Bona Sentence Examples

It is from John Mair's Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae, which appeared in 1521 "Circa haec tempora [Ricardi Primi], ut auguror, Robertus Hudus Anglus et Parvus Joannes latrones famatissimi in nemoribus latuerunt, solum opulentorum virorum bona deripientes.

Bona is in direct steamship communication with Marseilles, and is the centre of a large commerce, ranking after Algiers and Oran alone in Algeria.

The act also declares the validit y of leases made by a simoniac or simoniacallypresented person, if bona fide and for valuable consideration to a lessee ignorant of the simony.

Thus we hear of temples dedicated to Juventas=Hebe (191 B.C.), Diana=Artemis (179 B.C.), Mars=Ares (138 B.C.), and find even such unexpected identifications as that of the Bona Dea - a cult title of the ancient Fauna, the female counterpart of the countryside numen Faunus - with a Greek goddess of women, Damia.

Interamna is also mentioned in Cicero's time as being the place where Clodius wished to prove that he was on the night when he was caught in Caesar's house at the celebration of the rites of the Bona Dea.

The marshes at the mouths of the Seybuse and Bujema rivers, which enter the sea to the south of Bona, have been drained by a system of canals, to the improvement of the sanitary condition of the town, which has the further advantage of an abundant water supply obtained from the Edugh hills.

The population of the town of Bona in 1906 was 36,004, of the commune 42,934, of the arrondissement, which includes La Calle and other communes, 77,803.

Bona is identified with the ancient Aphrodisium, the seaport of Hippo Regius or Ubbo, but it derives its name from the latter city, the ruins of which, consisting of large cisterns, now restored, and fragments of walls, are about a mile to the south of the town.

Bona (Arabic annaba, " the city of jujube trees"), which has passed through many vicissitudes, was built by the Arabs, and was for centuries a possession of the rulers of Tunis, who built the Kasbah in 1300.

From that time the history of Bona is one of industrial development, greatly stimulated since 1883 by the discovery of the phosphate beds at Tebessa.

In 61 B.C. he was the chief accuser of P. Clodius in the affair of the festival of Bona Dea.

The best known are Koroko, Kong and Bona, entrepots for the trade of the middle Niger, and Bontuku, on the caravan route to Sokoto and the meeting-place of the merchants from Kong and Timbuktu engaged in the kola-nut trade with Ashanti and the Gold Coast.

This is probably a bona fide claim.

Oddly enough the selfish prudence of Sigismund's rapacious consort, Queen Bona, did more for the national defence than the Polish state could do.

Only between Bona and La Calle is the general character of the sea-board low and sandy.

Save near the towns and in the cultivated district of Kabylia, the coast is bare and uninhabited; and in spite of numerous indentations, of which the most important going from west to east are the Gulf of Oran, the Gulf of Arzeu, the Bay of Algiers, and the gulfs of Bougie, Stora and Bona, there are few good harbours.

It is a mountainous country intersected with rocky canons and fertile valleys, which occasionally broaden out into alluvial plains like that of the Shelif, or the Metija near Algiers, or those in the neighbourhood of Oran and Bona.

Archean rocks form the cores of the ancient crystalline masses within the littoral zone from Algiers to Bona.

Algerian prawns, especially those of Bona, are large and of a delicate flavour.

Besides Algiers and Oran the principal seaports are Bona (36,004), Mostaganem (19,528), Philippeville (16,539), Bougie (10,419), Cherchel (4733) and La Calle (2774).

Coral fisheries exist along the coast from Bona to Tunis.

At the time they occupied only the three towns of Algiers, Bona and Oran, with their suburbs, where their situation was moreover singularly precarious.

This was sufficient to absorb the attention of the general-in-chief, who left the guardianship of the east and west to the initiative of the generals established at Bona and Oran.

At Bona, where General Monk d'Uzer was in command till 1836, things went fairly well.

Turning towards the east, Clausel organized at Bona the first expedition against Constantine.

So great is their extent that, in spite of the immigration of recent years, the Dominion government gives a freehold of 160 acres to every bona fide settler, subject to certain conditions of residence and the erection of buildings during the first three years.

But the Austrian court and Sigismund's own mother, Queen Bona, seem to have been behind the movement, and so violent was the agitation at Sigismund's first diet (31st of October 1548) that the deputies threatened to renounce their allegiance unless the king instantly repudiated Barbara.

The death of Barbara, five days after her coronation (7th of December 1550), under very distressing circumstances which led to an unproven suspicion that she had been poisoned by Queen Bona,.compelled Sigismund to contract a third purely political union with the Austrian archduchess Catherine, the sister of Sigismund's first wife Elizabeth, who had died within a twelvemonth of her marriage with him, while he was still only crown prince.

On Barbara's death three years later without male offspring, Sigismund (in April 1518) gave his hand to Bona Sforza, a kinswoman of the emperor and granddaughter of the king of Aragon, who came to him with a dowry of 200,000 ducats and the promise of an inheritance from her mother of half a million more which she never got.

Bona's grace and beauty speedily fascinated Sigismund, and contemporary satirists ridiculed him for playing the part of Jove to her Juno.

By Bona he had five children - one son, Sigismund Augustus, who succeeded him, and four daughters, Isabella, who married John Zapolya, prince of Transylvania, Sophia, who married the duke of Brunswick, Catherine, who as the wife of John III.

Mainly by him a series of conquests were made on the African coast (1135-53) which reached from Tripoli to Cape Bona.

A considerable trade is carried on over a large area by means of railway connexion with Algiers, Bona, Tunis and Biskra, as well as with Philippeville.

The picturesque ruins of an old castle on a crag close by the town are usually known as the castle of Queen Bona, i.e.

Moreover, the temple of the earth-goddess Bona Dea on the slopes of the Aventine was a kind of herbarium, and snakes were kept there as a symbol of the medical art.

Now the first step in accurate progress from sense to reason, or true philosophy, is to frame a bona notio or accurate conception of the thing; but the received logic never does this.

The extinction of the Welsh Court of Great Sessions in 1830 served to remove the last relic of separate jurisdiction in Wales itself, but in 1881 special legislation was once more inaugurated by the Welsh Sunday Closing Act (46 Victoria), forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors by all inn-keepers on Sundays to any but bona fide travellers throughout Wales and Monmouthshire.

In 1806 the British consul-general at Algiers obtained the right to occupy Bona and La Calle for an annual rent of £Ii,000; but though the money was paid for several years no practical effect was given to the agreement.

These provinces would infallibly revolt against the Turkish authority as soon as the Turkish forces withdrew to concentrate for battle in the S., and unless bona fide troops of the Serbian Government came to occupy the countr y, a state of disorder would arise that would equally certainly invite Austrian intervention.'

Its present designation was bestowed upon it in memory of Bari in Italy (where she was born) by Bona Sforza, the consort of Sigismund I.

Ludovico was vehemently denounced and attacked during the earlier years of his usurpation, especially by the partisans of his sister-in-law Bona of Savoy, the mother of the rightful duke, young Gian Galeazzo.

The allusion must almost certainly be to the attempted assassination of Ludovico by agents of the duchess Bona in 1484.

At the age of 13 he married Bona of Luxemburg, daughter of John, king of Bohemia.

There is, however, a yet higher point to be reached in the upward ascent of the Neoplatonist from matter; and here the divergence of Plotinus from Platonic idealism is none the less striking, because it is a bona fide result of reverent reflection on Plato's teaching.

While he was negotiating, a number of British subjects had been brutally ill-treated at Bona, without his knowledge.

We guarantee a 100% bona fide booking service for each transaction made through our servers.

The directors are subject to the general fiduciary duty to act bona fide for the benefit of the company as a whole.

Like all directors ' powers, granting a service contract must be done bona fide for the benefit of the company.

Yet The Creation never had a bona fide hit single in either Britain or the US.

Her first job is to check the bona fides of a man who has appeared from nowhere claiming to be a girl's father.

A part time model, she has aspirations to become a bona fide A-lister and her parents fund her dream.

How do you know whether you are a genuine, bona fide Casson?

But alas, the only loser bona fide is my beloved, my sweetie, my child, James.

It's worth noting that more can be done to tweak brightness using external programs - ones that are popular for bona fide reasons.

So they strengthened their fambles for this bona acting dickey.

Days & Nights Compared with many other resorts in Majorca, Cala Bona's nightlife is pretty low-key.

All the local suspects were bona fide Singaporean citizens, six were military reservists.

Manuscript collections Bona fide scholars who wish to consult manuscripts should contact in the first instance the Archivist to make an appointment.

Referring Investigations Red cell serology services are provided to UK Blood Centers and to bona fide reference centers outside the UK.

But his bona fide coccyx moment came a little later on, although he remained stoical in his agony.

The bulk of the population still held persistently, if languidly, to the faith of its fathers; the new bishops were holy and learned men, very unlike the creations of Queen Bona, and the Holy See gave to the slowly reviving zeal of both clergy and laity the very necessary impetus from without.

There is no reason to question Beza's bona fides, or that the MS. was obtained by him after the sack of Lyons in 1562 by des Adrets, but there is room for doubt as to the accuracy of his belief that it had been for a long time in the same monastery.

The case of "The Bona," 1895 (P. 125) shows that the rules are in accord with English law upon the point.

I write this to establish my bona fides as someone who truly cares about good food.

Being a bona fide dessert-aholic, this piqued my curiosity.

Many people start out with a legal Percocet prescription as a result of an injury or surgery that caused bona fide pain.

Her single Whip My Hair in 2010 was a bona fide hit.

It reportedly got so bad that the CAA parties were one of the only ones where bona fide celebrities could attend sans the wannabe doppelgangers.

With a $22 million budget, the film pulled in $145 million, making it a bona fide box office success.

Only if a certain age limitation can be shown as a bona fide occupational qualification can be included in an employment listing.

Cavalli is a bona fide haute couture designer and even a new force in the world of designer alcohol.

From ports of 16-bit classics to bona fide original games, Game Boy gamers are usually one of the more excited groups in the video gaming world.

Fans could finally shell out a few bucks for a bona fide Street Fighter III.

Networking can ensure that your ballroom dance career, whether it's for fun or a bona fide career, will be fulfilling whether you are out on the competition floor or preparing for the next competition in the studio.

Under the helm of designer Tommy Hilfiger's brother Andy, the Jennifer Lopez clothing line has become a bona fide success.

This helps the housing authority to determine whether or not you are in bona fide need of housing assistance.

There are enough stars sporting shoulder blade tattoos to make this location a bona fide phenomenon.

Hearkening back to the era when women donned their husband's or boyfriend's watch to make their wrists appear smaller, large watch faces have gone from a mere trend to a bona fide category in the field of watch aesthetics.

In most cases, people with a bona fide disability restricting their ability to work are eligible to receive benefits.

Should health care coverage be limited to bona fide citizens of the country?

The second single Bleeding Love, established Lewis as a bona fide international superstar, and propelled by the popularity of the song, sales of Spirit soared.

Their Disney Channel work helped cement theme as bona fide superstars of the tween set.

Camp Rock, which co-starred the Jonas Brothers, made Demi a bona fide Disney star.

Although her career began in the 1990s, she established herself as a talented singer, actress and bona fide diva during her solo career in the 2000s.

By 1987, Selena was a bona fide star in Latin music circles, especially Tejano music.

Completing reality show applications is the first step in a long journey that could make you a bona fide television star.

He started out by averaging a touchdown per game and was becoming a bona fide NFL star.

While this may be partial motivation for some of the celebrities who are cast on this show, the truth is that these celebrities all have bona fide addiction problems and this is a real rehab process.

Tutera made appearances on a number of television shows, including Disney Weddings, The Bonnie Hunt Show and The Apprentice, but it wasn't until WE came up with an idea for his very own show that Tutera became a bona fide household name.

It is, of course, quite impossible, in a survey of extinct birds, to divide them into those which are bona fide fossil, sub-fossil, recently extirpated and partially exterminated.

Yet willing proselytes to Judaism are still freely received, provided that their bona fides are proven.