(n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
(n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was at this time that Milosevic forged a close friendship with Stambolic, scion of an elite communist family.
(2) State they’re in This was the season American MBNA credit-card scion Randy Lerner finally announced his Villa venture was over and he wanted to sell.
(3) Congress party strategists say that their campaign leader Rahul Gandhi 's relative youth – the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty is 43 – and their tradition of "pluralist secularism" will win over young people.
(4) Ineffectively led by the family scion Rahul, the party that won India its independence was comprehensively swept aside by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party.
(5) Hall might be a scion of one of Britain's most important theatrical dynasties (his father is Peter, his half-sister Rebecca), but the cocky irreverence of his productions showed he had every intention of making his own mark.
(6) Two “prominent” Republicans told the New York Times that the scions of the respective affluent and well-connected white families will meet privately in Utah this week, not long before a Wall Street Journal reporter caught Bush at an airport gate for a flight headed to Salt Lake City, near where the Romney family keeps one of its largest houses .
(7) The judicial body confirmed establishing an indirect link with the elder Gaddafi scion, who is believed to be in southern Libya where he is attempting to reach either Niger or Mali.
(8) If it seems eccentric to compare Churchill, scion of the Dukes of Marlborough, with Davis, who was brought up in a council flat in south London, then factor in their shared attributes: unshakable self-confidence, a certain vanity, and a capacity to inspire affection and extreme irritation.
(9) Here, Visconti was doubly lucky; not only was he adapting a novel by Di Lampedusa, melancholic scion of a dwindled dynasty much like the one in The Leopard , but he himself – Luchino Visconti di Madrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo – was himself such a figure, the playboy descendent of a powerful feudal family that had controlled Milan and Pisa before the Renaissance.
(10) It is particularly noteworthy that overrepresented in this list of political scions are southern Democrats , most of whom are also women.
(11) Unveiling his party's manifesto for elections beginning 7 April, Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the country's most famous political dynasty and the face of the Congress campaign for re-election , said $1tn (£600bn) would be spent on India's inadequate infrastructure and a universal pension scheme created if his party was returned to power.
(12) He mixed with an international circle of acquaintances, including politicians and scions of industry.
(13) John Gotti Junior, scion of the famous Gambino Mafia family, will walk into a Manhattan courtroom.
(14) But New England is overflowing with enough dynastic ambition right now to make even scions of the gilded age blush.
(15) He was born with, if not a silver spoon, then at least a silver-plated spoon in his mouth, being a scion on his father's side of the Kennedy earldom which used to own Culzean Castle in Scotland, and on his mother's side of a Scottish baronetcy.
(16) Money, connections and media attention can be a gift for a young scion seeking to outshine his or her famous parent, but they can also be a curse and some, like Jones, go to great lengths to avoid them.
(17) • Athinas Street, Mon-Sat 8am-6pm Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghika Gallery One of Greece’s most important 20th-century artists, Nikos Ghika was also a seriously minted scion of an aristocratic family (and a Rothschild by marriage) with exquisite taste in mid-century modern design.
(18) In controversial comments likely to cause a storm in India, Gandhi – considered a likely prime ministerial candidate and a scion of the country's leading political family – warned Timothy Roemer that although "there was evidence of some support for [Islamic terrorist group Laskar-e-Taiba] among certain elements in India's indigenous Muslim community, the bigger threat may be the growth of radicalised Hindu groups, which create religious tensions and political confrontations with the Muslim community ".
(19) The concept was exported to the US by Rorion Gracie, grandmaster of jiu jitsu , scion of one of the most famous fighting families in the world, and, as a 1989 article in Playboy put it, “the toughest man in the United States”.
(20) In the ensuing years – during which Hirsch was greeted by the American right as a prophet and a saviour, and by the left as a scion of the empire of evil – these ideas solidified.
Sion
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 6 years a Swiss national emission monitoring network measures several air pollutants (sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide, suspended particulates, particle deposition and precipitations) at 8 sites with different pollution levels (Dübendorf, Zürich, Basel, Sion, Payerne, Lugano, Tänikon, Jungfraujoch).
(2) Sion Simon, the minister for the internet, insists the government will not allow arbitrary disconnection.
(3) Sion Kearsey, the managing partner of Kelso Place, told the Guardian: “Kelso Place invests solely with a view to generating a return for its investors, and across its 15-year history has made numerous investments across a number of industry sectors, and has returned a multiple of total funds invested.” The Fleming family, who have given the Conservatives more £1.5m, also took a holding in Holdsmyth through the RF Trustee company and as individuals.
(4) Celtic will therefore take Sion's place in Group I, which also includes Rennes, Atlético Madrid and Udinese.
(5) Boos greeted the final whistle for the third time in four matches at Anfield after a persistent flaw cost Brendan Rodgers’ team against FC Sion.
(6) Sixty-seven cases were evaluated by performing the Sion test using endosonography to check for tubal patency.
(7) He further showed his pas sion for Scotland in his love of Scottish football, attending most of the national team's games, sometimes in the company of his friend, the chancellor, Gordon Brown.
(8) Also moving last week: • Switzerland, 26 April: Sion president Christian Constantin says reports that he could sack his fifth coach of the season are scurrilous: "Gattuso is going nowhere, he calls the shots – nothing will be done here without his say so."
(9) We offer The Sion Test not as a substitute for hysterosalpingography, laparoscopy or hysteroscopy but as a screening technique in infertility investigation.
(10) A Uefa spokesperson said: "The Uefa control and disciplinary body dealt with the two protests lodged by Celtic FC against the validity of their Uefa Europa League play-off ties played against FC Sion on 18 and 25 August.
(11) The current global reserves of oil, gas and coal are several times larger than this limit, even if emis- sions are progressively reduced via carbon cap ture and storage.
(12) Best nostalgia Gennaro Gattuso , reflecting on life under two of his former chairmen: a) Sion's Christian Constantin, who sacked him after three months .
(13) Sion Kearsey, of Kelso Place, told the Guardian that the decision to donate to the Conservative party was completely separate from their involvement with Smythson.
(14) Michele Poretti is a researcher at the children's rights unit at University Institute Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Sion, Switzerland.
(15) All went begging and another defensive lapse presented a Sion team high on commitment but low on quality with the chance they needed to top the group.
(16) In 1989-90 in India, physicians used 4 different methods to induce second trimester abortion (14-20 weeks gestation) in 200 women at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion in Bombay.
(17) The Sion procedure includes filling up the pouch of Douglas with approximately 300 mL of sterile normal saline to elucidate not only the patency but visualize the motility, the fimbriae, and peritubal adhesions, if present.
(18) Realistically he had to demonstrate clear signs of progress in the run of four consecutive home games against Norwich, Carlisle, Aston Villa and FC Sion.
(19) Uefa's judgment and Celtic's protest relates to the fielding of five ineligible players by Sion against the Scottish club.
(20) The police were accused of investigating anyone who was a nationalist, and although one man, Sion Aubrey Roberts, was convicted in 1993 of posting letter bombs, many other cases were unsolved.