How To Use Colombo In A Sentence
-
Coltan is a contraction of colombo tantalite, an excellent conductor that is exceptionally resistant to heat and cold and valuable as a coat for electronic components in mobile phones.
-
COLOMBO (Reuters) - President Mahinda Rajapaksa won Sri Lanka's first post-war national election on Wednesday, but his rival alleged vote-rigging from inside an newspaper, featuring a picture of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at paper stall, in Colombo, January 27, 2010.
WN.com - Articles related to Up to 40,000 civilians 'died in Sri Lanka offensive'
-
With the cell phone industry booming, the park's resources and wildlife are under massive strain from miners seeking colombo-tantalite, also known as coltan or tantalum.
-
I subsequently discovered that my new and non-sporting acquaintances were coffee-planters of a class then known as the Galle Face planters, who passed their time in cantering about the Colombo race-course and idling in the town, while their estates lay a hundred miles distant, uncared for, and naturally ruining their proprietors.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
-
Vivek Prakash/Reuters Juhu Beach near Mumbai Thursday; the beach got a new water feature when the cargo ship Wisdom, being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and drifted until it ran aground.
Asia in Pictures
-
University of Colombo : Wisdom Shines Forth Everywhere.
-
They have now moved to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on the south west coast.
-
Only in the twentieth century did skilled workers in Colombo begin to organize along working-class lines.
-
Colombo - Maldivan President Mohamed Nasheed reappointed his cabinet of ministers
WN.com - Articles related to Boost in the Tourism sector will help offset other revenue losses
-
Uma equipe de cinco investigadores suíços atravessou o atlântico, simbólicamente utilizando a mesma rota que Cristovão Colombo, para demonstrar as capacidades de um barco movido a energia solar.
Leituras
-
Colombo faced international criticism about the camps because civilians were not allowed visitors or to leave, and often lived in squalid conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
-
His schmooz rambling Lieutenant Colombo impersonation has the outward trappings of Colombo, but not the Detective's intelligence.
Richardson On Bush: He's Putting His Legacy Ahead Of The Troops
-
Two British military liaison and reconnaissance teams have also been deployed - one to Colombo and the second to Indonesian capital Jakarta.
-
Despite rainy weather, strikers picketed the company's head office in central Colombo.
-
Joey Gallo, the "Ubazze", decided at the spur of the moment to satisfy his craving for scungilli at a little family restaurant on Mulberry St, not knowing it was owned by Matty "The Horse", of the rival Colombo family.
Friends and Family #17
-
In the supermarkets of Colombo and Kandy, Puffa-Puffa-rice breakfast cereal is on sale for the equivalent of three dollars a packet.
-
Kalanyganga, close to Colombo, of which two were _Helostoma_, in shape approaching the Chætodon; two _Ophiocephali_, one a _Silurus_, and one an _Anabas_, but the gills were without denticulation.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
-
Subjects who required the care of a specialist were referred to the Colombo North Teaching Hospital - a tertiary referral hospital that served the study area.
-
Outside of Colombo, the capital, the main representatives of colonial power were the government agents and assistant government agents.
-
His father was only rarely called "signor," despite the fact that in recent years Cristoforo's earnings had allowed Domenico Colombo to prosper, moving the weaving shop to larger quarters and wearing finer clothing and riding a horse like a gentleman and buying a few small houses outside the city walls so he could play the landlord.
Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus
-
Colombo is not presently a cardinalatial see, but there has been a cardinal in Colombo in the past, so it is certainly a possibility that Ranjith could receive the red hat in an upcoming consistory — something he could not have received if he had remained as a secretary of the Congregation.
On the Movement of Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith
-
I fished next to Milo Colombo, the chap that makes the Milo pole floats.
-
The one-time village girl from Uduwaka, a one-hour journey from Colombo, is determined to push the Lankans to the pedestal of glory.
-
Just when everything seems copacetic, mob boss Spats Colombo appears on the scene, still looking for the two musicians who witnessed the hit back in Chicago.
-
Points-men and shunters at the Sri Lankan Railway work site in Maligawatte, Colombo struck on October 25 over a management decision to cut two hours' overtime pay from every 24 hours worked.
-
The 175-meter-long Wisdom, which was being tugged to the Alang scrapyard in Gujarat from Colombo, broke away in rough weather and ran aground Sunday.
Asia in Pictures
-
The factory, which relines used car tyres, is situated in Boralasgamuwa, a suburb of Colombo.
-
The playing field is now upgraded with a drainage system and re-turfed to rank among the best in Colombo.
-
Colombo's desanctification of the artwork, his reflections on the role of the viewer as an active agent, and his delving into relationships between space, time, and body are themes that still course through today's art.
Artforum.com
-
* More than 1,500 people flee war zone* Red Cross says conditions getting worse By Ranga SirilalCOLOMBO, March 17 (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger separatists counterattacked with a failed suicide bombing in clashes that killed at least 14 rebels and more than 1,500 refugees fled Sri Lanka's war zone, the military said on Tuesday.
Undefined
-
Prior to last Saturday's meeting, SEP members carried out a concentrated campaign in and around Colombo.
-
The National Hospital of Sri Lanka in Colombo has already imposed limits on overtime for drivers, attendants, labourers, sanitary workers and other health auxiliaries.
-
COLOMBO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's government troops have captured another airstrip from the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north on Friday, the military said.
Top Stories - Google News
-
For instance, a three-wheeler taxi purchased in Colombo for about 150,000 rupees is taxed 65,000 rupees.
-
The American stage and screen actor who became identified as the rumpled detective title character on "Colombo," which spanned 30 years in primetime U.S. television.
The Seattle Times
-
The coastal drive from Colombo features a wealth of fabulous beach resorts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The breakwater, which is a good half mile in length, is a favorite promenade for the citizens of Colombo.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
-
Don Francisco Colombo, who with an armada of twenty galleons sailed in January 1599 to protect Porto Rico from the English.
The Founder of New France : A chronicle of Champlain
-
July 19th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas will retire from Test cricket after the third match against Pakistan in Colombo starting Monday.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
-
The striking doctors picketed the health ministry in Colombo.
-
I was born in a place called Galle, which is in Sri Lanka, a few hours from Colombo.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
-
Dis is Fidilini, signorina, and zat one wif ze white nose is Macaroni, and zat ovver is Cristoforo Colombo.
Jerry Junior
-
` ` Which only goes to show '', said Colombo, ` ` that sorcery is somewhat akin to business, and now that I think of it '', said Colombo, ` ` I believe that the term wizard of industry is perhaps not entirely a misnomer. ''
A Parody Outline of History
-
In another "consensually-made recording," Andrew Russo was said to "admonish" Anthony Russo for taking part in a sitdown with the Gambino family over the stabbing of a Colombo associate.
Jerry Capeci: Nephew of Top Mobster Aids in Colombo Family Takedown
-
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Opposition supporters protesting the arrest of their defeated presidential candidate scuffled with government-backers on the streets of Colombo on Wednesday before police fired tear gas and broke up the clashes.
Sri Lanka Clashes Erupt Over Arrest Of General Sarath Fonseka
-
It was then that the driver decided to drive inland and then took the tourists to the capital Colombo.
-
Somewhere in the distance the Colombo train clatters north through the night.
-
A Horton Plains slender loris was caught on camera after lengthy surveys of the forest by researchers from the Zoological Society of London, the University of Colombo and the Open University of Sri Lanka.
Horton Plains Slender Loris Photographed For First Time
-
The guy who does the voice of the French Colombo is a legend in his own right, taking what Peter Falk says and adding his own mannerisms and characteristics.
-
At sixteen, burning for the reefs he had discovered in books like The Wonders of Great Barrier, he left Whitehorse for good and crewed sailboats through the tropics: Sanibel Island, St. Lucia, the Batan Islands, Colombo, Bora Bora, Cairns, Mombassa, Moorea.
The Shell Collector : Stories
-
Police introduced an overnight curfew on Thursday in Colombo and have tightened security measures throughout city.
-
The coastal drive from Colombo features a wealth of fabulous beach resorts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
As well as providing the bulk of labour for large plantations, they carried out menial tasks in Colombo and other urban centres.
-
Hundreds of workers cannot afford to pay for board and lodging in Colombo, and are forced to sleep in hospital corridors.
-
The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases.
-
Cricket world's first digital trophy up for grabs during Lanka tri-series COLOMBO - The trophy to be given to the winner of the tri-Series between Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand in Colombo is no longer just an inanimate object that will gather dust in a cricket boardroom cabinet.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
-
Last year we were in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and some of those other places that have been in the news this past week.
-
But it was only in Colombo that he began to see the importance of those unhistoric acts of George Eliot's to his work both past and present.
-
The visiting UAE dignitary will then emplane for Colombo.
Dailyindia.com News Feed
-
According to media reports, the defence attaché of the US embassy in Colombo accompanied the group.
-
The ship is currently anchored outside Colombo Harbour.
-
Hundreds of workers cannot afford to pay for board and lodging in Colombo, and are forced to sleep in hospital corridors.
-
Colombo faced international criticism about the camps because civilians were not allowed visitors or to leave, and often lived in squalid conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The four-bedroomed property is in a suburb of the country's capital Colombo.
-
Kalany-ganga, close to Colombo, of which two were _Helastoma_, in shape approaching the Choetodon; two _Ophicephali_, one a _Silurus_, and one an _Anabas_, but the gills were without denticulation.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
-
COLOMBO - A Tamil suicide guerrilla assassinated Sri Lanka's navy commander in an audacious attack in Colombo, riding his motorcycle close to the officer's car and blowing it up with a powerful bomb.
ANC Daily News Briefing
-
Chanaka Welegedara will most likely take the new ball with him, though Dhammika Prasad, a surprise pick when India were thrashed at the P Sara Oval in Colombo two years ago, and Dilhara Fernando offer pacier options.
Injury-hit India look to Ishant Sharma to step up the pace
-
Jean-Luc Colombo, an oenologist from Marseilles, moved here with his wife, Anne, in the 1980s, first establishing a negotiant/consulting business and later buying vineyards.
Rustic but Rewarding, Cornas Gains the Spotlight
-
With the cell phone industry booming, the park's resources and wildlife are under massive strain from miners seeking colombo-tantalite, also known as coltan or tantalum.
-
Driving in Colombo's permanent rush-hour is a free-for-all in which the most daring chancer wins.
-
But the next 200 wickets have come in double quick time as he claimed the 500th wicket in Colombo in early 2004.
-
Eventually, Old World plants were incorporated into these heady infusions, some of which included gentian root, colombo root, cinchona bark, ground ivy, horehound, cassia, wormwood, and angostura bark and root.
-
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won re-election on Wednesday in an historic post-war vote but his chief rival called for the results to be nullified after soldiers surrounded him in a luxury newspaper, featuring a picture of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at paper stall, in Colombo, January 27, 2010.
WN.com - Articles related to Up to 40,000 civilians 'died in Sri Lanka offensive'
-
Whereas the governments of the Senanayake and Bandaranaike family dynasties hailed from the relatively moderate Colombo-centric elite, the Rajapaksas are more representative of the somewhat xenophobic, semi-literate, and collectivist rural part of the Sinhalese Buddhist population.
Buddha’s Savage Peace
-
Ms. Colombo said opponents of implants were ‘making a moral judgment, not a medical one.’
-
The coastal drive from Colombo features a wealth of fabulous beach resorts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
COLOMBO, March 1 (AFP) - Hundreds of Sri Lankan ruling party activists demonstrated outside the British High Commission in Colombo on Monday, denouncing what they called London's support for Tamil separatists abroad.
My Sinchew -
-
The pharmaceutical dispensers attached to government hospitals in Sri Lanka reported in sick on March 22 and protested in front of the Health Ministry in Colombo.
-
The government in Colombo has sought to dismiss them, to claim that they are pawns of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or even to claim that some do not exist.
-
And almost all of India's exports are transhipped through the Colombo port in Sri Lanka.
-
They are completely dependent on the meagre rations provided by the Colombo government.
-
COLOMBO: An explosion ripped through a commercial area of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo on
Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
