(a.) Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
(2) Gamma spectra were measured and activities of the detected isotopes were analyzed for 206 high-activity particles (hot particles, HPs) found in northeastern Poland after the Chernobyl accident.
(3) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(4) The point prevalence on December 31, 1988, for northeastern Scotland was 147 per 100,000.
(5) Iodine balance during pregnancy and lactation was investigated by measuring iodine concentration in the urine of 11 pregnant women, born and living in a moderately iodine deficient endemic goiter area in Northeastern Sicily, collected during the last week of pregnancy, and between the 5th and 7th day after delivery, and in their milk sampled simultaneously with the urine of their newborns.
(6) sp., collected in a postpraziquantel treatment stool of a 44-yr-old woman from Kalasin Province in northeastern Thailand, is described.
(7) A case-control study of neural tube defects (NTD) was undertaken from 1979 to 1986 in the department of Bas-Rhin in Northeastern France.
(8) To examine the background of excessive salt intake by the people who live in the northeastern district of the mainland of Japan, statistical analysis was carried out on salt consumption with nutritional status with data from the National Nutrition Survey of Japan and prefectural reports.
(9) A mail survey was conducted in rural northeastern Missouri to study the factors affecting use of Veterans Administration (VA) outpatient medical services by older veterans.
(10) One hundred fifteen wolf (Canis lupus) feces were collected between 1980 and 1984 from northeastern Minnesota and were examined for canine parvovirus by negative contrast electron microscopy.
(11) To facilitate health service planning, a surveillance and case-control study were conducted of births in 3 hospitals and 2 maternity clinics in the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil.
(12) Simon Hay, an Oxford-based epidemiologist, urged Brazilian authorities to aggressively eliminate mosquitoes around the northeastern stadiums.
(13) Five highly trained distance runners (DR) were observed during controlled 90-min thermoregulation trials in spring (T1) and late summer (T2) to document the nature of heat acclimatization in the northeastern United States.
(14) The aim of the current paper was to study in the state of Sergipe the population distribution and interactions between two species of Biomphalaria, the snail vectors of Schistosoma mansoni in the northeastern Brazil.
(15) Low prevalences of CRS were observed in northeastern Japan, and high prevalences in southwestern Japan, with the highest in Okinawa.
(16) The mean values of weight and height of these children were comparable to those of children from the Northeastern region of Brazil ("Nordeste"), higher than those found for children in the State of Paraíba, Brazil, and lower than those for middle-class children of the State of S. Paulo.
(17) A well-preserved mummified child from about A.D. 1200 was recovered fron Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona in 1971.
(18) Hemoglobin J(Korat), a "fast" hemoglobin with an anomaly in its beta chain different from the anomalies previously reported, was the major hemoglobin component in the blood of nine subjects among 1923 Thais from northeastern Thailand.
(19) Local officials reported last week the abductions of another 91 people – 31 boys and 60 girls and women with toddlers as young as 3 – in northeastern villages.
(20) This study shows that nutrient intakes far below recommended intakes are common among the examined northeastern Thai children and of a serious nature, and that much more emphasis needs to be given to increase the energy or food intake rather than the protein content of their grossly inadequate diets.
Ruse
Definition:
(n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Example Sentences:
(1) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
(2) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
(3) It is a ruse in order to get a second opinion … It is simply going nowhere.
(4) The ruse provoked a response from MLSsoccer.com , for whom Andy Edwards wrote: Whatever your feelings on USA Soccer Guy, your feelings toward the SFA should go something like this: We're sorry we beat you 5-1 last year , and we're also sorry that you're still bitter about it.
(5) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients.
(6) One ruse is to promise marriage to wealthy foreigners.
(7) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
(8) To do so, right under the noses of an often violent state apparatus, they will adopt all sorts of ruses to keep their identity secret or at least partly masked.
(9) The film is poignant because the man is an undercover FBI agent posing as a government official who has lured Chapman to the meeting under the ruse of getting her to pass a fake passport to another "illegal" – a spy who has embedded themselves in America society, outside the protection of the Russian embassy.
(10) Elections are due in 2015, but no one expects anything other than the same old ruses from Lukashenko.
(11) A new report by the International Crisis Group, a respected thinktank, found that Syrian rebel groups were playing up their Islamist credentials by growing Salafi-type beards, for example, as a ruse to secure arms from these conservative Gulf-based donors.
(12) This was an ill-conceived idea in its own time, and today a left-right compromise looks like nothing but a ruse to salvage a political class buffeted by Grillo's digital populism and widespread public contempt.
(13) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients, including on the terrace.
(14) In this view, expression of concern for human rights is not just hypocritical but a ruse.
(15) When Seigner's Wanda forces Almaric's Thomas to wear women's clothes at the end of Venus in Fur , it is hard not to wonder if this is another example of both disguised memoirs and masochistic ruse.
(16) But they have got into general circulation by an elaborate ruse.
(17) Sometimes the ruse plays upon a person's desire to make a profit from an outlandish investment proposal.
(18) To "fix" the region's unfixable Holocaust history, an array of cunning ruses was brought into play.
(19) But the government has adopted a culture of secrecy, as well as legal and parliamentary ruses, to hide from the public the extent that the NHS is being put up for sale to private healthcare companies.
(20) They see it as a Remainer ruse to stay in the EU in all but name.