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Griffin


Definition:

  • (n.) An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.
  • (n.) Alt. of Griffon

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (2) Griffin will have to argue his case before an administrative law judge, the NLRB will have to vote on it after that and, if it were approved as expected, opponents would inevitably take it back to court.
  • (3) Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the "unfair" way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP's claims that his appearance sparked the "biggest single recruitment night in the party's history".
  • (4) It is sad that the BBC chose to give Nick Griffin a platform.
  • (5) Nick Griffin, the BNP leader and MEP for the north west region is also at the conference.
  • (6) Why doesn't any one concern themselves with why they did this instead of being fixated with shutting Nick Griffin out?
  • (7) It looks like we are panicking, but we’re not,” said Ian Griffin, 51, a financial asset manager in the crowd at the door.
  • (8) "There is a prima facie case for charging Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, William Hague and David Cameron with waging aggressive war against Iraq," Griffin said.
  • (9) He's suspected of killing 69-year-old physician William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, outside the community center of Greater Kansas City.
  • (10) More than 240 people felt the show was biased against the BNP, while more than 100 of the complaints were about Griffin being allowed to appear on Question Time.
  • (11) Chad Griffin, president of Human Rights Campaign, said, in a video posted on the organisation's website : "Years from now, we'll remember this election day as the most historic and the most important in the LGBT community."
  • (12) The prime minister defended the decision to break with Labour's previous practice of refusing to share a platform with the BNP by allowing Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to debate with Griffin this evening.
  • (13) A BBC Trust spokesman today confirmed that the corporation's regulatory and governance body had received an appeal from Hain, the Welsh secretary, saying that Griffin should not appear on Question Time because the BNP is not a "lawfully constituted political party".
  • (14) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
  • (15) Thus the patte rn was set for what would be Griffin's tactics throughout: say something that appeared to answer the question, spin off quickly to something apparently related but often irrelevant, flatly deny anything which might be compromising, and ascribe any quoted evidence to the contrary to misquotation and "outrageous lies", or, at one point, the "thoroughly unpleasant ultra-leftist" BBC .
  • (16) "When Griffin announced in September that he would stand, that gave me a real scare," Hodge says.
  • (17) Of these, 243 were complaints of bias against Griffin.
  • (18) The BNP confirmed it would consider changes to its rules and membership criteria after the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched county court proceedings against the party's leader, Nick Griffin , and two other party officials: Simon Darby and Tanya Jane Lumby.
  • (19) Durant’s Thunder team-mate Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers also withdrew because of health concerns.
  • (20) The molecular weight of the major protein agrees with the molecular weight calculated from the sequence of the sugar-free polypeptide monomer (39,769 Da: Griffin, P.R., Kumar, S., Shabanowitz, J., Charbonneau, H., Namkung, P.C., Walsh, K.A., Hunt, D.F., & Petra, P.H., 1989, J. Biol.

Griffon


Definition:

  • (n.) A fabulous monster, half lion and half eagle. It is often represented in Grecian and Roman works of art.
  • (n.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.
  • (n.) A species of large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor; -- called also gripe, and grype. It is supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible. The bearded griffin is the lammergeir.
  • (n.) An English early apple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My vortex tour with Mark Griffon of Sedona Mystical Tours ($135, three hours) – who starts off the morning with a sage cleansing near a stone-circle “medicine wheel” he’s assembled himself in his backyard – is at times uncomfortably intense, as one of the attendees breaks down into sobs during a meditation against a juniper tree called Fred.
  • (2) These include griffon vultures, dalmatian pelicans, Bonelli’s eagles and the common crane.
  • (3) The griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) showed mean concentrations of glucose lower than those of most of the other species.
  • (4) A 10-month-old female, Wire-haired Pointing Griffon dog had a hamartoma of the hypothalamus.
  • (5) A griffon from the pages of an illuminated bestiary.
  • (6) The primary structures of the hemoglobins Hb A, Hb A', Hb D and Hb D' of Rüppell's Griffon (Gyps rueppellii), which can fly as high as 11,300 m, are presented.
  • (7) Blood smears from 506 Rhodesian, Botswanan and South African vultures (Hooded, White-headed, Lappetfaced, Cape Griffon and Whitebacked Vultures) were examined for hematozoa.
  • (8) A 3-year-old female Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen is presented with tenesmus alvi caused by a 15 cm long chronic regional cicatrising eosinophilic coloproctitis with bacterial masses surrounded by clubs, resembling actinomycosis.
  • (9) Vladimir Antonov • Danforth Ventures Inc; Paterson Association Inc; Griffon Properties [Jersey]; ... and others • This major Russian oligarch and one-time Portsmouth FC owner is fighting extradition from London, following collapse of a Lithuanian bank and assassination attempts.
  • (10) The karyotypes of the domestic chicken (Gallus domesticus), Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix), and griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus) were studied with a variety of banding techniques.
  • (11) Some breeds are more resistant (Beagle, Fox terrier, Porcelain, Teckel, mongrel dogs) and others are more susceptible (Spaniel, Cocker, Griffon, Yorkshire terrier, Doberman, Pekinese); however, none of them is completely resistant.
  • (12) An extracellular xylanase was purified to homogeneity from the culture filtrate of the thermophilic fungus, Humicola lanuginosa (Griffon and Maublanc) Bunce and its properties were studied.
  • (13) The only species which nests on cliffs (the Cape Griffon Vulture) did not harbor hematozoa whereas the other species which nest and roost in trees were infected with at least one hematozoan species.

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