(n.) A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.
(n.) The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.
(n.) Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(2) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
(3) Journalists should never be a propaganda arm of any government – not in peace and never in war.
(4) North Korea has produced tons of propaganda films that portray America’s destruction.
(5) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(6) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
(7) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(8) The Isis propaganda war: a hi-tech media jihad Read more Isis is innovative.
(9) Under Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, anyone promoting "non-traditional sexual relations" to minors face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£100), while businesses and schools could get fines up to 500,000 roubles (£10,000).
(10) It would also be a propaganda victory for Moscow, which launched a campaign to safeguard Assad’s rule last October.
(11) The first time I heard about legislation banning " homosexual propaganda ", I thought it was funny.
(12) The Iraqi government needs to “mock and disprove” Islamic State’s online propaganda more effectively and more quickly Malcolm Turnbull has told an elite audience in Washington, saying he will raise the problem when he meets US president Barack Obama.
(13) In the letter, Gadahn – who the White House has announced was killed in a US drone stike in January – told the al-Qaida leader that Benjamin Franklin had never been a president of the United States and warned that if he or Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s deputy, made the mistake in propaganda speeches, their credibility would suffer.
(14) The tone of Kim’s comments, which sought to glorify him and justify the test, is typical of state media propaganda.
(15) South Korea has said it will resume the cross-border propaganda broadcasts that Pyongyang considers an act of war, as fellow US ally Japan condemned North Korea’s claim to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb as a “serious threat” to its national security.
(16) I, along with many others, am tired of this toxic propaganda.
(17) Bensouda, 50, who has served as Moreno-Ocampo's deputy, added: "With due respect, what offends me most when I hear criticisms about the so-called African bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals and to forget about the millions of anonymous people that suffer from these crimes … because all the victims are African victims.
(18) But those who know the Londoner – who was born Siddhartha Dhar and changed his name after converting from Hinduism to Islam – struggle to agree on whether he can be identified as Isis’s latest propaganda figure.
(19) Jared Genser Germany went public with its anger about Beijing’s handling of Liu’s case on Monday, accusing Chinese security services of leaking surveillance footage of Liu being visited by a German doctor in order to bolster a propaganda campaign pushing the idea that the dissident was too ill to be evacuated from China.
(20) According to a secret cable titled "David Letterman: Agent of Influence", they have been proving more effective than Washington's main propaganda tool, the US-funded al-Hurra TV news channel.
Propagation
Definition:
(n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.
(n.) The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
(2) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(3) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(4) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(5) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
(6) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
(7) The E2A mutants were propagated by growth in human cell lines which express an integrated copy of the DBP gene under the control of a dexamethasone-inducible promoter (D. F. Klessig, D. E. Brough, and V. Cleghon, Mol.
(8) Phage H propagated on Yersinia pestis was reported by Molnar and Lawton to be rapidly adsorbed to female but not to male strains of Escherichia coli.
(9) The re-examination of previous data revealed that Caenorhabditis elegans produced 1.8% 24-methyl-23-dehydrocholesterol when propagated in medium containing campesterol.
(10) In 40 subjects the propagation sequence of phasic contractions could be evaluated and were simultaneous in 53%, antegrade in 35%, and retrograde in 11% of the waves.
(11) It is concluded that a number of mechanisms can account for the conduction failure resulting from phospholipase A2, including disruption of sodium channels needed for propagation of regenerative nerve impulses and the depletion of high energy phosphates needed to maintain ionic gradients.
(12) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(13) Following the 1000-kJ but not the 4200-kJ meal, 10 mg cisapride increased total number of contractions, number of propagated contractions, mean amplitude, and area under curve significantly more than placebo.
(14) This phenomenon seems to be due to the generation of surface waves and a corresponding fluid zone into which these waves are also partially propagated.
(15) After 4 months of propagation, this cell line regularly showed 15 to 40% reactive cells.
(16) Because they prevent secondary capsular opacification and anterior vitreous propagation, it appears that such barrier-type implants should be systematically placed.
(17) Propagation and activity level of 18 enzymes catalyzing deamination reactions of dicarboxylic and oxyamino acids and enzymes of amino acid reamination and amino acid N-acyl-derivatives' deacylation have been studied in Klebsiella bacteria.
(18) The reaction studied, thus, appears to be the chain branching and propagation phase of lipoperoxidation.
(19) Study of the growth characteristics of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a relatively well-organized, slow-growing skin cancer, has been limited because of the lack of methods for propagation of the tumor off the human host.
(20) In cells treated with ion across membranes, tip to base propagation was seen only in the presence of EGTA; when calcium was added the majority of organisms propagated waves from base to tip.