(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(10) Considering published and unpublished research on isometric strength and the irrelevance of many studies that found no difference in isokinetic strength, it is concluded that it is most probable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.
Moya
Definition:
(n.) Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arteriography, however, was better than intravenous DSA in demonstrating Moya Moya vessels, differentiating complete occlusion from severe stenosis, and demonstrating important transdural collaterals.
(2) Cerebral angiography revealed occlusive disease of major vessels, an arteriovenous malformation, and moya-moya type anastomoses.
(3) It is the most ambitious privatisation since the sale of the railways in the 1990s and is forcefully opposed by the unions, who are meeting Royal Mail chief executive, Moya Greene, in Birmingham on Thursday to discuss threatened strike action.
(4) 6.35pm BST "Lawrence, I resent your statement regarding Farselona ruining a players career," emails Rodrigo Moya.
(5) Rare diseases only very recently described as arterial blocks of cerebral vessels are fibromuscular dysplasia and Moya-Moya-disease, the etiology of which is not yet fully understood.
(6) As MR angiography is not invasive, it promises to become a valuable alternative to conventional angiography in the diagnosis of Moya-Moya.
(7) From the total group, we found 12 saccular aneurysms, 9 arteriovenous malformations, 3 cases of moya-moya and 3 instances of superior sagittal sinus thrombosis.
(8) However, Moya Greene, Royal Mail's chief executive who was paid £1.6m last year, will take up her free allocation.
(9) Those of you who know me, know that there would be a few more adjectives before that.” So far, the movement has not drawn an official Fifa comment but Moya Dodd , a former player for Australia who was voted on to the governing body’s board last year, told the BBC last week that generalisations about the quality of turf surfaces aren’t always accurate.
(10) It has been suggested that Moya Moya is a hereditary disease due to the frequency of siblings with the disease.
(11) Kye Dudd (@KyeDudd) Moya Greene struggles to convince postal workers that privatisation will be good for them.
(12) Cerebral angiography demonstrated aneurysmal dilatation of the terminal portion of the right internal carotid artery, minor irregularity of the lenticulostriate branches of the right middle cerebral artery (suggestive of Moya Moya disease) and occlusion of the right anterior cerebral artery.
(13) Right MCA occlusion, multiple stenosis of both ACAs and Moya-Moya like vessels were discovered.
(14) This morning's announcement of a stock market flotation "in the coming weeks" received an angry response from workers, who refused to be swayed by chief executive Moya Greene today.
(15) Here's a flavour: The sell-off of the 497-year-old postal service is the most contentious privatisation since British Rail two decades ago, and is forcefully opposed by the unions, who are meeting with the Royal Mail chief executive, Moya Greene, on Thursday morning to once again voice their anger at the "great British flog-off".
(16) Like the altogether more modest Skylon – an ethereal, skypiercing mast on the South Bank designed by the architects Powell and Moya as a signpost for the 1951 Festival of Britain – Kapoor's tower, designed in collaboration with the imaginative structural engineer Cecil Balmond, will draw attention to the Olympics Park more persuasively than any of the architecture commissioned for the event.
(17) Fourteen patients suspected of having Moya Moya disease underwent intravenous digital subtraction angiography (DSA), and the findings from nine of these patients were reviewed and analyzed.
(18) Moya-Smith noted as an example that in her Democratic nomination acceptance speech Thursday night, Hillary Clinton did not mention systemic racialized violence or discrimination against Native Americans.
(19) It is supposed that Moya Moya disease may be restricted to the PCoA-s. Further, the types of hypoplastic PCoA-s with reticular fiber deficiency are most probably the source of the so-called unexplained subarachnoid hemorrhage regardless of the presence of infundibular widening.
(20) A British born white man, age 51 years, presented with cerebrovascular insuffciency, and was found radiologically to have moya-moya disease.