(n.) One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.
Example Sentences:
(1) (3) By contrast with (2), the sulcal part of IVA (sIVA) which corresponds to the anterior part of the anterior ectosylvian visual area (AEV) of Norita et al.
(2) The connections between IVA and LM-Sg are organized topographically, with the more anterior part of IVA being related to the more ventral portion of LM-Sg, and with sIVA being related chiefly to the mid-portions of LM-Sg.
(3) An outbreak of food poisoning was observed in Sivas on March 27, 1985 involving 25 patients who work at the same place.
(4) Similarly, in the village of Sarkisla, in the province of Siva in central Turkey, children are responsible for the care of animals and other chores, and have no problems in growing up.
(5) Photograph: Siddharth Siva for the Guardian The following day, Xavi sits down in the lobby of Doha’s five-star Millennium hotel to reflect on his first two months in Qatar.
(6) As long as Mark Zuckerberg refuses to understand his own system, there is no hope for Facebook reforming itself Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia Facebook has faced many controversies in its 12 short years, but has fumbled with the gravity and impact of its editorial power in an age where 62% of US adults now turn to social media for some or all of their news, according to the Pew Research Centre .
(7) Fifty five strains of M. tuberculosis isolated from different clinical specimens in Sivas have been used in this study.
(8) Siva Kandiah, 39, shopkeeper, Clarence Road Convenience Store (now known as Siva's shop), Hackney , has been trading for 11 years: "It was a Monday, 8th of 8th around 2.30[pm], we hear the high street is shutting, so I said: 'Why should I, you know, stay here?'
(9) Photograph: Siddharth Siva for the Guardian “They think that with the World Cup, people will worry that there’s nobody here to watch the matches,” says Kumar, an Indian builder who also says he is being paid 30 riyals to attend.
(10) 73 cases of anthrax were recorded by the Health Office in the Sivas region in the last 4 years.
(11) In this prospective study done between 1983 and 1989, of 109 children with acute renal failure in Sivas, Turkey, infectious disease was found in 94.
(12) As long as Mark Zuckerberg refuses to understand his own system, there is no hope for Facebook reforming itself,” said Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
(13) Photograph: Siddharth Siva for the Guardian From the outset, the project has been buffeted by major scandals; however successful the country’s preparations, it may always be seen as the cup that shouldn’t have been.
(14) Photograph: Siddharth Siva for the Guardian Aspire’s director is Ivan Bravo, an urbane Spaniard who until 2010 was director of strategy at Real Madrid.
(15) In this work PPD screening has been carried out in BCG vaccinated and unvaccinated school children of various socioeconomical conditions in Sivas.
(16) Furthermore, our electrophysiological and anatomical findings, together with previous reports concerning AEV, suggest that the posterior part of AEV (AEV proper) is distinctive from gIVA, and that the sIVA apparently serves as a transitional region between AEV and gIVA.
(17) Photograph: Sami Siva for the Guardian There is not much of a view from Vijay Kumar's home near Shadipur depot, west Delhi.
(18) Malnutrition grades of 1000 children were established by various anthropometric measures in Sivas area.
(19) Young graduate Vijay Kumar Photograph: Sami Siva for the Guardian Vijay Kumar, the aspirant elite bureaucrat from the Shadipur slum, went to a local government school and taught himself English from borrowed books.
Vishnu
Definition:
(n.) A divinity of the modern Hindu trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vishnu Tatikonda, a 33-year-old electrician from Karimnagar district in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said he paid 65,000 INR (£645) to an agent in India for a visa, tickets and a placement with a subcontractor for a major construction firm in Qatar who would pay him a monthly salary of 1,200 QAR (£205).
(2) "The upside surprise in China's manufacturing PMI is welcome, and should help quell excessive fears of a 'hard landing' in China ," said Vishnu Varathan, an economist with Mizuho in Singapore.
(3) These results indicate that Vishnu promotes increased cleavage rates of embryos in vitro.
(4) Vishnu Sharma, the president of the Indian Workers' Association, Southall, said in a statement that "if anyone would have liked to see the police state in total operation he should have been in Southall today."
(5) We're working closely with local authorities to address the situation," Google's head of communications for Indonesia , Vishnu Mahmud said in a statement to the AFP.
(6) Cells were cultured in various concentrations of three different amphipathic peptides (SB-37, Shiva-1, and Vishnu), and enhanced proliferation was determined by uptake of 3H-thymidine with treated cells compared with control cultures.
(7) Statistical analysis revealed that culture in all three levels of Vishnu significantly accelerated in vitro growth of these stages of preimplantation embryos compared with controls.
(8) The suggestions received by the panel in the past few months have ranged from the outlandish – a London Eye-like installation called the Sudarshan Chakra, the spinning disc of death wielded by the god Vishnu – to the everyday: most people asked for parks and promenades and water transport.
(9) They were Michael Arnold, 59; Sylvia Frasier, 53; Kathy Gaarde, 62; John Roger Johnson, 73; Frank Kohler, 50; Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46; and Vishnu Pandit, 61.
(10) The primary study consisted of 263 four-cell- to eight-cell-stage mouse embryos from naturally bred mice and incubated in Whitten's medium containing 0.2, 1, or 10 microM of the amino terminus of an amphipathic cecropin B analog (Vishnu) or in Whitten's medium alone.
(11) Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of Trabala vishnu Lef.
(12) Villagers frequently stumble across finds, recently some bronze, copper and sandstone statues of Hindu gods Vishnu, Shiva and Lakshmi.
(13) The crown alleges that he, Zac King, 21, Vishnu Wood, 23, Jack Locke, 18, and Colin Goff, 24, took part in violent disorder which engulfed parts of central London on a day when a minority of participants in a 10,000-strong protest clashed with police.
(14) The curious thing is that the very people who would indulge in such gold-medal winning bouts of sneering are also the ones who would venerate the culinary culture of the Dordogne or Burgundy; who would build a shrine to the books of Elizabeth David , complete with candles and incense, as if she were Jesus, Buddha and Vishnu rolled into one.