(n.) The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequencies of the three common Caucasoid haplotypes, Gm3,5,13,14, Gm1,17,21, and Gm1,2,17,21 in these two populations were found to be similar to those in neighboring Slavic states and Hungary.
(2) The group have also courted political controversy with their pro-Slavic message and Donatan's support for the Red Army.
(3) Putin uses the Orthodox church to boost patriotism, and strengthen Russian influence in the Slavic world.
(4) Slon.ru, an online business edition, tweeted the news in overtly archaic Russian, avoiding possibly criminal words such as shtraf ( vira is the Old Slavic term, in case you wondered – although it is also a Scandinavian loan word dating back to the 11th century), but wasn't able to follow through when trying to ask its readers to "retweet".
(5) Following expansion of the original data on 21 families in Croatia to a total of 49 Croatian and Serbian families, we establish that this enzymatic disorder is increased in this Slavic population and provide an updated estimate for the gene frequency of 0.092 (0.035-0.149).
(6) In 1904, the first private surgical sanatorium in the Slavic South was founded in Split by Jaksa Racić, M.D., surgeon, urologist and radiologist.
(7) A breakdown of the voting competition organisers revealed that Poland's song, We Are Slavic, featuring a group of scantily clad young women dressed as milk maids , was the runaway favourite of the British public.
(8) "Maybe he also realised that the Serbs saw him as their main enemy," Habsburg-Lothringen said, "because he wanted to balance out, but essentially minimise, the dominating influence of the Serbs among the Slavic people."
(9) This paper is the first of a series of publications on Slavic ethnomedicine in the Soviet Far East.
(10) But many analysts have suggested Russia will stop short of invading east Ukraine and will instead seek to compromise presidential polls on May 25 in a bid to retain influence in the neighbouring Slavic country.
(11) A study was undertaken to find the frequency of the delta F508 deletion and those of the G551D, R553X and G524X mutations among the mainly Slavic population of Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro and compare the frequencies determined with those in other European populations.
(12) The three scientist authors – Alexey V Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V Nesterenko – provide in its pages a translated synthesis and compilation of hundreds of scientific articles on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster that have appeared in Slavic language publications over the past 20 years.
(13) Born in Moscow out of an anti-Soviet rock culture in the 1980s, the Night Wolf biking gang, whose logo is a flaming wolf's head, today have branches across the Slavic world including Bulgaria, Bosnia, Serbia and Ukraine.
(14) "Saturday's Slavic Gay pride is about more than gay human rights.
(15) Charles I "clearly saw that a basic problem was the situation of the Slavic people within the Habsburg empire".
(16) The Soviet army played a major role in saving this part of Europe from the realisation of Hitler’s master plan in the east, which proposed the colonisation, enslavement and eventual extermination of the Slavic population.
(17) Eagle-eyed etymologists, however, noted that none of the words in the Liberalnaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya are of Slavic origin, so publishing the name of the party proposing the law could be enough to receive a fine.
(18) The men were about 5ft 9in tall, and one spoke German with a Slavic accent, police said.
(19) Tatchell says he is coming back to Moscow for Saturday's gay rights rally, called "Slavic Pride".
(20) Instead, he offered a quick history lesson, stretching back a thousand years, to when Slavic tribes banded together to form Kievan Rus – the dynasty that eventually flourished into modern-day Ukraine and its big neighbour Russia.
Thrive
Definition:
(v. i.) To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.
(v. i.) To prosper in any business; to have increase or success.
(v. i.) To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most children became symptomatic before the age of 6 months and presenting features seen in over 70% of cases included lymphadenopathy, failure to thrive and hepatomegaly.
(2) Children with ventricular septal defect (VSD) often demonstrate failure to thrive (FTT).
(3) The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of two interventions, Calorie Management and Socioemotional Growth Fostering, on (a) the weight of children aged 1 to 3 years with nonorganic failure to thrive and (b) the interaction behaviors of 10 mother-child dyads.
(4) Two girls with hypokalemic and hypochloremic metabolic alkalosis and failure to thrive were found to have Bartter syndrome at ages 9 and 6 months.
(5) Two of our four patients had evidence of failure to thrive.
(6) Chronic intussusception is a rare but completely correctable cause of failure to thrive in infants and children.
(7) Even in their final days, they thrive on friendship and community.
(8) His credentials are second to none and I’m positive the club will thrive under his leadership over the coming years.
(9) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(10) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
(11) Rural health care can thrive if innovative tactics are used.
(12) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
(13) The triad of generalized seborrheic dermatitis, failure to thrive, and diarrhea in an infant should bring to mind Leiner disease or severe combined immunodeficiency disease.
(14) Copious fistulae output led to extensive wound breakdown, dehydration, and failure to thrive.
(15) After their disappointment, the Millerites grew and thrived.
(16) In terms of lifelong participation, if we build the momentum up to the age of 11 and then it all disappears it’s really hard to re-engage again later.” Olympic legacy failure: sporting numbers plummet amid confusion and blame Read more It is a view shared by David Ellis, the headteacher at York high school, another establishment where sport is thriving.
(17) Maybe Prince should visit Bloodroot , one of the first feminist restaurants to open in the US, which has been thriving for 33 years.
(18) But it began to decline in the second half of the 20th century as wildflower-rich grassland, which the bees needed to forage and thrive, was lost to intensively farmed land.
(19) A boy with Lowe syndrome who manifested renal Fanconi syndrome by severe hypophosphatemic rickets, failure to thrive, and metabolic acidosis failed to improve with conventional bolus therapy of phosphate and bicarbonate.
(20) Implications of the results were discussed regarding programmes dealing with failure-to-thrive children and mothers.