(n.) A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Geneva, the Swiss chief prosecutor, Olivier Jornot, said he had launched an undisclosed number of investigations and said his office was paying very close attention to new information as it emerged.
(2) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
(3) 2.57pm BST Geneva 2 French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he hopes the five permanent members of the security council will be able to agree a date a long-delayed the Geneva 2 peace talks on.
(4) Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is organising the second Europe-Iran forum in Geneva in September, which brings Iranian business leaders and foreign investors – including France’s Alstom, the United Arab Emirate’s Aujan, and Italy’s SACE – together.
(5) Twenty-one of 24 adult male and female cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis ibis) collected in Geneva County, Alabama had numerous white cyst-like structures (1,466 microns X 354 microns) found within the loose connective tissues of the skeletal muscles of the inguinal region, beneath the serosa of the proventriculus and in the heart beneath the epicardium (one adult male bird).
(6) Claims that the soldiers violated the Geneva conventions were made in the course of damning criticism of the soldiers' conduct and that of the MoD by Patrick O'Connor QC, counsel for the Iraqis.
(7) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(8) • Talks between US secretary of state John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva continued Friday.
(9) Allegations that British soldiers murdered insurgents and mutilated their bodies after a fierce firefight in Iraq were roundly rejected by an official inquiry, which also found that a number of prisoners were abused and that troops breached the Geneva convention.
(10) Shaheed's findings, which are due to be officially presented to the UN in Geneva later this month, have already led to much criticism from Tehran.
(11) 3.24pm BST The US state department is hosting live video of John Kerry's news conference in Geneva , which has yet to begin.
(12) In Geneva, we studied 23 patients, all of whom were operated for epiretinal membrane even though visual acuity was greater as 0.2, 10 membranes were idiopathic et 13 secondary.
(13) Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis ( @PaulLewis ) reports: The US administration has been internally debating the best timing for new sanctions, amid concern that tightening the screws on Russia prior to the Geneva talks could jeopordise hopes for a diplomatic resolution.
(14) The two sides announced a renewed intention of convening a Geneva 2 conference to seek an overarching peace deal in Syria.
(15) Under the Geneva convention, women and girls raped in conflict have a right to abortion, regardless of national legislation, but this position has yet to be integrated into DfID policies.
(16) International negotiations extend over long periods of time and there are significant steps that we still have to undertake, but the important thing is to continue to make forward progress.” Rich countries accused of foiling effort to give poorer nations a voice on tax Read more Manuel Montes , however, senior adviser on finance and development at the South Centre in Geneva and one of the architects of the financing for development process, felt developing countries had lost more than they had gained.
(17) In November 1984, because of an accident at a chemical plant, the population of a large area in the town of Geneva, Switzerland, was exposed to toxic bromine gas during several hours at concentrations above the short-term exposure limit.
(18) Life in short Age 50 Family Married with two children Education Emanuel school, London; Queen's College, Oxford Career Telecoms engineer (1976-78); software engineer (1978); consultant, Cern, Geneva (1978-80); founding director of Image Computer Systems (1981-84); Cern Fellowship (1984-94); developed global hypertext project which became world wide web and designed URL (universal resource locator) and HTML (hypertext markup language) Publication Weaving the Web (1999) Awards OBE (1997); KBE (2004) Quote "Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography.
(19) There is only one way to get to the bottom of this and that is for the negotiating parties at Geneva II to grant unhindered access to Syria’s detention facilities to independent monitors.
(20) The files offer an insight into why the administration has been unable to transfer many of the 172 existing prisoners from the island prison where they remain outside the protection of the US courts or the prisoner-of-war provisions of the Geneva conventions.
Genevan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevese.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Geneva.
(n.) A supported of Genevanism.
Example Sentences:
(1) This situation initially appeared to cause some disquiet to my hosts, though this later gave way to a more relaxed attitude with the sentiment that Genevan lawyers would be discreet, something that I did nothing to discourage.” On clinching arrangements in London, the bank manager wrote: “We subsequently repaired to the Ritz, for a very enjoyable lunch.” Humphreys told the Guardian his father eventually had to repay about $224,000 (£147,000) for evading tax due to the UK.
(2) VII) is in part due to lack of operative skill of the students while progressing tooth morbidity statistically established in the Genevan population also was taken into account.
(3) To name just a few of the major contributors: Aristotle was Greek; Spinoza, Dutch but with Portuguese origins; Rousseau, a French-speaking Genevan; Descartes, Montesquieu and Voltaire, French; Kant, German; Locke, English; and Hume and Smith, Scottish.