(n.) A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(3) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
(4) There could be no complaints, however, when he and the again underwhelming Moses were withdrawn at half-time and the changes sparked an immediate improvement.
(5) No significant relation between the treatment group and Mose rating (p greater than 0.05), epiphyseal quotient (p greater than 0.05), or healing rate (p greater than 0.05) was found.
(6) While Liverpool have also signed Tiago Ilori and taken Victor Moses from Chelsea on loan for the season.
(7) The initial center-edge angle and the anteroposterior Mose sphericity measurement were significantly improved at the most recent follow-up (p greater than or equal to 0.05), and the average Iowa hip score was 91 points.
(9) Analyses of the peptide by the Edman degradation method and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry revealed that purified STII is composed of 48 amino acid residues and that its amino acid sequence was identical to the 48 carboxy-terminal amino acids of STII predicted from the DNA sequence (C. H. Lee, S. L. Mosely, H. W. Moon, S. C. Whipp, C. L. Gyles, and M. So, Infect.
(10) Victor Moses and Winston Reid are back, it’s a good situation for us,” he added.
(11) Victor Moses is coming off and Shola Ameobi is coming on.
(12) A generation of activists successfully defended Washington Square Park against Robert Moses ' plan for a cross-town highway, and Jane Jacobs ' The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), which Berman greatly admired, did much to end the unfettered power of planners, architects and their politician-enablers.
(13) 5.25pm BST 24 min: Moses and Ambrose take turns to worry France down the right, after Nigeria escape from the aforementioned double-corner hell on a quick break.
(14) Last night's disclosures reveal that the highest rewarded of these was risk officer Marc Moses.
(15) No significant improvement in the center-edge angle or the anteroposterior Mose sphericity measurement was observed at the most recent follow-up, and the average Iowa hip score was 81 points.
(16) The nation faces losing further culturally important works, including Poussin's The Infant Moses trampling Pharaoh's Crown (c1645-6) and a 1641 Van Dyck self-portrait, unless rich benefactors can find £26.5m to save them before temporary export bans run out.
(17) If Grayling had not been celebrating the defeat of his government opponents, he might have resented what Moses said about an article he published in the Daily Telegraph while Moses was writing his ruling.
(18) Moses admitted that the story, which prompted Newmark’s resignation as a minister, was so serious that Ipso would have investigated it even without the complaint made by Mark Pritchard, one of several Tory MPs contacted by Alex Wickham, a freelance reporter who works for the Guido Fawkes blog .
(19) In the diagnosis, great importance is given to recently sistematized proof by Miller-Moses.
(20) When Jacobs joined this community action as a mere foot soldier, she hadn't yet become a public figure, but Moses's power and influence were already in retreat.
Patriarch
Definition:
(n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.
(n.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.
(n.) A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(2) A sclerotic patriarchal social system is also to blame.
(3) "But it proves how deep this patriarchal culture is in our minds that even intellectual people were so happy to say, 'Ah, there is a man!'
(4) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(5) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(6) As a broad generalisation, the two sides boil down to “that’s patriarchal nonsense in obvious need of rejection” and “leave her alone, it’s none of your goddamn business”.
(7) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
(8) Indeed, this anti-patriarchal behaviour, which undercuts the nuclear family and makes partnership with men a peripheral concern, is something to celebrate.
(9) In passing this law, these patriarchs have fathered millions of unwanted children, helping to create lives that could very well turn out to be painful and potentially motherless.
(10) A 1981 report by a New Jersey regulator also shows a $7.5m loan from the patriarch, and years later he bought $3.5m in gambling chips to help his son pay off the debts of a failing casino, which was found to have broken the law by accepting them .
(11) The patriarchal laws and the predominantly male enforcers of said archaic acts of parliaments condemn us criminals if we terminate our pregnancies.
(12) Wesley had consulted some sources, common sense, and his own experience, tempering those with the general principle of "doing good to all men," particularly "those who desire to live according to the gospel...." Thus, the Methodist patriarch's own formula for life had as much to do with the spread of Primitive Physick throughout eighteenth-century Britain and America as did all of the remedies and suggestions imprinted upon its pages.
(13) She argued that in fracturing the myth of American invincibility, the attacks also indirectly prompted a resurgence in patriarchal ideals, and a return to old-fashioned perceptions of gender.
(14) Institutionalised advocacy can hardly afford a critique of fundamental norms and rules that underlie modern patriarchal society.
(15) The author builds on previous works in which she has argued that the American core value system centers around science and technology, the institutions through which these are disseminated into society, and the patriarchal system through which these institutions are managed.
(16) For example, the high rate of infection among women in Africa cannot be understood apart from the legacy of colonialism (including land expropriation and the forced introduction of a migrant labor system) and the insidious combination of traditional and European patriarchal values.
(17) Noah has just opened at No 1 at the US box office despite facing a mixed reaction from religious audiences for its fast and loose interpretation of the story of the antediluvian patriarch.
(18) There is a qualitative difference in whose leadership is being visibilized, and black women are forcing ourselves into the forefront.” As we all grapple with racist state violence in the context of a deeply patriarchal society, black women organizers continue to put their bodies on the line to bring forth justice where it has yet to take root.
(19) Disabled activists pushed for a move away from a patriarchal approach to social care to one which was user-led; a shift "from institutions to community", as a piece by John Evans, an early advocate of IL , was titled.
(20) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".