(n.) A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.
(n.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.
(n.) Delay; esp., culpable delay; postponement.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(2) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.
(3) Having a British shoe designer to work with "felt like a really nice connection because we are opening in London," said Tom Mora, head of women's design, as a scrum of guests jostled for a better Instagram shot of the models behind him.
(4) These small aggregates, termed mora, are found principally in a layer within the central region of the cupula, but are also found outside this layer.
(5) Deadline's Lisa De Moraes was roundly in agreement.
(6) José Tomás, a bullfighter loved by artists and leftwing intellectuals, was the star of a bill that included Marín and Juan Mora.
(7) The government sent the only bone fragments found that it said could still contain traces of DNA to a specialised laboratory in Austria, that later identified one of them as belonging to Alexander Mora .
(8) The Portuguese ambassador, José Filipe Moraes Cabral, who is the security council president, suggested that it was in no hurry to get to a vote.
(9) Mora has suggested a new method which takes into consideration whole height distribution of observed and reference populations, false positives, and false negatives.
(10) Considering published and unpublished research on isometric strength and the irrelevance of many studies that found no difference in isokinetic strength, it is concluded that it is most probable that isometric strength is increased by the K-MORA in mixed populations.
(11) The following methods are discussed in detail: regulation thermography, Lüscher's test, homeopathy, homeopathy autoblood therapy, nosoden therapy, acupuncture, magnetic field therapy, ozone therapy, Mora therapy, lymph drainage, management of symbiosis, and anthroposophical medicine.
(12) Gallardo made a double substitution at half-time, bringing on Lucho González and Gonzalo Martínez for the booked Leonardo Ponzio and ineffective Mora.
(13) Eduardo Medina Mora, the Mexican ambassador to the US, said in a letter to Kerry last September that the failure to provide Avena reviews "has become and could continue to be a significant irritant in the relations between our two countries".
(14) "The process of impoverishment is spreading all the time," said Sebastian Mora, secretary general of Caritas, the Roman Catholic relief organisation.
(15) Claude Moraes, the chair of the European parliament’s justice and home affairs committee, described the report as “an alarm bell being rung” about the failures of EU states.
(16) The patients received a single dose of the 5 mg per K of body weight, and laboratorial controls were made in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th after the treatment and consisting of Berman-Moraes method.
(17) Moraes was handed the ball by a clumsy pass from Gaël Clichy and the ensuing Kyiv attack ended with Yarmolenko firing a shot at Hart that was a warning to City to refocus.
(18) Judge Juan Carlos Urrutia said Patricio Ahumada Garay, Alejandro Angulo Tapia, Raul Lopez Fuentes and Fabian Mora Mora were guilty of a crime of "extreme cruelty" and "total disrespect for human life".
(19) The Ruiz-Mora procedure has been advocated for the correction of hammertoe deformities and congenital overlapping of the fifth toe, primarily on empirical grounds.
(20) The committee was established to oversee the implementation of the embargo and is chaired by José Filipe Moraes Cabral, Portugal's ambassador to the UN.
Morn
Definition:
(n.) The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(2) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(3) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
(4) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) The morning papers, like many papers last week, were full of stories about Brown's survival chances.
(7) Blood pressure, heart rate and adverse reactions were recorded every 2 weeks in the morning before drug intake.
(8) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
(9) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
(10) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
(11) It is concluded from the data that the composition of morning urine of apparently healthy probands adequately reflects excretion of 24 hours.
(12) According to Australian Associated Press the woman made an official complaint to police on Wednesday morning and supplied some evidence.
(13) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(14) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(15) The babies were weighed prior to the morning feeding.
(16) We have examined the serum MT response in the male hamster to a single dose of 25 micrograms MT administered in the morning or in the afternoon--the same timing and dose used by others to produce reproductive effects.
(17) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
(18) There was instead a significant relationship between starting FEV1 and histamine PC20 in the morning and in the afternoon both after placebo and fenoterol.
(19) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(20) The responses were scored hourly up to 4 hours after the administration of single doses in the morning to subjects with persistent cough.