(n.) The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(2) A 58-year-old man visited the urological clinic in Prefectural Tohkamachi Hospital with complaint of swelling of bilateral scrotal contents.
(3) Polymorphism of PGM1 and PGM3 types was investigated in placental extracts from 127 unrelated Japanese parturients living in Yamanashi Prefecture.
(4) There have been three recent outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis in primary schools in Osaka prefecture caused by rotavirus: one in a school (TA) in April, 1974 and two in two other schools (TE and K) in May 1975.
(5) 4) Although the number of patients receiving aid in 1988, whose data we analyzed in the current study, was larger than that in 1984, the proportion of patients visiting medical institutions outside of the prefecture where the patients lived, and the proportion of patients visiting hospitals of medical schools were nearly equal to those in 1984.
(6) While the duration of active tuberculosis had been being shortened until 1984 in Tochigi prefecture, but since then the average duration became as long as that of whole Japan.
(7) In Sapporo City, the capital of Hokkaido Prefecture, the condition of the three parameters improved significantly after the institution of mass screening (e.g., the 48-month survival rate improved--from 21.3% to 87.5%).
(8) An analysis was performed of 2,168 consecutive stroke patients who were examined by computed tomography and entered into a hospital-based stroke registry in Akita Prefecture, Japan.
(9) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
(10) He wants to leave early as he has a 10-hour drive to Shiga, a mountainous prefecture on the other side of the country, where he plans to make a new life far from the radiation leak.
(11) UN aid worker suspended for leaking report on child abuse by French troops Read more The UN press office said on Wednesday a team led by the peacekeeping mission in CAR, known as Minusca, had travelled to Kemo prefecture to investigate.
(12) A 39-year-old man born in Miyazaki Prefecture was admitted because of jaundice and general malaise of about 10 days' duration.
(13) 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.
(14) Historically, almost all the natives had been killed in the Shimabara War in 1637, and then people immigrated to Shimabara mainly from Hyogo, Aichi and Shizuoka Prefectures.
(15) Ulcerative enteritis in broiler chickens occurred at five poultry farms in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan, in February and March, 1987.
(16) Results of mass screening for cervical cancer, endometrial cancer and breast cancer in Miyagi Prefecture were presented.
(17) The SMR of the patients was 2.54 relative to the general population of Osaka Prefecture.
(18) A group of “knife-wielding suspects” attacked a colliery in Asku prefecture, about 650km south-west of Urumqi, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA), a US-funded news group.
(19) The health ministry detected 82,000 becquerels of radioactive caesium – 164 times the limit permitted by law, in kukitachina leaves from Motomiya in Fukushima prefecture, as well as 15,000 becquerels of radioactive iodine – more than seven times the limit.
(20) The medical examiner does not conduct autopsies for criminal investigation or homicide cases in Ibaraki prefecture.
Saga
Definition:
(n.) A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
(pl. ) of Sagum
Example Sentences:
(1) Director Gareth Edwards , who made Godzilla, introduced a tantalizing concept reel to preview the mysterious film, which is part of a series of films exploring other stories outside of the core Star Wars saga.
(2) The Boaty McBoatface saga is not the first time online polls have gone awry.
(3) In a four-week campaign, noticeable for its lacklustre feel in the wake of the draining bailout saga, almost every poll depicted a neck-and-neck race between the two main parties.
(4) There was no immediate response from the Sterlings to the latest twist in the saga but an unnamed ally told the LA Times the claims were a “smear”.
(5) US attorney general Loretta Lynch closed the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email practices with no charges on Wednesday, formally ending a protracted saga that has clouded her campaign with questions of trustworthiness.
(6) A possible battle in the high court could ensue and potentially another saga that is likely to do no good whatsoever for the club, who this season are rebuilding on the road to a potential first return to the Premier League since 2004.
(7) So the second about-turn means Delph may have has questions to answer regarding his thought process throughout an saga that has become untidy.
(8) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
(9) A federal judge announced the proposed deal on Thursday, which would bring to a close the long-running legal saga over safety in the sport brought by players suffering from the long-term effects of head traumas, including advanced dementia.
(10) The US has had a hard time so far trying to make charges, other than against Manning, stick in the WikiLeaks saga.
(11) Serum IgA-antigliadin antibodies (SAGA) were measured by ELISA in 46 children with proven celiac disease (CD), in 52 children with probable CD, and in 85 control subjects.
(12) Yet again we see an appalling saga of interest rate fixing ranging across the whole industry, but the government still refuses to take a backstop power for full separation of all the banks in case ring-fencing doesn’t work.
(13) In The Bridge, my character, Saga Norén, lives in an apartment building close to here.
(14) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
(15) Some will claim the long-running Hamza saga shows the extent to which human rights have got so out of hand and that they need to be "rebalanced", that is, cut.
(16) The public saga of their marriage and divorce is the story of his vulnerability and ego, and his determination to be president at any cost.
(17) A statistical study was carried out to evaluate the dental caries of permanent teeth in the elementary school children (208 boys and 165 girls, 373 children of total) in the town of Fuji, Saga Prefectur, which is a mountain village, by means of psychological test and investigation of the living environment of children and their parents.
(18) The hunger strike by our former fellow prisoners at the Guantánamo prison camp should have already been the spur for President Obama to end this shameful saga, which has so lowered US prestige in the world.
(19) The War Against Terror is another moment in this continuing saga of our species toward an unpredictable somewhere between All against All and One World,” writes Scott Atran, attempting to place terrorism in the context of the evolution of human identities: While economic globalisation has steamrolled or left aside large chunks of humankind, political globalisation actively engages people of all societies and walks of life – even the global economy’s driftwood: refugees, migrants, marginals, and those most frustrated in their aspirations.
(20) Speaking at the annual CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, Horn confirmed the latest triptych of movies in the long-running space saga would kick off in 2015 with Star Wars: Episode VII.