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Krishna


Definition:

  • (n.) The most popular of the Hindoo divinities, usually held to be the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Adenyl cyclase activity was estimated by the amount of 14-C-cyclic AMP produced out of adenine-8-14C by the Kuo and Krishna's method.
  • (2) Krishna Gyawali, the most senior local official, said at least eight people had been killed there and more than 100 injured.
  • (3) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
  • (4) His performance more rooted in Nepal's Got Talent than in his Brahmin caste, Krishna prays and applies tika to my forehead in a small puja .
  • (5) Krishna Upadhyaya, 52, and Ghimire Gundev, 36, arrived in Qatar on 27 August to research a forthcoming report on the working and living conditions of Nepalese migrant workers in the Gulf emirate.
  • (6) He grew his hair and a beard, slept on friends' floors, and sometimes went to a Hare Krishna temple for free meals.
  • (7) In kathak, he says, the male dancer reflects the icon Krishna, with long hair.
  • (8) Only my eyes are a different shape Krishna Linarda “Circumstances now are very different to May ’98.
  • (9) In August, a follower of Hare Krishna in southern Russia was charged with illegal missionary activity for telling passersby on the street about his beliefs and handing out literature.
  • (10) Doyle told the inquest that the email, sent to all officers at the station last year, said Greg Anderson could often be found at Luke's football matches; that he frequented a particular Hare Krishna temple; that there was an address in St Kilda where he might have been living; and contained the name and phone number of his solicitor.
  • (11) One hundred percent of the houses are collapsed in the village but luckily only three people died, as all the people had gone to field for planting maize,” said Krishna Kumar Karki, of the Jhume village development committee.
  • (12) If they don't want to respect human rights, they should not hold these events," said Yuvraj Ghimire, the younger brother of one of the men, Krishna Upadhyaya.
  • (13) As the head of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund put it, “We are quite convinced that if John D Rockefeller were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.” This is the rough equivalent of the Pope appearing at his Vatican window in saffron robes to tell the crowd below he’s now a Hare Krishna, or Richard Dawkins showing up at Lourdes in a bathing suit.
  • (14) The treated groups comprised 10 White Leghorn and 10 Krishna-J cocks.
  • (15) The concerns of the people of Telangana were mainly economic, including the distribution of resources – such as river water, as the headwaters of the Krishna and Godavari rivers were in Telangana but the planned irrigation projects at coastal Andhra.
  • (16) Previously there were so many illegal activities, but nowadays [the recruitment agencies] are very careful," said Krishna Hari Pushkar, the department's new director general.
  • (17) Tourism ministry spokesman Mohan Krishna Sapkota said the climbers were all Nepalese and were preparing the route to the summit ahead of the summer climbing season which kicks off later this month.
  • (18) In a retrospective study undertaken from June 1, 1987, to May 31, 1990, data was obtained from the Neonatal Care Section of Krishna Hospital, Karad, District Satara, in south western Maharashtra.
  • (19) They meet yards from the temple complex in Vrindavan built where Krishna, one of the most popular gods in the Hindu pantheon, supposedly spent his childhood.
  • (20) Mohan Krishna Sapkota, at the Nepali Ministry of Tourism, said a final decision would be taken by ministers.

River


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rives or splits.
  • (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
  • (n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
  • (v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (4) Infection level increased sharply in the age-group 6-10 years old among people residing far from the rivers.
  • (5) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
  • (6) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
  • (7) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
  • (8) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (9) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
  • (10) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
  • (11) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (12) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
  • (13) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
  • (14) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
  • (15) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
  • (16) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
  • (17) Larval populations from the three rivers were genetically distinct.
  • (18) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
  • (19) This polymorphism enabled us to differentiate a Hudson River population from that encountered in the Maine rivers.
  • (20) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.

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