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You can clearly see the speed and assurance of Schiele's execution, the uninhibited flow of the hand, denoting – in a few quick seconds of activity – tumbling curls of hair or crumpled fabric, or the fluid confluence of flank and hip and thigh.
To make a bid you stick your hand under the towel and grip their hand, with secret clenches denoting different prices.
On the other hand, Sadrists in Baghdad said that they backed the Green Movement in Iran, which rebelled against the regime there in 2009.Mr Sadr was once derided as "Ayatollah Atari", a nickname denoting his love of computer games.
Rousfeti a word of Turkish origin denoting the reciprocal dispensation of favours has remained the norm.
In a speech at the Beijing Institute of Technology a few weeks before his arrest, Mr Sun complained that the system forced many private businesses to take either what he called the "red road" (red denoting the mandarinate since the time of the Qing dynasty) of bribing officials for loans and other benefits, or the illicit "black road" of producing fake or shoddy goods.
It has condemned his killers, radical Muslims who call themselves Salafist-Jihadists, as outcasts, and used his murder to put their own Islamist brand in a softer light.The struggle between Hamas's Muslim Brotherhood strain and the Salafists, whose name derives from the Arabic for "forefather", denoting their wish to emulate the behaviour of the Prophet Muhammad's companions, is decades old.
He needs to hold on to every last one of them if he is to win again.To fend off the centrists, Mr Netanyahu has begun depicting them, as he does Labour, as "left", which he intends as a pejorative term denoting a dearth of patriotic spirit.
That adjective is usually a term of abuse, denoting the intolerably harsh and unjust.
Many speakers, denoting piety or loyalty to political Islam, prefaced their remarks with incantations of reverence for the Prophet Muhammad.
John Wang, the chief marketing officer, lays out a set of four: concentric circles with a smiley in the middle, denoting a focus on the customer; an arrow from A to B, for simplicity; a magnet, for "hidden power"; and a parcel, for "pleasant surprises".Meaning what, in practice?
In the quake's aftermath, they were quick to complain of the slow reaction from "the Makhzen .This usually pejorative term, denoting the hidden power of the state, is applied to the central administration in the king's palaces far away.
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Denoting primarily functions as a present participle or gerund, used adjectivally to describe something that indicates or signifies something else. Ludwig AI confirms that its primary function is adjectival, modifying nouns to specify their role as indicators or symbols. It helps to describe how something acts as a signifier within a sentence.
Expression frequency: Very common
