(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.
Urdu
Definition:
(n.) The language more generally called Hindustanee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(2) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(3) Yet few of them are encouraged to learn Bengali, Urdu or Polish in the playground, and I'm not aware that any school has tried to foster or formalise peer group learning of that kind.
(4) The most popular other modern languages are: Italian (5,136 entries); Urdu (4,519 entries); Polish (3,933 entries); Arabic (3,607 entries) and Chinese (3,042 entries).
(5) They didn't want me to be killed for" – and here she laughs – "writing a diary for BBC Urdu .
(6) Over the last year operations against MQM supporters and Urdu speakers have intensified,” Jalil said.
(7) Data for 80.7% of 473 Urdu children, 86.6% of 551 Gujarati children, and 84.4% of 1265 Punjabi children were available for the analysis.
(8) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
(9) The former president spoke for an hour in Urdu and an hour in English, laying out pledges to restore the country to unity, prosperity and growth, but he made clear it was his leadership above all that was on offer.
(10) Mahmood’s career began as a schoolboy in Birmingham, helping his parents, both journalists, produce Urdu-language papers for the local Asian community.
(11) One of her colleagues, MP for Bassetlaw John Mann, had already written that Labour failed in Bradford West because they had "no Muslim doorknockers, no Urdu speaker, no hijab-wearing woman talking to Muslim women voters ".
(12) As part of a nutritional surveillance system of primary school children the relation between growth and vegetarianism in the Urdu, Gujarati, and Punjabi groups was explored.
(13) 1970s: Begins his career helping his parents produce Urdu-language paper.
(14) The results of the study indicate that there was consistency in the assignment of pure-tone frequencies to the dimensions of the figures and that the pattern of assignment was generally similar for both English- and Urdu-speaking subjects alike.
(15) The most popular in terms of entries were: Italian (5,136); Urdu (4,519); Polish (3,933); Arabic (3,607) and Chinese (3,042).
(16) Mahmood was the son of a journalist who pioneered the first Urdu-language newspaper in Britain and reporting came naturally.
(17) Leprosy rate amongst Tamil and Urdu speaking students was significanlty more than amongst Marathi and other language groups.
(18) As a schoolboy, Moudud wet his shirt with the blood of a young man killed demonstrating against the imposition of "Urdu and only Urdu" as the official language of Bangla-speaking East Pakistan .
(19) Three samples with preferred languages of English, Gujarati or Urdu were compared on a standardized interview with regard to symptom complaint, perception and attribution and also completed the General Health Questionnaire and Illness Behaviour Questionnaire.
(20) For example, Urdu subjects of the English proficiency produced frequency assignments that closely resembled those of the English-speaking subjects, while subjects of low English proficiency produced a pattern that was somewhat different, particularly with regard to round, complex figures.