(1) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(2) Abbott told parliament last week’s police raids came after “an Australian [Isis] operative instructed his followers to pluck people from the street to demonstrate that they could, in his words, ‘kill kaffirs’ ”.
(3) One senior contractor told me, on condition of anonymity, that a South African contractor told him killing an Iraqi was just like "shooting a kaffir".
(4) There are already people who think of us as kaffirs [infidels], and a primetime documentary airing these opinions will only inflame that view and provide justification for sectarian hatred and violence."
(5) Plush sofas, theatrical curtains and funky lighting from competing chandeliers give the place an aesthetic that serves as the perfect setting for fusion martinis such as Rozameltini (pisco, kaffir lime and fresh blueberry juice, £8) or Mirotini (Grand Marnier, pisco, passion fruit and raspberry juice, £4.80).
(6) Her dinner companion, who describes herself as a 16 years old, replied: “uh wanna behead some kaffirs [non Muslims] now”.
(7) And Wally Serote, a leading poet and writer, suggested the painting was no different to labelling black people "kaffirs" – a highly offensive term.
(8) • iheartfalafel.com Carte Blanche Pretty much defying categories, this ultra-cute trailer's owner, Jessie, says the style of cooking is "completely our own", mixing it up with a dizzying range of eclectic components: kaffir lime leaves in coconut milk to rosemary beets and beer-braised ribs.
(9) "They say: 'You're just a kaffir, an American collaborator," he says.
(10) During Nelson Mandela's presidency, he notes, "it was the only city in which he was met with a placard that referred to him with the K-word [the taboo term "kaffir"].
(11) A friend heard a white fan, at Pretoria's Loftus Versfeld stadium, insult an official repeatedly with the word " kaffir " when he was prevented from bringing his own beer into the stadium.
(12) After 2013, he returned and began calling all those around him ‘kaffirs’ [unbelievers],” his brother says.
Millet
Definition:
(n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with diabetes mellitus, the duration of wound treatment in use of the millet oil reduced by 16 days when compared to that in using the sea-buckthorn oil.
(2) Twenty-four wethers had ad libitum access to a total forage diet (pearl millet forage), water and trace mineralized salt.
(3) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
(4) The antibodies were tested against whole wheat gliadin and its alpha, beta, gamma, and omega subfractions, and the prolamins of rye, barley, oats, maize, millet, rice, and sorghum.
(5) F. napiforme and F. nygamai also may be important because of their association with the food grains millet and sorghum.
(6) Hays offered included two sorghum-sudan, four barley, four oat and two pearl millet.
(7) The Glasgow Boys went after this mood with a will and set up temporary homes among the red-tiled roofs of the rural east – Cockburnspath was by no means their only base – to prospect for scenes that would do justice to an imagination fired by their heroes Corot , Millet and Bastien-Lepage.
(8) Staple foodstuffs with a high buffer content (unmilled rice, unrefined wheat and a millet [ragi]) placed in the stomach after pyloric ligation are also protective, but those with a low buffer content (milled rice, tapioca, sorghum and maize) are not protective.
(9) The conventional wisdom is that trees compete with crops, but FMNR has increased millet harvests from 430kg to 750kg a hectare, according to World Vision, which supports 39,000 hectares (96,000 acres) of FMNR in Kaffrine.
(10) Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, and incidence and levels of aflatoxin B1.
(11) A replicated 4 x 4 Latin square digestion trial was conducted to determine apparent nutrient digestibilities and N and energy balances for soft red winter wheat, Beagle 82 triticale, Florico triticale, and pearl millet using finishing pigs fitted with ileal T-cannulas.
(12) Another new nitrosamine, N-2-methylpropyl-N-methylacetonyl nitrosamine, was isolated in millet and wheat flour after similar treatment.
(13) It found they have lost much of their harvested crops of rice, maize, wheat and millet, and seeds for future planting, which are now buried under collapsed homes.
(14) Cross-reactivity between rice, wheat, corn, Japanese millet and Italian millet in Poaceae family were studied by absorption test, radioallergosorbent test (RAST), and RAST inhibition assay.
(15) Daily gains of steers were similar with both forages except in 1975 when those fed on pearl millet grew 19 per cent faster than those on Guinea grass.
(16) Accelerated natural lactic fermentation in mixtures of water and ground sorghum, millet and pigeon pea was obtained by gradual selection of lactic acid bacteria, through inoculum recycling.
(17) The author visited China in 1981 and 1984 and obtained data comparing the incidence of duodenal ulcer in the rice eating districts of the south with the incidence in the wheat, maize and millet eating areas of the north.
(18) Chemical nature and biological activity of miliacine that is contained in millet oil have been studied.
(19) Mixed culture fermentation of pearl millet flour with Saccharomyces diastaticus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus fermentum brought about an improvement in its biological utilisation in rats.
(20) Consumption of millet gruel was associated positively with EC, in a dose-response relationship.