(a.) Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(2) The then party whip, Norman Lamb, who is now a health minister, expressed his reservations at the time, although Clegg was able to restore his authority by forcing through changes to the original bill.
(3) These data indicate that hallucinations (i.e., believed-in imaginings) can be elicited from a minority of "norman" subjects with brief instructions.
(4) In the request for reconsideration, Gissendaner’s lawyers cite a statement from former Georgia supreme court chief justice Norman Fletcher, who argues that Gissendaner’s death sentence is not proportionate to her role in the crime.
(5) Other controversial voices were Barry Norman, who wondered if Williams’s battles with mental health led him to take on sentimental film projects, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose tweet reading “Genie, you’re free” was seen as glorifying suicide .
(6) New ITV chairman Archie Norman will launch a strategy review this month as he seeks to "accelerate the transformation" of the broadcaster.
(7) Norman also once again dismissed any notion that ITV would look at selling off its programme-making operation, despite reports that some shareholders would like to see that happen .
(8) They’re peculiarly British but the appeal of the humour and the ever-present message that good people always win is absolutely global.” “These films are a part of British culture and to be carrying on the legacy of [original Carry On writers] Norman Hudis and Talbot Rothwell is a thrill and a responsibility,” said Dawson.
(9) At a press conference in New York , Norman Siegel, lawyer for Eunice Huthart, Angelina Jolie's sometime stunt double, said they had spoken to a number of people who claim they have been hacked by journalists working for News Corp.
(10) But Rubio’s Pac, Reclaim America, hopes to benefit from wealthy individual donors including the Miami car dealer Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, who is believed to have pledged at least $10m.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m Jewish but I see him as being a very inclusive kind of person that could really unite this country,’ said Norman Kayton, with his wife, Ellen.
(12) The observation of generalized GM1 gangliosidosis type 1 (Norman-Landing disease) is reported.
(13) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
(14) Garrett, C. Clayberger, A.M. Krensky, A.M. Norman, D.R.
(15) Archie Norman , ITV's chairman, said Crozier, who is the former head of the Football Association, had the "steely resolve we need at ITV", which was looking for a "great leader".
(16) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(17) This pressure, by a letters campaign to the FCO, was initiated by Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine with human rights organisation Adalah-New York , followed by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, former BBC correspondent Tim Llewellyn and hundreds of others.
(18) ITV said that Archie Norman, the former Tory MP and party chief executive, had not had any direct involvement with the programme.
(19) Equally, the award made to Norman Foster's striking 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin) was at a time when there was great excitement about the latest development in new City skyscrapers, an excitement somewhat deflated now that City money appears to be as trustworthy as a Bob Maxwell pension scheme.
(20) Imagine if our Norman had been born in Calcutta and chosen to live in India.
Saxon
Definition:
(n.) One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
(n.) Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.
(n.) The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language.
(a.) Anglo-Saxon.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Time, to use a good Anglo-Saxon expression, to call a spade a spade.
(2) A cooperative multicenter study was performed to evaluate two salivary secretion methods-the chewing gum test and the Saxon test by a crossover method.
(3) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(4) Back when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University, Andrew Leigh (now the federal shadow assistant treasurer) co-authored a study that found Chinese applicants must submit 68% more applications to get an interview than those with Anglo-Saxon names.
(5) Three hundred actively employed female registered professional nurses representing four cultural groups (white Anglo-Saxon, black, Jewish, and Hispanic) participated in a study to investigate nurses' attitudes toward culturally different patients.
(6) There was no apparent pathology associated with the presence of this new glycosylated albumin, which was detected in two unrelated individuals of Anglo-Saxon descent.
(7) Despite five days far from home and then hours flying through uncertain skies, the first passengers back into Heathrow last night exuded little more than relief and Anglo-Saxon sangfroid.
(8) In 2013, at the opening of RT’s new studios, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin , told Simonyan that the aim of the channel had been “to break the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on global information streams”.
(9) "Part of what has given Britain clout in the last 15 years has been that our economy has been seen to be successful, but the whole Anglo-Saxon model has taken a great knock," says Niblett.
(10) The reduction in uricaemia encountered in the five patients studied failed to agree with data reported in the Anglo-Saxon literature.
(11) A literature review demonstrated that up to 27.2% of persons of Spanish and 12.3% of Anglo-Saxon heritage but virtually no blacks or persons of Eastern origin are heterozygous for AAT alleles.
(12) Among Anglo-Saxons the rate was less than 0.5% and in French Canada it commonly exceeded 0.94%.
(13) Bronchial asthma in old people is defined, according to a number of Anglo-Saxon authors, as a disease which occurs for the first time (de novo) at an advanced age (i.e.
(14) He accepted the description used by Bob Geldof, well known for his own use of Anglo-Saxon words, as “no slouch” when it comes to swearing.
(15) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(16) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(17) At home, the family spoke German: "When I brought Anglo-Saxons home to play, I was conscious of the fact that I was taking them to a foreign place."
(18) If the debate seems strange to Anglo-Saxons, it is because French attitudes to wealth, taxation and the state are fundamentally different, though the issue of how much the wealthy should pay is not a new debate.
(19) Yet behind the British sangfroid, there was a real concern that Merkel and Sarkozy were playing right into the media narrative of a split between European social democrats and the Anglo-Saxon free marketeers, the precise narrative Obama tried to dismiss.
(20) Pathological screening-test results (Schirmer- and Saxon-test) were followed by ENT- and ophthalmological investigations and examinations in the field of internal medicine.