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Tricolor


Definition:

  • (n.) The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.
  • (n.) Hence, any three-colored flag.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5.06pm GMT Associated Press journalists in Crimea have spotted a convoy of nine Russian armored personnel carriers and a truck on a road between the port city of Sevastopol and the regional capital, Sinferopol, the news agency reports: The Russian tricolor flags were painted on the vehicles, which were parked on the side of the road near the town of Bakhchisarai, apparently because one of them had mechanical problems.
  • (2) In this study the effect of standardized freeze times on melanocytes in guinea pig skin (tricolored) is described at the anatomic level and at the light and electron microscopic level.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph by Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer Pedro Luna, Santa Cruz fan known as Tricolor Jesus, Recife.
  • (4) The partly purified calcium-dependent, phospholipid-activated protein kinase from A. tricolor seedlings contains three major protein species (Mr = 84,500, 65,000 and 40,000) which cross-react with antiserum raised against the regulatory domain of bovine brain protein kinase C. Two of these species (Mr = 84,500 and 40,000) were phosphorylated when the preparation was incubated with [gamma-32P] ATP.
  • (5) Viola tricolor, Frigonella foenum-graecum, Laurus nobilis were shown to reduce the glucose transport.
  • (6) On the approach to the national stadium in Saint-Denis, which was the target for three suicide bombers almost exactly seven months ago amid terrorist attacks on the capital that killed 130 people , home fans draped tricolors around their shoulders and donned novelty chicken hats, but the usual celebratory air was undercut by a mix of defiance and trepidation.
  • (7) About 100 heavily armed men, some in balaclavas and wearing military fatigues, rode on top of the seized armoured vehicles, the first of which was flying a Russian tricolor.
  • (8) Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) is characterized by intense female intrasexual competition and exclusive male parental care.
  • (9) I support his programme.” Asked if she was convinced by Fillon’s apology, she added: “He can say sorry to whomever he wants – he doesn’t need to apologise to me.” As arguments raged over how many supporters had turned up – team Fillon said 200,000, the media 50,000 – the crowd sang the Marseillaise, waved tricolores and chanted: “Fillon, stay strong, France needs you.” Whatever the true attendance figure, it was clear that France’s centre right is now deeply divided.
  • (10) The high stakes and the strength of the enemy help to explain why the French intervention was so popular in a country that is proud of its independence and why the French tricolor is being waved in Bamako.
  • (11) At a hastily convened rally in central Paris, supporters waved tricolore flags and chanted as the man who embodies the hopes of the French centre right took the stage under a volatile sky that perfectly summed up the political mood in France .
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pedro Luna, Santa Cruz fan known as Tricolor Jesus, Recife.
  • (13) Tricolored mid arm strips can be useful to assess the degree of undernutrition in pregnant women.
  • (14) Fifteen species of parasites including Haemaphysalis leporispalustris, Ixodes dentatus, Amblyomma americanum, Cediopsylla simplex, Odontopsyllus multispinosus, Cuterebra sp., Obeliscoides cuniculi, Trichostrongylus calcaratus, Trichostrongylus affinis, Longistriata noviberiae, Dermatoxys veligera, Trichuris sp., Mosgovoyia sp., Taenia pisiformis, and Hasstilesia tricolor as well as coccidia oocysts were collected from 96 cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus) confined to a pen in southern Illinois in 1983 and 1984.
  • (15) One bitch (tricolored) was not treated, and the disease has remained active for 2 years.
  • (16) Its occurrence in Gastrotheca riobambae and in the few juvenile D. tricolor available is still doubtful.
  • (17) While intrasexual competition for mates is generally considered to be an androgen-dependent characteristic of reproductively active males, in the Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor) it is the female that acquires the brighter nuptial plumage and aggressively competes for access to the less aggressive males.
  • (18) I’m sorry, is this a book about how to be French or a GCSE Tricolore text book?
  • (19) The sperm axoneme of Hypselodoris tricolor forms from a single centriole that is located initially beneath the plasma membrane and then migrates to the nuclear surface.
  • (20) In half of the tricolored chimeras, no co-localization of donor crest cells was observed, while, in the other half, a fine intermingling of donor-derived colors had occurred.

Tricolour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Soviet-era music blaring from loudspeakers and the Russian tricolour everywhere, the overwhelming feeling in Sevastopol was that the city was finally "going home" after a 23-year stay in Ukraine .
  • (2) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
  • (3) [...] But while the Russian tricolour still fluttered over the parliament building on Tuesday night, hundreds of protesters gathered in the square outside, waving the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine, and calling for the country to come together in unity.
  • (4) I had a huge Irish tricolour flag that covered half the wall, but at the last St Patrick’s day event someone took it.
  • (5) On Bedloe’s Island, the centre of attraction, a large platform decorated with bunting in which the tricolour was conspicuous, was erected, and hither after the parade was over President Cleveland and the most distinguished American and French representatives were conducted.
  • (6) Other members include Jobbik, the Movement for a Better Hungary, France's National Front, Italy's Tricolour Flame, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's National Front.
  • (7) Members include Jobbik – The Movement for a Better Hungary, France's National Front, Italy's Tricolour Flame, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's National Front.
  • (8) On the South Lawn on Wednesday she wore a neatly tailored, tricoloured dress by the relatively established British designer Roksanda Ilincic, which chimed perfectly with Obama's pale, neatly tailored suit by US designer Zac Posen.
  • (9) She arrives wearing a jacket that perfectly matches the posters and the chair set out for her next to the obligatory Tricolour, which blends into the grey-blue walls.
  • (10) Loyalists angered over the policy switch held a mass rally at city hall on Saturday during which an Irish tricolour was burned.
  • (11) The arrests triggered panic-buying in the local shops, barricades were erected across the roads and Irish tricolours hung from the lamp-posts.
  • (12) In an aircraft hangar on the French Riviera, as thousands of supporters waved French tricolour flags, France’s far-right Front National leader, Marine Le Pen , boomed proudly from the stage: “The time of the nation state is back!” She praised Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and said plans to build walls across the world – including one to keep out migrants and refugees at Calais — showed a return to “the time of borders”.
  • (13) GPO Rebel leader Padraig Pearse and his contingent captured the building and hung the Irish tricolour outside.
  • (14) To those ones, we hope to show that Macron can give them a voice and help them find solutions.” After a visit to a housing estate, Pierre reports that one man told her with pride: ‘I’ve converted my whole block to the FN.’ But back at the camper van, which sports the tricolour and dozens of photographs of wellwishers accumulated over the weeks, there is better news.
  • (15) On the July column, the monument marking the 1830 revolution from which the golden-winged Genie of Liberty looks all around, the tricolour flags were still flying; it was a sunny day and something historic had been marked once again in the Place de la Bastille.
  • (16) Martin McGuinness and his fellow Sinn Féiners currently share power at Belfast and cooperate in the government of the six counties; one must wonder if they really are eager to relinquish that power for the pride of seeing the tricolour flying above a redundant Stormont.
  • (17) Using these inferences, two tricoloured measuring tapes, one each for CC and MAC, are proposed as simple screening tools for use by primary health workers for identifying low-birthweight neonates in the community without resorting to weighing scales.
  • (18) Dozens of bodies were wrapped in Yemen's tricolour flag and hoisted onto shoulders of young men who paraded the bodies through the streets shouting, "There is no God but Allah" and "Ali Saleh the tyrant is the enemy of God."
  • (19) "We will be challenging the Irish government to change its flag flying policy and stop flying the tricolour 365 days per year over the Dáil.
  • (20) The Sinn Féin president's revelation about his father came after the latter was given a full republican funeral, during which his most famous son placed an Irish tricolour on his coffin.

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