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Bedel


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bedell

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The series has been commissioned by Elaine Bedell, director of entertainment and comedy at ITV.
  • (2) The ITV director of entertainment and comedy, Elaine Bedell, said it would be "one of the biggest TV events on ITV this year".
  • (3) The MGEITF executive chair, Elaine Bedell, added: "I'm very pleased George has accepted the role ...
  • (4) Geraldine Bedell, editor of Gransnet, and Ed Howker, co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, discuss whether a generational war really has broken out.
  • (5) Stephens explores findings by Bedell and Delbanco that only 19% of patients undergoing resuscitation had previously discussed this issue with their physicians.
  • (6) Geraldine Bedell, who chaired the judges, said the list lacked ethnic diversity but she hoped that this would change in the future.
  • (7) The underdog candidate, who has never gone above single digits in any poll, started his speech by announcing the endorsement of former Iowa politician Berkley Bedell, before outlining his various liberal policy goals and tried to contrast his executive experience to that of Sanders and Clinton by stating he was about “actions, not words.” Former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee also spoke and seemed to spend much of his speech trolling Clinton.
  • (8) ITV’s director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said: “It has been a wonderfully entertaining series from beginning to end.
  • (9) ITV's director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said: "I joked when Splash went out that we would get celebrity rowing and celebrity roller skating.
  • (10) Geraldine Bedell: What worries me is the language that is often used, like "burden", "selfish", "greedy".
  • (11) Elaine Bedell, ITV's director of entertainment and comedy, said: "Britain's amateur talent has come out in force this year.
  • (12) Schuster, who will report to Elaine Bedell , ITV's director of comedy and entertainment, replaces Myfanwy Moore who moved to the BBC as controller of comedy earlier this year.
  • (13) Bedell said: "Scripted comedy will have an increasing and important role to play in the peak-time schedules of ITV2 as well as on the main channel, and I have no doubt that Saskia is the right person to be steering the genre for ITV.
  • (14) Spatial uncertainty was examined according to a procedure suggested by Bedell and Flom (1981) ("triangle procedure") and additionally with a line-division test designed by Kundt.
  • (15) Vicious has been commissioned by Moore and Elaine Bedell, ITV director of comedy and entertainment.
  • (16) In entertainment – which is headed by Elaine Bedell, the former BBC executive who is currently on gardening leave before joining ITV at the end of this week – the cuts are expected to mean the loss of two commissioners and one PA. Sources said the department's controller of alternative programming, Layla Smith, has held a discussion with independent production company Diverse about potentially replacing its outgoing creative director, Roy Ackerman.
  • (17) For each of those categories the judging panel – which included Gransnet editor Geraldine Bedell, standup comedian Jenny Eclair and the editor of Good Housekeeping, Lindsay Nicholson – chose their favourites.

Official


Definition:

  • (n.) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.
  • (n.) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; as, an official statement or report.
  • (n.) Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal.
  • (n.) Discharging an office or function.
  • (a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
  • (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
  • (3) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
  • (4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (5) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (6) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
  • (7) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
  • (8) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
  • (9) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (10) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
  • (11) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
  • (12) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
  • (13) Sawers's views are echoed by both US and Israeli officials.
  • (14) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
  • (15) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (16) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
  • (17) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (18) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (19) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
  • (20) Without a renewables target, Energy Department officials said, it would be possible for a large proportion of this shortfall to be met by gas-fired power generation.