(n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My 2002 paper did not criticise the hypothesis that inequality and intergenerational immobility are related, but rather supported it," Solon added.
(2) In a separate submission to governments, Pablo Solon , Bolivia's ambassador to the UN, claimed that industrialised countries were filling all the available atmosphere with carbon pollution, and preventing poor countries from developing.
(3) "Important improvements have been made", said Pablo Solon, the Bolivian ambassador to the UN.
(4) Solon was a surprise choice – he was the first academic to question whether the US, a highly unequal society, was really a land of opportunity 20 years ago.
(5) "The new data shows a frightening chasm between what the science says, what the people have asked for and Earth needs, and what rich countries are saying they are willing to do," said Bolivian ambassador, Pablo Solon.
(6) But the government pointed to a 2002 paper by Gary Solon, a professor at Michigan State University, which it claimed had raised doubts over whether there was a link between high levels of income inequality and low levels of social mobility.
(7) Solon was also gastroprotective for the stomach as it reduced dose dependently the gastric necrotic lesions induced by absolute ethanol given orally.
(8) Solon, a synthetic isoprenyl flavonoid derived from sophoradin isolated from the root of an ancient Chinese plant, administered orally to rats, prevented, dose-dependently, the formation of acute gastric lesions produced by absolute ethanol given orally.
(9) Panel maker Solyndra, has sought protection from its creditors in the US despite receiving $500m of subsidies from the government, and Solon of Germany is filing for insolvency.
(10) "With the current pledges on the table, we have calculated that the Annex 1 (industrialised) nations are going to spend the whole [carbon] budget of the next 40 years in the next 10 years," Solon said.
(11) The effect of a new antiulcer drug, solon (sofalcone), on gastric mucus viscosity, permeability to hydrogen ion and degradation by pepsin was investigated using an in vitro system.
(12) We're running a strongly worded article from the Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon, tomorrow.
(13) Olivia Solon asks whether you have given Pokémon Go full access to everything in your Google account.
(14) Sounds like if I could have voted in the UK, I would not be voting for (Nick Clegg)," Solon said.
(15) It is not a base of negotiations," said Pablo Solon, Bolivia's ambassador to the UN.
(16) Pretreatment with indomethacin partly prevented the gastroprotective effects of Solon.
(17) The ulcer-healing action of Solon was probably related to the stimulation of mucus-alkaline secretion, increased mucosal blood flow and the formation of a protective barrier on the ulcer base.
(18) The results obtained here under in vitro conditions suggest that solon, by inhibiting peptic erosion of the mucus layer, increasing its viscosity and enhancing the ability to impede the hydrogen ion penetration, strengthens the gastric mucosal integrity and thus could aid in ulcer healing.
(19) Permeability measurements showed that 2.2 X 10(-2) M solon increased the retardation ability of mucus to hydrogen ion by 32%, while 43% increase was obtained with 2.2 X 10(-1) M solon.
(20) Both reports were severe in their criticism of a department which had unlawfully imprisoned an Australian, Cornelia Rau , for many months, and which had deported Vivian Solon , also Australian, to the Philippines.
Statesman
Definition:
(n.) A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
(n.) One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
(n.) A small landholder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modi had to isolate and sideline the BJP's octogenarian elder statesman, LK Advani , before he could become its frontrunner.
(2) Now, following parental objections, the school board in the Meridian district in Idaho has voted to remove it from the high-school supplemental reading list, where it has been used since 2010, reported local paper the Idaho Statesman.
(3) She is now suing the French statesman in a civil court, which could result in a hefty damages award.
(4) Not for them clipboards, iPads and a rolled-up copy of the New Statesman peeping out of their pockets.
(5) Simon Parker, a senior lecturer at the University of York, told the New Statesman that, during the recent dispute over lecturers' pay, his mobile phone number was posted on Facebook, with the instruction to students to give him a call if they felt they had been "fucked over" by the "lazy bastards in the AUT".
(6) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(7) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
(8) Last week he began that process in a New Statesman interview in which he said: "I'm caricatured as a tribalist.
(9) No glasses were raised on Friday to one of the real architects of their devastating success: Donald Dewar, the celebrated Labour senior statesman and the man who drove through devolution.
(10) In making my choice, I was looking for a statesman who has already some track record in the administration,” said a 30-year-old bank employee who gave her name only as Sawssen.
(11) At 73, Scott is a Hollywood elder statesman and will no doubt have secured final cut as part of his deal to return as director.
(12) Those who overheard, McLaren remembers, clustered round afterwards and pressed the idea on him; and coincidentally, the very next day, as the idea was taking root, he went to a New Statesman lunch, fell to discussing the mayor, and ended up leaving with a commission to write his own manifesto, which the NS published last week.
(13) The visionary statesman of the 2009 Cairo speech failed to seize the opportunity of the Arab spring, especially in Egypt, where well over $1bn in aid gave the US real leverage with Egypt’s now again dominant, repressive military.
(14) And Tony Abbott is yet to reveal whether his pitch as the “statesman seeking bipartisan solutions” is actually about real, negotiated, bipartisan solutions, or is just another way of saying that Labor, and everyone else for that matter, should down tools and agree with him.
(15) The New Statesman has hired new columnists including comedian Mark Watson on ethical dilemmas; David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, on economics; and Phillip Blond, the director of the thinktank ResPublica, each fortnight on political ideas.
(16) This is what Dugher said in an article for the New Statesman at the end of last month: In recent weeks, we’ve seen repeated media stories that Jeremy Corbyn is planning a ‘revenge reshuffle’.
(17) What will disturb the Labour party high command is the speed with which MPs appeared to be gripped by neurosis once the normally loyal New Statesman called him “an old-style Hampstead socialist” out of touch with the “lower middle class or material aspiration”.
(18) By the summer of 1793, the revolution had plunged into such turmoil that it is hard to see how any statesman, no matter how gifted, could have saved the situation.
(19) The chief argument against Sanders for his entire campaign is that he’s unelectable in a national election and, by extension, ineffective as a candidate or a statesman.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Berger interviewed on Newsnight, BBC2, in 2011 His first published collection of essays in 1960 was mostly drawn from his New Statesman reviews.