(n.) A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(2) The ABO and Rh systems of the population in 26 residential units in the province of Ferrara were studied to detect the effect of genetic drift on the differentiation of gene frequencies.
(3) However, the selection of North American premieres billed to take place at Toronto suggests films such as Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, starring Willem Dafoe, Laurent Cantet’s Return to Ithaca, plus two Al Pacino films – David Gordon Green’s Mangelhorn and Philip Roth adaptation The Humbling – will open in Venice before transferring to Toronto.
(4) 31 of Ferrara Province, northern Italy, we linked data on sales of gangliosides with information regarding hospital admissions and discharge diagnoses between January 1, 1988, and May 31, 1990.
(5) 31 (USL 31) of Ferrara, Northern Italy (mean population 180,701 inhabitants) for the years 1981-1987.
(7) A bacteriological survey was done on human and environmental specimens from the province of Ferrara in Northern Italy to determine the prevalence of Listeria spp.
(8) In the historic centre of Ferrara, an imposing statue of Girolamo Savonarola confronts passersby.
(9) On the basis of a structured interview of 27 professional nurses who have recently started their practice in the psychiatric services of the USSL 34 Ferrara, the authors analyze the difficulties met in the working place.
(10) We have reconsidered our material on tumors of adipose tissue, which were observed for 10 years, from 1979 to 1988, at Istituto di Anatomia Patologica dell'Università degli Studi - Arcispedale S. Anna di Ferrara.
(11) In patients with betao thalassaemia from Ferrara, beta globin mRNA sequences are either absent or structurally abnormal while in betao thalassaemia in Catania, beta globin mRNA sequences are present.
(12) The authors carried out studies of the blood clotting and fibrinolysis systems in 15 patients undergoing total endoprosthetic replacement of the hip joint with a McKee-Ferrara type of prosthesis and stabilized by Surgical Simplex Acrylic bone cement (North Hill Plastics, Ltd. London).
(13) The S. Anna Hospital (Ferrara) experience is here reported in the diagnosis of symptomatic popliteal cysts, with no valve mechanism at the connection with the joint cavity.
(14) MP Francesco Ferrara told the Ansa news agency the claim left too many questions unanswered, including why Regeni had been detained for days before being killed.
(15) This article gives the results for 3 out of 9 plants, Rosignano, Ferrara and Ravenna, which represent about 25% of the total cohort.
(16) This cooperative study was performed in the provinces of Bologna and Ferrara to estimate the prevalence rate of Myasthenia Gravis (MG).
(17) It makes me recall the time I put a question to the director Abel Ferrara , who proceeded to slip into a dense and restful slumber before I had finished speaking.
(18) From comparisons of these results with those from other countries it appears that higher levels of chlorinated compounds are generally present in the Ferrara population.
(19) ▶ Set for scandal: Gérard Depardieu is set to take the lead in Abel Ferrara's Dominique Strauss-Kahn-inspired film about sex and politics.
(20) Prevalence rates of generalized MG per million population were 60.9 in the city and 41.0 in the remaining province for Bologna and 118.9 in the city and 87.9 in the remaining province for Ferrara.
Sword
Definition:
(n.) An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, rapier, saber, scimiter, and many other varieties.
(n.) Hence, the emblem of judicial vengeance or punishment, or of authority and power.
(n.) Destruction by the sword, or in battle; war; dissension.
(n.) The military power of a country.
(n.) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everyone is expecting them to win and I think that’s a double-edged sword.
(2) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(3) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(4) In his book Swords and Ploughshares, Ashdown gives us two insights.
(5) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(6) This was a double-edged sword, for the futebol nation has displayed both the successes of the era and its limits.
(7) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(8) In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.
(9) If so, ministers may need to be prepared for a new breed of civil servants, who will no longer fall on their swords if they believe they have been stabbed in the back.
(10) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
(11) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
(12) When you play music like that, it’s like being attacked with knives and swords,” he said.
(13) On the surface of course one can hardly blame them, given the difference in resources on either side – imagine, if you will, how much Arjen Robben or Van Persie would’ve enjoyed themselves had they played an open and adventurous system with designs on putting the Dutch to the sword.
(14) The European Union and the International Monetary Fund had handed enormous power to the Greeks, Parsons argued, just as Theseus handed power to Hippolyta by agreeing to lay down his sword.
(15) Long-term problems remain for new buyers looking to leave the rental market, and Funding for Lending is proving a double-edged sword.
(16) In the end the paper-clip turned out to be mightier than the sword.
(17) We really didn’t want to vote for it, but we made a mistake and now we’re trying to do what’s right and correct it.” But their letter also said while the intent of their vote “was to create a shield for all citizens’ religious liberties, the bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance”.
(18) Police were ordered to apologise in person last year to an elderly blind man who was shot with a Taser electronic weapon after they mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.
(19) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(20) Swords IV was made by professional film-makers, al-Janabi also claims – and independent observers think he might be right.