(1) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(2) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(3) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
(4) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(5) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
(6) The industry wants the health ministry to bring in a new pricing system so that Greece uses a basket of eurozone countries to calculate prices.
(7) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
(8) In addition, the UK government will provide further resources to the European Asylum Support Office to help Greece and Italy identify migrants, including children, who could be reunited with family members elsewhere in Europe.
(9) All of the parties have been trying to use Greece to their advantage.” On Monday, the governing People’s party pointed to the referendum to justify their decision to impose austerity measures during the height of the economic crisis.
(10) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
(11) While Greece struggled to find a new leader, the spotlight turn dramatically to Italy.
(12) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(13) We performed a study of this type in the small town of Lari (Pisa) with the objectives of estimating the prevalence of mental disorders, including "minor" disorders, and of comparing our estimates with similar studies carried out in UK and Greece using identical methods (PSE-IX and CATEGO).
(14) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(15) Edwards pointed to Greece, which he said simply does not have the capacity to cope with the number of arrivals it is receiving and needs massive international help.
(16) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
(17) Couldn't the rest of the eurozone just let Greece default on its debts?
(18) The last major international bank with branches nationwide, Citi announced it would close all of its network presence outside of Greece’s two major cities, Athens and Thessaloniki.
(19) Then Greece has another chance.” But the intervention by the IMF will undermine EU leaders who argue Greece must submit to a fresh round of austerity measures to release funds for debt repayments.
(20) But Erik Britton, of City consultancy Fathom, said: "The LTRO [long term refinancing operation] and all those things, all it's done is bought a bit of time, but it hasn't addressed the structural problems, even slightly, even for Greece."
Turkey
Definition:
(n.) An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.
(n.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(3) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
(4) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
(5) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(6) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
(7) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(8) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(9) Tracheal mucus transport rate (TMTR) and quantitative clearance of aerosolized Escherichia coli from the trachea, lung, and air sac were measured in healthy unanesthetized turkeys and in turkeys exposed by aerosol to a La Sota vaccine strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
(10) The lymphoproliferative disease virus (LPDV) of turkeys is the retroviral agent of etiology of a rapidly developing, naturally occurring, lymphoproliferative process.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking on as his Bolton side take on Besiktas during their Uefa Cup group game in Istanbul, Turkey.
(12) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(13) Reductions of similar magnitude were obtained following intracranial administration of turkey, ovine or human GH.
(14) A detailed comparison of the interaction of beta-adrenergic receptors with adenylate cyclase stimulation and modification of this interaction by guanine nucleotides has been made in two model systems, the frog and turkey erythrocyte.
(15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(16) But Turkey prefers to deal with the present rather than admit to past crimes.
(17) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
(18) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest 11-year-old Karim, who lives and works in a camp for displaced people close to the border with Turkey.
(20) After the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, threatened to veto a deal with Turkey, a reference to media freedom was added to the final summit statement.