(n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The file reads: “It was not possible to determine from our files whether this photographer is identical with captioned individual.” Another section lists Saltzman’s output – Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer – after an officer consulted “the 1963 edition of the International Motion Picture Almanac”.
(2) Expert panel David Kane, NCVO David is a research officer at National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), leading on the quantitative analysis of data for NCVO's work on the size and scope of civil society, and is an author of the UK Civil Society Almanac from 2008 to 2013, the State and the Voluntary Sector and the UK Voluntary Sector Almanac 2007.
(3) A year later, Seeger joined the Almanac Singers, whose repertoire expressed their identification with the struggle of labour unions; within a further 12 months he had become a card-carrying member of the American Communist party.
(4) It is more likely to be due to observance of Hinoe-Uma (Elder Fire-Horse), which comes round every sixty years by zodiac almanac.
(5) Grandpa Biff in Back to the Future II gave his younger self a vintage sports almanac, enabling him to build a corrupt empire from strategically placed bets and thereby create a parallel dystopia.
(6) The year of Hinoe-Uma occurs once in every 60 years according to the ancient Sino-Japanese almanac.
(7) And in September, comedian Lee Kern penned an open letter to ITV2 claiming they had “helped create a rapists’ almanac” by giving Dapper Laughs a TV show.
(8) Arbuthnot, a descendant of James V of Scotland and heir presumptive to a baronetcy, is described in The Almanac of British Politics as an "austere, desiccated man with a voice likened to that of a speaking clock".
(9) Full moons were defined as three-day periods in the 29.531-day lunar cycle, with the middle day being described in the world almanac as the full moon.
(10) The Almanac Singers in the early 1940, including Pete Seeger (middle) and Woody Gurthrie (first left).
(11) Another friend in California had given me a “Baja Almanac”, an almost homemade topographical ring-bound guide.
(12) The National Council for Voluntary Organisations almanac does indeed show 78% of voluntary organisations receive no public funds – but the great majority are tiny, micro groups, many semi-inactive.
(13) And you know what, if you look at an almanac you'll see how many years it was that Manchester City wasn't wining a title.
Gazette
Definition:
(n.) A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.
(v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.
Example Sentences:
(1) UK Press Gazette, the journalists’ trade publication which is running a Save Our Sources campaign, said that 25 police forces had refused to respond to its freedom of information requests for details on their use of the Ripa law.
(2) The announcement that Crosby was being stripped of the knighthood was made in the London Gazette just as the commission's members were locked in negotiations about the conclusions of their final report, which is expected to run to 600 pages.
(3) I’d been away for two weeks and came back last night so confused because all the shops had changed and said Grimsby on them – I thought I was drunk," Bethany Casey, 19, told the local Thurrock Gazette newspaper .
(4) Retail Gazette in the UK has warned that "there is a danger that larger spaces will turn into empty buildings, with only tumbleweed passing through them".
(5) "I was surprised but not that surprised," DNA specialist Vince Evelsizer told the Gazette .
(6) As for those tax exiles and their families living in place like Monaco who have accepted public honours, there should be no hiding place: either they pay back the taxes they should have been paying like everybody else, or, like Fred Goodwin, their honours can be publicly withdrawn in a special issue of the London Gazette.
(7) A Stand Up For The Observer meeting organised by the National Union of Journalists and trade magazine Press Gazette is due to be held at the Friends Meeting House in Euston Road, central London, on Monday, 21 September.
(8) Meanwhile in Brentwood, local paper the Gazette claim a petrol station in the locale has had to close down due to an infestation of rats.
(9) In the early hours of Monday morning, Tsipras published a decree in the official government gazette setting out the capital controls to be imposed on the country.
(10) The two of them composed enticing videos which received thousands of followers and viewers from all over the world within a short period of time,” Mayman told the Saudi Gazette.
(11) In an interview during the campaign with the Glenrothes Gazette, Gordon Brown came close to admitting this.
(12) Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail editor, was given the special award by events organiser Press Gazette, while London Evening Standard investigative reporter Andrew Gilligan was named journalist of the year.
(13) According to the Montreal Gazette, Canadian Pacific's revenues per car have risen 12% in the first quarter since last year, thanks to the oil by rail surge, while 12% of Canadian railroad freight is hazardous material.
(14) Curriculum vitae Age 49 Education Cumnor House prep; Chailey secondary school, East Sussex; Harlow College journalism course Career 1987 reporter, South London News; Streatham and Tooting News 1989 showbusiness editor, the Sun 1994 editor, News of the World 1995 editor, Daily Mirror 2004 sacked 2005 publishes first memoirs; buys Press Gazette 2006 judge, Britain’s Got Talent; launches First News 2009 ITV chatshow host; GQ columnist 2011 replaces Larry King on CNN with Piers Morgan Live 2014 show cancelled, joins Mail Online as editor-at-large (US)
(15) Charlton, who is in his early 60s, previously edited the Sheffield Star for 12 years and before that the Blackpool Evening Gazette.
(16) Guidelines for the protection of privacy in the conduct of medical research have been issued by the National Health and Medical Research Council, approved by the Commonwealth Privacy Commissioner, and gazetted on 1 July 1991 (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No.
(17) HSBC customers in India suspected of tax evasion have been given 30 days to nominate a legal representative in Switzerland or face seeing their names published in the country’s official gazette.
(18) This is applicable both to major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, which implemented its paywall in 1997 and which registered only a 15 % decline in print circulations in the 15 years which followed, and to smaller-market papers such as the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which adopted its paywall in 2002, and whose print circulation in the second half of 2011 was higher than in 2000.
(19) Drug companies were pouring opioids into West Virginia, delivering 780m painkillers into a state of just 1.8m people over a five year period to 2012, according to an investigation by the Charleston Gazette-Mail .
(20) Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette trade publication, said there is a distinction between the Daily Mail, where the stories are carefully checked and put to subjects before publication, and Mail Online.