(n.) A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(2) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(3) Serum levels of vitamins A and E, zinc and iron were determined in healthy control subjects and lepromatous leprosy patients belonging to an eastern state of India.
(4) Finally, carcinoma of the oral cavity in India can be said to be at least two diseases.
(5) In cooperation with scientists in India and Nigeria, the potential yield of protein-deficient foods.
(6) According to a Guttmacher Institute review (pdf), about 9% of maternal deaths in India are from complications of unsafe abortions.
(7) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
(8) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(9) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
(10) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(11) India is rapidly emerging as one of the world's largest economies, with the United Nations predicting that its GPD growth this year will hit a healthy 6.4 percent.
(12) India will have three carriers and both China and India are building blue-water [ocean-going] navies.
(13) This first population-based study of prevalence of insulin-dependent diabetes in south India shows that insulin-dependent diabetes is not rare.
(14) The study design of a project to investigate the epidemiology, population dynamics and control of intestinal nematode infections in fishing village communities in Southern India is described.
(15) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(16) It is a very widely cultivated plant in eastern countries like India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan.
(17) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
(18) Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong.
(19) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
(20) This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s.
Sandalwood
Definition:
(n.) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
(n.) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
(n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
Example Sentences:
(1) A fast method for such comparisons, based on volume matching followed by the estimation of comparable surface dots, is presented and applied on a few selected sandalwood odour molecules.
(2) The Roldugin-Sandalwood schemes were organised by the Swiss lawyers Dietrich, Baumgartner & Partner , whose offices are in the heart of Zurich’s banking district.
(3) Further loans made to media production and TV companies were reassigned to Sandalwood.
(4) Between 2009 and 2011 it extended $800m in credit lines to Sandalwood Continental.
(5) But the Panama Papers showed $2bn flowing from Russian state banks to offshore companies linked to Roldugin, including a firm in the British Virgin Islands called Sandalwood Continental Ltd.
(6) In December 2010, the RCB lent 5bn roubles (then about £100m) offshore to Sandalwood at 4% interest.
(7) They have largely meaningless names – Sonnette Overseas, International Media Overseas, Sunbarn, Raytar, Sandalwood Continental Ltd .
(8) Sandalwood promptly passed it on to another offshore entity with obscure ownership, Eurofert Trading Ltd, as a loan at 5%.
(9) Goldblatt said that the author's satirical novel Jiuguo (The Republic of Wine) "may be the most technically innovative and sophisticated novel from China I've read", while his Shengsi pilao (Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out) is "a brilliant extended fable", and Tanxiangxing (Sandalwood Death) "is, as the author contends, musical in its beauty".
(10) As soon as the cash came in from RCB, Sandalwood lent it on to a Cyprus-registered entity, Horwich Trading, at a hefty 7.8% interest.
(11) In one example from July 2010, Sandalwood agreed to buy shares through Starcourt Worldwide Ltd, an offshore company based in Belize.
(12) The cash came from Sandalwood, the offshore company linked to Putin’s other close friend, Roldugin.
(13) He had practiced the incense ceremony for about 15 years, and had burnt several incenses and sandalwood.
(14) The files show how the simple movement of the money made Sandalwood a profit of $4m.
(15) It then paid Sandalwood nearly $800,000 in “compensation”.
(16) The GC-fingerprint spectra of essential oils in imported sandalwood are established by the new technique of GC-relative retention value fingerprint spectrum (GC-FPS).
(17) The vast trade in shark fins and turtles will also come under attack, as will the large-scale felling of tropical rosewood and sandalwood, as well as less well-known issues such as Indonesia's huge exports of frogs' legs, and the trade in cheetahs and python skins.