(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.
Neif
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Neife
(n.) Alt. of Neaf
Example Sentences:
(1) Two Nicotiana plumbaginifolia cDNA clones, NeIF-5A1 and NeIF-5A2, encoding eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF-5A (formerly called eIF-4D) were cloned by heterologous screening with Dictyostelium and human eIF-5A probes.
(2) NeIF-5A1 antiserum crossreacts with an 18 kDa polypeptide doublet in all tobacco tissues examined.
(3) 18 kDa from a diversity of higher and lower plants crossreacts with NeIF-5A1 antiserum.
(4) Transcript analysis reveals that NeIF-5A1 is preferentially expressed in photosynthetic tissues, while NeIF-5A2 is constitutively expressed in all plant tissues examined.
(5) A polyclonal antibody was raised against NeIF-5A1 overexpressed in E. coli.