Petrolina

[pi-troo-lee-nah]

noun

1. a city in NE Brazil.

Example Sentences

“If you leave a patch of the Atlantic rainforest it starts to grow back in 6 or 8 years,” says Renato Garcia Rodrigues, an ecologist at Univasf Petrolina.

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“We’re treating so many young patients and we’re seeing them dying,” said Dr. Pedro Carvalho, who works at a crowded hospital in the northeastern city of Petrolina.

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In the earlier case, prosecutors alleged that Sovfracht tried to pay an oil company in Cyprus, Petrolina, around $2.5 million “for the supply of fuel.”

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Yet for Guerrero, who most recently played for Brazil’s biggest team, Flamengo, the biggest current concern is the effect the ban is having on the health of his parents, José and Petrolina, who are both in their 70s.

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And he said that he recognized that Russia was almost certainly his last chance to fulfill a childhood dream, of getting that feeling in the pit of his stomach before a big match, of easing José and Petrolina’s pain, as well as that of more than 30 million of his countrymen.

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