(n.) The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
(n.) A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once out of the army, he took the advice of Leo Amery that it cost money to have principles in politics, and set about amassing some.
(2) The TV campaign, created by ad agency Leo Burnett, uses imagery and motifs more closely associated with Christmas than summer.
(3) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(4) The group comprised 29 pumas (Felis concolor), 32 lions (Panthera leo), 27 tigers (P tigris), 19 leopards (P pardus), 18 jaguars (P onca) and 22 cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).
(5) Leo Gerard, international president of the USW steelworkers' union, said the weak yuan risked allowing China to dominate the emerging green technology sector.
(6) Effects of the K+ channel blocking agent, glyburide, on the actions of two K+ channel openers, BRL 34915 (cromakalim) and P 1060 (Leo), a potent pinacidil derivative (N-(t-butyl)-N"-cyano-N'-3-pyridyl-guanidine), were ascertained.
(7) Here’s the judge in full flight : ‘Speak for England!’ cried out Leo Amery, and the Attorney-General for the State of Victoria seems to have decided to speak not just for Victoria, but for all Australia.
(8) O’Brien’s successor as archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, said: “I am confident that the decision of the Holy Father is fair, equitable and proportionate.
(9) The idea of writing this book came to me while doing research for an educational pack on Holocaust art and I came across a series of prints by Leo Haas.
(10) The results of these measurements are used to calculate the aromatic fragment constants pi HC = N(O)C6H5, pi C = N----O, fHC = N(O), and fC = N----O for the group contribution methods of Hansch and Leo.
(11) In 1908, while at The Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Leo Buerger described a clinical entity with its histologic counterpart that soon became known as "Buerger's disease."
(12) Former student strike leader Leo Bureau-Blouin, 20, was elected in his district of Laval for the PQ, making him the youngest elected to the national assembly.
(13) The evaluation of a traffic safety campaign called "Leo Lässig", addressed to young new drivers, shows that recognition and acceptance by the target group were stimulated by the age-conform means of comic-strips.
(14) Six circus lions (Panthera leo) showed neurological and gastrointestinal signs after consuming casualty broiler chickens.
(15) She tweeted a quote from Leo Buscaglia , the late writer and motivational speaker known as Dr Love: "The easiest thing to be in the world is you, the most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be."
(16) Leo Mel 3 did not react with a variety of carcinomas, lymphomas, leukemias, and other neuroectodermal tumors, nor with adult or fetal tissues, except fetal liver.
(17) Prednimustine (Leo 1031), a conjugate of prednisolone and chlorambucil, was administered to humans and baboons and the metabolic fate of the compound ascertained.
(18) No.” As it is, Gareth Bale’s untimely buttock injury and Suárez’s lack of match fitness have postponed the ultimate in forward-line set-tos, but this is still Leo Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar against Karim Benzema, with Suárez, James Rodríguez, Ivan Rakitic and Toni Kroos all entering the frenzy for the first time.
(19) Armillifer armillatus, Linguatula serrata and L. nuttalli have each been isolated from nine different mammalian species in the Kruger National Park: lion, Panthera Leo; Leopard, P. pardus; buffalo, Syncerus caffer: blue wildebeest, Connechaetes taurinus; giraffe, Girraffa camelopardalis; kudu, Tragelophus strepsiceros; waterbuck, Kobus ellipsyprymnus; tsessebe, Damaliscus iunatus and impala, Aepyceros melampus.
(20) Aston Villa midfielder Barry Bannan and Reading defender Adrian Mariappa have done medicals with Palace this morning and the south London club are also trying to prise Liam Bridcutt and Leo Ulloa away from Brighton.
Leonid
Definition:
(n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leonid Petrov, an expert on the North at the Australian National University, said of the North's statement: "It's a good sign, they are prepared to negotiate, but they are demanding an exorbitant and impermissibly high price … The game will continue."
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Silva had been identified, along with Agüero, as City’s main threat by Leonid Slutsky, the CSKA manager, and it was the Spaniard who slipped the ball through deftly for Dzeko to beat the offside trap.
(3) This autumn the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) is to move into a new, purpose-built home at Oxford University as a result of USSR-born oligarch Leonid Blavatnik’s £75m donation in 2010.
(4) Leonid Petrov of the Australian National University noted that if the news turned out to be true, its implications remained unclear.
(5) Even the CSKA Moscow manager Leonid Slutsky (come, come, let's not stoop that low) says the pitch is about as good as the club's recent results - their last 10 games in all competitions look like this: P10 W4 D1 L5.
(6) In recent years it has become the world’s largest producer of lemons, an industry that employs 50,000 people in the region including Pereyra’s father, Leonides.
(7) He has already outlasted Leonid Brezhnev (18 years) and is closing in fast on comrade Stalin (a whopping 31).
(8) The prospect of two more terms for Putin exacerbating creeping social and economic stagnation prompted comparisons with the long rule of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
(9) Russia Euro 2016 team guide: tactics, key players and expert predictions Read more A number of old faces remain – Berezutsky, his twin brother, Vasili, the goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, the centre-back Sergei Ignashevich and the captain Roman Shirokov among them – but it has been a miserable period since that freewheeling summer in central Europe and even the flickers of optimism that rose early in the reign of Leonid Slutsky, who turned their qualifying campaign round when he first replaced Fabio Capello, have been dampened in recent weeks.
(10) On Thursday evening it was announced that Yanukovych would give a press conference on Friday afternoon in the southern Russian city of Rostov on Don – contradicting earlier claims that he was in the Moscow region staying at a top government sanatorium that has previously hosted officials such as Leonid Brezhnev and Boris Yeltsin.
(11) "They are using this opportunity to scapegoat Uncle Jang by relegating responsibility for all policy failures," said Leonid Petrov of the Australian National University.
(12) Twenty years of Leonid Brezhnev followed, during which the clock was turned back, if not to full-scale Stalinism, at least part of the way.
(13) Mike Flynn might be done – but Trump's nightmare has just begun | Richard Wolffe Read more The Russian MP Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of parliament, said the resignation was forced, “provocative” and a “negative signal for the mending of Russian-American dialogue”.
(14) He was accompanied by Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, as well as MPs from Belgium, Italy and Serbia, according to Russian media.
(15) Judging from the amount of logistical and financial support they got, it looks likely they acted with at least a tacit understanding that this was sanctioned.” A few days after the would-be coup, a former intelligence officer, Leonid Reshetnikov, who ran a hawkish research institute in Moscow, was relieved of his duties by Putin.
(16) Leonid Petrov is an expert on North Korea at the Australian National University, not the University of Sydney as we said in the original version.
(17) Leonid Slutsky’s players started to take better care of the ball and, for the first time, put England under sustained pressure, attacking the end where their bare-chested fans were becoming increasingly vociferous.
(18) I feel, with my football intelligence, I can play there and I can further my career as well.” Rooney was asked about suggestions by members of Russia’s coaching staff, and some of Leonid Slutsky’s players , that he is not the player he once was, with the question prompting a prickly response.
(19) Offering a slab, Leonid Bikadanov, 43, said he was a member of the people's militia.
(20) Sergei Udaltsov, leader of the socialist Left Front and a major voice in the wave of street protests that shook Russia in 2011-13, was convicted of planning the unrest at the protest, along with Leonid Razvozzhayev, an activist and aide to opposition MP Ilya Ponomaryov, the only deputy to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea.