(n.) An Italian coin equivalent in value to the French franc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Turkish lira has dropped to an 18-month low since protests began, notes the Christian Science Monitor's Tom A. Peter, who adds that Erdogan's popularity has been tied to strong economic growth on his watch.
(2) The five worst-performing currencies this year have been the Argentinian peso and Brazilian real, with losses of more than 30% versus the dollar, the South African rand, Turkish lira and the Russian rouble, which have tumbled more than 18 %.
(3) Educated at a Protestant missionary school in Lira, he entered Makerere University College in Kampala in 1948, but dropped out after two years, completing his formal education with a number of correspondence courses.
(4) Only 10 [Turkish] lira [£2.60],” offers Ahmed*, a boy in ill-fitting, mud-stained trousers, his bare feet barely filling his worn-out shoes.
(5) He paid 45,000 lira (£32, equivalent to about £300 today) for two paintings that caught his eye – one a still life and the other an image of a woman relaxing in her garden.
(6) Now I get 1,200 lira [£295], whereas a Turk would get 2,200 lira [£540] for the same work.
(7) Awards in full Women’s world player of the year: Carli Lloyd Puskas award: Wendell Lira World coach of the year for men’s football: Luis Enrique World coach of the year for women’s football: Jill Ellis World XI : Manuel Neuer; Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Dani Alves; Andrès Iniesta, Luka Modric, Paul Pogba; Neymar, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo.
(8) In Italy some recent data documented that the social costs in relation to osteoporosis fractures can be evaluated in 1983 between 80 and 153 milliard liras.
(9) The epidemiological picture and the economic consequences of hydatidosis in man and livestock, a damage of 28 billions of liras per year, strongly suggest this disease as a major public health problem in Sardinia.
(10) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, who once said that a third bridge "would mean the murder of the city", has thrown his weight behind the 4.5bn Turkish lira (£1.6bn) project and the bridge is now predicted to open as early as 2015.
(11) A well-known example is the Indorama Shebeen el-Kom spinning factory, which has witnessed 95 strikes since being privatised in 2006 after the new owners refused to pay up to 10m Egyptian liras in bonuses to staff.
(12) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
(13) What can I do?” The street sweeper demanded 75 Turkish lira and pointed to a small hole in the fence, not far from the main gate.
(14) The Italian lira underwent repeated devaluations between 1973 and 1976, and the devaluation in 1992 brought the euro's precursor, the Exchange Rate Mechanism, to its knees.
(15) The expenses for hospital charges due to venous diseases were estimated in 163,827,000,000 of Italian liras, 136,522,500 US.
(16) In the beginning, torture was applied in military station units and in police stations, in the facilities of sport fields and prisoners' camps; but above all, in clandestine detention centers and prisons belonging to the secret police (Amnesty International 1977, 1983; CODEPU 1984, 1985, 1986; Lira and Weinstein 1987; Muñoz 1986; Rodríguez de Ruiz-Tagle 1978).
(17) The overall cost of a single mechanical suture was markedly lower than that of a single manual suture (934.000 vs 2,209.000 Italian lira).
(18) Do you know anyone who can help?” The man gives him a few lira to buy bread, and promises to help him find not a smuggler but a job.
(19) The drivers [of the minibuses] get 500 lira per bag.” Neither of them are Isis supporters.
(20) Amid all the aid-speak about improving farmers' livelihoods in the predominantly agricultural region, Okech points to the major unexpected impact of a Chinese-built road between two Ugandan towns, Soroti and Lira.
Liza
Definition:
(n.) The American white mullet (Mugil curema).
Example Sentences:
(1) He wasn't a disinterested witness: he had been a friend and colleague of Bron's for many years before their children Alexander Waugh and Liza Chancellor married.
(2) In the mid-70s these other clubs started rising – Studio 54, which was the glitzy manhattan club, where Andy Warhol, Grace Jones and Liza Minelli hung out, and places like 2001 Odyssey, which were for the working-class Brooklynites.” But in the end it was Cohn’s article and Saturday Night Fever that gave the decade its cultural identity.
(3) Liza Dye (@lizadye) Liza Dye Photograph: Twitter Age: 25. Who: Comedian and prolific tweeter Following: 2.7K on Twitter.
(4) she interjects, stretching out her fingertips and doing a Liza Minnelli-esque approximation of jazz hands.
(5) Returning to the musical theatre after Company, he provided the book for the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical The Act (1977) which served as an excellent vehicle for the singing, dancing and acting talents of Liza Minnelli.
(6) She could sentence anything from a nominal time to 90 years," said Liza Goitein, who co-directs the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program.
(7) Then, in response to a comment from the state police minister, Liza Harvey, one of five state and federal ministers deferring to the 32-year-old first-time candidate in a totally-not-for-the-cameras meeting about the problem of methamphetamine addiction in the crucial electorate, his metamorphosis from SAS officer to consultative MP suffered a setback.
(8) The police minister, Liza Harvey, who has responsibility for the legislation, said on Thursday the Barnett government would give police “the resources they needed to combat crime”.
(9) The greatest amount of chromaffinocytes was found in the cranial arteries of Anarhichas lupus, then comes Eleginus navaga, Leuciscus brandti and Liza soiny Concentration of melanophores in fishes increases with enlargement of the vascular diameter; these cells are more abundant in the arteries of Anarhichas lupus and in less amount in Eleginus navaga, Leuciscus brandti and Liza.
(10) They released a single called Liza Jane , but when it disappeared without trace, David jumped ship again and joined the Manish Boys.
(11) Glycogen phosphorylase purified from muscle of mullet (Liza ramada) has been kinetically characterized.
(12) Mugil cephalus and Liza saliens nephrons consist of renal corpuscles, neck segments, first, second and third proximal segments, collecting segments and collecting ducts.
(13) Skeletal muscle glycogen phosphorylase b has been purified from Liza ramada (mullet).
(14) "Liza's appointment enables us to offer a real home for creative talent and help them navigate the new business models which will be needed to get films made."
(15) Quantitative and qualitative distribution of histamine-forming bacteria associated with the fish Rastrelliger kanagurta, Sardinella longiceps, Sillago sihama and Liza subviridis, were investigated.
(16) In December, it unveiled news presenters Marc Edwards, a presenter on France 24 and EuroSport who also voiced Danny Boyle's London 2012 opening ceremony; Louise Scodie, a broadcaster and writer with credits including Marie Claire, the Jewish Chronicle and shopping channel bid-up.tv; Claudia Liza Armah, who has presented BBC3's 60 Seconds news update and BBC News Interactive; and Gavin Ramjaun, who has worked on ITV's This Morning and Daybreak as well as CBBC Newsround and BBC Sport.
(17) Their single I Pity the Fool proved no more chart-friendly than Liza Jane had done, after which the restless Davy Jones was on the move once more.
(18) Annika Bengtzon Annika Bengzton is the creation of Swedish author Liza Marklund.
(19) Liza Ash, 35, president of the tenant’s association in a 63-apartment property co-owned by Westbrook, said everybody was happy after the attorney general’s ruling in April.
(20) Liza Ermolenko and William Jackson, emerging market economists at Capital Economics , said that while the $17bn bailout should ease concerns of an immediate crisis, the picture painted by the IMF appeared too rosy.