(a.) Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
(a.) Naive; as, a naif remark.
Example Sentences:
(1) Part of the problem is uncertainty about who has been in charge since the interior minister, Prince Naif, took over the Yemen "file" from the ailing Crown Prince Sultan.
(2) But for a man so measured, and with such precision apparent throughout his film-making, the reaction seems perhaps faux-naif.
(3) Rob Giason, the acting chief executive of Advance Cairns, which also forms part of a northern Australia alliance of development groups, said the NAIF was a “strong commitment” of the organisation, and it was working on several potential projects.
(4) I think what this plan really is focused on is making sure we have a strong partnership between the public and private sectors.” The $5bn NAIF fund is open to economic projects that would otherwise be unlikely to proceed quickly, or at all , without federal assistance, and there was already a “big list” of project proposals submitted to the NAIF, a senior Northern Territory government official told Guardian Australia.
(5) But his office later told New Matilda it was still possible the independent board overseeing the $5bn Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) could grant Adani low-interest loans for the railway.
(6) It included upgrades to the Tanami Road between Alice Springs and the WA town of Halls Creek, which has also been cited as a potential recipient of NAIF funds.
(7) In this way, Scarlett's death might serve a purpose, finally puncturing that quasi-colonial arrogance so endemic in a certain stratum of UK society - that our children can go off anywhere and somehow their Britishness, class and a scuffed copy of Lonely Planet will protect them, decades of increasingly cultured and sophisticated holidays having resulted in a generation of nomad-naifs who seem to think that the entire world is just one big, safe, fluffy Centre Parc, policed by the friendly ghost of Michael Palin.
(8) This was in line with the position outlined by the minister for northern Australia, Josh Frydenberg, over the last nine months that while the Carmichael project was “a commercial operation [that] needs to stand on its own feet”, all investment decisions by the NAIF would be made by its board.
(9) He "pointedly" told the notoriously reactionary interior minister, Prince Naif, that "no nation could prosper without the intellectual contributions and talent of all its citizens ... (ie women)".
(10) Wonderful character, up from Detroit ghetto, sadly seems political naif March 24, 2015
(11) 'The sentences,' wrote Larissa MacFarquhar in a brilliant New Yorker profile of Chomsky 10 years ago, 'are accusations of guilt, but not from a position of innocence or hope for something better: Chomsky's sarcasm is the scowl of a fallen world, the sneer of hell's veteran to its appalled naifs' – and thus, in an odd way, static and ungenerative.
(12) The government’s consultation paper outlines that NAIF loans – which must be repaid – must make up no more than 50% of the initial investment, that projects be of public benefit located in or beneficial to northern Australia, and include construction or enhancement of economic infrastructure.
(13) Both the Australia Institute and Environmental Justice Australia argue that Adani – whose spokesman said a subsidy could fast-track the project but was “not critical” and was sought “because it’s available” – may not meet the NAIF investment criteria .
(14) Northern Australia has to promote itself to Asia, investment forum hears Read more Legislation for the NAIF is expected to be introduced in the next parliamentary sittings.
(15) He said he expected more to come forward for the federal financing before the NAIF was established.
(16) The Northern Australian Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), announced in the federal budget in 2015, seeks to offer concessional loans of at least $50m to projects in the underdeveloped regions of northern Australia.
(17) I suspect when the legislation is passed and the [NAIF] board is established … we’ll be getting our skates on.” The WA, NT, and Queensland governments have been invited to put forward two names each for secretariat of the NAIF, which will be based somewhere in the northern region.
(18) Yet our predictions have turned out to be far more accurate than those of the exuberant naifs who insisted Tripoli was Cairo all over again and that democracy was at hand.
(19) The rail company Aurizon has lodged a rival bid for NAIF funding for a railway line to the Galilee basin, it was reported on Thursday .
(20) It was, however, preferable to the bewilderingly moronic manifesto film that preceded Brown's speech, a faux-naif stickmen animation featuring characters called Jack and Jill and James, and made by Ridley Scott Associates.
Naik
Definition:
(n.) A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fiona MacKeown claimed Ravi Naik, the Goan home minister, and his son, Roy, were both involved and said she had been warned her own life was in danger.
(2) The four victims are named as Fazel Mohammed, 18, Naik Mohammed, 16, Mohammed Tayeb, 14 and Ahmed Shah, 12.
(3) But it was the problem pages that really sang to my soul, especially the advice from Just 17's agony aunts, Melanie McFadyean and Anita Naik , whose byline photos are still as familiar in my mind as old family pictures.
(4) The hearing was adjourned until Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of Naik's evidence.
(5) In his first written statement Naik had described how a boy arrived on the scene and was sent to get a bed sheet to cover the body because it was naked.
(6) Under further cross-examination, Naik was also unable to explain why in a subsequent statement he had said that the body had already been moved from the water by a worker from a nearby beach shack.
(7) Sementara itu, permukaan air laut di teluk Jakarta naik setinggi 6mm setiap tahunnya .
(8) Giving evidence in the children's court in the state capital of Panaji, the officer, Police Constable Gurunath Naik, described how he received a phone call at 7.15am on 18 February 2008 from an unknown person to say that there was a dead body floating in the sea at Anjuna beach.
(9) The defence also questioned when Naik first reported back to his superiors, referring to a later statement in which the officer noted that "the body would shift in the waves because the sea was rough" and that he moved the body and only then informed his superiors.
(10) Rajay Naik, who finished a master's last summer having graduated from Warwick University the year before, was on the panel.
(11) It appears to be similar in mobility to the C variants found in Indian Khillan (CKhillan) by Naik, Sukumaran and Sanghvi (Anim.
(12) "Our client could fail or succeed in his case without ever knowing why," Naik says.
(13) However, CF's solicitor, Ravi Naik, fears that the use of the secret justice measures of the Justice and Security Act will result in an odour of suspicion for ever lingering around the affair.
(14) They all gave my daughter drugs," she said, naming both defendants and also Roy Naik.
(15) Under questioning from Menezes, Naik was unable to explain why he had made no mention of any injuries in the initial report but later reported that he had observed blood coming out of the victim's mouth.
(16) Based on predictions from normal mode calculations of a number of relevant single- and double-stranded beta-helix conformations (Naik and Krimm, 1986), it has been possible to assign the structures of GA that are present under the above conditions.
(17) "The sea was splashing the body," Naik told the court.
(18) After all, the review team included Sir Michael Barber, an adviser to the former education minister David Blunkett, and Rajay Naik, a recent graduate who describes himself as "committed to helping people from disadvantaged backgrounds make a success of their lives".
(19) Naik School for Deaf was undertaken to determine the aetiology of their deafness.
(20) When they are outside the main camp they struggle to find clinics, feeding centres and schools," said Prasant Naik, head of Save the Children in Kenya.