(n.) A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.
(n.) Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arcadia’s pension deficit was measured at £190m in the company’s accounts for the year to August 2015, but is understood to have grown substantially since then.
(2) Arcadia Biosciences is working with the Chinese government to reward farmers in China that grow the firm's genetically modified (GM) rice, with carbon credits that they can sell for cash.
(3) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
(4) It was paid to his wife, Tina, the direct owner of Arcadia who lives in the tax haven of Monaco.
(5) Ace provided Chappell with the £35m needed to show Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia group that he was a credible buyer for BHS , then made millions of pounds from a series of property deals and loan agreements with the retailer.
(6) MPs accuse Sir Philip Green of being an 'unscrupulous chancer' Read more “I think if Philip had assisted us, we could have saved BHS.” Chappell said that Green called in £35m of debt owed to Arcadia after finding out that BHS was trying to reach a rescue deal with Sports Direct, thereby blocking the deal.
(7) The cash will be coming from a seven and a half year loan to Arcadia.
(8) Following two landmark cases in employment tribunals that found in favour of unpaid interns, a series of companies – including Arcadia, which runs Miss Selfridge – have paid thousands to interns.
(9) This is £7m that went missing,” the Arcadia boss said.
(10) In a meeting on 2 February, just over a month before Green sold BHS to Chappell, Paul Budge, the finance director of Green’s retail business Arcadia, and Neville Kahn, a partner at Deloitte, told Martin that Green was unlikely to agree to take part in the pension regulator’s long-requested moral hazard review unless he was compelled to do so.
(11) Green and his family received a £1.2bn dividend from Arcadia in 2005.
(12) Wigley is a former head of Merrill Lynch Europe who advised on a range of deals including Sir Philip Green's acquisition of Arcadia, owner of brands including Top Shop and Dorothy Perkins, and advised on his unsuccessful bid for Marks & Spencer.
(13) Open Mon-Fri for lunch and dinner, closes Mon-Thurs 10pm, Fri-Sat 11pm The Vig (Arcadia) Further east, Camelback Road edges the Arcadia neighbourhood, where thirtysomethings have been busy rehabbing houses on 1950s and 1960s developments and transforming them into retro-cool mid-century digs.
(14) Despite splitting into “supergroups” Arcadia and the Power Station, Duran come together for one last show – their last with the classic lineup for nearly two decades.
(15) The owner of Topshop group Arcadia and department store Bhs was Britain's ninth richest person last year, with a personal fortune of £4.1bn.
(16) Arcadia is already committed to paying £15m into the scheme over three years.
(17) Chappell has claimed that he cut ties with Sutton, but Retail Acquisitions lent money to a man connected to Sutton and a log of negotiations between Green’s company Arcadia and Chappell in the run-up to the sale of BHS show that the billionaire was concerned that Sutton was still involved.
(18) Arcadia and Green declined to comment, although he has previously said that Arcadia is profitable – it generated pre-tax profits of £151m last year – and has made regular contributions to its pension scheme.
(19) Arcadia also agreed to pay £5m a year into the pension fund over three years.
(20) In 2004, when BHS was enjoying better days, the family paid itself a £40m dividend from the retailer and a year later it collected a £1.2bn dividend from Arcadia.
Arcadic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was accomplished by use of a new coaxial infusion catheter-steerable guidewire system passed through the superior mesenteric artery and posterior pancreatic arcade.
(2) "I almost feel sorry for them," said Pauline Corton, who was checking out Radley bags in the County Arcade with 20%, 30% and 50% off.
(3) In the investigation, the arcade-shaped prisms typical of recent mammals were first seen in material from the Cretaceous period.
(4) Direct observations of adolescent proxemics and sex differences, and of various parameters of video games in 18 video arcades were made.
(5) Love and Peace, a game for mobile phones designed by the Hong Kong-based games company nxTomo , is like a complex, three-dimensional reinterpretation of the classic arcade game Snake – but with strong political overtones.
(6) Due to the possibility to trace clearly the perivascular plexuses of these vascular arcades by use of immunohistochemical techniques with antibodies to NSE and S-100 protein, the two submucosal nerve plexuses can be demonstrated with exceptional clarity.
(7) Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
(8) The southern stretch of London Road, a down-at-heel strip containing pound shops and amusement arcades, became the gang’s turf.
(9) They went for a walk in Hamburg’s amusement arcade.
(10) New vessels were most commonly found on the temporal arcades (48%) of the eyes and nasal to the optic disc (42%) but were significantly rare beyond the posterior pole (13%) (P less than 0.001).
(11) From the upmarket shops in the arcaded Victoria Quarter to the bargain-price stalls of Kirkgate market, every lure was set out in an effort to save one of the worst Decembers retailers can remember.
(12) Deliberate no more: Arcade Fire have actually made their fancy dress theme easy for you.
(13) Striking fundus features included typical maculopathy with a radiating stellate pattern surrounded by tiny vacuole-like pockets of retinoschisis throughout the posterior pole within the temporal vascular arcades.
(14) As result it was found that the vascular arcades along the greater curvature alone are insufficient for the blood supply of the gastric fundus.
(15) "Now we're producing this new game Ms. Pac-Man as our way of thanking all those lady arcaders who have played and enjoyed Pac-Man."
(16) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
(17) Arcade arterioles show a significant reduction of the adrenergic innervation compared to that of the thoracodorsal supply artery.
(18) This contrasted with the perfused isolated rat mesenteric artery arcade in which serotonin stimulated oxygen uptake by up to 130% in association with vasoconstriction in a dose dependent manner similar to the previously described norepinephrine induced vascular thermogenesis in this arterial preparation.
(19) The major differences in the microvasculatures of the two muscles are in the numbers of vessels in the arcade meshworks and the dimensions of these vessels.
(20) Frequency of contractions (per minute) tended to decrease during stress periods, but achieved significance only with the video arcade game in the control group (2.0 (0.6) v 1.2 (0.4); p less than 0.01).