(1) All peripheric joints can be involved, except knees, ankles and tarses.
Tasse
Definition:
(n.) A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin told the Itar-Tass news agency: "I think that she has all the necessary qualities, and we support her candidacy.
(2) The Russian Football Union will hold talks with the national team coach Fabio Capello on ending his contract, the Tass news agency quoted a member of the union’s executive committee as saying on Wednesday.
(3) Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters Read more Moscow, however, angrily dismissed the reports as false, the TASS news agency reported.
(4) The Russian embassy in Ankara said the country’s envoy was summoned twice on Saturday and Monday to address the incursions, according to the Russian Tass news agency.
(5) Evgeniy Khorishko, at the Russian embassy in Washington, also denied the claims, telling Itar-Tass that "such horror stories smack of cold war times".
(6) In Moscow, a Security Council official told Tass that Patrushev “didn’t apologise to anyone, because there is nothing to apologise for”.
(7) Itar-Tass quotes the press agency of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, which says "journalists, cameramen, and photographers will be prohibited during warfare from taking photo, video, or audio, and furthermore from being in active combat zones or in the territory of immediate military objectives."
(8) Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying: "It's a shame that echoes of the cold war are heard in Russian-American relations from time to time."
(9) He also told Tass that it was impossible to resolve Syria crisis in a constructive way without US involvement.
(10) However, Shamil Tarpishchev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation, told the Russian news agency TASS he expected Sharapova to be available for this summer’s Rio Olympics after describing the positive test as “nonsense”.
(11) In April the Russian Itar-Tass agency reported that the refusal to return the gold would result in non-cooperation between Russian and EU museums.
(12) Jo Pavey: ‘As a clean athlete you wonder how many medals you missed out on’ Read more The acting president of the Russian athletics federation, Vadim Zelichenok, told the Tass news agency that there was no proof of a systemic issue.
(13) But Tass sought immediately to put the incident in perspective by listing several foreign nuclear disasters, including the near meltdown of the American Three Mile Island reactor in 1979.
(14) Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the Russian space agency, told Itar-Tass news agency that a manned trip to Mars was not being considered for at least 20 years.
(15) Tass quotes the service as saying: If ‘revolutionary chaos’ in Ukraine continues, hundreds of thousands of refugees will flow into bordering Russian regions.
(16) Vladimir Boldyrev, the commander of Russian ground forces, was quoted by Tass as saying Russian troops had "fully liberated Tskhinvali from the Georgian military".
(17) This raised suspicions of a certain bias , he told Tass.
(18) The state news agency, Tass, cited an unnamed source saying that Fifa gave the Russian Football Union a $350,000 (£231,000) bonus for the Russian team’s appearance at the World Cup.
(19) My answer will be merci, Jeremy, but, as President Mitterrand once told the BBC about Disneyland, "ce n'est pas ma tasse de thé".
(20) Many companies showed interest,” said Alexander Galushka, according to a report from the Russian news agency Itar-Tass .