(n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who last summer built a fence at the country’s border with Serbia, said on Friday another fence should be erected on the Macedonian and Bulgarian borders with Greece.
(2) St Johnstone will play Alashkert of Armenia while Aberdeen take on the Macedonian side Shkendija.
(3) Actually the ones who should be most afraid are the Macedonians,” he says to the Bayers, in a nod to the fallout between Greece and its northern neighbour.
(4) He was held incommunicado and abused in Macedonian custody for 23 days, after which he was handcuffed, blindfolded, and driven to Skopje airport, where he was handed over to the CIA and severely beaten.
(5) Restriction endonuclease mapping analyses were made of DNA from a few members of a Macedonian family with hematological characteristics of delta beta-thalassemia, ie, microcytosis, normal HbA2 levels, and elevated levels of HbF (7% to 14%) with G gamma (average 40.5%) and A gamma T chains (average 59.5%).
(6) Since the closure of the Macedonian border, more than 40,000 refugees have been trapped in squalid conditions in Greece.
(7) Various of the planned central buildings were realised on both sides: the clustered, sculptural forms of the Cyril and Methodius University and the extraordinary Opera and Ballet Theatre , both designed by Slovenian architects, and from Macedonian designers, the Telecommunications Centre – a strange, individualistic example of organic brutalism – and the Trade Centre: a long, low shopping centre of overlapping terraces stepping subtly down to the river, its combination of enclosure and openness inspired by the structure of the bazaar.
(8) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
(9) Europe's migrant crisis will not slow and EU nations must share duties, says UN Read more Many of these migrants had spent several days in a bottleneck on the Greek-Macedonian border last week, when the latter country declared a state of emergency for several days before lifting the declaration on Sunday.
(10) The overhaul will include the closure of five foreign language services – Albanian, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa and Serbian; as well as the English for the Caribbean regional service – and sweeping cuts to shortwave radio broadcasts.
(11) However, wide-ranging cuts will still be implemented , with five language services – Albanian, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa, Serbian, and English for the Caribbean – due to close.
(12) Molecular analyses of DNA from over 30 unrelated cases with delta beta-thal have shown that this condition is mainly caused by a 13 kb deletion (Sicilian type); in one family a deletion of > 18 to 23 kb (Macedonian type), and in another family a deletion of 148 kb (Yugoslavian type of epsilon gamma delta beta-thal) of the globin gene complex was discovered.
(13) Macedonia ’s interior ministry said 18 Macedonian officers were injured on Saturday in the brief but intense clashes.
(14) Photograph: Helena Smith for the Observer Kalogeridis drives to the camp on the Greek-Macedonian frontier from his home in Thessaloniki at least four times every week.
(15) Kotevski said there was no coordination between Greek and Macedonian police.
(16) Either side of that change, Ferham Hasani rattled McGregor's goalframe and the goalkeeper denyied Mirko Ivanovski when one-on-one with the Macedonian striker.
(17) Macedonia police fire stun grenades as thousands of migrants rush border Read more There was no official tally of injured migrants, although Macedonian police targeted them with stun grenades and plastic bullets.
(18) Greek police did not intervene to stop the migrants but at one point placed themselves in front of their Macedonian colleagues, as the migrants would not target the Greeks.
(19) From the pre-Christian era right through to the 20th century, Skopelos was on a major shipping lane and has hosted almost every major conquering force from the Macedonians to the Nazis.
(20) We have just received the results from the lab in Hamburg and they are negative for Ebola, which means that the patient did not have the Ebola virus,” said Dr Jovanka Kostovska of the Macedonian health ministry’s commission for infectious diseases.
Plaything
Definition:
(n.) A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that abortion – the right to control one's own body – is but a plaything for male politicians, such as Jeremy Hunt, to signal their credentials is not new.
(2) Business leaders worried about what this would do to our international reputation, what it said about our consistency, whether or not it made the peerage system look like a political plaything.
(3) Abbott said he would fight the leadership challenge because Australia needed “strong and stable government” and the prime ministership was “not a prize or a plaything to be demanded”.
(4) What are the life-enhancing functions that will compel us to pay for these new playthings?
(5) The New York Daily News – neglected plaything of forgotten Canadian media magnate Mort Zuckerman – has also flipped and endorsed Mitt Romney in this election.
(6) And to top it all, this amazing journey – from plaything to instrument of social change – seems to have happened in a matter of months.
(7) The Troika is like a cat with a mouse, tormenting then eventually killing its plaything While ballymichael flags up the political hurdles that leaders are struggling to overcome: Germany is in the middle of its budget ratification process, and Schäuble yesterday was understandably being rhetorically kicked all around the Bundestag Chamber for not balancing the budget, even when the circumstances are so favourable, by the SPD and Greens.
(8) Depending on your perspective, it is abstract or concrete, vague or meaningful, something to undermine or nurture, a fair or an unfair plaything of politicians and others, and so forth.
(9) Thames Water, a plaything of private equity, with its ultimate parent company domiciled in "tax-efficient" Luxembourg, is loaded with debt – and only able to build the planned super-sewer with government guarantees because it has so over-distributed its profits as dividends.
(10) In children 0-4 years of age household and child furniture, constructional features of the house and corrosives, hot liquids and heating equipment were the most common products causing accidents, whereas in children 5-15 years of age playthings and sports equipment as well as constructional features of the house were involved in a higher percentage of accidents.
(11) Nothing enrages some men – for it was always men – more than the prospect of a woman in their toy box, sharing their playthings.
(12) This case is political and unfortunately my clients have been held hostage, and they have become playthings for the government.
(13) In the 1970's, with no such restrictions, the New York Cosmos prompted an unsustainable arms race in the NASL when media mogul Steve Ross ran the club as a plaything and brought the likes of Pele, Beckenbauer and Chinaglia — and crucially titles — to New York City.
(14) King said the uber-wealthy's choice of playthings to splash their cash on has remained pretty constant with holiday homes, superyachts and private jets.
(15) If you don't respect yourself, if you don't project your own authority, how do you expect not to end up a plaything of the bloviators and the rent seekers and people who would move you about like a piece on a chessboard?
(16) The Scottish government is not a plaything for bored royals on a mission,” Graham Smith, the group’s chief executive, told the Herald.
(17) It turns them into our playthings, always-accessible automatons onto whom we can project all our fantasies.
(18) Is it the free-at-last nation which is "no longer a plaything of the US military adventure," as one Labour MP put it on Friday.
(19) Like many of the world’s masterpieces, it’s now the private plaything of the vastly rich.
(20) • Robots make great toys too, and CES was jam-packed full of tech-infused playthings headed for this year's Christmas lists