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Baston


Definition:

  • (n.) A staff or cudgel.
  • (n.) See Baton.
  • (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
  • (2) Weakness in crucial types of constituencies in 2016, such as unpretentious Midlands towns (Nuneaton, Cannock) and big city suburbs (Bury, Bolton) is ominous, while stronger showings were in affluent seats that are either already Labour or require large swings to be sustained through to May 2020,” Baston said.
  • (3) Prepare for a bare-knuckle fight | Lewis Baston Read more According to Hudd, either proposal will affect thousands of Sellafield employees as well as thousands of employees at other nuclear sites, some of which are also in the constituency.
  • (4) Lewis Baston is a writer on politics, elections, history and corruption, and director of research at the Electoral Reform Society
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Labour hung on and grew support in a lot of places’ Baston said that in the past, a 1 percentage point lead on the national share of the vote had not been enough to put oppositions on course to win the following general election.
  • (6) Park entrance $20 a vehicle (valid for seven days) Kelly Bastone is a freelance writer specialising in outdoor sports • For more information on holidays in the USA, visit DiscoverAmerica.com
  • (7) However, Baston said, smaller opposition leads in local elections, such as those secured by Corbyn last week and Ed Miliband in 2011, had in the past failed to be converted into general election success.
  • (8) Baston also suggests that an additional six or seven seats at the next set of European elections is a little too ambitious, saying the "realistic maximum" would be doubling their tally of seats to four.
  • (9) Last night was a Tory landslide – 8 June could be even worse for Labour | Lewis Baston Read more Speaking after the result in the Tory-Labour marginal of Brentford, May insisted the stakes of the election were high because “there are bureaucrats in Europe who are questioning our resolve to get the right deal” on Brexit.
  • (10) Baston’s analysis shows that Labour performed well in what he calls “ the most modern bits of England ” and badly in its heartlands.
  • (11) Lewis Baston, senior research fellow at Democratic Audit , suggests the Greens have some way to go in turning the protest vote into significant electoral gains, not least because the party's popularity resides in small pockets of middle-class voters across the country.
  • (12) Sid Lowe Facebook Twitter Pinterest Borja Baston of Eibar.
  • (13) Giving evidence to the PCASC this week Lewis Baston, director of research at the Electoral Reform Society, said Britain had not yet reached the stage of voter suppression seen in some US states, but was heading that way now the register had become so inadequate.
  • (14) Prepare for a bare-knuckle fight | Lewis Baston Read more “It is the fault of people like me over a long period of time for not pointing out the benefits of the EU, for allowing myths to go unchallenged and to be cemented as facts in people’s minds,” he said.
  • (15) A report for the Fabian Society by the political analyst Lewis Baston examines voting patterns in the marginal constituencies that Labour would have to win to achieve a parliamentary majority.
  • (16) Baston finds that despite the deep divide within the parliamentary Labour party between the leftwing leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and centrist “Blairite” MPs, the party’s best showing was in areas where New Labour succeeded.

Batton


Definition:

  • (n.) See Batten, and Baton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their fluoroangiographical pictures confirm the variable clinical manifestations and ophthalmological findings which because of the special colloid bodies arrangement show a resemblance to the Hutchinson-Tay, Holthouse-Batton, Doyne and Klaingutti cases, also within the framework of a single family tree.

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