(n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier this year, Liana Kanelli, an outspoken Communist party MP, was assaulted during a live TV talkshow by Ilias Kasidiaris, Golden Dawn's spokesman, in an incident that made headlines around the world.
(2) In an atmosphere bristling with the discordant feelings of anger and fear, the assault on Rena Dourou and Liana Kanelli, deputies with the radical Syriza and KKE communist parties, has added an explosive element to an election campaign that is already electric and has also illuminated the dark role of Golden Dawn.
(3) Kasidiaris had gone to ground after a state prosecutor ordered his arrest on charges of grievous bodily harm following Thursday's televised assault of Liana Kanelli, the spokeswoman of the KKE communist party, and Rena Dourou, a leading member of the Syriza party.
(4) Everything seemed completely normal – until he noticed the green liana which had grown from the pot plant and reached his body.
(5) Laudable goals such as a national intervention order scheme risk being undermined by a continuing crisis in legal assistance funding that has not been fixed by the partial withdrawal by federal attorney general George Brandis of threatened cuts that were to take effect in July,” said the executive officer of the federation of community legal centres Victoria, Liana Buchanan.
(6) He then turned on Liana Kanelli, an MP with the KKE communist party, who stood up to condemn the action.
(7) She said the actions of Kasidiaris, spokesman for the Golden Dawn party , who has been in hiding since he assaulted Dourou and Liana Kanelli on the popular Good Morning Greece TV show, revealed the "true nature" of group, which captured 7% of the vote during Greece's general election last month.
(8) According to reports, staff at the TV station tried to keep him in the building when Kasidiaris fled the studio moments after lashing out at Liana Kanelli, the spokeswoman of the KKE communist party, and Rena Dourou, a leading member of the radical Syriza party.
(9) In a nation where physical violence is rare – and public displays of violence against women even rarer – Kasidiaris's assault on Liana Kanelli and Rena Dourou, during a live TV debate of politicians representing the seven parties that won seats in the country's inconclusive 6 May election, had clearly shocked Greeks .
(10) Liana Buchanan, executive officer of the federation of community legal centres in Victoria, told Guardian Australia in April that the scheme risked being undermined by a “continuing crisis” in legal assistance funding.
(11) Family violence Liana Buchanan, of the federation of community legal centres, said for a change of leadership to be meaningful, all women facing family violence must be entitled to free legal help from community legal centres.
(12) At the Rio Blanco in Northeastern Peru a group of 6 saddle-back tamarins was observed to mob two Corallus enydris snakes which were hanging from a liana.
(13) Meanwhile, the Jakarta Post claims the three most likely candidates are former foreign minister Nur Hassan Wirajuda, Agus Purnomo, head of the National Council on Climate Change and a special staff member to the president on climate issues and Liana Bratasida, deputy environment minister.
(14) An application to the identification of the trees and lianas of the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats (India) is presented to illustrate the problems encountered in the development of the knowledge base.
(15) The party's image has been severely dented by continuous replays of footage of the 31-year-old Kasidiaris, a former army commando, striking the middle-aged Communist party deputy Liana Kannelli three times.
(16) The chief executive of the Federation of Community Legal Centres, Liana Buchanan, said she was appalled by Cash’s comments that a “misleading campaign” had been run.
Liane
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Liana
Example Sentences:
(1) [Hawkes, G. E., Lian, L. Y., Randall, E. W., Sales, K. D. & Curzon, E. H. (1987) Eur.
(2) The results are as follows: Da-yuan-decoction, Gan-lu-xiao-du-pill, Lian-pu-decoction, Cai-hao-mixture, Da-huang-huang-lian-jie-du-decoction, Tao-ren-cheng-qi-decorction, Ge-gen-qin-lian-decoction, Yin-qiao-jie-du-decoction etc.
(3) Liane Venner, head of equalities at Unison, said that while the socio-economic duty had been a small, light-touch measure, it had marked a new recognition by the previous government that public bodies had a responsibility to see how they could reduce income-related inequalities.
(4) Jude Law, Michael Morpurgo, Antony Gormley, Patrick Stewart, Carol Ann Duffy, Vanessa Redgrave, Simon Callow, Brian Eno, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Tony Benn, Timothy West, Dominic Cooke, AL Kennedy, Janie Dee, Neil Faulkner, Heathcote Williams, Dame Harriet Walter, Tim Pigott-Smith, Roger Lloyd Pack, Alan Rickman, Ken Loach, Ralph Steadman, Ken Livingstone, Rob Montgomery, Duncan Heining, Chris Nineham, Kate Hudson, Jan Woolf, Peter Kennard, Andy de la Tour, Evan Parker, Robert Wyatt, Colin Towns, Chris Searle, Neil Yates, Steve Berry, Leo Aylen, Danny Thompson, Terry Jones, Kika Markham, Susan Wooldridge, Tony Haynes, Mike Dibb, Nic France, Leon Rosselson, Barry Miles, Liane Aukin, Alistair Beaton • "When should these commemorations end?"
(5) In a previous paper(1), it was reported that the drug "Han-lian-cao", in Taiwan was derived from the entire plant or aerial part of Eclipta prostrata L. and Alternanthera sessilis R. Brown.
(6) B. Lian, J. L. Stein, and G. S. Stein, Science 247:1454-1457, 1990).
(7) The association between alcohol and hypertension was first described by Lian in 1915.
(8) I hope today’s sentence brings some closure for those who have suffered as a result of these particularly nasty and invasive crimes.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lian Penhale, of South Wales police, speaks to the media.
(9) The rhizomes of Coptis, known as Huang-Lian, are commonly used as traditional Chinese drugs.
(10) The innovative therapeutic use of plasma transfusion, as proposed by Byrnes and Lian and their co-workers, is compatible with the paradigm in all respects.
(11) In this paper, the histological studies of "Han-lian-cao" derived from Wedelia and Hypericum plants, and of 3 species of Wedelia related plants distributed in Taiwan were made.
(12) Grant consultant Liane Reif-Lehrer gave the following advice at a seminar on proposal writing: "Don't write the abstract until the proposal is done, so it reflects the contents of the application.