(n.) The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture.
(n.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.
(n.) One of the asteroids.
Example Sentences:
(1) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(2) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
(3) That’s important, because Ebola is the Isis of biological agents .
(4) If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific [Isis] targets, I will recommend that to the president,” Dempsey said, preferring the term “close combat advising”.
(5) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
(6) Espinosa wrote that time has now come, with 15 of his group of prisoners having been released, six executed, and American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller killed in a bombing of Isis positions last month.
(7) Long-term: The defeat of Isis is a political shaping exercise – you find moderate Sunni leaders, empower and install them in Syria and Iraq.
(8) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
(9) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(10) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(11) The Pentagon leadership suggested to a Senate panel on Tuesday that US ground troops may directly join Iraqi forces in combat against the Islamic State (Isis), despite US president Barack Obama’s repeated public assurances against US ground combat in the latest Middle Eastern war.
(12) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
(13) After an hour or so, a car appeared, and another Isis man drove Abu Ali to a reception house not far away.
(14) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
(15) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
(16) The city council’s community safety team, now responsible for a leaflet campaign urging young Muslims not to join Isis, used to employ 31-year old Mashudur Choudhury as a racial harassment worker.
(17) The US-led air campaign against Isis began on 8 August in Iraq and was extended into Syria in September.
(18) Lahoor Talabani, director of counter terrorism for the Kurdistan Regional Government, said: "According to the intelligence we have, just Britain alone have around 400 to 450 known people fighting amongst the ranks of Isis."
(19) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(20) His comments come the day after David Cameron revealed that an unprecedented aerial strike in Syria had killed two Britons fighting alongside Islamic State (Isis).
Osiris
Definition:
(n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(2) At the time of the blast, Nasa’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft was just a mile away, awaiting its own launch to chase an asteroid.
(3) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.
(4) Results show that OSIRIS can be calibrated against the MRE 113A for a given dust and that the calibration is maintained over the normal working range of 0-40 mg m-3.
(5) To achieve this goal, it was elected to develop a modular and portable software called OSIRIS.
(6) Once calibrated, OSIRIS would be useful in monitoring respirable dust concentrations in a wide range of industrial or laboratory situations.
(7) • Osiris Guzman (Dominican Republic) banned for 30 days, 15 days suspended for six months, fined SFr300.
(8) Its precision was investigated by studying the errors associated with patient repositioning in the apparatus using the computer controlled image scanner OSIRIS.
(9) I hope to use our friendship and excellent collaboration to ameliorate good governance.” 16) Staying humble May 2015: Feeling awkward after the Dominican Republic FA’s head Osiris Guzman (back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal) compares him to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela , Sepp provides some balance.
(10) Yet its hero is a far cry from Jesus, or Osiris, or even Superman – it's the Jade Rabbit, China's lunar rover, which has become a national obsession in recent weeks, inspiring an intense surge of interest and national pride.
(11) Latifa al-Zayyat: al-Bab al-Maftouh (1960) Naguib Mahfouz: Cairo trilogy (1956-57) Colette Khoury: Ayyam Ma'ah (1959) Enayat el-Zayyat: Al-Hubb w'al-Samt (1967) Layla al-Juhani: Jahiliyya (2006) You could argue that the first narrative to emerge from what has come to be called the Middle East was the first love story of all time: the story of Isis and Osiris.
(12) OSIRIS therefore needs to be calibrated against a gravimetric sampler for each dust which it will be used to monitor.
(13) I wish Concacaf unity, and solidarity.” • Among the feedback: Dominican Republic FA head Osiris Guzman , back in the game after his ban in the 2011 Concacaf bribery scandal , comparing Sepp to Moses, Jesus and Nelson Mandela ; Turks and Caicos FA vice-president Olive Smith calling for delegates to vote for Sepp “ en bloc, to continue this mutually beneficial journey ”; and Concacaf president Jeffrey Webb summing up: “Concacaf is – more than ever – united by one vision.” • Also at the event: Concacaf’s executive elections, with Webb and vice-president Captain Horace Burrell re-elected unopposed.
(14) The OSIRIS trial suggests that early administration of surfactant to an estimated 32 babies, when compared with treatment of established RDS, would prevent 1 baby from dying and another from being dependent on extra oxygen long-term, but would entail the additional use of surfactant in 8 of these babies.
(15) It was the Trinidad & Tobago FA president, Raymond Tim Kee, who praised Blatter as the “father of football”, while the president of the Dominican Republic federation, Osiris Guzman, compared the 79-year-old Swiss to Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King as well as Jesus and Mandela.
(16) This annual miracle was ascribed to the tears of the goddess Isis mourning her murdered husband Osiris, and its effect was a safe prediction of what lay in store for the people of the valley: midscale meant a plentiful harvest, too much water spelled out death by flood, too little warned of famine and starvation.
(17) A short screening interview for the diagnosis of alcoholism has been developed with the assistance of the automatic interaction detector (AID) program (a multivariate sequential analysis strategy) that is part of the OSIRIS statistical package.
(18) If there are SpaceX mission delays, other cargo spacecraft will be able to meet the station’s needs, and supplies and research investigations are at good levels.” The Nasa statement said the rocket and spacecraft for its next scheduled launch with SpaceX, Osiris-Rex , were “healthy and secure” at a launch site a mile away from the site of the explosion.
(19) Eight premature infants ventilated for hyaline membrane disease and enrolled in the OSIRIS surfactant trial were studied.
(20) Isis, the mother of mankind, does not just mourn the slaying and dismembering of her husband Osiris by his evil brother, Seth; she embarks on a journey to find his 14 body parts, scattered throughout the land of Egypt.