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Juvenal


Definition:

  • (n.) A youth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He read Virgil , Ovid , Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations.
  • (2) The indictment alleges that Mr Bikindi consulted with President Juvenal Habyarimana over song lyrics before passing the compositions on to Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM), a privately owned station set up specifically to broadcast anti-Tutsi propaganda.
  • (3) This is the conference given by Jorge Mardones, Emeritus Professor of the University of Chile on the occasion of receiving the Juvenal Hernández award.
  • (4) Juvenal's Sixteen Satire s, translated by Peter Green with illustrations by David Hughes, is published on 15 August by the Folio Society.
  • (5) "A foul-tempered Woody Allen," said the headline in the Times review of Juvenalia ; "if Lenny Bruce had not been a Jewish junkie," opined the Financial Times, "he might have turned out a little like Juvenal."
  • (6) When Peter Green walked into my dressing room at the Bush theatre on the last night of the London run, he hailed me with one word: "Juvenal!"
  • (7) Richard's adaptation cannily steered a clear path through Juvenal's obsessions – fear and loathing in the Forum – revealing at every turn how weirdly contemporary it all seemed: the rampant sex, the cupidity, the triumph of mediocrity, the social injustice.
  • (8) There was a vacancy for a scapegoat, however, and after being at first included on a shortlist of Barbosa, Juvenal and Bigode – Brazil's three black players – Barbosa got the job.
  • (9) Every one was a rave for the show, for me, and for Juvenal.
  • (10) He was a member of the elite inner circle or "Akazu" around President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose death sparked the slaughter by Hutus of about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
  • (11) France's leading anti-terrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, has accused Rwanda's Tutsi president, Paul Kagame, and other leaders of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) that overthrew the genocidal regime, of prompting the slaughter by assassinating the Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana.
  • (12) Illustration by David Hughes taken from The Folio Society edition of The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal.
  • (13) This aimed to overthrow Rwanda's Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, and engineer a return to their home country.
  • (14) At some unknown time during Vespasian's reign, Juvenal moved to Rome, where he may have studied with the great literary critic and master of rhetoric, Quintilian.
  • (15) The moment Richard Quick picked up Peter Green's translation of Juvenal's 16 Satires , he saw its theatrical potential.
  • (16) When the genocide was set in motion by the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana, Rutaganda swiftly helped mobilise the interahamwe to man roadblocks and lead house to house searches for victims.
  • (17) Before Richard chanced on Green's translation, neither he nor I had known much about Juvenal beyond the famous tags – a healthy mind in a healthy body, bread and circuses, who will guard the guards themselves?
  • (18) France had close ties to the government of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu who was killed when his plane was shot down in 1994.
  • (19) Hutu militias carried out the mass slaughter of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus between April and June 1994, triggered by the shooting down of a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana .
  • (20) President Juvenal Habyarimana bowed to demands for greater political freedom and new parties promptly sprang up, including some that were militantly anti-Tutsi.

Plumage


Definition:

  • (n.) The entire clothing of a bird.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Body-plumage of hens moulted at 11 degrees C was 25% heavier than of hens moulted at 29 degrees C. 3.
  • (2) Distinctive for its embroidered yellow plumage, the honeyeater is considered a “flagship” species: the most marketable of a group of endangered animals that share a habitat.
  • (3) For all loci the genotype suppressing colour was associated with less plumage deterioration, this being highly significant for loci C and S. 5.
  • (4) The plumage represented 5-8% of the total body weight, and its iron content oscillated between 152-163 p.p.m.
  • (5) Recent studies have employed the plumage carotenoids to test hypotheses of genetic divergence, to relate plumage color to environmental process, and to demonstrate the influence of synthetic changes on color.
  • (6) Afterward, as the ducks began to acquire adult feathers, short-chain wax esters composed of 2- and 4-monomethyl fatty acids began to appear with 2-methylhexanoyl and 4-methylhexanoyl as the major acyl components; esters of short-chain monomethyl fatty acids (less than or equal to C12) constituted 90% of the lipids when the ducks were 2 months old and had acquired adult plumage.
  • (7) Back in early 2013, shortly after Cruz’s arrival in the Senate, McCain had deemed him and colleagues with similarly flamboyant conservative plumage “wacko birds”.
  • (8) The negative influences comprise disorders in social behaviour, loss of typical plumage functions and disabilities of normal mobility, as well as genetic defects and pathogenic predispositions.
  • (9) An investigation was conducted among the progeny from crosses between Exchequer Leghorn and Ancona bantams into the relationship between two plumage phenotypes, pied and mottled, both of which are arrangements of non-pigmentation expressed on a background of eumelanin.
  • (10) The genetic basis for plumage color of the Blue Andalusian breed was studied.
  • (11) Data are presented on the genetics of the plumage color of the Villafranquina, a breed of Spanish chicken representing a black-tailed red type of the columbian restriction pattern.
  • (12) Groups of 3-5 homing pigeons individually recognizable by different colours of their plumage were followed by helicopter on their way home.
  • (13) Changes in testicular size and plumage molt were monitored at regular intervals during the 12-week period.
  • (14) Heart weights, plasma corticosterone levels, durations of tonic immobility (TI), and plumage conditions were compared for top and bottom birds in the dominance ranks.
  • (15) The greater part of these plumage modifications is generally of interest for exhibition poultry fancy.
  • (16) Modifications of the plumage and specific feather malformations, as developed during the domestication process of different poultry species are described.
  • (17) Mercury exposure in Western Europe is not excessive, as shown by the relatively low levels in the summer plumage.
  • (18) Growth rate, egg number, egg and adult body weight, plumage condition, food intake and efficiency of laying hens were compared in birds differing in plumage colour genotype at five loci (C, I, S, Ig, B).
  • (19) All birds on long days moulted into adult plumage, whereas those on short days retained juvenile plumage.
  • (20) Some birds lack colored spots and show pure white plumage.

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