The optic nerve is ensheathed in all three meningeal layers (dura, arachnoid, and pia mater) rather than the epineurium, perineurium, and endoneurium found in peripheral nerves.

It's like linguistic racism, Pia says.

This is underneath my alma mater, Columbia University.

Break into a chorus of Hail, Alma Mater ?

Pia Bou Khater is at the market with me.

This is the mater, the scales on the back.

Multilingualism the way Pia knows it isn t uncommon in Beirut.

And the mater has some scales and puts it all together.

Porta Pia is a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy.

My friend Pia calls it the bastard sentence that sums it all up.

LSE, London School of Economics, alma mater of eleven Nobel Laureates in economics.

When I'm interacting with people, like buying things or trying to bargain, I rarely switch, Pia explains.

On 25 August 1989 a PIA Fokker carrying 54 people disappeared after leaving Gilgit in northern Pakistan.

The facts as submitted by Ms. and Mr. Birgit and Jens Orning, and their daughter Pia Suzanne

5.2 Their daughter, Pia Suzanne (born on 23 May 1990), started school in the autumn of 1997.

As a result of the religious instruction, Pia often experienced conflicts of loyalty between her home and her school.

Her parents decided to move to another part of the country where they could enrol Pia in a private school.

My alma mater, MlT, and I had this moment a kind of M. Night Shayamalan moment where I thought, Whoa!

Disgraced ex Politburo member Bo Xilai s hard partying son, Bo Guagua, attended Harrow, Winston Churchill s alma mater, then Oxford and Harvard.

For example, even though Pia Suzanne was not to participate in religious tutoring that practiced preaching, she was enrolled in such tutoring.

Or your alma mater or your job, and I know just a little something about it, enough to get the ball rolling.

Let's go across the pond to the London School of Economics LSE, London School of Economics, alma mater of 11 Nobel Laureates in economics.

Subsequently, Pia Suzanne was enrolled under the partial exemption from the CKREE subject, an arrangement that did not work according to her parents' wishes.

Linus Larrabee, the elder son, graduated from Yale, where his classmates voted him the man most likely to leave his alma mater 50 million.

My alma mater, MIT, and I had this moment a kind of M. Night Shayamalan moment where I thought, Whoa! I have to do this.

CalArts became the alma mater of many of the animators who would work at Disney and other animation studios from the 1970s to the present.

Iraq has clearly indicated that the current resolutions and plans relating to this mater, which are couched in general language, can be used in either way.

At Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, the main student government is known as the Alma Mater Society.

The government, claims Mater, is painting Alwefaq in a negative frame trying to portray us as rejectionists who refuse to participate in elections in order to escalate the situation.

So I decided to go back to my alma mater, and, at the University of California, San Diego, and I proposed to open up a research center for engineering sciences for cultural heritage.

And it was only when this was lifted in 1870, owing to the outbreak of the Franco Prussian War, that Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia.

2.1 On 26 April 2001, Ms. Pia Andersen, a member of the executive board of the Progressive Party (Fremskridtspartiet), faxed to the media two letters on party letterhead stating, inter alia No to more Mohammedan rapes!

The focus given to the empowerment of women in decision making, especially in planning the size of a family, at the recent International Conference on Population and Development is a mater of satisfaction to my delegation.

In becoming the poster girl for a re branded continuation of the Bush administration, Palin is showing herself to have much in common with glossy faux populists like Eva Peron or Denmark s anti immigrant leader Pia Kjærsgaard.

The Dutch Freedom Party (whose only member is its leader, Geert Wilders), the Danish People s Party, led by Pia Kjaersgaard, and Jimmy Akesson s Sweden Democrats claim to be the defenders of Western civilization against its main enemy Islam.

This petitioner was, however, denied such status both by the Regional Public Prosecutor (in the earlier decision concerning the case of Ms. Pia Andersen, see paragraph 2.19, supra) and by the Ministry of Justice in the current case.

In the Committee's view, the difficulties encountered by the authors, in particular the fact that Maria Jansen and Pia Suzanne Orning had to recite religious texts in the context of a Christmas celebration although they were enrolled in the exemption scheme, as well as the loyalty conflicts experienced by the children, amply illustrate these difficulties.

14.7 In the Committee's view, the difficulties encountered by the authors, in particular the fact that Maria Jansen and Pia Suzanne Orning had to recite religious texts in the context of a Christmas celebration although they were enrolled in the exemption scheme, as well as the loyalty conflicts experienced by the children, amply illustrate these difficulties.