(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.
Vishnu
Definition:
(n.) A divinity of the modern Hindu trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vishnu Tatikonda, a 33-year-old electrician from Karimnagar district in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said he paid 65,000 INR (£645) to an agent in India for a visa, tickets and a placement with a subcontractor for a major construction firm in Qatar who would pay him a monthly salary of 1,200 QAR (£205).
(2) "The upside surprise in China's manufacturing PMI is welcome, and should help quell excessive fears of a 'hard landing' in China ," said Vishnu Varathan, an economist with Mizuho in Singapore.
(3) These results indicate that Vishnu promotes increased cleavage rates of embryos in vitro.
(4) Vishnu Sharma, the president of the Indian Workers' Association, Southall, said in a statement that "if anyone would have liked to see the police state in total operation he should have been in Southall today."
(5) We're working closely with local authorities to address the situation," Google's head of communications for Indonesia , Vishnu Mahmud said in a statement to the AFP.
(6) Cells were cultured in various concentrations of three different amphipathic peptides (SB-37, Shiva-1, and Vishnu), and enhanced proliferation was determined by uptake of 3H-thymidine with treated cells compared with control cultures.
(7) Statistical analysis revealed that culture in all three levels of Vishnu significantly accelerated in vitro growth of these stages of preimplantation embryos compared with controls.
(8) The suggestions received by the panel in the past few months have ranged from the outlandish – a London Eye-like installation called the Sudarshan Chakra, the spinning disc of death wielded by the god Vishnu – to the everyday: most people asked for parks and promenades and water transport.
(9) They were Michael Arnold, 59; Sylvia Frasier, 53; Kathy Gaarde, 62; John Roger Johnson, 73; Frank Kohler, 50; Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46; and Vishnu Pandit, 61.
(10) The primary study consisted of 263 four-cell- to eight-cell-stage mouse embryos from naturally bred mice and incubated in Whitten's medium containing 0.2, 1, or 10 microM of the amino terminus of an amphipathic cecropin B analog (Vishnu) or in Whitten's medium alone.
(11) Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of Trabala vishnu Lef.
(12) Villagers frequently stumble across finds, recently some bronze, copper and sandstone statues of Hindu gods Vishnu, Shiva and Lakshmi.
(13) The crown alleges that he, Zac King, 21, Vishnu Wood, 23, Jack Locke, 18, and Colin Goff, 24, took part in violent disorder which engulfed parts of central London on a day when a minority of participants in a 10,000-strong protest clashed with police.
(14) The curious thing is that the very people who would indulge in such gold-medal winning bouts of sneering are also the ones who would venerate the culinary culture of the Dordogne or Burgundy; who would build a shrine to the books of Elizabeth David , complete with candles and incense, as if she were Jesus, Buddha and Vishnu rolled into one.