(a.) Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland.
(n. sing. & pl.) The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants.
(n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.
(n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(3) Levinson's film, to be titled Black Mass, will be based on the New York Times bestseller Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob , by Boston Globe reporters Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill.
(4) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
(5) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
(6) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(7) However, the 1916 Irish Easter Rising would be exempt.
(8) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(9) And here they are, giving a certain Irish ode the treatment it deserves.
(10) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
(11) It is a deal that the Irish government, alongside the Garda Siochana and the RUC, believe could have yielded millions of dollars for the Provisionals.
(12) Noonan was also bold in his projection for Irish economic growth by 3.9% for 2015, which is higher than the original 2.7% growth predicted back in April this year.
(13) Yet when the final bill for compensating the thousands of victims of that abuse is counted, the cost will be shouldered, in the main, by the Irish taxpayer rather than the Catholic church.
(14) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
(15) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
(16) Equally, Whittingdale pointed out that the Irish defamation act 2009 allows the courts to take account of whether a journalist has adhered to the Irish Press Council's code.
(17) At first they seem an unlikely pair – Holland, 64, grew up in a large Irish immigrant family in Lancashire; Chesang, 40 years her junior, was raised in a hut in Kenya .
(18) The euro elite insists it is representing the interests of Portuguese or Irish taxpayers who have to pick up the bill for bailing out the feckless Greeks – or will be enraged by any debt forgiveness when they have been forced to swallow similar medicine.
(19) Allelic proportions in 5 Irish tick samples indicated that both spatial and temporal genetic differentiation exist.
(20) It hurts indigenous Irish businesses whose main trade links are with the UK.
Tricolor
Definition:
(n.) The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
(n.) Hence, any three-colored flag.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5.06pm GMT Associated Press journalists in Crimea have spotted a convoy of nine Russian armored personnel carriers and a truck on a road between the port city of Sevastopol and the regional capital, Sinferopol, the news agency reports: The Russian tricolor flags were painted on the vehicles, which were parked on the side of the road near the town of Bakhchisarai, apparently because one of them had mechanical problems.
(2) In this study the effect of standardized freeze times on melanocytes in guinea pig skin (tricolored) is described at the anatomic level and at the light and electron microscopic level.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer Pedro Luna, Santa Cruz fan known as Tricolor Jesus, Recife.
(4) The partly purified calcium-dependent, phospholipid-activated protein kinase from A. tricolor seedlings contains three major protein species (Mr = 84,500, 65,000 and 40,000) which cross-react with antiserum raised against the regulatory domain of bovine brain protein kinase C. Two of these species (Mr = 84,500 and 40,000) were phosphorylated when the preparation was incubated with [gamma-32P] ATP.
(5) Viola tricolor, Frigonella foenum-graecum, Laurus nobilis were shown to reduce the glucose transport.
(6) On the approach to the national stadium in Saint-Denis, which was the target for three suicide bombers almost exactly seven months ago amid terrorist attacks on the capital that killed 130 people , home fans draped tricolors around their shoulders and donned novelty chicken hats, but the usual celebratory air was undercut by a mix of defiance and trepidation.
(7) About 100 heavily armed men, some in balaclavas and wearing military fatigues, rode on top of the seized armoured vehicles, the first of which was flying a Russian tricolor.
(8) Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) is characterized by intense female intrasexual competition and exclusive male parental care.
(9) I support his programme.” Asked if she was convinced by Fillon’s apology, she added: “He can say sorry to whomever he wants – he doesn’t need to apologise to me.” As arguments raged over how many supporters had turned up – team Fillon said 200,000, the media 50,000 – the crowd sang the Marseillaise, waved tricolores and chanted: “Fillon, stay strong, France needs you.” Whatever the true attendance figure, it was clear that France’s centre right is now deeply divided.
(10) The high stakes and the strength of the enemy help to explain why the French intervention was so popular in a country that is proud of its independence and why the French tricolor is being waved in Bamako.
(11) At a hastily convened rally in central Paris, supporters waved tricolore flags and chanted as the man who embodies the hopes of the French centre right took the stage under a volatile sky that perfectly summed up the political mood in France .
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pedro Luna, Santa Cruz fan known as Tricolor Jesus, Recife.
(13) Tricolored mid arm strips can be useful to assess the degree of undernutrition in pregnant women.
(14) Fifteen species of parasites including Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, Ixodes dentatus, Amblyomma americanum, Cediopsylla simplex, Odontopsyllus multispinosus, Cuterebra sp., Obeliscoides cuniculi, Trichostrongylus calcaratus, Trichostrongylus affinis, Longistriata noviberiae, Dermatoxys veligera, Trichuris sp., Mosgovoyia sp., Taenia pisiformis, and Hasstilesia tricolor as well as coccidia oocysts were collected from 96 cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) confined to a pen in southern Illinois in 1983 and 1984.
(15) One bitch (tricolored) was not treated, and the disease has remained active for 2 years.
(16) Its occurrence in Gastrotheca riobambae and in the few juvenile D. tricolor available is still doubtful.
(17) While intrasexual competition for mates is generally considered to be an androgen-dependent characteristic of reproductively active males, in the Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) it is the female that acquires the brighter nuptial plumage and aggressively competes for access to the less aggressive males.
(18) I’m sorry, is this a book about how to be French or a GCSE Tricolore text book?
(19) The sperm axoneme of Hypselodoris tricolor forms from a single centriole that is located initially beneath the plasma membrane and then migrates to the nuclear surface.
(20) In half of the tricolored chimeras, no co-localization of donor crest cells was observed, while, in the other half, a fine intermingling of donor-derived colors had occurred.