(n.) That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius.
(n.) Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.
(n.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
(n.) Action; endeavor.
(n.) A material object (vaguely designated).
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(3) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(4) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(5) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
(6) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(7) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
(8) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
(9) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
(10) But in Annie Hall the mortality that weighs most heavily is the mortality of his love affair.
(11) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
(12) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
(13) The BBC traditionally frowns on its presenters, especially those in BBC News, using columns to comment on news and current affairs.
(14) Last week the prosecution dropped a series of allegations that Gail Sheridan, also 46, had lied on her husband's behalf by providing a series of false alibis to cover up his affairs and trips to Cupids.
(15) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
(16) Nick Clegg, who chairs the cabinet's home affairs committee, is said to have backed May's proposed package.
(17) The Miliband dinner will be a more low key affair in London.
(18) Last week, Park offered a public apology after acknowledging Choi had edited some of her speeches and provided help with public relations, but South Korea’s media have speculated Choi played a much larger, secret role in government affairs.
(19) The Scottish Affairs select committee that is investigating the blacklisting has uncovered documents showing that the police unit monitoring political activists met the blacklisting agency in 2008 to discuss sharing information.
(20) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
Dalliance
Definition:
(n.) The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
(n.) Delay or procrastination.
(n.) Entertaining discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's as good a precis of this game so far as you'll read, courtesy of Matt Dony: "Watching this game is like flicking back and forth between, say, Barcelona vs Spain, and QPR vs Sunderland circa their last dalliance with the Premier League.
(2) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .
(3) Putin has long been rumoured to have had a series of dalliances with much younger women, and there has been speculation that he fathered a child with a former Olympic gymnast.
(4) It has been clear for some time that the dalliance with Labour is over and that the financiers were about to come out in their true colours.
(5) His dalliance during the 1990s with Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir has left a lasting enmity with many leaders in the Dinka community, South Sudan's largest tribe, from which Kiir hails.
(6) She grew up in a Wellington suburb, and wanted to be an actor from the age of six; after a brief dalliance with university, she headed to drama school.
(7) Although MI5 had known about Profumo's dalliance with Keeler for many months, the first politician to learn about it was John Lewis, the former Labour MP for Bolton, who mistakenly thought Stephen Ward had seduced his wife.
(8) This was no brief dalliance: Hitchens was a member for many years, leaving in his mid-20s.
(9) Was it OK that, as Linda McDougall recalls , he occupied the medical room at the Look North studios for his dalliances with "lady friends" or that "he was one of those people who had his hands all over you and all over any female that came in".
(10) Dominic Fifield Florian Thauvin’s three Premier League starts after a £12m move from Marseille probably drew the line under Newcastle’s dalliance with the French market, particularly as he ended the season back at Stade Vélodrome on loan.
(11) Did Flavor Flav's dalliance with reality TV (4) dilute Public Enemy's potency?
(12) He said that his novels were not selling any more and were not getting any better, though at least one, Consider the Lilies (1968) is still very funny and readable (the others are Path of Dalliance, 1963, Who Are the Violets Now, 1966, and A Bed of Flowers, 1971).
(13) It's seen most clearly in France, where privacy law often interferes with news organisations' ability to publish information about the dalliances of politicians.
(14) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(15) But as well as a place for such dalliances, it was also "a bordello, a whorehouse", with clients making use of the four or five hotel rooms above the bar, according to Mizrahi.
(16) After tennis, he became infamous for his rightwing political views, including a dalliance with the National Front.
(17) Some high calibre movement and slick one-touch stuff from a forward clearly being fast forgiven for that summertime dalliance with Arsenal prompted Liverpool fans to sing: "Luis Suárez; he can bite who he wants."
(18) Super-injunctions have been granted to footballers and to a married actor who is said to have paid for sex with a prostitute who previously had a dalliance with Wayne Rooney.
(19) This was indirectly confirmed by official North Korean documents recently: when Jang Song Taek was purged in December 2013, the indictment mentioned both his fondness for private rooms in the expensive restaurants and his dalliances with women.
(20) It even promoted a growing welfare state under Chamberlain and postwar Butskellism , a dalliance that did not fundamentally alter under Thatcher, Blair or Cameron.