(n.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group has sworn allegiance to al-Qaida and, Sani says, some of its members have fought in Somalia and Sudan, but a formal link "cannot be independently confirmed".
(2) The residents of Sani Isla expressed relief that a confrontation with Petroamazonas did not take place on Tuesday as anticipated , but said the firm is still trying to secure exploration rights in their area of pristine rainforest.
(3) The military was flying in medical and intelligence teams to evaluate the former captives, many of whom were severely traumatised, said army spokesman Col Sani Usman.
(4) The north-east remained a centre of Islamic learning for children from all over Nigeria and west Africa, Sani said.
(5) The head of the local Sani Abacha hospital, doctor Garba Fika, said six bodies and 32 injured had arrived there, with one person dying after being admitted.
(6) Shehu Sani, a Boko Haram expert who has negotiated with the group before on behalf of the government, told AFP: “I have never heard of such a man, and if Boko Haram wanted to declare a ceasefire, it would come from the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau.” Ralph Bello-Fadile, an assistant to Nigeria’s national security adviser (NSA), told a conference on Monday that it had been inundated with fraudsters claiming to represent Shekau.
(7) To give just one example, Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s late military dictator (1993-98), is suspected to have looted up to $5bn (£3.5bn), of which $2.2bn is apparently still being withheld by European banks two decades later.
(8) The following year, after about 300,000 people – around half the Ogoni population – took part in peaceful marches and demonstrations across the region, the military government of General Sani Abacha sent in the troops and Ogoniland was occupied.
(9) In 2000, when Olusegun Obasanjo came to power in Nigeria's first democratic election, after the cruel dictator General Sani Abacha, he asked Okonjo-Iweala to write a brief for economic reform.
(10) An army spokesman, Col Sani Kukasheka Usman, called the attack a “temporary setback” committed by “remnants of Boko Haram”.
(11) On the take Head of state Mohammed Suharto Place, time Indonesia , 1967-98 Amount $15bn-$35bn Head of state Ferdinand Marcos Place, time Philippines , 1972-86 Amount $5bn-$10bn Head of state Mobutu Sese Seko Place, time Zaire, 1965-97 Amount $5bn Head of state Sani Abacha Place, time Nigeria, 1993-98 Amount $2bn-$5bn Head of state Slobodan Milosevic Place, time Serbia, 1972-86 Amount $1bn Head of state Jean-Claude Duvalier Place, time Haiti, 1971-86 Amount $300m-$800m Head of state Alberto Fujimori Place, time Peru, 1990-2000 Amount $600m Head of state Pavlo Lazarenko Place, time Ukraine 1996-97 Amount $114m-$200m Head of state Arnoldo Alemán Place, time Nicaragua, 1997-2002 Amount $100m Head of state Joseph Estrada Place, time Philippines, 1998-2001 Amount $78m-$80m
(12) "What's happening in Sudan is raising a lot of fears, particularly in Nigeria, which is a colonial creation," said Sani.
(13) An army spokesman, Col Sani Usman, said there had been “loss of lives as a result of the Shia group members blocking roads and not allowing other passersby to go about their lawful businesses and activities”.
(14) The elected leaders of Sani Isla have pledged to resist offers from Petroamazonas for the duration of their term.
(15) "We hope people will write protest letters to Petroamazonas, come and visit our lodge, promote Sani, donate money to our school and projects, volunteer as teachers or provide funds to students to travel overseas so they can learn what we need to survive in the future," said the community secretary, Klider Gualinga.
(16) It will be an uphill struggle, but Sani says writing off vast swaths of the electorate is not an option and asks: "How can you call people apathetic when they are not being told about how to vote and why it matters?"
(17) In a document prepared by Mohammed's lawyers, Mr Jones is described as "General Sani Abacha's manager."
(18) • Fifty-six-year-old delegate Liang Wengen, billionaire chairman of the construction equipment maker Sany Group, divulged one little-known benefit of joining the Communist party as a young man.
(19) The Nigerian government has formally asked Britain to freeze the bank accounts of the late military dictator General Sani Abacha who is alleged to have stolen $4.3bn during his five years in office from 1993.
(20) Dan Ballan Mahaman Sani, a Tuareg activist in the northern Niger town of Azawad, said: "Banditry, pillage, rape – all those things are worse post-Gadaffi.
Zanies
Definition:
(pl. ) of Zany
Example Sentences:
(1) There’s a plausible view , however, that these extreme positions are not so much sincere commitments as zany weather balloons, floated to see how well they play with the public, as well as to bamboozle his Republican opponents.
(2) There are, he said, “quite a lot of letters and they say some things that are quite zany”.
(3) But nobody ought really to have been surprised because this, after all, is Van Gaal; the king of zaniness and over-the-top outpourings, not to mention latent hostility towards the media.
(4) One of Williams’ final films will be Absolutely Anything, a zany sci-fi comedy starring the Monty Python team alongside Simon Pegg, with Williams voicing a dog.
(5) They are a strange team right now, an end-of-era affair, with a zany, depleted defence and genuine craft and edge elsewhere.
(6) His zany guitar bodies are created using computer-aided design (CAD) software , output in one piece on an EOS 3D printer.
(7) The tone of the game is quite different to previous installments in that a good deal of the zany humour has been drained completely.
(8) On a ITV sofa show this week Corbyn was lured into discussing what he calls his “zany” interest in drains.
(9) The Qatari Armed Forces Investment Portfolio's representative, General Zani al Kuwari, who is also assistant chief of staff for financial affairs, said: "Our objective is to invest in the most important cities, and Barcelona is one of them.
(10) But Texas senator Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush , usually considered a moderate among the zany Republican field, took it a step further: they urged that only Syrian Christians be allowed to come to America as refugees.
(11) Culture A bunch of Mayan villagers are hanging out in the jungle, improbably hunting big game with a zany Indiana Jones-style contraption that looks like a giant sideways meat tenderiser.
(12) For a serious discussion of a subject like this to be granted so much time on British television, where the bulk of wine talk has to be aggressively crammed around the fringes of weekend morning food shows – and even then only so long as the wine expert agrees to spend most of their time on air pulling funny faces and making endless zany ‘zoinks-a-lummy’ proclamations – is extraordinary.
(13) Their humour is zany, beguiling and incongruous: the cast includes a chatty moon, a talking ape and a tiny shaman called Naboo played by Fielding's brother.
(14) Shortly afterwards, citing Rock as a precedent, a Texas Court of Appeals admitted the hypnotically elicited testimony of an eyewitness in Zani v. State (1988), on the grounds that it would be unfair to admit the hypnotically elicited testimony of defendants, and proscribe it for victims and witnesses.
(15) Photograph: Niko Kitsakis I'd been looking forward to browsing the shelves for zany gadgets, but the reality was slightly disappointing.
(16) That zany guy who constantly spouts hilarious zingers on Twitter ?
(17) At a time of crisis it is not about one’s “zany” love of drains, of which more later.
(18) Particularly having wasted a lot of time dealing with a lot of zany, ideological gimmicks from Michael Gove and his team, it would be a good thing if the Liberal Democrats were able to run education policy on our own terms,” he said.
(19) This was a departure from his usual zany-bonkers output, presumably causing millions of listeners to start rifling through the medicine cabinet and cueing up the scene featuring Basil Fawlty thrashing his car with a branch for themselves.
(20) Instead, somehow or other, he has come into possession of a preternaturally phantasmagoric suit of armour, complete with zany high-tech accoutrements; or a hammer that can call down lightning from the heavens; or extendable fingernails; or laser eyesight; or implausible (and non-steroid-related) abs; or the ability to change shape.