What's the difference between ratan and satan?

Ratan


Definition:

  • (n.) See Rattan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tata Motors, controlled by billionaire Ratan Tata, bought the company from Ford for £1.5bn in June 2008.
  • (2) Ratan Miah's farm has yielded 17 maunds (traditional baskets) of the vegetable since the beginning of May – and he says the crops sold well at market.
  • (3) Operated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ratan-600’s primary area of focus is monitoring the sun, though it has contributed to Seti’s work.
  • (4) In a rare interview, Ratan Kumar Sinha, the director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, told the Guardian that his team is finalising the site for construction of the new large-scale experimental reactor, while at the same time conducting "confirmatory tests" on the design.
  • (5) Of course, but [Ratan-600] didn’t have a receiver that has any spectral resolution.” The receiver on the Russian radio telescope is very wide, which aids it in its primary mission of monitoring solar activity but also means that, like a terrestrial radio receiving a news station, rock’n’roll station and country station at the same time, it is difficult to discern which band is broadcasting at which frequency.
  • (6) Seth Shostak of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (Seti) in Mountain View, California, told the Guardian he was shocked to have learned of the discovery only now – the readings from Russian radio telescope Ratan-600, Shostak said, were taken a year ago.
  • (7) Ratan Tata is due to act as interim chairman for four months.
  • (8) However, one Tata source said this was positive news for the UK and that Ratan Tata would now commit to turning around its steel operations.
  • (9) They said Ratan Tata was analysing whether to go ahead with the ThyssenKrupp deal and proposals to sell Tata Steel’s speciality steel arm, which employs 2,000 people in north-east England, before announcing his plan for the business.
  • (10) Ratan Tata, the interim chairman who took over from Cyrus Mistry this month, is understood to be conducting a detailed review of Tata Steel UK before making a final decision.
  • (11) However, the permanent replacement for Mistry is almost certain to be supportive of Ratan Tata’s approach, given his influence.
  • (12) Last week, together with a group of CEOs from some of the world’s largest companies and civil society organisations – including Sir Richard Branson, Ratan Tata and Mary Robinson – we directly called on world leaders to show leadership and commit to reach a global goal of net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 and embed this goal in an agreement at a summit in Paris later this year.
  • (13) Tata's chairman, Ratan Tata , said: "We are very pleased at the prospect of Jaguar and Land Rover being a significant part of our automotive business.
  • (14) Ratan Tata will go through in detail and analyse.” Ratan Tata was chairman of the company for more than two decades before standing aside for Mistry in 2012.
  • (15) Think Michael Gove raiding Singapore's education system for ideas on toughening up exams; or even the Indian steel magnate Ratan Tata, complaining last year that his company's western workers were overfond of their leisure and blaming "a certain comfort level that comes from a country that has had good times" .

Satan


Definition:

  • (n.) The grand adversary of man; the Devil, or Prince of darkness; the chief of the fallen angels; the archfiend.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
  • (2) And when the international community shouts selectively about human rights it encourages conservatives to feel that they are being hectored again by “ Little Satan ” Britain or “Great Satan” America.
  • (3) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
  • (4) His controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses, which provoked a religious opinion or fatwa, from the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the author's killing as punishment for blasphemy, is still banned in India.
  • (5) The conciliatory language marked a radical change from the presidency of his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a break from tradition dating to the 1979 revolution of referring to the US as the "Great Satan".
  • (6) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
  • (7) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
  • (8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
  • (9) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
  • (10) vale (@r4ulsonfeels) IM GOING TO SELL MY SOUL TO SATAN FOR GILLIAN AS THE FIRST FEMALE BOND HAPPEN May 21, 2016 charlotte✨ (@bensonscully) @GillianA OK BUT ALSO IDRIS ELBA CAN BE JAMES BOND AND YOU CAN BE JANE BOND AND YOU CAN SLAY EVERYONE May 21, 2016 Kelley Sublett (@Kel_Sub) @felishacarolle And now that someone has put the idea out there...GIVE ME A FEMALE BOND STAT!
  • (11) Unorthodox sexual behavior, such as "fisting," has increased in frequency, as has sexual violence related to cults, such as satanism.
  • (12) At last year’s 36th anniversary of the taking of the embassy hostages, which featured criticism of the Rouhani administration as well as denunciations of the United States as the “Great Satan”, Raeisi announced that the intelligence and security forces had “identified and cracked down on a network of penetration in media and cyberspace, and detained spies and writers hired by Americans”.
  • (13) When I raped women I felt the spirit of Satan within me," he says.
  • (14) The women are being controlled by "the global government", they say, who ultimately are themselves controlled "by Satan".
  • (15) Thirty-seven adult dissociative disorder patients who reported ritual abuse in childhood by satanic cults are described.
  • (16) The Satanic Temple is a satirical group that opposes religious displays and activity on government property and public schools.
  • (17) An outright failure of the talks would strengthen the position of conservative hardliners in Iran's clerical establishment against Rouhani, who has tried to improve relations with the country once termed the "great Satan".
  • (18) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
  • (19) Note the speed with which a delegation of 20 imams visited the Charlie Hebdo offices , branding the gunmen “criminals, barbarians, satans” and, crucially, “not Muslims”.
  • (20) And my mind turned again to Michael Gove , who, to put their relationship in terms of Gove’s beloved Dennis Wheatley, is the supplicant Simon Aron to Boris’s satanic Mocata, their joint prize the mummified phallus of Conservative party power.

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