(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.
Phoenix
Definition:
(n.) Same as Phenix.
(n.) A genus of palms including the date tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.
(2) Fines’ best actor nod fell in the comedy movie category, which he shared with Michael Keaton in Birdman, Bill Murray in St. Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix in Inherent Vice and Christoph Waltz in Big Eyes.
(3) They not only started the season with journeyman windmill dunk specialist Gerald Green on their roster – he was one of Phoenix's starters.
(4) The needles were from a commonly grown palm, Phoenix canariensis.
(5) SUNS 104, TIMBERWOLVES 95 In Phoenix, Grant Hill scored 15 of his season-best 20 points in the second half as Phoenix pulled away to beat weary Minnesota.
(6) Stanton had come, along with a senior representative of BP, to address the people of Phoenix, a small community on the east bank of the Mississippi.
(7) It was found that controlled studies are few in number and available only for correctional institutions, not for Daytop, Synanon, or Phoenix House.
(8) Phoenix is also said to be considering a role in Gus van Sant's next film, Sea of Trees , which would tally more closely with his recent career trajectory.
(9) He would like to have $10m a year to charter a new boat, a 45-knot Australian-built catamaran ferry named HSV-2 Swift, which is two and half times the size of the Phoenix.
(10) All jokes aside, we hope his music’s an art project along the lines of Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here, otherwise it’s just embarrassing.
(11) For example, Phoenix Community Housing, a housing association in Lewisham, south-east London, retains only a small proportion of the proceeds from each right-to-buy sale under current legislation.
(12) Her agent, Max Eisenbud, confirmed on Thursday that the former British No1 will play in two ITF $25,000 tournaments, in Surprise, near Phoenix, Arizona from 16 February, then Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, the following week.
(13) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
(14) A systematic evaluation comparing the hand-pumped device with a new, pneumatic external pressure device (Infusor-1, Medical Innovations, Inc., Phoenix, AZ) is presented.
(15) In the Boston, Buffalo, Dallas, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Newark, Phoenix, and Washington, DC, areas cocaine-related ER episodes decreased for at least the last two consecutive semiannual periods.
(16) Flagstaff in Arizona had 11 inches of snow early Sunday, while metro Phoenix and other parts of central Arizona were drenched with several inches of rain, causing the cancellation of sporting events and parades.
(17) Yes, because my mum was out with Phoenix, shopping, and I didn’t want to shock her.
(18) Observations at the urban site were compared with similar measurements at nearby non-urban sites and with the results of studies at two larger cities in the desert southwest, Phoenix and Tucson, AZ.
(19) The Australian Skills Quality Authority announced on Tuesday it had decided to cancel Phoenix’s registration as a provider of VET services, a move the ACN plans to challenge in the administrative appeals tribunal.
(20) Nobody does inner turmoil better than Phoenix, who's excelled at angst ever since his troubled teen in 1989's Parenthood, and he's exceptional in Her.