(n.) A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.
(2) Junior doctors contract row: an explainer Read more “This is not a decision that we have taken lightly, but the government’s refusal to work with us through genuine negotiations and their threat to impose new contracts that we believe are unsafe for patients and unfair for doctors, leaves us with few options”, said Dr Johann Malawana, chair of the JDC.
(3) Fresh evidence of Independent journalist Johann Hari's habit of alleged plagiarism has emerged from a lengthy interview with Afghan women's rights activist Malalai Joya in July 2009.
(4) Read more “Shoving an offer in front of our noses at the eleventh hour says a lot about how the secretary of state has handled this over the past three months,“ Dr Johann Malawana, the chair of the BMA’s junior doctors, said.
(5) If that attitude could sometimes frustrate senior editors’ desire to raise standards – if it could, in the end, be blamed for the calamitous failure to spot the misdeeds of Johann Hari – it was also the only thing that kept the paper from falling apart completely: an irresistibly romantic underdog spirit, a sense that since this plainly wasn’t a viable business, it had to be a cause.
(6) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(7) Physicians at the Medical Clinic at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, compared data on 6 18-35 year old healthy women who took low-dose estrogen oral contraceptives (OCs) with data on 10 healthy women of same age who did not take OCs and with data on 12 18-35 year old males to examine gender differences of the coagulation system, endogenous fibrinolytic activity, and platelet aggregation under normal conditions and immediately after spiroergometric exercise beyond the anaerobic threshold.
(8) The award-winning Independent columnist Johann Hari has apologised for plagiarising the work of others to improve his interviews and will take unpaid leave of absence from the paper until 2012.
(9) Polio and malaria Heart disease and stroke Malaria and HIV A study in the journal Nature, led by Johannes Lelieveld, director of the Max Planck Institute for chemistry in Germany, said more people now die from air pollution than malaria and HIV combined.
(10) Three productions that had been scheduled for later this season are being scrapped: Johann Christian Bach's Endimione, Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
(11) Johann Malawana, the chair of the BMA’s junior doctors’ committee, will be pressed to reveal the broad outlines of a potential deal when he addresses the BMA’s junior doctors annual conference in London on Saturday.
(12) These are, in chronological order, Johann August Wilhelm Hedenus (the elder; 1760-1834), Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861) and Eduard Zeis (1807-1868); Zeis' career is reviewed briefly here with the accent on Dresden.
(13) Johann Hari, who has written for the Independent over the past decade, s aid in a blogpost entitled "Interview etiquette" , written late on Monday, that when "I've interviewed a writer" he had "occasionally" chosen to quote "the idea as they expressed it in writing, rather than how they expressed it in speech" to make their thoughts clearer.
(14) Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader, said Scotland was "in the grip of a national crisis".
(15) However, it was not until 1808 that an eye clinic was established there, by Johann Nepomuk Fischer; the clinic was incorporated into the university in 1820.
(16) "Our task is to balance the industrial lobbies," says Johannes Kleis, a spokesman for Beuc.
(17) A new team has reportedly been set up at Apple under the control of the former Ford executive Steve Zadesky and former chief executive of Mercedes-Benz’s research and development Johann Jungwirth.
(18) Simon Kelner, the editor-in-chief of the Independent, described the online plagiarism row over star columnist Johann Hari as "politically motivated" and "fabricated anger" at lunchtime on Wednesday.
(19) Protagonists of the method included Ambroise Paré, Thomas Fienus, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Julius Casserius, and Johannes Scultetus.
(20) Senator Mike Johanns said: “I just worry that we are on a sugar high.” He said stock market investors had become too dependent on the Fed programme and it was hyping certain assets, including stocks and housing.
John
Definition:
(n.) A proper name of a man.
Example Sentences:
(1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(2) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(3) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(4) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(6) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
(7) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(8) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
(9) The others were two Britons, Mark Cox and John Barrett (now both BBC commentators) and the US player Jim McManus.
(10) John Large, a leading nuclear consultant, said: "The HSE as an independent agency will come under tremendous pressure to push through these designs.
(11) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(12) It is the biggest privatisation since John Major sold the railways in the 1990s.
(13) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(14) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
(16) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Imogen and her father, John Hull, before he lost his sight.
(18) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(19) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
(20) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.