(n.) The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.
(n.) A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drome.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was coincident with the area of occurrence of ko-kq and ko-no Oxford-Hermitage hybrids.
(2) A corrupt group of officials expropriated his fund, Hermitage Capital, and used it to make a fraudulent tax claim.
(3) Interior ministry officers arrested Magnitsky last November as a suspect in the case against Browder, the co-founder of Hermitage, once Russia's biggest investment fund.
(4) When you reach Inver, it's only a short walk back to the start point at the Hermitage carpark, just off the A9, after Dunkeld.
(5) Alekseyeva and others said Cameron must focus on the prison murder case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working on a case for Hermitage Capital, a London-based investment fund run by UK citizen William Browder.
(6) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
(7) Hermitage, a solicitor, and Middleton, an agronomist with extensive experience in Africa , planned to make the 216 hectares (533 acres) of prime farmland their home and business.
(8) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
(9) Two congressmen today introduced the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky bill, named after Hermitage Capital's 37-year-old lawyer, who died last year in a Russian jail without access to medical help when he was seriously ill. Magnitsky had been imprisoned two years ago by Russian officials following an alleged $230m (£143m) tax fraud involving Hermitage Capital.
(10) Magnitsky was arrested last November as a suspect in the case against Hermitage's co-founder William Browder.
(11) Within hours of learning of the unexpected decision to send the monumental statue of the river god Ilissos to the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaris, hit back.
(12) Investigating the charges in 2008, Browder's auditor and lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, discovered that police and tax officials had colluded to steal Hermitage's tax payments for their own enrichment.
(13) Vaughan Thomas Norwich • British Museum lends Elgin marbles to Hermitage; later, Putin forwards it to Athens: two fingers to London.
(14) "Niet, Niet, Niet," intoned curator Kasper König in a speech at the opening reception on Friday night , rehearsing the bureaucratic mantra that met many of the requests he, and the participating artists, made of the Hermitage museum, which is hosting the Manifesta.
(15) The investigation into the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky , who was involved in Hermitage Capital Management's long legal dispute with the Kremlin, should be carried out by independent experts, William Browder, head of the investment fund, said today.
(16) But even though Magnitsky was directly employed by William Browder , who runs a London-based investment fund, Hermitage Capital Management, the UK government has failed to act or even criticise the Russian authorities over the affair.
(17) Last week, prosecutors in St Petersburg opened an investigation into the Hermitage museum after complaints that an exhibit by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman showed signs of extremism .
(18) 1.57am BST Barry O'Farrell has just resigned over his evidence to Icac, in which he said he did not receive a gift of a 1959 bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage from the head of Australian Water Holdings, Nick Di Girolamo.
(19) I did not give evidence in that case and the court made a finding that Hermitage's account of what transpired in the Silverdale affair was unchallenged.
(20) Although the original allegations were lodged against Hermitage, during the investigation Magnitsky discovered what he believed to be a cover-up for Russian state officials to embezzle an estimated $230m from the Russian treasury.
Seclusion
Definition:
(n.) The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results showed that the two groups differed greatly in their attitudes over a wide range of topics; many staff members did not realize how much and in what ways seclusion affects patients.
(2) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
(3) Patients who required seclusion and restraint had significant latitude to determine the timing of their release from the interventions and met with staff one hour and 24 hours after their release to explore alternatives to aggression.
(4) Marked seclusion tendencies in the previous life history, as well as organic brain diseases, are relevant.
(5) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
(6) Patients who scored high in drug use tended to be younger, had more seclusions while on the ward, and had less of a history of drug or alcohol treatment.
(7) To test this hypothesis, coronary and control subjects were submitted to three types of personality questionnaire, each of them measuring the same four personality traits (seclusion, impulsiveness, dependence and passivity) which, in the adult individual, are considered by Murray's (1938) theory of personality as persisting from infancy.
(8) In the late 1960s he went into voluntary seclusion in New Hampshire and there he stayed, a peculiar man attracted to fringe religious movements, warding off interviewers, film people, fans, trespassers.
(9) The victim of a "dual seclusion", he was not only able to make an exhaustive analysis of the situation, but in a certain sense he also succeeded in predicting the tragic events which were taking shape on the historical-political horizon of the world to which he belonged.
(10) The seclusion lasts from several months to three years, with periods of interruption.
(11) Before seclusion most behaviors were disturbed but nonviolent; during seclusion most behaviors were nondisturbed.
(12) The author speculates that the use of seclusion on the crisis unit is related to the characteristics of the patient population as well as to the short duration of patient stay.
(13) On Sunday Choi returned home from seclusion in Germany.
(14) From 1978 to 1985, 133 boys between the ages of 11 and 20 years were observed in seclusion.
(15) But such ideas need to break out of the seclusion of the seminar room, and be thrashed out on the political stage.
(16) The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify unit environmental factors at the initiation of seclusion, and patient behavior and nursing interventions throughout seclusion.
(17) Seclusion was used in the management of 36.6% of the patients on a general hospital psychiatric unit during a 6 month prospective study.
(18) And so Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate – who failed to become leader of the Socialists, was trounced in her attempt to become the party's 2012 presidential candidate and failed to gain a seat in parliament at the last election – emerged last week from almost a year of seclusion to publicise her new book (and let it be known she is looking for a government job).
(19) Debriefing may be one of the most important ways that staff can help the patient in diminishing the emotional impact of seclusion.
(20) Overall, New York City and large-town hospitals had the highest rates of seclusion and restraint, but analysis by age group showed that New York City had the lowest rate for patients under age 35, who constituted the majority of patients who were secluded or restrained, and large towns had the highest rate.