(n.) The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
(n.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
Example Sentences:
(1) His ideas had their biggest trial in 2012 during a three-week series of games, involving over 1,000 players, that fed recommendations about transport and zoning into Detroit’s Future City study , which maps out the next 50 years for the embattled metropolis.
(2) It has been known that tsutsugamushi disease, so-called "Shichito-fever", is widely spread among the Izu Islands, Tokyo Metropolis.
(3) Supporters say Luzhkov transformed Moscow from a crumbling communist shell into a vibrant metropolis.
(4) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
(5) For both men and women, single people had a lower survival rate than married, and patients living in a metropolis had a higher survival rate than those living in other areas.
(6) A preliminary survey was conducted for the prevalence of HIV infections in pulmonary tuberculosis and melioidosis patients in Ubon Ratchathani province, in Thailand, the second largest province in population which supplies labors to Bangkok metropolis.
(7) Under the glamorous billboards and ubiquitous skyscrapers of this fast-paced metropolis, the city is home to nine – soon to be 10 – universities, attended by hundreds of thousands of pupils.
(8) Very little effective effort went into the planned growth of the metropolis.
(9) Now Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen – not to mention cities such as Copenhagen, Münster and Seville – have become pioneers for a pro-cycling urban culture with extensive networks of cycle paths, as well as other clever ideas to make cycling around the metropolis easier.
(10) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
(11) Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found on Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the US border, in the latest suspected outburst in an escalating war among drug gangs.
(12) Saadiyat Island ("Happiness Island" in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $27bn (£16.5bn) cultural metropolis.
(13) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(14) 5) The model is studied by the Monte Carlo method of Metropolis et al., which simulates a kinetic process approximately.
(15) There are so many possibilities to conceive a different kind of metropolis, for cities that are yet to be built.
(16) Long after the monastery had been dissolved and Clerkenwell swallowed by the growing metropolis, the east tower was home to Hogarth’s coffeehouse, opened by Richard, father of the famous artist, in 1703.
(17) This would have a profound ripple effect across the country, for health care access, universal coverage and even immigration reform.” The 'medical home' idea Getting to that point means creating a program that can handle the health problems of a sprawling metropolis.
(18) London's size is stifling; it's too sprawling a metropolis to regularly agree to go funk-ass crazy over a particular band en masse.
(19) He believes the multibillion-dollar project could transform daily life for millions of people in this uniquely challenging metropolis, and potentially expand west from Nigeria to Ghana.
(20) - diddoit This is all the result of centralisation of spending and planning in the metropolis and “market forces” being allowed to control everything ...
Metropolitan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
(n.) The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
(n.) An archbishop.
(n.) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
(2) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(3) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
(4) Although large metropolitan programs generally followed the guidelines of the American Thoracic Society and the Center for Disease Control for tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis, some major variances in practice were reported.
(5) The NYT article further shines further light into this murky affair, in which both News International and the Metropolitan Police have so far been evasive, to say the least."
(6) The police on Scotland Yard's press operation Kit Malthouse, assembly member chair, Metropolitan Police Authority "I doubt whether money is changing hands.
(7) To investigate risk factors in male breast cancer, a case-control study of 52 histologically diagnosed cases and 52 controls--matched for age, race, marital status, and hospital--was conducted in 5 U.S. metropolitan areas.
(8) Using data from the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program for the period before isotretinoin was available, we evaluated the specificity (proportion of malformed infants without exposure who do not have the pattern of defects) for the various defect combinations.
(9) The article focuses on the impact of the metropolitan countries on the development of health care policies.
(10) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, made the comments as he announced that Scotland Yard has begun two new inquiries.
(11) Others who have put their names to it include Andrew Caplen, the Law Society president, Sir David Edward, a former European court of justice judge and Lord Blair, the former Metropolitan police commissioner.
(12) Urban ecological structure appeared to play a more important role in health care-seeking behavior than did the personal characteristics of individuals in this small metropolitan area.
(13) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(14) From green (low) to purple (high) Putin ordered Alexander Litvinenko murder, inquiry into death told Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Metropolitan Police’s 3D graphic showing polonium contamination of the table and chair
(15) In September-December 1988 in Australia, at least 1490 couples in metropolitan Perth completed a questionnaire on contraceptive use and unplanned pregnancy.
(16) Finally, because of high-traffic volume, air mutagenicity at street level is comparable to that observed in several metropolitan areas all over the world.
(17) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
(18) Sexual assault victims (1,059) under the age of 17 were evaluated over a period of 44 months in a teaching, metropolitan county emergency room.
(19) We used data from the population-based Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program to study the epidemiology of the early amnion rupture spectrum of defects.
(20) And imagine he then found that, far from acting swiftly to capture, arrest and charge him, the Metropolitan police force (who knew something about his activities) initially stood idly by as his list of victims grew and grew.