(n.) A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(2) The death toll was expected to rise sharply and 20,000 civilians were sheltering in two UN bases in Juba.
(3) Mohamed is also suspected of helping to plan attacks in Somalia and overseas, including an attack intended for the Juba hotel in Mogadishu in August 2010.
(4) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(5) There is no need to cry when you have the potential to dig,” sing the Juba-based dance hall reggae group, the Jay Family, on their latest single Stakal Shedit, which means work hard in Arabic.
(6) On the outskirts of Juba, along a dirt road just past the UN camp, opposition forces clad in new uniforms and boots lined up for a military parade.
(7) Khartoum accuses Juba, the capital of South Sudan, of backing a rebellion in its Darfur region and a separate but linked insurgency in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
(8) Juba resident Gatluak Kual, who has bullet wounds in both arms and a prosthetic foot from the 20-year battle that split Sudan and created an independent south two years ago under President Salva Kiir, says the country is once more at war.
(9) Gambella, one of the poorest regions in one of the most food-insecure countries, was home to more than 76,000 asylum seekers from South Sudan when fighting erupted in Juba in December .
(10) Almost every refugee we speak with has incredibly traumatic tales of what they’ve left behind, [of] these armed groups who are burning down people’s entire homes, sexually assaulting young women and girls, and forcibly recruiting young men.” Fighting has subsided in the capital, Juba, where Human Rights Watch reported women being assaulted outside UN compounds, and the Associated Press said aid workers were raped in their lodgings by government soldiers.
(11) With its troops heavily involved in southern Somalia, suggestions abound that Nairobi may seek to create a permanent buffer zone in the three Somali regions – Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba – abutting Kenya's North Eastern province.
(12) This study investigates antibiotic resistance in gut commensals obtained from children presenting with diarrhoea in Khartoum and Juba, Sudan.
(13) I took immediate sick leave, but left to my own devices in my room and in the hospital in Juba I just wanted to get out of the whole situation.
(14) On 2 May, the UN security council endorsed a plan demanding that Khartoum and Juba cease hostilities, withdraw troops from disputed areas and resume talks within two weeks on all outstanding disputes.
(15) Medical humanitarian organisations have been a constant presence in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, for 30 years,” he says, “and the hospital doesn’t function at all, and the health structure of this new country is quasi non-existent.” The need for radical change seems clear.
(16) The mission’s main base in Juba – the UN House compound – came under fire during the July fighting and three UN personnel have been killed.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Government soldiers line up at a cantonment site at Jebel Makor, about 30km outside Juba.
(18) United Nations Mission in Sudan personnel guard South Sudanese people displaced by fighting in Jabel, on the outskirts of Juba, the South Sudan capital.
(19) Another contributor to the BBC debate in Juba summed up: "We fought as other nations for liberty, freedom, equality and justice.
(20) He also warned that the violence was "turning tribal and they are killing people in Juba".
Mane
Definition:
(n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(2) This feeling of trepidation isn't helped when I spot him, standing out a mile among the post-work drinkers and carefully dressed-down new-media types, not just because of his mane of blond hair but because his face is covered in faded bruising and the remains of a black eye.
(3) Nucleoid supercoiling can be increased by adding oxolinic acid to a strain that carries three topoisomerase mutations: delta topA, gyrB225, and gyrA (Nalr) (S. H. Manes, G. J. Pruss, and K. Drlica, J. Bacteriol.
(4) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(5) Cecil was a 13-year-old lion with a distinctive black mane, and was reportedly lured out of the national park with bait earlier this month, before being killed with a bow and arrow and rifle, before being skinned and beheaded.
(6) There are pictures of it with its huge, black mane draped on their grand piano.
(7) Koeman believes Southampton are braced for another summer in which key players such as Victor Wanyama and Sadio Mane are likely to attract admiring glances themselves.
(8) These data suggest that nocturnal coadministration of ranitidine 300 mg reduces almost completely gastroduodenal lesions evoked by acetylsalicylic acid 300 mg mane.
(9) The shirts-and-jeans combos might not be for everyone, but there's no denying the quiet confidence, the soft but authoritative Scouse accent, the silver mane gelled to stiff peaks ...
(10) What seemed at first a whoa-ful tale to be reined in, has now become a bit of a mare, neigh an un-fetlocked disaster, as it gallops into one of the week's mane stories.
(11) The severity of each foot was assessed before and after corrective treatment according to the classification of Manes et al., 1975.
(12) Now, increasing numbers of moon, compass, blue and lion's mane jellyfish have been reported.
(13) The charity warned that lion's mane jellyfish have a powerful sting and anyone taking part in the survey should look but not touch jellyfish that they see.
(14) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
(15) Palmer, a keen big game hunter who posts pictures of his kills on social media, is said to have paid around $50,000 (£32,000) for the chance to kill Cecil, a protected 13-year-old lion famous for his black-fringed mane, in Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park earlier this month.
(16) Gucci Mane , the rapper who plays Alien's menacing nemesis, was in prison when Korine offered him the job.
(17) If positions coding for the peptide-binding region of the class II beta chains are eliminated from sequence comparisons, the Mane-DRB genes appear to be most closely related to the human (HLA) DRB1 genes of the DRw52 group.
(18) An Ivory Coast fan waits for the start of the Group C football match between Colombia and Ivory Coast at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia during the 2014 World Cup.
(19) - Our results demonstrate for the first time that omeprazole 20 mg mane is superior to ranitidine 150 mg b.i.d.
(20) Only 7 amino acid substitutions exist between the LS174T cell enzyme and the alkaline phosphatase encoded by the germ cell alkaline phosphatase genomic DNA clone isolated by Millan and Manes (Proc.