(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.
Withhold
Definition:
(v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
(v. t.) To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
(v. t.) To keep; to maintain; to retain.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that there is no pharmacokinetic indiction for withholding OCs from women with early active schistosomiasis who are concurrently receiving antischistosmal drugs.
(2) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(3) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
(4) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(5) In the stringent E. coli, strain 15 TAU (thymine-arginine-uracil) rel A+ (arginine), withholding thymine did not affect the rate of killing.
(6) The Natural Death Act amendments authorize the withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from patients with incurable or irreversible conditions if death will result within a relatively short time without use of such procedures.
(7) Recent activities by some to decry clinical trials as unethical and restrict their conduct results in the totally unacceptable situation of withholding potentially valuable treatments from patients or subjecting patients to the unnecessary risks of treatments not proven safe and efficacious.
(8) While ethicists view the withholding and withdrawing of life-supporting treatment as morally equivalent, physicians tend to make a distinction based on the perceived locus of moral responsibility for the patient's death.
(9) It is argued that the evidence for withholding rifampicin from use in short courses against non-tuberculous infections is slight.
(10) Dear British public, be outraged, act, withhold your money until you can have confidence in what you consume.
(11) These findings support the construct and predictive diagnostic validity of nonfearful panic disorder as a subtype of panic disorder and suggest that a lack of attention to this group leads to both the underestimation of the prevalence of panic disorder and to the withholding of potentially successful treatments for this group.
(12) Kenyan human rights lawyers described how potential witnesses have been cajoled and bullied into withholding their testimony.
(13) We found that 26% of 508 neurons in both parts of the striatum were activated during the presentation of visual signals which prepared the animals for the execution or withholding of individual arm reaching movements.
(14) The Financial Reporting Council also asked for views on companies being able to recover or withhold bonuses from top directors and to explain when publishing the votes at annual meetings how they intend to head off any rebellions in the future.
(15) This study was performed to assess the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in consecutive obstetric patients with clinical symptoms of DVT, using impedance plethysmography (IPG) as the diagnostic method and to establish the safety of withholding anticoagulant therapy in patients with a repeatedly normal IPG.
(16) The daily newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday that Israel had decided to withhold the taxes it collects for the Palestinians under the current interim peace accords and transfers each month to the Palestinian Authority.
(17) Results show that this method of attachment is reliable and strong enough to withhold forces exceeding those necessary to break or tear the cell.
(18) This information was transmitted to a hospital-based telemetry physician who diagnosed or excluded acute myocardial infarction and made a mock decision to withhold or administer a thrombolytic agent.
(19) Neurons were found which remained active during the time period for which the monkey had to withhold eye movements while remembering desired target locations.
(20) Among a "toolbox" of actions under consideration are: • full or partial annulment of the Oslo Accords, under which the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established • withholding tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the PA • cancellation of permits for thousands of Palestinian labourers to work in Israel • withdrawal of travel privileges for senior PA officials • acceleration of building programmes in West Bank settlements • unilateral annexation of the main Jewish settlement blocks.