(n.) A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) Not even the Bible account claims that the Israelites were employed as slaves to build the pyramids as they are in Hollywood.
(3) Thursday’s shooting took place during Sukkot, a weeklong festival that celebrates the autumn harvest and commemorates the wandering of the ancient Israelites through the desert following the exodus from Egypt.
(4) Indeed, many political analysts and opinion leaders worldwide describe him as the Biblical Joshua who took the mantle of leadership from Moses just as the Israelites were on the verge of entering Canaan and capably established the then fugitives in the Promised Land.” For now, the hundreds of thousands of fugitives forced from their homes and scattered around the young country have little more than hope and, if they are lucky, some food rations.
(5) The Israelites would just have said to themselves: “That Moses.
(6) It is not even an unwillingness on our part, our hearts hardened towards the unemployed like a Pharoah’s towards the Israelites.
(7) Moses shrinks from his task, as the Israelites themselves shrink from his leadership and grumble as he leads them into the desert.
(8) Joel Edgerton will play Ramses, the Egyptian pharaoh who orders that all newborn boys be thrown into the Nile through fear of the Israelites' growing population.
(9) The American civil rights movement could be seen as an attempt to re-imagine black Americans as Israelite slaves, led out of bondage to the promised land.
(10) The night ended with Tony James and Sham 69 singing The Israelites with Misty in Roots, and it was so celebratory because the gang had gone.
(11) Director: Terry Jones Entertainment grade: A History grade: C Monty Python's Life of Brian follows the story of Brian Cohen, a half-Roman, half-Israelite man, living in Judea in AD 33, on a Saturday afternoon, at around teatime.
(12) All patients were of Israelite-Sephardin origin except two (Armenian and French); they were from North-Africa (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria) and Israël.
(13) Christians and Jews are taught that Moses parted the Red Sea and led the Israelites to the promised land.
(14) He is horrified when God tells him to return to Egypt and lead the Israelites out, and arranges for his brother Aaron to be the front man and deliver the speeches.
(15) Its obviousness was appropriately mocked by Christopher Hitchens, but my imagination hears the response of the Israelites to Moses in the voice of Basil Fawlty: "Oh I SEE.
(16) It is not the Israelites leaving Egypt – Moses and Aaron are nowhere to be seen.
(17) The dying man is Holofernes, an enemy of the Israelites in the Old Testament, and the young woman beheading him is Judith, his divinely appointed assassin.
Samson
Definition:
(n.) An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samson d’Souza and Placido Carvalho were alleged to have plied Scarlett with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious on the beach, where she subsequently drowned.
(2) This review by Herman Samson and Adron Harris covers these recent findings, with the intent of generating questions that will focus further research efforts.
(3) That latest ankle injury – witnessed by Capello – will deny Cole a chance to overtake Kenny Samson as England's most capped full-back.
(4) Two local men, Placido Carvalho and Samson D'Souza, have been charged in connection with the murder, which was seen as a watershed for Goa's tourism industry.
(5) We therefore conclude that the Laerdal resuscitator is superior to the Samson one in the management of infants with birth asphyxia.
(6) It was identified as Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson (IMI 213487) and shown to be pathogenic for the rabbit cornea.
(7) Son and another heir Murdoch family tree update ... the world's most successful media mogul, Rupert Murdoch , has another grandchild to add to his swelling ranks of descendents after daughter Elisabeth gave birth on Saturday to a baby boy, Samson.
(8) The method appears to be useful for mapping functional neural pathways on the basis of evoked metabolic responses (Plum, Gjedde and Samson, 1976).
(9) A tweet from the writer Polly Samson last night reported that Freud's regular table in The Wolseley restaurant was laid with a black tablecloth and a single candle in his honour.
(10) Fluorescence parameters were reported earlier to be reliable indicators in the determination of heavy metal toxicity in algal cultures (Samson and Popovic, 1988).
(11) Gilmour has "done a lead on at least one [track]," she said, and Samson, who co-wrote seven of The Division Bell's tracks, described herself on Twitter as one of The Endless River's lyricists.
(12) Two local men, Samson D'Souza, 28, and Placido Carvalho, 36, face a number of charges, including culpable homicide, sexual assault, outraging modesty and destroying evidence.
(13) Pete Samson from The Sun – who is always well informed – reported on 10 May under the headline America loves Cheryl Cole that "Cheryl Cole dazzled America with her US X Factor debut, with co-judge Paula Abdul declaring her 'lovely' and FOUR contestants asking for her phone number."
(14) Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson, a saphrophyte that has contaminated laboratory solutions, was cultured.
(15) A large ophthalmic artery aneurysm was ligated using a modification of the retrograde suction technique described by Batjer and Samson.
(16) A comparison of the life story of a psychotherapy patient to that of biblical Samson reveals that both men suffer from a behavioural disturbance, manifested in the compulsion to re-enact the experience of betrayal by women, followed by destructive attacks of rage against others, and ultimately against their own tormented selves.
(17) Its giant Samson and Goliath cranes will have to be moved out of their current positions along tracks to the end of the building dock for the estimated 50 days of work on the Blackford Dolphin rig.
(18) Gen. Genet, 157:1-9, 1977; L. Samson and J. Cairns, Nature (London) 267:281-283, 1977].
(19) No correlation was found between the prevalence of mites in foxes and Samson character.
(20) Updated at 9.14am GMT 5.56am GMT New Zealand Adrienne Samson, a senior lecturer at the Auckland University, told the Guardian about their event this morning.