(n.) One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Art is not yet in so high an estimation with us, as to obtain so great a sacrifice as the ancients made, especially the Grecians; who suffered themselves to be represented naked, whether they were generals, lawgivers, or kings."
Solon
Definition:
(n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My 2002 paper did not criticise the hypothesis that inequality and intergenerational immobility are related, but rather supported it," Solon added.
(2) In a separate submission to governments, Pablo Solon , Bolivia's ambassador to the UN, claimed that industrialised countries were filling all the available atmosphere with carbon pollution, and preventing poor countries from developing.
(3) "Important improvements have been made", said Pablo Solon, the Bolivian ambassador to the UN.
(4) Solon was a surprise choice – he was the first academic to question whether the US, a highly unequal society, was really a land of opportunity 20 years ago.
(5) "The new data shows a frightening chasm between what the science says, what the people have asked for and Earth needs, and what rich countries are saying they are willing to do," said Bolivian ambassador, Pablo Solon.
(6) But the government pointed to a 2002 paper by Gary Solon, a professor at Michigan State University, which it claimed had raised doubts over whether there was a link between high levels of income inequality and low levels of social mobility.
(7) Solon was also gastroprotective for the stomach as it reduced dose dependently the gastric necrotic lesions induced by absolute ethanol given orally.
(8) Solon, a synthetic isoprenyl flavonoid derived from sophoradin isolated from the root of an ancient Chinese plant, administered orally to rats, prevented, dose-dependently, the formation of acute gastric lesions produced by absolute ethanol given orally.
(9) Panel maker Solyndra, has sought protection from its creditors in the US despite receiving $500m of subsidies from the government, and Solon of Germany is filing for insolvency.
(10) "With the current pledges on the table, we have calculated that the Annex 1 (industrialised) nations are going to spend the whole [carbon] budget of the next 40 years in the next 10 years," Solon said.
(11) The effect of a new antiulcer drug, solon (sofalcone), on gastric mucus viscosity, permeability to hydrogen ion and degradation by pepsin was investigated using an in vitro system.
(12) We're running a strongly worded article from the Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon, tomorrow.
(13) Olivia Solon asks whether you have given Pokémon Go full access to everything in your Google account.
(14) Sounds like if I could have voted in the UK, I would not be voting for (Nick Clegg)," Solon said.
(15) It is not a base of negotiations," said Pablo Solon, Bolivia's ambassador to the UN.
(16) Pretreatment with indomethacin partly prevented the gastroprotective effects of Solon.
(17) The ulcer-healing action of Solon was probably related to the stimulation of mucus-alkaline secretion, increased mucosal blood flow and the formation of a protective barrier on the ulcer base.
(18) The results obtained here under in vitro conditions suggest that solon, by inhibiting peptic erosion of the mucus layer, increasing its viscosity and enhancing the ability to impede the hydrogen ion penetration, strengthens the gastric mucosal integrity and thus could aid in ulcer healing.
(19) Permeability measurements showed that 2.2 X 10(-2) M solon increased the retardation ability of mucus to hydrogen ion by 32%, while 43% increase was obtained with 2.2 X 10(-1) M solon.
(20) Both reports were severe in their criticism of a department which had unlawfully imprisoned an Australian, Cornelia Rau , for many months, and which had deported Vivian Solon , also Australian, to the Philippines.