Global Minotaur , Varoufakis claims that the notion of a surplus recycling mechanism is simple in theory and revolutionary in its implications.
  • (2) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
  • (3) Picasso portrays himself in the 30s as the minotaur, the monster in the labyrinth.
  • (4) Ticket prices too, have changed – for most shows they climb into three figures, but for operas such as the recent revival of Birtwistle's The Minotaur , which sold out, prices ranged from £3 to £65, and the same is true of next week's UK premiere of George Benjamin's Written on Skin .
  • (5) Then Theseus arrived, posing as a victim but on a mission to slay the Minotaur.
  • (6) The Ladee spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight.
  • (7) According to legend, Theseus once slew the Minotaur in the ruins next door, and should the truth out itself, the Bayer family perhaps fear a repeat.
  • (8) Shamefully few new operas are staged at Covent Garden, but two works it commissioned were winners: Thomas Adès's The Tempest in 2004; and Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur, premiered last year.
  • (9) The idea of a vengeful state that sends young people to be slaughtered came from Theseus and the Minotaur, while the games themselves are modelled on the gladiatorial contests of ancient Rome.
  • (10) They are closing the gates that should be open.” Alan Gibbons, one of the march’s organisers and the author of Shadow of the Minotaur and other children’s books, said: “Libraries are places of learning and opportunity.
  • (11) Yet the opposite position on the sexualised culture – that nothing's changed, that porn is still a minority product that you need the nuts of a minotaur to get your hands on – that is not true either.
  • (12) Nominations in the opera categories are shared between the Royal Opera and the English National Opera, with Covent Garden's Don Carlo and The Minotaur competing in the best new opera category against the Coliseum's Partenope and I Pagliacci.
  • (13) Nasa chose Wallops for Ladee because of the Minotaur V rocket, comprised of converted intercontinental ballistic missile motors belonging to the Air Force.

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