(n.) The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul).
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
Example Sentences:
(1) He suspects Hannibal did not intend to come this way, but was forced to avoid the lower cols to the north because of the hordes of Gauls massing there.
(2) They include the so-called Ludovisi Ares, a Roman copy of a 4th-century BCE Greek original, and the Ludovisi Gaul, part of the same group as the better-known Dying Gaul in the Capitoline Museums.
(3) Two other strains from dairy herds were classified as bovine viruses related to the bovine B223 strain reported by Woode and co-workers (G. N. Woode, N. E. Kelso, T. F. Simpson, S. K. Gaul, L. E. Evans, and L. Babiuk, J. Clin.
(4) As the Carthaginian army ascended from the Rhône valley in Gaul, they were harassed and attacked by mountain tribes who, knowing the territory, set ambushes, dropped boulders and generally wrought havoc.
(5) A. O'Brien, J.C. Quintero, W. A. Schleif, K. F. Freund, S. L. Gaul, W. S. Saari, J. S. Wai, J. M. Hoffman, P. S. Anderson, D. J. Hupe, E. A. Emini, and A. M. Stern, Proc.
(6) Fuchs bristles at that suggestion and makes an interesting analogy with a French comic book series and the indomitable Gauls fending off Roman occupation to explain Leicester’s mindset.
(7) Just as Caesar wrote of Gaul in his day, "Omnia [Begg] divisaest in partes tres ... "--Stage I, Stage II, and Stage III.
(8) In the 2004 UK inquiry into the sinking of the Gaul trawler in the Barents Sea, test were carried out on a scale version of the vessel to assess how it would have responded to rough weather.
(9) Such stereotypes have been the jambon-beurre of foreign correspondents in France (bread and butter not being fancy enough for the French) since Julius Caesar dashed off his conquest of Gaul , and never fail to raise a smile at the English breakfast table.
(10) At a recent visit to the Triple Pier Expo, a weekend market on three vast piers that extend from Manhattan into the Hudson River, an ebony art-deco carving of a slave in relief, reminiscent of the Dying Gaul, was attached by a gold chain to a pipe rack.
(11) In a previous study, different U.S. isolates of bovine rotavirus were studied for their serotypes and cross-protective properties (G. N. Woode, N. E. Kelso, T. F. Simpson, S. K. Gaul, L. E. Evans, and L. Babiuk, J. Clin.
(12) It's the 35th adventure that translator Anthea Bell has undertaken with the world's most famous Gaul, and it has transported them to Scotland on a mission to save the Picts from imperialists and usurpers.
(13) MacAroon, the wronged Pictish prince, has a large tattoo on his chest that causes some curiosity among the Gauls.
(14) Even more gallingly for the Gauls, while visits to North America were also down last year by 7.5% to 3.4 million, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Norway all saw the number of British visitors rise, with 2.3 million more Britons visiting Spain than France last year.
(15) I live in the last small corner of Gaul still holding out against the Romans.
(16) The Mistral, the biggest French-built ships after the aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaul, is 199m long, weighs 22,000 tonnes, and can carry 177 crew, 16 heavy helicopters or 30 light, 70 armoured vehicles such as tanks, 450 troops and four landing craft.
(17) He regularly spoke in the Commons on post office issues and on electoral reform, working time, fairness at work, fishermen's compensation and the loss of the trawler Gaul.
(18) Like the last village in Gaul that resists the occupying forces of the Romans, there will always be a group of smokers who do so not only because it can relax one wonderfully (think of all the soldiers who smoke) but precisely because it enrages an enormous number of busybodies.
(19) They cleared the land to protect their armies from ambush – but they knew it also hurt the tree-loving Gauls and the Druid-led tribes they wished to subdue.
(20) Photograph: Oskar Reinhart Foundation Son of Nazi governor returns art stolen from Poland during second world war Read more Nine have been restituted – including Susanna, a sculpture by Reinhold Begas, which was found in Berlin’s National Gallery; August Gaul’s Resting Lion from 1903, also found in Berlin; a Roman child’s sarcophagus from the end of the second century AD; and Lady with Red Blouse, a pastel drawing of Mosse’s sister Emilie by Adolph Menzel, found in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Rubicon
Definition:
(n.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(2) He said he accepted the principle of independent regulation, arguing that the current system "is badly broken and it has let down victims" – but insisted that any proposal to underpin a new regulator with a law, as proposed by Leveson, would "cross the Rubicon" of state intervention into press freedom.
(3) On 1 August Palmer told Guardian Australia his senators were firmly against any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(4) The prime minister has said a press law would be "crossing the Rubicon" but it is understood that a "dab of statute" which would underpin a royal charter and ban the privy council from amending any charter would be acceptable to Associated, News International and the Telegraph.
(5) Glasenberg, says one person who knows how much he anguished over the decision to take Glencore public, is well aware that he "has crossed the Rubicon".
(6) He believes the prime minister's main reservation, his "Rubicon", has been addressed.
(7) It is the historian who has decided for his own reasons that Caesar’s crossing of that petty stream, the Rubicon, is a fact of history, whereas the crossing of the Rubicon by millions of other people before or since interests nobody at all.” The speeches we believe to be most decisive can come only from those speeches we have heard about.
(8) He was taken to Govan police station, the base for Operation Rubicon, the inquiry set up to investigate alleged perjury at the trial.
(9) In 1986 he made perhaps his biggest blunder, his infamous "Rubicon" speech.
(10) Tony Yates, a professor of economics at Birmingham University and a former Bank insider, says: “Once they’ve crossed the Rubicon of doing it, what would be to stop the political clamour for using QE to pay for something else?
(11) I have three concerns: First, a change in the law to permit assisted suicide would cross a fundamental legal and ethical Rubicon.
(12) Ehab Badawy claims that Egypt has "crossed the democratic rubicon" in the recent presidential election ( Letters, 3 June ).
(13) iPad Great Little War Game 2 (£1.99) Developer Rubicon Development has won a wide following with its little and big war games.
(14) Palmer said Australia’s health system was much more efficient than the one in the US, and the PUP senators were united in their opposition to any Medicare co-payment on the basis it “crosses the Rubicon” on access to free healthcare.
(15) We will take deep breaths and cross the Rubicon with you, or at least the Firth of Forth.
(16) It may be that [the government has] crossed a Rubicon and decided that [mass] data-gathering exercises are something [it] should try out – but you can't have it under the existing regime."
(17) Diluted soil samples (Rubicon fine sand, Entic Haplorthods [pH 5.9]) were plated on soil extract-glucose agar containing radioactive 65Zn.
(18) We’ve made it into the final and crossed the Rubicon.
(19) He was not, he said, willing to pass that Rubicon .
(20) What caught the headlines was Cameron's call for an in-out referendum on renegotiated terms – apparently a Rubicon.