Sentence examples for scotia a from inspiring English sources

1937 Hunt for Kidd Treasure CHESTER, Nova scotia — A "scientific treasure hunt" for the most fabulous pirate hoard of all time —the buried gold of Captain Kidd — is being resumed here in another effort to solve the fantastic mystery of the treasure of Oak Island.

Sitting in the living room of his house in Scotia – a suburb just across the river that was developed as the middle class, created by well-paying jobs at GE, increased the demand for housing in the area – Bernie Witkowski reminisced about the role the company played in his family.

I have planned a two-and-a-half-day trip, the first night in Scotia, a small lumber-company town with redwood buildings, and the next night in Philo, a dot on the map near Boonville, where the Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show is taking place.

Among them were The Scotia, a ferry more accustomed to taking passengers from Holyhead to Anglesey, and the Glen Gower, which until the war had idled its way around the Bristol Channel, making pleasure excursions for the tourists of south Wales and north Devon.

Atop the plinth and forming the remainder of the base are one or more circular moldings that have varying profiles; these may include a torus (a convex molding that is semicircular in profile), a scotia (with a concave profile), and one or more fillets, or narrow bands.

But Karen Cordes, an economist with Scotia Capital, a unit of the Bank of Nova Scotia, was not as positive.

The mayor and board of trustees in Scotia, N.Y., a town of 7,900, recently considered developing a Web site but decided to devote workers' efforts to other priorities.

I finally encountered a pair of whisky drinkers — Billy and Mike, they said their names were — at the Scotia Bar, a low-ceilinged room with varnished rafters that is Glasgow's oldest pub.

Even so, some analysts felt Scotia was a little light with its loan loss provisions.

Researchers with the University of Oxford, University of Southampton and British Antarctic Survey recently sent a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) down into the lightless depths of the East Scotia Ridge, a hotbed of hydrothermal vents located halfway between Antarctica and South America's Cape Horn.

The company involved claimed that, according to the dictionary, "Scotia" was an architectural term relating to "a concave moulding, especially at the base of the column" and that "in conventional distilleries the distillation columns have a concave base".