(n.) In Thibet, Mongolia, etc., a priest or monk of the belief called Lamaism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(2) One constant theme is the wish for the Dalai Lama to return."
(3) Then, Chinese state media dismissed the UK as "an old European country" and criticised Britain's stance on Hong Kong and Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama.
(4) There has been no dialogue between the Chinese government and emissaries of the Dalai Lama since 2010.
(5) The prime minister listened carefully to the cautious Foreign Office voices but will heed Osborne's advice when he declines to raise the issue of the Dalai Lama and Tibet in Beijing.
(6) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
(7) As the Dalai Lama has said: “This blue planet is our only home and Tibet is its roof.
(8) The Dalai Lama is set to deliver a peace lecture via videolink on Saturday.
(9) Osborne paved the way for the a shift in relations with China during a visit to the country last month, during which he heavily emphasised friendship and trade ties, after relations hit a low point in 2012 following Cameron’s meeting with the Dalai Lama.
(10) It may help stave off a possible crisis of leadership in the event of the Dalai Lama's death.
(11) The presence of the Dalai Lama and many other senior lamas in exile stands for the severe manipulation and suppression of religious freedoms in Tibet.
(12) Other cables reveal that: • The Dalai Lama has told US officials that combating climate change is more urgent than finding a political solution in Tibet, which "can wait five to 10 years".
(13) "The Dalai Lama is a splittist," said Niendrak in response to a question about whether he would like the country's spiritual leader to come back.
(14) Blood counts of healthy juvenile and adult llamas (Lama glama) and guanacoes (L guanacoe) showed that guanacoes have higher red cell counts, haemoglobin values and packed cell volumes than llamas.
(15) Though the Dalai Lama has frequently raised environmental issues, he has never publicly suggested that political questions take second place, nor spoken of any timescale with such precision.
(16) "The Dalai Lama's 'middle way' aimed at achieving so-called 'high-degree autonomy' in 'Greater Tibet' is completely opposite to China's constitution and the country's system of regional ethnic autonomy," Yu added, according to Xinhua.
(17) "Without the Dalai Lama, we will not have any legitimacy in the eyes of Tibetans.
(18) Tibetans in Tibet have endured many decades of occupation, repression and loss, as the Chinese party-state has adopted a harsh and systematic approach to silencing Tibetans and suppressing dissent, with leaders calling for support of the Dalai Lama to be “crushed”.
(19) The question of who succeeds the Dalai Lama as spiritual leader will come to a head when he dies.
(20) "The Dalai Lama has … had to prove his democratic intent and ensure that the Tibetan freedom struggle was not a struggle for reinstalling the undemocratic government of the past, but a struggle for self-determination and democratic reforms in Tibet," she said.
Lamia
Definition:
(n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lamia Shakkour reacted angrily to reports she was stepping down in protest at attacks on civilians by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, saying the announcement was "misinformation" and "identity theft".
(2) There’s no disrespect to gays.” Meanwhile: best crackdown Greece: PAS Lamia’s Sierra Leone player John Kamara – suspended by his club on health grounds after his trip to Ebola-free Cameroon – facing sanctions for wearing a protest T-shirt reading: “We are West Africans, We are not a virus.” The FA charged him for breaching its anti-racism code, and plans to rule this week.
(3) It is important to be fair to both parties and the heritage itself.” During this year's meeting Syria’s ambassador to Unesco, Lamia Chakkour, acknowledged damage done to Aleppo, but argued against placing all six sites on the danger list.
(4) In the Lamia Plain, Greece, 12 years after the cessation of DDT spraying, Anopheles sacharovi is still present in very high densities and appears to have the same biting habits and host preferences as previously.
(5) The subfornical organ, the organon vasculosum lamia terminalis, the subcommissural organ, the area postrema all contained significant quantities of both releasing factors.