(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.
Tripoli
Definition:
(n.) An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(2) What seems beyond doubt is that Koussa has long represented the old guard which for decades was close to Gaddafi, but which – if the Tripoli rumour mill is to be believed – has recently been pushed aside by Gaddafi's competing sons.
(3) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(4) Simon said he ruled against Belhaj because American, as well as British, officials were involved in the operation – the rendition of Belhaj and his pregnant wife to Tripoli in 2004 – which Belhaj wanted a British court to declare unlawful.
(5) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
(6) The discovery and publication of the Tripoli documents came as a profound shock to MI6.
(7) There are so many African migrants in Libya wanting to make the dangerous trip to Europe that Tripoli zoo has been turned into a processing centre for them.
(8) Elsewhere in Tripoli, a Ghanaian reckons some of his friends would have stayed in Libya if the country was stable.
(9) Saadi's entire family were bundled aboard an aircraft in Hong Kong and flown to Tripoli in March 2004.
(10) On Monday, the UN refugee agency also called on the Libyan government in Tripoli to close its refugee detention centres , describing conditions as inhumane and shocking.
(11) In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.
(12) That government, led by a nine-strong presidency, has yet to set foot in Libya, with the country’s two existing rival governments, in Tripoli and Tobruk, both rejecting it.
(13) But these are only the latest of the clashes and atrocities that have engulfed Libya since Nato's "liberation": including bombings, assassinations, the kidnapping of the prime minister, the seizure of oil terminals by warlords, the explusion of 40,000 mainly black Libyans from their homes, and the killing of 46 protesters on the streets of Tripoli in one incident — ignored by the states that supposedly went to war to protect civilians.
(14) In Tripoli, the DoD had persuaded the Libyans to fly their C-130 to Benghazi.
(15) In Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, tank transporters carrying dirty armoured fighting vehicles drew a small crowd, and an appreciative volley of machine gun fire.
(16) In the area of Tripoli, measles haemagglutination-inhibiting (HI) antibodies were found at a titre of greater than or equal to 1:10 in 97% of the adult population, and in 78%, 100% and 97.1% of schoolchildren of primary, preparatory and secondary schools respectively.
(17) The deal was accepted on Thursday by some members of Libya Dawn, the rebel coalition that seized power in Tripoli in July 2014 and forced the internationally recognised government to retreat to the eastern city of Tobruk.
(18) Then a leading dissident member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Belhaj was seized in Bangkok and handed over to the CIA, who he alleges tortured him and injected him with truth serum before flying him back to Tripoli for interrogation.
(19) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(20) April 1998 Libyan government officials, lawyers and British representatives of the bombing victims meet in Tripoli.