How to use "cardinal" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "cardinal" in popular movie and book plots

  • Relations between the three masters of Encantadia were genial at first, until Ether and Arde broke the cardinal rule: never fall in love.  - Etheria (2017 TV series)
  • Guided by a wise cardinal and the sound of jingle bells, Jingle receives the help he needs from Santa just in time for Christmas morning.  - Jingle All the Way (2011 film)
  • There's only one way to resolve it, and that's to find a way to buy off, intimidate, or otherwise manipulate the Jhereg into forgiving him for committing the cardinal sin of betraying them to the authorities (without dying first)".  - Hawk (novel)
  • This includes analysis of the cardinal points of The Divine Comedy and references to the Western tradition of initiation, secret lodges, membership or not, which accompany the viewer in a different approach to the study of Dante Alighieri.  - The Mystery of Dante
  • A cardinal fears that her beauty could rival the church's power, and orders inquiries to be made about her Christian beliefs.  - The Plague of Florence
  • She immediately goes on the trail of a descendant of the cardinal who ordered his death, Emilio, a stock broker.  - Mia moglie è una strega
  • But the new Pope Urbano VIII and his beloved cardinal discover these theories, find them heretical and order the scientist to recant publicly and to allow his lyrics are declared heretics and burned at the stake.  - Galileo (1968 film)
  • A group of urban animals led by Raccoon and his cardinal assistant, are running low on food for winter.  - The Nut Job
  • He then asks Rodrigo to relieve him of his robes of a cardinal and to grant him his forgiveness.  - The Confession (The Borgias)
  • Her prior admiration of him and his quest to be cardinal is now far from her mind.  - Spilt Milk (American Horror Story)
  • In June of the same year Naples is taken by the royalist troops conducted by cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo.  - Luisa Sanfelice (2004 film)
  • Five of the seven brothers became the deities who defended each cardinal direction: The eldest was Cheongje of the east, the second was Baekje of the west, the third Jeokje of the south, the fourth Heukje of the north, and the fifth Hwangje of the center.  - Munjeon Bonpuri
  • The whole summer Nic looks for an instrument which may help him finding "the fifth cardinal direction" and every week he has to report to Sandra.  - Det femte väderstrecket
  • Even Puppis' preference for men is tolerated, for the cardinal confides in Don Gesualdo that he prefers that Puppis should be homosexual, expecting less scandal from this man than the customary womanizing of Italian politicians.  - The Eroticist
  • At the moment of the public announcement, with the faithful are gathered in st Peter's Square and the cardinal proto-deacon ready to announce the name of the new pope, the newly elected pope has a panic attack and fails to appear on the balcony.  - We Have a Pope (film)
  • Nemes reveals herself as an agent of the TechnoCore, not a loyal servant of the Pax, and for his presumption at giving her orders, Nemes kills all of the envoys except for the cardinal whom she maims and blinds.  - The Rise of Endymion
  • The friar meets with Rivarola and asks him to delay the execution, believing that every soul must be saved, but the cardinal just shrugs him off.  - Nell'anno del Signore
  • Linda accepts and they fly to Rio, where Blu meets a red-crested cardinal named Pedro and his yellow canary friend Nico.  - Rio (2011 film)
  • Sam turns her down, but goes to speak with the man who tutored him on time travel, Goldburg (Kevin Yon), who reminds him of the cardinal rules: he's not to alter his own personal past, nor travel in time with his body left unsupervised.  - The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations
  • Plans change quickly as the cardinal in charge of the mission is shot.  - Pax Romana (comics)
  • The cardinal offers his son an escape but Arthur does not want to take life and become a servant of the church.  - The Gadfly (1955 film)
  • This novel illustrates the cardinal features of the subgenre known as hard-boiled crime fiction.  - One Lonely Night
  • Rumors of graft and abuse of power are widespread, however, and the Protestant bishop, newspaper publisher Amos Force (John Carradine), banker Norman Cass (Basil Rathbone), and other members of the city's traditional elite the Irish Catholics replaced oppose Skeffington; so do the Catholic cardinal (Donald Crisp), Skeffington's childhood friend, and other Catholics.  - The Last Hurrah (1958 film)
  • Ernesto, the protagonist, is contacted by a mysterious cardinal who wants to question him about the process of sanctification of the mother, about which he knew nothing until then.  - My Mother's Smile
  • One boy, Kostya Inochkin, (Viktor Kosykh) breaks one of the cardinal rules by swimming out alone to an island instead of swimming in the specially designated swimming area, supervised by staff.  - Welcome, or No Trespassing
  • Months later, Andrea confesses to the cardinal of his malignant crime.  - Kursi al-I`tiraf
  • The three argue as to what to do with the discovery - Jake concurs with his dead father and wishes to destroy it to keep it out of the order's hands, whilst Ray wishes to take it to a trustworthy African cardinal at the Vatican.  - Revelation (2001 film)
  • Calvet contacts the cardinal, hoping to prevent the English from reaching the treasure before him, but the cardinal makes arrangements to confiscate the gold himself.  - Sharpe's Revenge (novel)
  • In the city church, the Polos, at the favour of the cardinal of Acre, receive some oil of the Sepulchre via a letter from the Pope.  - Marco Polo (miniseries)
  • This is one of several Wolfe plots that break one of Wolfe's cardinal rules, to never conduct business away from the Manhattan brownstone.  - Some Buried Caesar
  • Ned himself was in Rome, in the middle of a celebratory dinner after installing a wiretap against a Roman Catholic cardinal suspected of involvement with arms dealers, when he received the telex from London with the shocking news.  - The Secret Pilgrim
  • When Cardinal Richelieu discovers that the queen had sent valuable diamonds to the Duke of Buckingham in England, a country enemy of France, the cardinal uses the information to blackmail the queen and create a difficult situation between her and King Louis, who now believes his wife to be in love with the Duke of Buckingham.  - The Three Musketeers (1992 film)
  • After the third wave Heaven has been divided into four regencies named for the cardinal points of the compass.  - To Reign in Hell
  • Each weapon bears a reference to one of the Chinese cardinal beasts, Byakko, Suzaku, Seiryu and Genbu.  - Toshinden 4
  • The night Silus is at a ceremony in the church for his investiture as a cardinal Edgar escapes, killing the guards and receptionist, and disappears into Jamestown.  - Perfect Creature
  • In 1967, he becomes a cardinal by Pope Paul VI, returns to Poland and heals a friend from the Polish Home Army of bone marrow cancer by praying to Padre Pio.  - Pope John Paul II (miniseries)
  • One of Hadala's bodyguards, one of the Pope's Yellow Guards (elite Asian swordsmen), executes Hadala when he realizes that the cardinal has betrayed Brownpony.  - Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman
  • Without knowledge of Andrea's success, the duke and cardinal send him to bring to Ferrara a living saint, Lucia Brocadelli of Narni, a woman whose stigmata are the talk of the region.  - Prince of Foxes
  • Relations between the three masters of Encantadia were genial at first, until Ether and Arde broke the cardinal rule: never fall in love.  - Etheria
  • Edward asks how much it is, and hands him a one dollar bill, commenting that a cardinal rule of democracy is generosity, thus confirming that the aide is Edward's defector in place.  - The Good Shepherd (film)
  • Sarrasine refuses to believe the cardinal and leaves the party, seizing Zambinella.  - Sarrasine
  • Despite his earlier reservations about getting involved, the Doctor violates the cardinal rule of the Time Lords by helping the colonists who were injured by the meteorite bombardment by providing medical assistance.  - Frontios
  • Afterward the Doctor is seen speaking to a Cardinal in Rome asking for help leaving the country saying "I'm a doctor, just a physician" and the cardinal agrees to help send him to Argentina.  - Amen.
  • On Sunday, Brade reads through Ralph's research notebooks and realizes that Ralph's data had been faked, a cardinal sin in chemistry.  - The Death Dealers
  • The cardinal becomes more and more convinced that Marie Antoinette is in love with him, and he becomes ardently enamored of her.  - The Affair of the Necklace
  • After successfully handling that assignment, Stephen is sent back to Austria to persuade a cardinal there not to cooperate with the Nazis, with a threat of a world war looming over all.  - The Cardinal
  • The mercenaries' cardinal views this as a sign from God to follow Martin as their new leader.  - Flesh and Blood (1985 film)
  • He has also been promoted in each interim: a cardinal here, Chancellor, President, and Lord High President in the later serials, respectively.  - The Deadly Assassin
  • The book spans 30 years as he is pursued by 'Q' (short for "Qoèlet"), a spy for the Roman Catholic Church cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa.  - Q (novel)
  • The first cardinal is branded with an Earth ambigram and has soil forced down his throat, suffocating him; the second is branded with an Air ambigram and has his lungs punctured; the third is branded with a Fire ambigram and is burned alive; and the fourth is branded with a Water ambigram and is wrapped in chains and left to drown at the bottom of a fountain.  - Angels & Demons
  • Theodore takes the basket back to Raymond, where they find a note hidden in the linen cover, stating that they should have the cardinal arrest both Mother st Ursula and the prioress, so that Agnes’s murder can be requited.  - The Monk
  • However, things become complicated when Merivel breaks the King's cardinal rule by falling in love with Celia.  - Restoration (1995 film)
  • It is quoted by different characters at different times to have been located in each of the cardinal directions.  - House of Leaves

Example sentences for "cardinal" in interesting articles

  • They believed in me when I was having trouble believing in myself, but I couldn’t show them that — that’s the cardinal sin of any entrepreneur.  - My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
  • Refactoring and not updating documentation or tests is a cardinal sin.If you’ve ever played with a big box of lego bricks, you’d probably find that unless you were following specific directions, there’s a decent chance that your awesome spaceship ended up with a few weird appendages or blocks that were out of alignment.  - Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years
  • In my opinion this is the cardinal mistake of technical debt.  - Reimagining the future of routers
  • “The STOVL requirements have dictated most if not all of the cardinal design elements for all three aircraft,” said Peter Goon, an analyst with the Air Power Australia think tank.The addition of a lift fan to the baseline F-35 design started a cascade of problems that made it heavier, slower, more complex, more expensive and more vulnerable to enemy attack — problems that were evident in the 2008 war game set over Taiwan.Of course Lockheed exec O’Bryan rejected that assessment, claiming the JSF’s stealth, sensors and aerodynamics make it superior to other planes.  - How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the Worlds Worst New Warplane
  • Aros could have become a multi-hundred million dollar product on its own but instead Quirky re-focused its energy on coffee makers and pet feeders and 50 other things.Quirky systematically broke the cardinal rule of startups: iterate rapidly to build a product people love.BrandLack of product focus had a nasty side-effect.  - Why Quirky Failed
  • On the subject of undervaluing the human aspect of design, again hear Rams:“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.”This implies, for one, that good documentation does not excuse bad design.  - What Makes Software Good?
  • The highlight of this first Buddhist phase was a podium containing four large, seated Buddhas, one each from Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand, arranged back to back, facing the cardinal points of the compass.  - The Great and Beautiful Lost Kingdoms of India
  • They were arranged in a radial pattern—one axial rod dead centre with the remaining six arranged evenly spaced and equidistant, like a compass with six cardinal points.  - The Nanda Devi mystery – Plutonium lost on India’s second highest mountain
  • “The STOVL requirements have dictated most if not all of the cardinal design elements for all three aircraft,” said Peter Goon, an analyst with the Air Power Australia think tank.The addition of a lift fan to the baseline F-35 design started a cascade of problems that made it heavier, slower, more complex, more expensive and more vulnerable to enemy attack — problems that were evident in the 2008 war game set over Taiwan.Of course Lockheed exec O’Bryan rejected that assessment, claiming the JSF’s stealth, sensors and aerodynamics make it superior to other planes.  - How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the Worlds Worst New Warplane
  • All these objections might be right, but they all sound surmountable. The mattress industry seems to be one of those markets that comes close to violating Tim O’Reilly’s cardinal rule of business to “create more value than you capture.” Startups and the internet have the potential to completely eviscerate the incumbents in industries like this.  - We Need a Warby Parker for Mattresses

Meaning of "cardinal" in English

  • serving as an essential component
    Examples
    - the central cause of the problem
    - an example that was fundamental to the argument
    - computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
  • being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order
  • crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
  • a variable color averaging a vivid red
  • (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
  • the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order

Meaning of "cardinal" in Hindi

  • कार्डिनल ( Kardinal, kaardinal)
  • मुख्य ( Mukhy)
  • प्रधान ( Pradhan)
  • आधारभूत ( Aadharabhut, aadhaarabhoot)

Synonyms of "cardinal"

  • cardinal grosbeak
  • richmondena cardinalis
  • redbird
  • cardinalis cardinalis
  • key
  • carmine
  • fundamental
  • central
  • primal
  • cardinal number

Antonyms of "cardinal"

  • ordinal

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