(n.) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other officials sanctioned were Ismael Bhamjee of Botswana, who was handed a four-year ban, Amadou Diakite of Mali and Ahongalu Fusimalohi of Tonga who were suspended for three years and Tunisian official Slim Aloulou for two.
(2) The incidence of red cell A, B, and D antigens in 7903 people from the Kingdom of Tonga is reported.
(3) PNG has a gender inequality index of 0.617 and Tonga 0.462, in contrast to the most gender equal nation, Norway, at 0.065 .
(4) Sixteen countries in five WHO Regions participated: Mali, Zambia and Zimbabwe (in Africa); Bolivia, El Salvador and Jamaica (in the Americas); Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan (in the Eastern Mediterranean); India, Sri Lanka and Thailand (in South-East Asia); and China, the Philippines and Tonga (in the Western Pacific).
(5) Liver cancer occurs in Fiji and Tonga, with the occurrence in Fijians being significantly higher than in the Indian population.
(6) "Our first game is against Tonga and they're packed with NRL experience, and even the Italians look a pretty good side to me."
(7) We will fundraise, and there is something rather charming that you can say to somebody: 'If you give us £50,000, I can more or less guarantee that you will have decriminalised homosexuality in Tonga.'
(8) Seven and eight year old primary school children were interviewed to rapidly assess food consumption patterns during a drought in Tonga.
(9) Tonga Djobo, 75, steadied himself with a stick he used to prod cattle and used as a cane.
(10) An outbreak of dengue type 2 infection occurred in the Pacific island Kingdom of Tonga in 1974 and an outbreak of dengue type 1 occurred there in 1975.
(11) They were widely expected to suffer two heavy defeats having been drawn against the imposing Pacific pair of Tonga and Samoa, especially after a couple of hiccups in the build-up.
(12) And Tonga, which has suffered a drought for nearly a year, has been forced to ship water supplies to the country’s outer islands.
(13) Mseleni Joint Disease (MJD), a polyarticular osteoarthritis of uncertain etiology is endemic among the Tonga-Zulu tribe.
(14) A post-cyclone assessment of the health and nutritional status of preschool children at Ha'apai, Tonga Is, showed lower disease incidence and an unchanged pattern of illness.
(15) Tonga eye syndromes, aetiological concepts, and eye drops are presented.
(16) An autogenous species belonging to the Aedes (Stegomyia) scutellaris subgroup was found on the island of Tafahi, Kingdom of Tonga.
(17) Vanuatu was the country most at risk in the world from natural disasters, ahead of Tonga, the Philippines, Japan and Costa Rica, the document said.
(18) Niue, situated east of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean, has appeared on tax haven lists before.
(19) They have been drawn in a tough group with Tonga and Italy, but also play the United States under the complicated tournament structure , and have been boosted by the availability of Brough's Huddersfield team-mates Dale Ferguson and Joe Wardle, as well as Ben Kavanagh from Widnes and Kane Linnett from the North Queensland Cowboys.
(20) Last year, Samoa passed legislation against sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, while similar draft legislation is being developed in Kiribati , Vanuatu and Tonga.
Wonga
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(1) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
(2) More than a quarter of a million customers of payday loan firm Wonga are being warned that their personal data may have been stolen in a data breach at the firm.
(3) He said on Wednesday: "This is not the proudest day in Wonga's history … We would like to apologise unreservedly to anyone affected by the historical debt collection activity and for any distress caused as a result.
(4) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(5) Thewlis said the Trust will contact kit suppliers Puma and Wonga to investigate the possibility of replica shirts being made available without the sponsor's logo.
(6) It emerged on Tuesday that the deal also includes naming rights for the club's stadium although Wonga will restore the Sports Direct Arena to its traditional name, St James' Park.
(7) Wonga says it uses thousands of pieces of data available online to check the suitability of its clients.
(8) Occasionally he would go to other online payday lenders to get new money to pay off Wonga and over the course of a year he deferred paying the Wonga loan back on several occasions.
(9) It is not known how much Wonga paid for the deal, which includes broadcast, online and mobile sponsorship, but last year's show was sponsored by pizza company Domino's for £1m .
(10) suggested that unauthorised overdrafts were now more expensive than payday loans, which are notorious for their high interest rates: Wonga charges a representative APR of 1,509%.
(11) And here's our full story: Service sector growing at fastest pace since 1997 10.29am GMT MPs grill Wonga: Payday lenders admit making changes Wonga has also admitted it was forced to make changes to its sales practices following an Office of Fair Trading investigation,as the hearing before MPs continued...
(12) Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, north-east London, who has mounted a robust campaign against the payday lending industry , says she believes, on the basis of conversations with Wonga's management, that it is trying to be responsible, in good faith, but somehow hasn't understood the fundamental nature of the market it is dealing with.
(13) After a prolonged stand-off, Papiss Cissé has agreed to wear Newcastle United shirts bearing the Wonga logo next season and will resume training with Alan Pardew's squad on Friday morning.
(14) On ITV he compared taking a loan from Wonga to buying a song on iTunes.
(15) She added that she did not expect Wonga to turn up to the event in person: "They would get short shrift from the 20 organisations that are coming, not to mention many of the people who will be attending."
(16) Where we find this has not happened, we can investigate and may take enforcement action.” Wonga is the latest in a long line of companies to discover that information they hold on their customers has been compromised.
(17) More on this shortly.... Payday lenders including Wonga face a grilling at parliament, when they appear before the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee.
(18) Wass challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who has criticised payday loan companies, to use Wonga services.
(19) The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 31 complaints that the ad confused viewers about the interest rate applied to a Wonga loan and implied that the representative APR was irrelevant to a short-term loan.
(20) Young, meanwhile, said he had tried to contact Wonga "as I wanted assurances they would give all the info they had to the police, and because their business methods facilitated this fraud".