(n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) He earns about 2m rials (£100) a month, which used to be enough to support a modest life with his wife.
(2) Even if they have money in their pockets, they want to wait and see, but we are hopeful that the lifting of sanctions will bring back confidence to customers.” A sales assistant at a men’s beauty shop says a pack of Gillette razors that sold for 170,000 rials (about £3) before the rial nosedived now cost more than 480,000 rials (over £8).
(3) On Friday, Iranian customers will be able to get a 14% discount on the latest iPhone, priced locally at 24.9m rials (£625).
(4) The recent hardship is believed to be the country's worst financial crisis since the Iran-Iraq war as the Iranian currency, the rial, was sent into a tailspin last year and prices of staple goods soared rapidly.
(5) The government of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has struggled to control the depreciation of rial by issuing an order for an imposed exchange rate to be used both in banks and open market.
(6) They have brought inflation and a collapse in the currency, the rial.
(7) As a result, the value of Iran's rial against the dollar has fallen to a record low, even experiencing devaluation of more than 50%.
(8) A 4K LG television is on offer with a 24% discount at around 17.9m rials (£450).
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An Iranian woman pays a 20000 rial banknote bearing a portrait of Iran’s late founder of islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
(10) And the value of the Iranian currency, the rial, has dropped sharply against the dollar, placing imported goods beyond the reach of many consumers.
(11) The money I am earning here could have earned in Nepal.” Reached by phone, the Ibex manager, Srikanth, explains: “My problem here is I signed a contract for 15m [rial, £2.4m] and I was supposed to receive my advances during March but it was delayed.
(12) The dollar is now worth three times the rial compared with early last year.
(13) It’s nothing to do with me, it’s the [North Korean recruitment] company’s business.” A project manager of the lavish development said the workers “don’t have a single rial themselves” and “borrow money from us if they need small things like cigarettes”.
(14) As part of its labour reforms, the authorities increased the fine for companies that confiscate passports to 25,000 rials a passport, but the practice remains widespread.
(15) I calculate that on my current salary, saving every penny I can, it would still be decades before I could come up with this property's asking price of 110bn rials (£5.5m at the official rate of exchange).
(16) Real Madrid attempted to entice Mitten, Di Stefano and Rial to the Bernabéu in 1951, but Mitten's wife was homesick, so they headed home.
(17) The plan best served Iran's rural regions, where large family sizes meant more payouts per household, but those in urban areas, where families are smaller and energy usage much higher, have been hit hard, especially as the rial's foreign exchange value plummeted, aggravating already intense inflationary pressures.
(18) We have been through every company on the stock exchange and shortlisted close to 50 where we know they are fully private.” He added: “We can’t make direct bank transfers [because of banking restrictions still in place] and so will be using exchange houses and multination corporates who have large rial reserves to transfer money.
(19) "I could have had European Cup medals as well, because they went on to win it five times with Di Stefano and Rial as players."
(20) Iran's currency market reacted positively to news of the nuclear accord, with the Iranian rial steadily recovering its value against the US dollar.
Vial
Definition:
(n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
(v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.
Example Sentences:
(1) We recommend the shell vial technique for isolation of C. burnetii.
(2) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(3) By means of a two-vial transport media system the samples were sent to a university laboratory and examined for viral, bacterial, and parasitic organisms.
(4) We developed a shell vial cell culture assay (SVA) using a cross-reactive monoclonal antibody to the T antigen of simian virus 40 to detect BKV rapidly by indirect immunofluorescence.
(5) With special care, plastic vials charged with albumin may also be used.
(6) The sensitivity of the shell vial assay was 78% for RSV, 94% for influenza B virus, 83% for adenovirus, and 80% for parainfluenza viruses.
(7) Only cells cultured with Opti-MEM I and Omni Serum grew consistently in tubes and vials and these reagents were compared to FBS for viral isolation and detection.
(8) The performance of MRC-5 shell vial centrifugation-enhancement and direct immunoperoxidase staining was compared to the traditional WI38 tube cell culture for the detection of Herpes simplex virus on 123 clinical samples.
(9) Traditionally, when preparing 99mTc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals, [99mTc]pertechnetate is added to the entire contents of a vial of reagent kit, and patient doses are subsequently withdrawn from the vial.
(10) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
(11) Instead of the usual 1.0 to 1.5 mL of liquid sample, the vials contained 200 microL of liquid; the vapor above the liquid was injected into the gas chromatograph.
(12) T. vaginalis in TYI in 1-ml vials with or without McCoy cells demonstrated poor growth.
(13) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
(14) The use of insert vial provides several advantages over other methods for the count correction of these suspensions.
(15) Cold-chain capacity of 30,000-40,000 vials was required for a district as well as about 500 reusable syringes and needles a year along with vaccination cards exceeding the number of women and children by 10% for recordkeeping at the PHC center.
(16) Samples are prepared in small vials containing a solution of DNPH and acetonitrile.
(17) The relative humidity of the headspace gas of the vials, which contained only 5 microgram of active ingredient, was monitored by a GC method and was then correlated with product stability.
(18) In contrast, when NPH-insulin (Protaphane HM) was mixed with regular insulin and injected in 4 out of the 7 diabetic patients, the storage temperature of insulin vials had no effect on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the mixture.
(19) The quantity of Glucantime supplied to the patients varied from 10 vials to more than 200, with or without intervals during the treatment.
(20) Parameters of electroporation were established for transfection of the shuttle vector pRSV cat into H9 cells, and a rapid single-vial assay was used for measurement of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity in extracts of transfected cells.