geneva

[ US /dʒəˈnivə/ ]
[ UK /d‍ʒənˈiːvɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. gin made in the Netherlands
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How To Use geneva In A Sentence

  • These involve both factual distortions and misrepresentations of the Geneva Convention on POWs.
  • The constitution of the League was termed by Mr. Wilson a Covenant, a word redolent of biblical and puritanical times, which accorded well with the motives that decided him to prefer Geneva to Brussels as the seat of the League, and to adopt other measures of a supposed political character. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
  • The dictator in pinstripes was in Geneva addressing the meeting at a time when it is well known that his regime is planning to tighten its grip on the net by routing all e-mail through a government-owned hub.
  • Noyon — caused Michael Servetus to be burned at Geneva by a slow fire with green fagots. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • At the micro level, there are a number of well-defined rules, set out in the Geneva Convention and other war crimes/war-fighting agreements.
  • There, in introducing and explaining the meaning and purport of Article 2 and having regard to the grave breaches system of the Geneva Conventions, reference is made to international armed conflicts.
  • York was known as a raconteur who loved telling jokes, including to the stone-faced negotiators for the Soviet Union during the long sessions in Geneva. Latest Articles
  • Medical History 22 (1978) 25-43 Chalmin L'Officier francaise, 45-48; Jean de Blonay, 1870: Une revolution chirurgicale les origines et le development de la chirurgie civile et militaire moderne (Geneva,1975) 64-65; Linon, Officiers d'administration du service de sant ‚, 41-70; Holmes, Road to Notes to "Fighting Reformers: The Debate over the Reorganization of The French Military Medical Service 1870-1889." William B. McAllister
  • When it showed more prisoners, the Australian Defence Department said that its failure to pixelate the faces of captives was an infringement of the Geneva Conventions.
  • Geneva's mouth watered at the pleasant smell of the food.
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