(1) The proposals, drawn up by Dacian Ciolos, the EU commissioner for agriculture and rural development, are said to be more suited to his own country, Romania, where the average farm size is three hectares, compared with more than 80 in the UK and even more in France and Germany.
(2) And so it is important for everything that happened there to be put on the table.” Speaking at a press conference with the Romanian prime minister, Dacian Cioloș, Merkel said she would change the law on deportations and increase police numbers.
Thracian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ali, a mining worker of five years who previously worked as a subcontractor in Soma, but is now a coal miner in the Thracian city of Edirne, said work safety was the least important issue in Turkish mines everywhere.
(2) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(3) While Iranian and India peoples preserved their original worship in their final settlements, Indo-European tribes, including the Thracians, the Phrygians, and the Greeks, after settling in Europe and Asia Minor, abandoned their ancestral worship of Soma (Sabazios) and substituted the Semitic (alcoholic) Dionysos.
(4) However, pressure to keep Turkish interest rates competitive means that some of these ambitious ventures – including a new Bosphorus in the form of a canal that will cut the Thracian peninsula – will be harder, if not impossible, to finance.