(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.
Righteous
Definition:
(a.) Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may go some way to explaining why, even as his approval ratings fall off a cliff and some call for his impeachment, he sees no reason to course-correct, as he and a noisy caucus around him seem to become ever more self-righteous.
(2) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
(3) Grass's new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a "role model and hero of our time" who "hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light", and calls on Israelis to "recognise ... as righteous" the man "who remained loyal to his country all those years", according to German reports .
(4) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(5) The Tea Party represents a serious strand in American public life – old-world fundamentalist in its exclusivity, self-righteousness and religious zeal.
(6) They are so convinced of their righteousness they cannot admit their faults.
(7) Skylight gives voice to private enterprise’s self-righteous hostility towards those who work in the public services.
(8) The FBI are sceptical that Pyongyang was responsible, and the government there denies that it had any involvement, even if it describes the hack as “a righteous deed”.
(9) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
(10) They converted and started to insult us, saying we do not believe in the oneness of Allah because of our love for saints.” Every Pakistani knows these preaching, self-righteous conservatives ... but you never expect them to indulge in violence Nadeem Farooq Paracha Like so many others, the Malik family were helped along in their religious journey by the experience of living as guest workers in the oil-rich Arab world.
(11) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(12) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(13) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
(14) True, as we were reminded last week, members of the EDL have miraculously survived all such conditioning; equally, these extremists now risk being righteously snubbed in Mens' Socks.
(15) It is, I imagine, the same sentiment a potential jihadist feels when he or she foolishly believes that they’re being righteously called upon to fight for the creation of an Islamic state, as if that might fix what are largely personal troubles.
(16) A muted reaction works better than the self-righteous explosion they are sometimes hankering after.
(17) Typical of the PC brigade - one Iraqi man gets beaten to death and they are down on you like a ton of righteous liberal bricks!
(18) In its proper context – of a US puffed up with righteousness and seized by Islamophobia – I think Homeland is a revolutionary piece of work, merely by having the courage to tell a story from the perspective of two characters who are questioning whether US policy in the Middle East is right.
(19) Thanks to recent appearances on Question Time and Newsnight , it is popular – righteous, even – to loathe David Starkey.
(20) It was a bad business but not as bad as the self-righteous Carswell or the tax-shy Tory press made it sound at the time.