(1) Juan Abbate, the owner of the family bakery where Mujica worked as a boy, described how he had once been prevented from making a delivery by a gang of teenage pasta-base hoodlums.
Sabbatical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
(2) During the early 2000s he began to talk to colleagues about taking a sabbatical.
(3) Hilton is unlikely to return from a sabbatical in California because of his frustration at the slow pace of reform.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
(5) Teachers should be able to do sabbaticals and master’s degrees and to progress personally and professionally without having to go into a management job if that’s not what they want.
(6) He read PPE at Oxford, worked with me on a politics programme on Channel 4, landed a job as a special adviser, took a sabbatical at Harvard when working with Gordon Brown and Ed Balls became just too much, returned to Britain to be guided into a safe seat and not long after was in the cabinet.
(7) Visiting fellows on a 1-year sabbatical can take months to settle in and organize their personal lives.
(8) At the 19 responding schools, sabbaticals were taken by an average of less than one-sixth of the eligible faculty members.
(9) But when I was on sabbatical at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, I found that in three months I got an enormous amount of stuff done and did an awful lot of really serious thinking, which was a great luxury, but I also had what felt like an amazingly leisurely life.
(10) Like our sabbatical officers, Aaron Porter should support students engaged in peaceful direct action to defend their education.
(11) "We went off script: the script that said a few thousand people would turn up, complain a bit, and go home; and the cuts would go through pretty much as planned," said Chessum, 21, a sabbatical officer at University College London.
(12) Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp takes charge of his first training session Read more He had previously said that he intended to see out his year-long sabbatical and would not return to management until next season.
(13) Does it sound unenthusiastic to raise a sabbatical and postpone your start date for a year before you've even begun?
(14) This account of Italian general practice is based on the author's personal experience gained during a one month sabbatical visit to Italy in 1990.
(15) A retirement age of 60 was seen effectively as a short sabbatical from work, during which a patriarch could get his affairs in order before dropping dead.
(16) Burchill was a columnist for the Guardian and then the Times, but left the latter in 2006, announcing a year's sabbatical from journalism.
(17) When Zusi broke into the national set-up last year, he was seen to be getting his chance through the absence of Donovan on his sabbatical.
(18) In Sweden, employers who recruit older workers on long-term contracts are entitled to a subsidy of up to 75% of the older worker's salary, while the German government intends to introduce greater flexibility to working time and open up more sabbaticals for its older workforce.
(19) José Mourinho is to seek an immediate return to top-level management following his dismissal by Chelsea after insisting he has no intention of taking a prolonged sabbatical from the game.
(20) Garde evidently feels revitalised by the sabbatical he has enjoyed since leaving, during which his only football-related work has been as a media analyst, sometimes alongside Wenger, his friend and virtual mentor.