(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.
Zion
Definition:
(n.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors.
(n.) Hence, the theocracy, or church of God.
(n.) The heavenly Jerusalem; heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author wishes to thank Joanne Damon, R.N., Sandra Zion, R.N., Dorothy Markay, R.N., and Rachel Rotkovitch, R.N., for their advice, encouragement, and support, and Florence Williams, R.N., who provided clinical supervision.
(2) They wanted volunteers from western Europe and the US, Jews from affluent, educated communities, who would enrich the new Zion rather than cling to it like a life raft.
(3) A paradise for canyoneers and rock climbers , Zion boasts rock formations spanning more than 150 million years of geologic history.
(4) Years ago, I co-hosted a regular networking salon with four friends who happened to be Jewish; we named it Protocols as in “Of the Elders of Zion”.
(5) Or the claim that the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” – an infamous antisemitic libel – is a true account of a sinister Jewish plot to take over the world?
(6) Also, New York State, in the wake of the Libby Zion case, now requires that all residents be credentialed in the procedures they do during training.
(7) Manuel says past guests have compared it with Copper Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion Park.
(8) On the hill above Christ Church, for example, the pretty little Mount Zion Primitive Methodist church is a graffiti-daubed mess, its windows bricked up, its doors barred.
(9) Zion officials were spurred to take action after an incident in which an unmanned aircraft was seen harassing bighorn sheep and causing youngsters to become separated from their herd.
(10) I would!” Smith concluded: “I never went to a black person who said that they don’t want to be a rich fat cat.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Smith talks with Annie Mae Dukes following a service at Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Smyrna, Georgia.
(11) Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, believes a hospital has an obligation to provide community service.
(12) In Haifa, Israel, physicians admitted a 24 year old woman with a fever to the Bnai Zion Medical Center for a presumed septic abortion at 15 weeks gestation.
(13) Chronic frontal sinusitis and osteolysis in a herd of desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in Zion National Park, Utah, was attributed to bacterial infection secondary to aberrant nasal bot migration.
(14) Outside the east entrance is the 4,000-acre Zion Ponderosa Resort, a historic ranch with accommodation ranging from well-appointed holiday homes to rustic cabins and refurbished wagons.
(15) This report compares three different methods for making a dynamic case formulation: 1) the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) of Luborsky (Crits-Christoph and Luborsky 1985a,b; Luborsky 1976, 1977, 1984, and companion paper in this issue; Levine and Luborsky 1981), 2) the Plan Diagnosis (PD) method of Silberschatz, Curtis and colleagues of the Mount Zion group (Caston 1986; Curtis and Silberschatz 1986; Rosenberg et al.
(16) A qualitative, exploratory study was done of problems and issues in health care use by older Russian emigrés at the ambulatory medical clinic of Mount Zion Medical Center, San Francisco.
(17) Nestled in a canyon carved into dramatic red, pink and white sandstone by the Virgin river, Zion is a mecca for hikers, climbers and desert lovers.
(18) Poland lurches to right with election of Law and Justice party Read more Macierewicz told listeners to Radio Maryja in 2002 that he had read Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a pamphlet that purports to be a Jewish plan to control the global economy and media, but which has been exposed as a hoax.
(19) Zion national park In a state that has more parks than it does major cities, Zion stands above the rest as Utah's first national park and its most visited.
(20) Protocols of the Elders of Zion was supposed to have been first published in Russia in the 1900s, translated into various languages and disseminated internationally in the early 20th century.