What's the difference between bodleian and diplomat?
Bodleian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was not even catalogued in the British Library, although the Bodleian Library in Oxford made it available in its "suppressed books" section.
(2) Linked by Twitter, mobiles and old-fashioned printed flyers, 15 student occupations continued over the weekend and are set to grow before the national day of action on Tuesday Part of the Bodleian library at Oxford, a major lecture theatre at Manchester and Appleton Tower at Edinburgh are among sites taken over for good-natured and inventive protests against the planned university fees rise and education cuts.
(3) Yet, during a three-day literature search in the Bodleian library, all I could find on elephant adaptation in Europe was a throwaway sentence in one scientific paper.
(4) In the Bodleian, we find Sampson's Oxford contemporary and close friend Michael Davie, then working on the Observer , writing to praise Sampson's "fight for human rights against tyranny," adding that "we are all filled with respect".
(5) 2.48pm: I've just spoken to one of a group of school pupils who are part of a larger crowd occupying the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
(6) "There were a good 100 outside the Bodleian," he added.
(7) Between them, Whitehall, academia and NGOs have churned out enough surveys on social welfare claimants to fill a wing of the Bodleian library.
(8) Elizabethan tapestry map to be displayed at University of Oxford's Bodleian library Read more The musical angel was once part of a cope – a ceremonial priestly cloak – which became an altar cloth for the small parish church of Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire.
(9) In some ways the hard work for the Bodleian starts now as they look to find the money to make it available to readers.
(10) Many examples of broadside ballads can be found on online archives compiled by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and the English Broadside Ballad Archive based in the Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
(11) The Bodleian Library and the renovated Museum of Natural History are just two examples.
(12) I have been at the Bodleian library with Rhodes Scholars.
(13) Jack Grieve, 14, left classes at Cherwell school to take part in an occupation of the Bodleian library in Oxford.
(14) In a statement Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis said they were thrilled the manuscripts were going to the Bodleian.
(15) This treasure trove of postwar English life, catalogued by the Bodleian Library , has just been made public for the first time.
(16) By that he means the Bodleian's archival holdings of other Oxford poets – the Thirties Poets as they became known – including Auden, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice.
(17) The letter, from around 1928 or 1929 when both poets were still in their 20s, is one of many to appear in an extensive literary archive that has been donated to Oxford University's Bodleian Library by Day-Lewis's children, the actor Daniel Day-Lewis and the food writer Tamasin Day-Lewis.
(18) Unhappy that online search was missing all the good stuff inside old books, Google – controversially – set about scanning the treasures of Oxford's Bodleian library and some of the world's other most respected collections.
(19) The files in the Bodleian show how the great and the good were flattered to be consulted.
(20) The story that emerges from the documents now held in the Bodleian is indeed the story of the man who knew everyone.
Diplomat
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Diplomate
Example Sentences:
(1) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(2) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(3) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(4) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
(5) Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
(6) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(7) "We won't cancel any of our agreements," a senior Israeli diplomatic official told reporters.
(8) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
(9) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(10) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(11) A new round of negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear programme got under way on Wednesday, bringing together the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and top diplomats from the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China.
(12) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(13) Euromaidan was a delayed echo of the social unrest wave , driven by the country's economic failure; it collided with a diplomatic situation that was already fractious over Syria.
(14) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
(15) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
(16) The interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, left a gathering of the Mexican diplomatic corps to take a call from President Enrique Peña Nieto.
(17) During previous upheavals in relations, such as over the Syrian crisis, conversations have taken place between diplomats.
(18) China INDC This would be “a key” to success of the UN climate talks, a French diplomatic official said, because the current national pledges won’t be enough to achieve the goal of keeping the rise in global temperatures below 2C between pre-industrial times and the end of the century.
(19) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(20) It has brought waves of Australian diplomats and functionaries implementing strategies to douse local disgruntlement at the profound social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts their operation has brought.