(n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(3) The conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras has ruled out participating in a transition government if Papandreou is in it.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras.
(5) The eurogroup source said that Samaras was expected to show up in Luxembourg on Thursday for the meeting of eurozone finance ministers which will grapple with Spain and how to respond to the Greek election results.
(6) That would provide the 'breath of air' which prime minister Antonis Samaras has asked for.
(7) Papoulias also underlined the urgency for a government to be formed as he handed Samaras the formal mandate, saying: "The country cannot remain ungoverned for even an hour."
(8) Samaras is also expected to stress the importance of Greece clinching a primary surplus this year, as appears likely, as this will allow the government to offer some relief to lower-income Greeks.
(9) Prime minister Antonis Samaras' two junior lefitist partners say it is very important that Greeks are not stripped of their "democratic right" to demonstrate against measures that they deem to be unfair.
(10) The conservative New Democracy party – the dominant force in a coalition lead by the outgoing prime minister Antonis Samaras – suffered ignominious defeat, collapsing to 76 seats in the 300-seat parliament.
(11) Stournaras wants decisions to be made at the next meeting of euro group finance minister, on 8 October, and approved at the next EU summit (the first attended by Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras), on 18 October.
(12) Independent MPs, whom Samaras had hoped to sway in this, the final round of a three-stage vote, followed suit.
(13) Earlier this month, secretly filmed footage released by the neo-fascists showed the prime minister Antonis Samaras' chief of staff telling Golden Dawn's spokesman that a criminal investigation had been ordered against it out of a fear the party was stealing votes from the ruling conservatives.
(14) €1 is worth $1.23 and £1 is almost worth $1.57 It is a quieter day today, as we wind down for the weekend, but we will be keeping a close eye on the following: Italy is issuing €8.5bn of six-month short-term bonds Germany's latest Consumer Price Index is published The US reveals its latest GDP figures, expected to be down slightly [UPDATE: European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is NOT holding further meetings with Greek PM Antonis Samaras, as we earlier said.
(15) Emerging from talks with prime minister Antonis Samaras, Stournaras told journalists that "there is absolutely no reason to worry," about the upcoming euro group meeting of finance ministers on Monday.
(16) In his ultra-modern office, seated behind an array of photographs autographed by the likes of Ted Kennedy and George Bush Snr, Antonis Samaras does not come across as a particularly anti-establishment figure.
(17) With the winds of popular support behind it, Syriza reacted to the concessions saying Samaras had only made them because he knew he would not be able to win the presidential election.
(18) More than three years after Europe's ongoing debt crisis erupted in the shadow of the Acropolis, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, also wanted to make clear that the country, for so long at the centre of that drama, may not have survived had it not been for Paris.
(19) The [relief] measures will not affect anyone earning above €1,000 a month.” Patronage politics and vested interests had made it impossible for Greek governments, including prime minister Antonis Samaras’s fragile, two-party alliance, to step back and reform.
(20) Many analysts believe the election, which outgoing prime minister Antonis Samaras of the centre-right party New Democracy has described as a referendum on Europe, could drag the eurozone back into a crisis.
Samarra
Definition:
(n.) See Simar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samarra is the fourth northern city to have all but fallen out of government control .
(2) Isis has tried to capture Samarra, north of Baghdad, home to another major Shia shrine.
(3) Samarra and surrounding areas have been under constant attacks by Islamic State (Isis) extremists, who hold about a third of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in its self-declared caliphate.
(4) Efforts to keep events in Iraq in perspective have been further handicapped by overheated attempts in newsdesks far removed from the frontlines of Samarra and Tikrit to settle old scores.
(5) The deadliest, near the city of Samarra, saw two suicide car bombers attack checkpoints manned by Shia militiamen, killing 16 Shia fighters and wounding 31.
(6) The priority we gave to the armed forces and all the forces taking part alongside them is to preserve the security of citizens,” Abadi said in Samarra.
(7) Reports from Iraq have painted a confused picture of a rapidly developing situation with fighting reported in a number of key locations on Wednesday night and on Thursday, including on the outskirts of the city of Samarra, where government officials said Isis fighters had been driven back.
(8) And that risk was raised dramatically on Friday as Shia militia men poured north to protect the Shrine of the Golden Dome in Samarra and as grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on Shias to take up jihad against Isis.
(9) Iraq was braced on Friday for a return to a level of sectarian war last seen almost a decade ago as Shia fighters rushed to Samarra to confront Sunni insurgents and the country's leading Shia cleric called on his followers to take up arms to defend "their country, their people and their holy places" Convoys of fighters were seen early on Friday being escorted north by Iraqi police trucks from Baghdad to Samarra, the central city where insurgents – led by the Sunni militant group the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (Isis) – were in control after a lightning strike south.
(10) February A famous gold dome at the sacred Shia al-Askari shrine in Samarra is blown up, prompting fears of reprisal attacks.
(11) "Dear Kerbala, Dear Najaf, Dear Kadhimiya and Dear Samarra, we warn the great powers and their lackeys and the terrorists, the great Iranian people will do everything to protect them," he said, in a speech on Wednesday in Khoramabad, near the Iraqi border.
(12) Police say the camp outside Samarra, a Sunni city 60 miles north of Baghdad, was in an orchard in the village of al-Jalam.
(13) Clashes between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants followed the attack around Samarra, 60 miles (95km) north of Baghdad.
(14) The Samarra shrines were twice reduced to rubble in February and April 2006 in attacks that sparked a brutal two-year sectarian war across Iraq.
(15) Two suicide car bombers later attacked a checkpoint manned by Shia militia near the city of Samarra, killing 16 Shia fighters and wounding 31, authorities said.
(16) Samarra is now the next town in the Islamists' path to Baghdad.
(17) Hours later, Isis claimed responsibility for the Samarra attacks in a statement posted on a Twitter account used by the militants.
(18) All the liberation battles in Tikrit, Samarra and Mosul were directed by leaders from Ramadi.
(19) According to Maass in an interview for the investigation: "The interrogation centre was the only place in the mini green zone in Samarra that I was not allowed to visit.
(20) Worse was to come on Thursday, when Samarra – home to the Imam al-Askareen shrines twice blown up by al-Qaida in 2006 – saw its military protectors capitulate.