Sentence examples for vigna from inspiring English sources

In the early 1560s he designed the facade for San Francesco della Vigna, at Venice, which had been built according to Sansovino's designs of 1534 but was never finished.

Fabaceae contains the more important crop plants, such as soybeans, beans, cowpeas (Vigna), pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan), chick-peas (Cicer arietinum), lentils (Lens culinaris), peas (Pisum sativum), and peanuts.

Notable among the locally useful plants of the legume family is Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut), a leguminous plant that develops underground fruits in the arid lands of Africa.

Vigna aconitifolia (moth bean) and V. umbellata (rice bean) are much used in the tropics for forage and soil improvement, and their seeds are palatable and rich in protein.

C. 1190 Capua, Italy 1249 Pisa, Italy Pietro Della Vigna, also called Petrus De Vinea (born c. 1190, Capua, Campania, kingdom of Sicily [Italy] died 1249, Pisa?) chief minister of the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II, distinguished as jurist, poet, and man of letters whose sudden fall from power and tragic death captured the imagination of poets and chroniclers, including Dante.

The black-eyed pea (Vigna unguiculata) is not a true pea.

But the clearing of the bottleneck in Cushing has released a surge of light crude to the Gulf Coast, creating a new blockage, according to Michele Della Vigna, of Goldman Sachs, a bank.Gulf refineries are using as much light and sweet American crude as they can, but most are designed to process heavier, more sulphurous grades from the Middle East and Africa.

The blockchain lives on the system's global network and is maintained and protected by "miners", operators of specialised computers who are rewarded with bitcoin for their efforts.Rather than begin their book with a breathless account of how bitcoin could change everything, Messrs Vigna and Casey start with a brief account of the centuries-old debate about the nature of money.

But for a growing number of geeks and venture capitalists bitcoin is less a currency than a technology that can be used to transfer money and other assets cheaply and securely.Messrs Vigna and Casey predict that bitcoin's main calling will indeed be as a disruptive payment system.

So there is plenty to write about if you are serious.Paul Vigna and Michael Casey, two journalists at the Wall Street Journal, are certainly serious.

There are a few differences: according to Pierre Dalla Vigna, the publisher of Mimesis, whom I reached by phone, Filipuzzi took "full responsibility" for his plagiarisms when he was confronted.