(n.) The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
(n.) The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
(n.) The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
(n.) The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
Example Sentences:
(1) By nightfall, Admiralty had filled up with hundreds of protesters, many listening to music performances and speeches by protest leaders.
(2) Most of the main protest zone at Admiralty remains, although a small patch was cleared last week and protesters still hold a third site at Causeway Bay.
(3) Two of the pro-democracy leaders Benny Tai, a co-founder of Occupy Central, and 17-year-old student activist Joshua Wong urged their supporters as the clashes broke out to leave Mongkok for their own safety and concentrate on the protests around the government complex in Admiralty.
(4) It is rare for Hong Kong.” Police had already said they would support the enforcement of a court order for the removal of protestors from three sections of the Admiralty site, but made it evident that they planned to clear the whole area.
(5) I never thought I would see anything like this in Hong Kong ,” a resident marvelled as we rounded the corner of the flyover and saw for the first time just how many people had flowed into the roads around the government offices at Admiralty.
(6) However, as they returned to the scene of last year’s occupation outside government headquarters in Admiralty on Monday, activists young and old vowed to fight on.
(7) History was made the next day, when Hong Kong’s annual gay pride parade culminated in Tamar park, adjacent to the Admiralty occupation.
(8) The demonstrators, equipped with goggles and face masks to ward off teargas and pepper spray, flooded the streets around the government complex in Admiralty – a bustling commercial area in downtown Hong Kong – leading authorities to divert bus routes and shut down a subway station.
(9) Eighteen-year-old Wong became the face of the movement following his earlier arrest at Admiralty at the very beginning of the pro-democracy protests, as some voiced unhappiness about Beijing’s restrictions on who is eligible to stand as the territory’s next chief executive in 2017.
(10) At 5.58pm on Monday – the exact time that a volley of police tear gas is credited with kicking off the occupation – activists will return to the site of the main protest camp in Admiralty to remember, to celebrate and in many cases to mourn a movement that shook Hong Kong.
(11) A few hundred slept on the tarmac at the main occupation zone at Admiralty, around government offices, but allowed workers to enter the buildings.
(12) Banks was born in Dunfermline, the only child of an admiralty officer and a former professional ice skater.
(13) In a briefing at Admiralty House, Stanhope said: "How long can we go on as we are in Libya?
(14) The other Churchill was then a father of two, serving as First Lord of the Admiralty under Herbert Asquith's Liberal government.
(15) Speaking at a press conference at Admiralty House marking the end of the parliamentary term, the deputy prime minister said: "I don't think it helps at all, when we are looking forward at trying to work out what comes out of the discussions on the reform of the eurozone, to prioritise what we think we can kind of get out of it.
(16) He had been working for the Admiralty as a cryptographer since 1914 and, disliking rowdy young men, got special permission to work with an all-female team.
(17) On Tuesday night, thousands of people gathered at three main protest sites – near government offices in the district Admiralty and on bustling commercial streets in Mong Kok and Causeway Bay – to watch a live broadcast of the dialogues projected on to big screens.
(18) Last night I was in Mong Kok, but tonight I am here as I worried the police might do something in Admiralty,” said Samantha Choi, a trader who has been part of the movement since its early days.
(19) He tweeted: “Please all my friends, at this stage, do not surrender before the battle even begins – we still have a chance.” Yvonne Leung of the Hong Kong Federation of Students told local broadcaster RTHK: “Further actions include a possibility of some escalations pointed at government-related buildings or some of the government-related departments.” After almost two months demonstrators are still occupying the main protest area at Admiralty and a smaller site at Causeway Bay.
(20) It’s another second world war airfield, bigger than Momote, blasted and built by the Americans to receive and launch their bombers in the Admiralty Islands campaign.
Office
Definition:
(n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
(n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
(n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
(n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.
(n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
(n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
(n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
(n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
(v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
(6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(8) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(11) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(12) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(13) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(14) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(15) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
(16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(17) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(18) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(19) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(20) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.