(n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.
(v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.
Example Sentences:
(1) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(2) Commanders in the besieged Libyan rebel enclave of Misrata have complained that Nato has ignored requests for air support during a week of heavy attacks by pro-Gaddafi forces.
(3) Among the most serious charges he faced involved responsibility for the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995.
(4) Putin's call on Sunday for the regularisation of the enclave's status would, paradoxically, put human rights on a more stable footing.
(5) The bomb hit a cultural centre in the small, predominantly Kurdish town, where hundreds of members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations had gathered for a press briefing before a visit to the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Kobani to help with the reconstruction of the destroyed town.
(6) The latest tunnel was found during an Israeli military operation 100 metres into the Gaza side of the border in the Palestinian coastal enclave’s south.
(7) Nor, incidentally, is thigh-gap obsession new, it's just that it has only recently transferred over from the myopic enclave of the fashion world.
(8) Chibok is an enclave of mainly Christian families in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.
(9) The son of a railway worker, Aliev was born in Nakhichevan, an Azerbaijani enclave in Armenia.
(10) "All fingerprint information is encrypted and stored securely in the Secure Enclave inside the A7 chip on the iPhone 5s," Apple said in a statement.
(11) Srebrenica remains a form of enclave, a Bosnian Muslim-governed island in the Serb half of Bosnia, whose strongman leader, Milorad Dodik, plays down the crimes committed and regularly calls for the breakup of Bosnia-Herzegovina .
(12) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(13) It was parked 100 metres or so away from the small one-roomed, one storey brick home Singh shared with his brother, who remains on trial, in the slum neighbourhood of Ravi Das colony, an enclave of poverty in otherwise relatively wealthy south Delhi.
(14) The US – which has repeatedly called on its Nato ally Turkey to provide more than humanitarian support to the Syrian Kurdish enclave – welcomed the peshmerga deployment, calling it a “step to degrade and ultimately defeat” Isis.
(15) This is the case with the enclavement and metatarsal osteotomies such as the Watermann procedure (25, 26).
(16) One 2007 NYPD report, titled "Radicalization in the West: the Homegrown Threat", stated that "enclaves of ethnic populations that are largely Muslim often serve as 'ideological sanctuaries' for the seeds of radical thought".
(17) In a speech prepared for delivery at a British thinktank, Jindal said some immigrants are seeking “to colonise western countries, because setting up your own enclave and demanding recognition of a no-go zone are exactly that”.
(18) Occasionally, Sting sings in the sort of broad Newcastle accent he has never revealed before, the one he has previously felt placed him back in the small terraced street he grew up in, a place he once described as an "enclave of banality".
(19) She’s a moderator of the ShitRedditSays subreddit, known as SRS, which began as a collection of all the worst quotes of Reddit and has evolved into a sort of enclave within the site for people who have deep concerns about the main community.
(20) This study compares modifications of Regnauld's enclavement procedure, the in situ "hat-shaped" and in situ "inverted" osteochondral graft.
Enclosure
Definition:
(n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
(2) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
(3) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
(4) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(5) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
(6) Quite a lot of things here are variations on the idea of enclosure, putting a roof up, spreading some kind of meniscus over the land.
(7) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
(8) Our results show that use of ATB ANA microplates in an anaerobic enclosure is a valuable method in clinical practice.
(9) Comparative behavioral samples were obtained on 38 subjects in the existing indoor-outdoor run and in the enclosure.
(10) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
(11) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
(12) The atmosphere in an enclosure equipped with an automatic life support system was examined during 30-day integrated animal experiments.
(13) The data showed the vertical flow room to exhibit significantly lower (P less than .05) contamination levels than the horizontal flow enclosure.
(14) perfringens strains isolated from feces of test subjects kept in an enclosure for 34 days.
(15) We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of 254 nm with the use of a Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties.
(16) Using the rebreathing method, CO2 sensitivity of the respiration regulation system was investigated during a year-long enclosure study and head-down tilt tests of varying duration (up to 120 days).
(17) Addition of ATP and GTP to bound vesicles caused limited vesicle fusion, but enclosure of the chromatin was not observed.
(18) In the undrugged state both groups tended to scan the walls of the enclosure with the vibrissae side of the face.
(19) Sonography, computed tomography and scintigraphy were performed, and the prenatally diagnosed process was identified as a cystic growth in the right liver lobe with enclosure of the V. cava inferior.
(20) Males born and housed in a small woodland enclosure in 1979-1980 and well fed with grain did not experience the long period of regressed testes.