(n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mona Deeley, a producer for Cinema Badila: Alternative Cinema on BBC Arabic TV , said: "The secret cinema is an interesting initiative for both subverting the ban on cinema and as a form of civil and cultural resistance."
(2) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(3) "There is a huge media campaign to distort the real image of the Iraqi revolution, by claiming that it is led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)," Salim tells Mona: ...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions.
(4) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(5) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(6) These actions targeted two demographics … most associated with ‘polluting’ Cairo’s city centre: street vendors and revolutionary activists.” Whether the wall’s lack of heritage status is a deliberate government strategy, AUC sociologist Mona Abaza, who has written extensively about the graffiti, says it certainly serves their political interests.
(7) It was compared with Duchamp drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
(8) Thursday's first US-style televised presidential debate in the Arab world will be broadcast on Egyptian TV between candidates Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abou el Fotouh, with the debate moderated by leading talkshow hosts Yosri Fouda, Mona el-Shazly and Reem Magued.
(9) Egyptian-born blogger Mona Eltahawy says that social media has given the most marginalised groups in the region a voice.
(10) The Nazis would have sought the Mona Lisa without rest, demanding it be handed to them upon their entry to Paris, and hunting it down if it were not.
(11) While the band were already fans of Monae, whose album they play in the studio, Kiesza, the Juno award-winning Canadian singer, was brought to Duran Duran by their publisher.
(12) The Savage Beauty show was wildly successful, attracting more than 660,000 visitors in 2011, making it the eighth most visited exhibition in the Met's 142-year history and putting it in a top 10 that includes the time the Mona Lisa came to Manhattan in 1963 and a Treasures of Tutankhamun show in 1978.
(13) He founded the Mukto-Mona (“free mind”) blog which supported and nurtured a community of free-thinkers, secularists, atheists and humanists in Bangladesh.
(14) When he died, the socialite Mona von Bismarck, whose loyalty to the designer was such that she had him run up her gardening clothes, took to her bed for three days in mourning.
(15) "A Sweden free of fossil fuels would give us enormous advantages, not least by reducing the impact from fluctuation in oil prices," argues Mona Sahlin, minister for sustainable development.
(16) His father, Wilfred Paradine Frost, was a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent; David reportedly more resembled his mother Mona.
(17) She tells The Guardian's Mona Mahmood ( @monamood ) about conditions for civilians in the Iraqi capital .
(18) To date, Zarathustra has adorned the Mona Lisa, which Petrova says makes her “look like a modern girl who’s taking a selfie with her cat” and US President Barack Obama’s hope poster, which came to symbolise his 2008 run for the White House.
(19) The elegance of that corporate choice is like the ambiguity of the Mona Lisa 's smile, the ruthlessness of Mike Tyson's punch and the adaptability of the malaria virus combined.
(20) The men were dragged half-naked into police trucks in the late night raid, which was filmed by a private television crew headed by presenter Mona Iraqi.
Mone
Definition:
(n.) The moon.
(n.) A moan.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’ve got to have balls of steel and you’ll always find a way.” But Mone has also always exhibited an intuitive understanding of what the market, and the media, want.
(2) Also lined up by the Tories is Michelle Mone, the founder of the Ultimo lingerie brand , to become a peer just weeks after she was appointed as the government’s new entrepreneurship tsar for areas of high unemployment.
(3) I think I’ll always have that.” Michelle Mone: My Fight to The Top (£18.99, Blink Publishing) is available now.
(4) A lot of business people have said you didn’t have to be so open, but at speaking events I always tell people you should be honest.” In person, Mone, 43, is far gentler than her well-branded public persona would suggest.
(5) Mone, who made no secret of her concerns about the impact of a yes vote on business, writes with winning directness in her book about being invited to Downing Street along with other Scottish grandees to discuss the referendum campaign with David Cameron.
(6) But Michelle Mone – Ultimo lingerie tycoon, serial entrepreneur, international speaker – is unique in many aspects.
(7) It’s about keeping businesses going rather than having a start-up, some soft grants then within six months everything’s gone.” I tell Mone that her women-can-do-anything epilogue reminded me of Nicola Sturgeon’s rousing speech in the Scottish parliament when she was elected the first female first minister last November (although the epilogue, and indeed the entire book, is rather more sweary than the Holyrood debating chamber is used to).
(8) I did sit down and think about it long and hard,” Mone explains, perched in the immaculate living area of her family home in one of the grandest parts of Glasgow’s west end.
(9) They need a sounding board.” Mone mentors more than 100 new businessmen and women – “not that I have all the answers” – and hopes to see Westminster establishing more programmes like hers.
(10) The Department for Work and Pensions said Mone, from Glasgow, would look at how to encourage benefit claimants, women, young people, disabled people and ex-offenders to become entrepreneurs.
(11) Michelle Mone: My Fight to The Top (£18.99, Blink Publishing) is available now.
(12) Michelle Mone – tipped to be on the list of new peers, expected to be revealed later this month – will lead a review of obstacles faced by people in disadvantaged areas when it comes to setting up their own businesses.
(13) Michelle Mone of Ultimo: 'In business you have got to have balls of steel' Read more She came out against Scottish independence during the referendum campaign, and in the runup to the general election said: “I’ve always been Labour through and through.
(14) Units of Para-Thor-Mone (Eli Lilly and Co), seven conscious, non-pregnant, non-lactating Merino ewes were infused with a maintenance dose of the hormone at a rate of 4-75 U.S.P.
(15) It was because I had never seen a lingerie brand that had a black model,” Mone explains simply, “and I was getting angry about it and I thought: ‘I’m going to do it.’ I just wanted to say: ‘We are an international brand, we have international customers, and I don’t care what colour of skin you have.’ It was a big statement.
(16) Established business-folk don’t tend to publish eye-wateringly honest autobiographies, as Mone has just done.
(17) She glides over any mention of Sturgeon, but commends Scotland’s female role models generally and says: “I’m all for helping women with their confidence, and once they get that, nothing can stop them.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘When I started, a lot of the lingerie companies were run by men,’ says Michelle Mone.
(18) My Fight to the Top, which entered the Amazon charts at No 1, is a straight-talking account of Mone’s objectively awesome trajectory from teenage mother who left school with no qualifications to one of the country’s most successful female entrepreneurs.
(19) And not through nudity or foul language, but because while Gawain "made myry al day, til the mone rysed" (ie lounged in the castle, flirting with the ladies), the lord of the land was out gralloching.
(20) When I started, a lot of the lingerie companies were run by men, and I came out with these inventions they’d never thought of because they don’t wear bras... Like the backless bra, the frontless bra, designs that I only came up with because I got so frustrated that I couldn’t see anything out there already.” Michelle Mone: ‘My party trick is measuring people’s boobs with my eyes’ Read more Likewise, Mone’s genius for publicity was evidenced by her simple calculation the media will always love photographs of celebrities in their underwear.