(n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
(n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
(n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) Publishing the government's low-carbon transport strategy, transport secretary Lord Adonis said the measures would save an additional 85m tonnes of CO2 over the period 2018-22, adding that the government would shortly announce plans for further electrification of the rail network.
(2) One big question is whether Lord Adonis’s NIC will feel emboldened enough to make proposals that conflict with government policy.
(3) We'd talked to them about proportional representation, and Andrew Adonis was leading our approach with David Laws for the Lib Dems, and we'd worked out our policy on all these things.
(4) Former transport secretary Lord Adonis, who defended the project on Saturday , seems to be more focused on maintaining an inflated perception of Britain's power and status than on improving people's daily lives.
(5) In contrast, Labour has promised to hand over more than £6bn a year in housing, training, infrastructure and transport funds to city regions and combined local authorities following a review by shadow infrastructure spokesman Lord Adonis.
(6) Adonis confirmed the company had otherwise hit performance targets needed to ensure a renewal.
(7) By far the largest source of publicly owned land suitable for new housing,” says Adonis, “is existing council housing estates.” As many of these were built to low densities, he argues they can be rebuilt with larger numbers of homes.
(8) Or will Miliband be bold and captain the radicals, including Cruddas himself, and Andy Burnham (on health) and Lord Adonis (on devolution to cities)?
(9) No one has used it since,” insists reader Adoni Patrikios.
(10) There are divisions within Labour ranks over whether even to prepare in private for the possibility of a pact – something Gordon Brown's government failed to do in 2010, making it easier for the Liberal Democrats to form a coalition with the Conservatives.. Lord Adonis, the shadow minister for infrastructure, has called openly for the party to make contingency plans for a pact, but Harriet Harman, the deputy leader, is strenuously opposed, saying it could lead to some Lib Dem voters not switching to Labour.
(11) Pressed on whether a cross-party consensus existed, Adonis said: " Increasingly the question is who is going to act rather than just make speeches, and act must mean really serious devolution of resources and also a preparedness to devolve tax resources – this has to be neutral at the point you have to devolve it – so as to give really big incentives to the big cities and county regions to attract business, to be business friendly, to be highly receptive to business innovation because they will keep more of the upside from increased business activity."
(12) Lord Adonis, then transport secretary, set up Directly Operated Railways, a not-for-dividend subsidiary of the Department for Transport, to manage the service.
(13) Lord Adonis, who had run the No 10 policy unit under Blair, had never been elected to parliament and was considered more a back-room thinktanker than a practising politician.
(14) Andrew Adonis, a former Labour transport secretary, said the cap was less tight than the one he had imposed in 2009-10, dismissing it as "too little too late".
(15) It said that, following "constructive discussions", Lord Adonis did not intend to impose cross-default guidelines on the group if it bought the National Express rail division.
(16) A government source said the decision by the previous transport secretary, Lord Adonis, to apply the cap to individual fares was a "one-off" change in an election year.
(17) Byers claimed he had persuaded Adonis to have gone easy on National Express after it prematurely forfeited its East Coast mainline franchise.
(18) Adonis added: "The provision for contingencies is now 50% of the £28bn cost – straightforward evidence of very poor project management on the part of HS2 and ministers, and an open invitation to massive overspending and to very lax cost control."
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest National Infrastructure Commission chairman Lord Adonis (left) at the site of Tottenham Court Road Crossrail station.
(20) Today, the former minister and head of the Institute for Government Lord Adonis said cutting Whitehall at the same time as making significant reforms risked "plummeting morale" and a "slash and burn" approach to government.