(n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
(2) Germaine Greer; Julie Bishop; engineer and founder of Youth Without Borders, Yassmin Abdel-Magied; author, academic and Guardian US columnist Roxane Gay; and Best & Less CEO Holly Kramer.
(3) The scene is based on the account of Jesus' birth in the gospel of Matthew, though Matthew does not record a mishap whereby the magi accidentally bestow their gifts on Terry Jones in a dress.
(4) Male accessory gland infection (MAGI, epididymo-prostato-vesiculitis) with abnormal semen quality was rarely the only abnormality in infertile couples since it occurred in no more than 1.6% of 2871 couples evaluated in 7 centres during a 3-year period.
(5) It is concluded that features of MAGI in semen may regress spontaneously and are not influenced by the doxycycline treatment.
(6) And of course the authorities are incensed, affirming once again that old adage: there is only one thing more cheerless than a Magi with a severed head – a local bureaucrat armed with zoning laws.
(7) It’s not enough to point out, as Abdel-Magied did, that structural inequality is to blame for the lack of women’s progress.
(8) "It neither makes sense to get into an adoration of the magi stance of the New Labour project, nor a repudiationist stance," he says, at one point.
(9) I remember how surprised I was when one of the mothers asked me if her three children could dress up as the three magi at Epiphany, when Austrian children from each parish go from house to house collecting money for the Catholic Three Wise Kings’ mission.
(10) Updated at 12.02pm BST 11.55am BST No crib for a bed Lest there be any doubt that 19-year-old Nick Kyrgios has made his mark at Wimbledon, the old magi of Australian tennis have been lined up to pay tribute.
(11) The judge, Oscar Magi, dismissed the libel accusations but upheld the other charges.
(12) In the sculpture The Adoration of the Magi by the 13th century sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio deformities characteristic of arthritis may be seen in the hands of the central magus.
(13) 6.49pm BST But the wise Aussie magi could have told him that a break doesn't count as a break until you've backed it up with your serve.
(14) Caillebotte can make a painting out of nothing, and that’s what Heaney can do, too – that’s the lovely thing about it.” Also included in the anthology is the late Dennis O’Driscoll’s poem Memo to a Painter, inspired by the 16th-century painting The Adoration of the Magi, which depicts the nativity in elegant surroundings, without the stable or its animals.
(15) Now Wordsworth Editions has released The Drug and Other Stories , which includes five works that have never been published before: Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, The Murder in X.
(16) On the straw ground in front of Jesus is the severed head of a second Magi.
(17) These days he almost counts as one of the elderly Aussie magi.
(18) To a certain extent, the numbers created by the magi of the economy have been our beacons through the recession and the slow recovery.
Mali
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(1) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
(2) It was concluded that transmission in eastern Mali has now been reduced to the levels required to control onchocerciasis.
(3) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(4) Obama permitted them to operate with minimal restriction, proliferating the physical scope of the global war on terrorism to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Mali and Niger and the digital scope around the world.
(5) As Bradford University professor Paul Rogers told Jones, the bombing of Mali "will be portrayed as 'one more example of an assault on Islam'".
(6) The president of Mali , Ibrahim Boubacar Këita, speaking on national television late on Friday evening, declared a national state of emergency effective from midnight.
(7) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
(8) France immediately extended its bombardment of the Islamists with air strikes in central Mali.
(9) The Tuareg are likely to play a key role in any lasting solution in northern Mali – or lack of one.
(10) France intervened following a direct request for help from Mali's interim President, Dioncounda Traore.
(11) And then there were other disputes, such as Berlin's refusal to become involved in French military missions, first in Libya and now in Mali, and the recent failed fusion of the aerospace and defence firms EADS and BAE Systems .
(12) Islamists in Mali threatened Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens, in a statement following the adoption by the UN Security Council of a plan to oust al-Qaida linked militants from occupied territory.
(13) The MNLA said it was ready to join the French-led campaign against "terrorist organisations" but would not allow the Mali army to march on Kidal.
(14) Utilizing a framework developed by the Faculty of Law, University of Dakar, Senegal, and the Development Law and Policy Program, Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University, the Sahel Institute undertook a comprehensive study of the legal and social status of women in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal.
(15) Potentially the most destabilising regional development is the secessionist movement in neighbouring northern Mali, driven by battle-hardened, largely secular Tuareg forces who fought for Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, as well as Islamist fighters.
(16) These data are interpreted to mean that resorptions of bone anterior (nasal spine) or inferior (alveolar bone) to bacillary populations in the nasal mucosa of patients with lepromatous disease in Mali occur independently.
(17) French troops are in Mali as part of the ongoing Operation Serval, which started at the beginning of last year and is aimed at ousting Islamist militants in the north of the country.
(18) When it topped the index in 2006 its ecological footprint per person was no higher than those in non-industrialised countries like Mali and Swaziland, life expectancy matched that in Turkey, and life satisfaction levels were considered as high as New Zealand’s.
(19) Therefore schistosomiasis may be considered a man-made health problem in rural Mali although the infection is endemic in the whole country.
(20) Reports of thousands of people left off the register, ongoing security concerns and allegations of voter fraud have fuelled concerns that Mali is rushing into the elections, six months after an international military intervention drove al-Qaida-linked rebels from control of the country's north.