(n.) An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samson d’Souza and Placido Carvalho were alleged to have plied Scarlett with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious on the beach, where she subsequently drowned.
(2) This review by Herman Samson and Adron Harris covers these recent findings, with the intent of generating questions that will focus further research efforts.
(3) That latest ankle injury – witnessed by Capello – will deny Cole a chance to overtake Kenny Samson as England's most capped full-back.
(4) Two local men, Placido Carvalho and Samson D'Souza, have been charged in connection with the murder, which was seen as a watershed for Goa's tourism industry.
(5) We therefore conclude that the Laerdal resuscitator is superior to the Samson one in the management of infants with birth asphyxia.
(6) It was identified as Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson (IMI 213487) and shown to be pathogenic for the rabbit cornea.
(7) Son and another heir Murdoch family tree update ... the world's most successful media mogul, Rupert Murdoch , has another grandchild to add to his swelling ranks of descendents after daughter Elisabeth gave birth on Saturday to a baby boy, Samson.
(8) The method appears to be useful for mapping functional neural pathways on the basis of evoked metabolic responses (Plum, Gjedde and Samson, 1976).
(9) A tweet from the writer Polly Samson last night reported that Freud's regular table in The Wolseley restaurant was laid with a black tablecloth and a single candle in his honour.
(10) Fluorescence parameters were reported earlier to be reliable indicators in the determination of heavy metal toxicity in algal cultures (Samson and Popovic, 1988).
(11) Gilmour has "done a lead on at least one [track]," she said, and Samson, who co-wrote seven of The Division Bell's tracks, described herself on Twitter as one of The Endless River's lyricists.
(12) Two local men, Samson D'Souza, 28, and Placido Carvalho, 36, face a number of charges, including culpable homicide, sexual assault, outraging modesty and destroying evidence.
(13) Pete Samson from The Sun – who is always well informed – reported on 10 May under the headline America loves Cheryl Cole that "Cheryl Cole dazzled America with her US X Factor debut, with co-judge Paula Abdul declaring her 'lovely' and FOUR contestants asking for her phone number."
(14) Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom) Samson, a saphrophyte that has contaminated laboratory solutions, was cultured.
(15) A large ophthalmic artery aneurysm was ligated using a modification of the retrograde suction technique described by Batjer and Samson.
(16) A comparison of the life story of a psychotherapy patient to that of biblical Samson reveals that both men suffer from a behavioural disturbance, manifested in the compulsion to re-enact the experience of betrayal by women, followed by destructive attacks of rage against others, and ultimately against their own tormented selves.
(17) Its giant Samson and Goliath cranes will have to be moved out of their current positions along tracks to the end of the building dock for the estimated 50 days of work on the Blackford Dolphin rig.
(18) Gen. Genet, 157:1-9, 1977; L. Samson and J. Cairns, Nature (London) 267:281-283, 1977].
(19) No correlation was found between the prevalence of mites in foxes and Samson character.
(20) Updated at 9.14am GMT 5.56am GMT New Zealand Adrienne Samson, a senior lecturer at the Auckland University, told the Guardian about their event this morning.
Surname
Definition:
(n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
(n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
(v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
Example Sentences:
(1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
(2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
(3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
(4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
(5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
(6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
(7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
(8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
(10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
(11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
(12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
(13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
(14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
(15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
(16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
(17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
(19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
(20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.