(a.) Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Italy.
(n.) The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.
Example Sentences:
(1) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
(2) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(3) Compared to the data produced by the Lipid Research Clinics (USA), coronary risk appeared higher for all the surveyed factors in the Italian general population, and particularly in bank employees.
(4) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
(5) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(6) Serum C1 esterase inhibitor was determined in 138 members of 18 italian families with hereditary angioedema by immunochemical and enzymatic assays.
(7) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
(8) The Calabrian and Albanian populations were similar, but significantly different from other Italian populations.
(9) The Eurostoxx banking index was up 1.7% Shares in Italy’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, were suspended after falling 15% after the EBA revealed it was one of nine Italian institutions to fail the tests.
(10) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
(11) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
(12) Of 242 north Italian heroin addicts, 24 (9.9%) were HBsAg positive.
(13) In this paper an Italian cooperative trial investigates the role of a high-dose regimen with carboplatin, etoposide and ifosfamide in germ cell tumours.
(14) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
(15) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
(16) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(17) It details a meeting between Meara and Fabrizio Nava, director of the office of sub-Saharan Africa assistance for the Italian government.
(18) The red blood cell (RBC) glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity and routine haematological parameters were measured in 38 healthy north Italian full-term pregnant women and in their newborn infants.
(19) After the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, threatened to veto a deal with Turkey, a reference to media freedom was added to the final summit statement.
(20) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
Scylla
Definition:
(n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
(2) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
(3) The input properties and the response to stretch of a coxal receptor, the S fibre of the crab Scylla serrata, were studied using two and three intracellular microelectrodes.
(4) Some are snatching at “ No free movement ” as a red line in the Brexit negotiations, as if anti-immigration might save them between the Scylla and Charibdis of Ukip and Momentum.
(5) The therapist must be prepared to steer between the Scylla of ignorance about the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in the mentally retarded and the Charybdis of financial disincentives for human service agencies to collaborate in their care.
(6) Hunt, a gifted and ambitious politician, is stuck between the rock-like Scylla of industry lobbyists and the Charybdis whirlpool of public opinion, which now supports sugar regulation.
(7) The gross structure and neuronal elements of the first optic ganglion of two crabs, Scylla serrata and Leptograpsus variegatus, are described on the basis of Golgi (selective silver) and reduced silver preparations.
(8) The binding of oxygen and carbon monoxide to hemocyanin from the mangrove crab Scylla serrata and the lobster Homarus americanus has been studied by thin-layer optical absorption and front face fluorescence techniques.
(9) What has become clear subsequently is that the eurozone crisis is similar to Scylla, the monster that devoured many of Odysseus’s men: a many-headed beast.
(10) "It seems that Aston Villa have moved to address their over-reliance on young, inexperienced lower league players by signing a young, inexperienced player from Ligue 2 (Yacouba Scylla from Clermont Ferrand)," says Jeremy Smith.
(11) In the invertebrate (Scylla serrata) MT, similar studies have revealed that the 6 g-atoms of bound Cd2+ are distributed in two distinct 3-metal clusters while in Neurospora MT, the 3 g-atoms of bound Cd2+ are arranged in a pseudo 3-metal cluster.
(12) In Uca lacteus de Haan, Scylla serrata Forskal and Ocypode platytarsis Milne Edwards, the apparent molecular weight of cuticular phenoloxidase is higher than that of blood phenoloxidase, whereas the molecular weights of cuticular phenoloxidase isozymes of Emerita emeritus L. are lower than those of blood phenoloxidase isozymes.
(13) The highest concentrations of phospholipid, neutral lipid and fatty acids were observed in the R cells and connective tissue of the hepatopancreas of Scylla serrata.
(14) The coordination environments of the cadmium ions in crab metallothionein were investigated by using 113Cd-NMR, and compared with 113Cd-NMR spectra of rabbit liver MT-II and Scylla serrata MT-I.
(15) A novel agglutinin with specificity for sialic acid sequence of sugars in thyroglobulin is identified in the hemolymph of Scylla serrata.
(16) The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism,” Shelley wrote in 1821, blaming inequality and disorder on the “unmitigated exercise of the calculating faculty”.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 9.42am GMT "If Jeremy Smith is right about the Villa having signed a player called Scylla, might their next acquisition be one called Charybdis, to please classics buffs?"
(18) phosphorylase, aldose, alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (alpha-GPDH) and lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) and a key enzyme of the pentose phosphatase cycle, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH), in the hepatopancreas of Scylla serrata (Forskal).
(19) Biochemical studies on the male reproductive tissues and seminal secretions have been made with reference to sperm metabolism and different stages of maturity in the crab Scylla serrata.
(20) In the crab scylla tranquebarica, bleeding stress is characterized by changes in proteins, lactic acid and water content of muscles, hepatopancreas and haemolymph.