(n.) A kind of cedar (Cedrus Deodara), growing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.
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Deva
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(n.) A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king.
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(1) The league looks more preposterous still, however, if you simply ignore Muresul Deva for a moment.
(2) Tory MEP Nirj Deva was one of several deputies to subject Mr Nielson to hostile questioning.
(3) Nirj Deva, number two on the Conservative list, was confident he had kept his own seat along with party colleague and Tory Eurosceptic torchbearer Daniel Hannan, but wouldn't be drawn any further on how many of its five MEPs the party could salvage.
(4) Terrorism made for a dissonant theme on a night filled with several upbeat music and dance performances by Indian choreographer Prabu Deva and Signature, the dance group known for competing on Britain’s Got Talent.
(5) Symphony Environmental Technologies, the largest manufacturer of oxo-degradable bags, counts the Tory MEP Nirj Deva as chairman of its board , the former Tory MP Michael Stephen as its deputy chairman , and the ex-MEP and chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in parliament, Lord Callanan, as its consultant .
(6) There will be at least 10 – maybe more – Tory MPs from ethnic minorities, which doesn't sound a lot until you remember that between 1906, when Sir Mancherjee Bhownaggree lost his seat, and 1992, when Nirj Deva won, every Tory MP was white and almost all of them male.
(7) Photograph: Adam Scourfield Perry’s portraits include those of Alex White, a transgender man; a reality-TV presenter, Rylan Clark; Veronica Devas, the partner of an Alzheimer’s ambassador, and Melanie Cohen, a plus-size beauty contestant.
(8) Within the highly polluted area of the Committee for medical valuation of work ability--Deva, with 186,563 inhabitants out of which 73,046 wage earners (43% of them in industry), the percentage of disabled persons (through chronic respiratory diseases except tuberculosis) is 8%.
(9) "Deva Stadium, the home ground of Chester City, straddles two countries," writes Graham Clayton.
(10) In a 16-team league, with two points awarded for a win and one for a draw, Muresul Deva took first place - and promotion to Divizia B, with 38 points, while Minerul Ghelar and Minerul Aninoasa were relegated in the bottom two spots with 29 and 28 points respectively.
(11) This article describes the surgery of tropical pancreatitis as practiced in a region of high incidence, based on the experience at 2 centers: the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology and Proctology, Government General Hospital, Madras, Tamilnadu (a tertiary-care referral unit) where 52 patients were diagnosed and 40 were operated on between 1982 and 1987; and the Department of Gastroenterology, Deva Matha Hospital, Koothattukulam (a specialized center located in the main endemic area of Kerala), where 116 patients were diagnosed and 33 operated on between 1983 and 1988.
(12) DRIBBLING ACROSS THE EQUATOR "The Deva Stadium, the ground of Chester City, straddles two countries," wrote Graham Clayton a few weeks ago .
(13) A comparison is performed between the figures of Tb and of non-Tb disease cases hospitalized in the Pneumophysiology Department, District Hospital, Deva (27.6% non-Tb diseases) from 1987 to 1991.