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Rhine


Definition:

  • (n.) A water course; a ditch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The impression you get is that on neither side of the Rhine were politicians very happy with the EADS-BAE tie-up.
  • (2) Should he head for the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, Spurs may offer his dressing-room peg to the Swiss striker Josip Drmic , a right-winger and striker who has scored 15 times for Nürnberg in the Bundesliga, including both goals in the crucial win over Stuttgart last night.
  • (3) Elections in North Rhine-Westphalia are often a gauge of the future of German national politics.
  • (4) But within North Rhine-Westphalia – which includes the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, and the industrial Ruhr region – it would appear that the CDU's arguments that the state needed to make sacrifices to slash its €180bn (£144bn) debt backfired.
  • (5) Most measures are now taken in the international frameworks of the EC (European Community) or IRC (International Rhine Commission), but in the Dutch legislation and sanitation policy additional activities are being carried out to safeguard the quality of drinking water in The Netherlands.
  • (6) On the basis of our earlier studies on the hygienic, health and social situation of old people living in their own flats, we investigated the conditions in all 12 larger old people's homes of a big city in the Rhine-Main area, as well as 100 selected subjects of a defined socio-economic group within these homes.
  • (7) Measurements of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb)-content from about 13,000 inhabitants of various sites in western North Rhine-Westphalia are presented.
  • (8) General theories of stress ecology were applied to aquatic communities in the floodplain of the polluted River Rhine.
  • (9) North Rhine-Westphalia has bought stolen information several times over the past few years concerning people allegedly trying to evade taxes by not declaring money deposited in Swiss bank accounts, recovering around €2.1bn through these means.
  • (10) At Roche, one of the pharmaceutical multinationals across the Rhine, 60% of employees are foreigners.
  • (11) to dairy cattle of four different breeds: the Jersey, the Holstein-Friesian (HF), the Dutch Black-and-White (FH) and the Dutch Red-and-White (Meuse-Rhine-Yssel).
  • (12) As abominable as the crimes in Cologne and other cities were, one thing remains clear: there is no justification for blanket agitation against foreigners,” justice minister Heiko Maas said, adding that some people “appear just to have been waiting for the events of Cologne.” On Monday, a regional parliamentary commission in North-Rhine Westphalia, where Cologne is the largest city, will question police and others about the events on New Year’s Eve.
  • (13) This appears to be an appropriate occasion to consider the medical use of radioactive substances in North Rhine-Westphalia in the last ten years.
  • (14) These big urban areas have the most potential for growth in the region, but are currently underperforming, especially in comparison to cities in more successful areas such as the Rhine-Ruhr and Randstad areas.” The Centre for Cities suggested three ways policymakers could increase the chances of making the northern powerhouse a success: Address the skills gap in northern cities, where fewer people are educated to degree level than in other areas of the UK.
  • (15) A total of 112 patients at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Rhine-Westphalian Technical University in Aachen were examined.
  • (16) Borchardt points to the clean up of the river Rhine, which was one of the most heavily polluted rivers in the world, as well as effective waste water strategies by companies such as BASF and Bayer as examples of what can be done.
  • (17) Probably not because you had too much time on your hands and wanted to work yourself into the ground over internal issues.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters hold placards to demonstrate against the AfD during its election campaign launch in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • (18) In May, the coalition lost its slim majority in the Bundesrat after elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany's most populous state.
  • (19) The effects of a quaternary ammonium compound, ditallowdimethylammonium chloride (DTDMAC), on natural populations of bacteria and phytoplankton from the lower River Rhine were examined to estimate their sensitivity to the discharges of cationic surfactants in the river basin.
  • (20) In 1982, 1983 and 1986 164 water-specimens were collected at 34 sites along the river Rhine and its affluxes in the Rhine-Neckar-Region and tested for the occurrence of Salmonellae.

Rhino


Definition:

  • (n.) Gold and silver, or money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four pilots with "extensive experience" in transporting some of the world's most precious cargo, including white rhinos and penguins, were on the flight.
  • (2) The histological and ultrastructural effects following 3 weeks' topical treatment with two agents (all-trans retinoic acid and a new synthetic retinoid-like substance, CD271) were evaluated on the epidermis and the epithelial wall of the pseudocomedones in rhino mouse skin.
  • (3) We compared swab and scraping (Rhino-probe) technics in the nasal cytology obtention for eosinophils count in 36 patients with a range of 2-46 years old (mean age 18.6 years) with diagnosis of Allergic Rhinitis.
  • (4) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
  • (5) On autopsy, rhino-cerebral mucormycosis was demonstrated with a mycotic thrombus involving the left middle cerebral artery.
  • (6) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
  • (7) Some say the recent rush for rhino horn emanates from Vietnam, where, a few years ago, rumors circulated that a prominent politician had been cured of cancer by consuming it.
  • (8) The diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis is therefore based on clinical findings including rhino pharyngeal, pulmonary and renal manifestations.
  • (9) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
  • (10) Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
  • (11) Game rangers have had their arms upgraded to take on the poaching gangs, and the military, operating under an unofficial shoot-to-kill policy, has been brought into Kruger National Park, where hundreds of rhino have been lost.
  • (12) The report covers the therapeutic results achieved after using cytostatic drugs in 104 patients treated at the 1st Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Univ.
  • (13) One British theft was from Sworders auction house in Essex in February, when the mounted head of a black rhino was taken the day before it was to be sold.
  • (14) By the end of September, a record 704 rhinos had been killed by poachers in South Africa and 47 in Kenya this year.
  • (15) Two cases of odontoma are reported, one lesion being a compound odontoma and the other a complex odontoma, the latter provoking facial pain combined with rhino-sinusal allergic phenomena.
  • (16) The tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome (TRPS) is a rare congenital disorder, characterized by (1) a peculiar and somewhat pear-shaped nose, (2) sparse and brittle scalp hair, and (3) radiographic evidence of cone-shaped epiphyses of the hands.
  • (17) One of the elders, who was a senior leader of the Rhino clan, inducted us into his clan with a short ceremony followed by a long speech over the fire, which allowed us to be officially recognised as the first female Masai warriors.
  • (18) We report an insulin-dependent diabetic patient with rhino-sinuso-orbital mucormycosis, who after being treated with amphotericin B and surgical debridement on two occasions, maintained clinical and tomographic evidence of active infection, and mucoral persistence in the lesion.
  • (19) Cure followed evisceration and an abbreviated course (215 mg) of amphotericin B. Sporothrix must now be regarded as another fungal agent capable of causing primary rhino-ophthalmic infection similar to Mucor.
  • (20) South African National Parks' (SANParks) first response to the outbreak of poaching in 2008 was to ramp up conventional ranger patrols in Kruger, home to thousands of rhinos.

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