(n.) A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(2) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
(3) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(4) As Ursula Rakova, an environmental campaigner from the Carteret Islands , puts it: “Our plan is one in which we remain as independent and self-sufficient as possible.
(5) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
(6) Judge Gilbart said: "Ursula Nevin did not go into Manchester city centre – we regard it as wrong in principle that she was made the subject of a custodial sentence."
(7) Ursula Brennan was at her desk in Whitehall early on Sunday morning, thumbing her way through two sets of papers and trying to draw conclusions that may ultimately decide Liam Fox's fate.
(8) In response, Gaiman cited writers including Ursula Le Guin, Shirley Jackson, Mary Shelley, Angela Carter, Dorothy Parker and E Nesbit, as well as Enid Blyton.
(9) "It makes Lower Saxony more international, more outward looking that we have him," said Ursula Schaub, 60, who had brought her nephew, a first-time voter, to McAllister's penultimate rally in the north-western city of Osnabrück on Wednesday evening.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fallon with German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen.
(11) Under her current defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, the Bundeswehr now has a child-care service and flexible working hours, underlining Merkel’s support for family life.
(12) "Normally an item is adopted by the style leaders, then copied by retailers and trickles down that way, but with Birkenstocks, everyone is wearing the real thing," says Ursula Hudson, footwear course director at the London College of Fashion.
(13) Ursula Andress comes out of our romantic, adolescent dreams rather than the pages of Playboy.
(14) The son of John Henry Thorpe and his wife, Ursula (nee Norton-Griffiths), Thorpe was born in Surrey into a political family.
(15) You can even bring something to your beleaguered colleague Ursula Brennan, as she strives to wrestle down the giant Ministry of Defence.
(16) The novelist Ursula Le Guin has criticised her local paper’s coverage of the militia for “ parroting the meaningless rants of a flock of right-winged loonybirds”.
(17) A German frigate could help protect the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean, from which fighter jets are carrying out bombing runs, and tanker aircraft could refuel them mid-air to extend their range, the defence minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week.
(18) Fellow UK author David Mitchell's much-anticipated new novel The Bone Clocks, described in the Guardian review by Ursula K Le Guin as "600 pages of metafictional shenanigans in relentlessly brilliant prose", missed out on a shortlist place, as did US literary stars Siri Hustvedt and Richard Powers.
(19) The family of John Steinbeck has reversed its decision to oppose Google's controversial plans to digitise millions of books, but a growing chorus of authors led by acclaimed science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin have registered their resistance to the scheme.
(20) The remaining five seats on the board are held by members of the independent co-operatives who own around 22% of the business, including the chair Ursula Lidbetter who runs the Lincolnshire Co-op.
Ursuline
Definition:
(n.) One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
(a.) Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scuccia has described herself as a former rebel who distanced herself from religion but then received her vocation when she auditioned for a part in a musical about the founder of the Ursuline Order, Saint Angela Merici.
(2) A group of sixth formers from nearby St Angela's Ursuline school turns up and makes approving noises.
(3) ‘It’s better than what we normally get’: girls from St Angela’s Ursuline School sample Box Chicken’s healthier options.
(4) I was educated by Ursuline nuns, the same order as Sister Cristina, and I know that many long ago consigned their veils to the back of the cell wardrobe in keeping with the Vatican's more relaxed rules.
(5) • Entrance from €10, Rue des Ursulines 25, +32 2 502 57 34, recyclart.be Derek Blyth is author of The 500 Hidden Secrets of Brussels and the mysecretbrussels.com blog
(6) Asked what she thought the Vatican would make of her punchy rendition of Alicia Keys' No One, the Ursuline sister said: "I don't know.