(n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
(2) But yesterday the Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997, despite a promise by Gordon Brown in opposition of a "bonfire of the quangos".
(3) They had a sprawling back garden on two tiers and with a steep bank down to the main road below; this was where the big bonfire used to burn.
(4) Jim Docking, Betchworth, Surrey Any answers Why is it a "bonfire", rather than plain "fire"?
(5) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
(6) It was published this week in response to freedom of information requests and immediately caused a stir with its controversial call for a bonfire of traditional employee rights.
(7) The bonfire of red tape is a surprisingly modest conflagration, which the (mainly industry-funded) potato people will survive.
(8) I said to Ben-David: ‘Enough!’ I got into the car and suddenly I saw a huge bonfire and understood the meaning.
(9) Any witness in any proceeding – proper judicial, or quasi judicial – is unlikely to throw any fuel on that particular bonfire.
(10) At least, that’s what I tell myself as I light another cigarette off the bonfire I made from burning all my daughter’s sexist toys.
(11) The " bonfire of the quangos " saw the Food Standards Agency severely cut and stripped of responsibility for food quality.
(12) It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU.
(13) Labour made him head of the Homes and Communities Agency; the Tories, evidently impressed by such a bonfire of public assets, made him their permanent secretary for communities and local government.
(14) With Halloweeen and Bonfire night behind us, the countdown to Christmas has truly started.
(15) One issue is the lack of a single voice for cycling issues in government after Cycling England was abolished in April in the "bonfire of the quangos".
(16) Chief among these, according to Labour, was Cameron's threat, if elected, to burn, in a "bonfire of quangos", Ofcom, which is conducting the review of pay television vehemently opposed by the substantially Murdoch-owned BSkyB.
(17) They have been placed on the bonfire of austerity, a necessary sacrifice, and as they burn, we warm our hands.
(18) Tories David Cameron said that the media regulator will be stripped of its policy-making functions, which will be returned to the government, as part of his "bonfire of the quangos".
(19) The leader of the Greens, Christine Milne, said she was concerned the so-called “regulation bonfire” contained some “very bitter pills” including changes to environmental protections.
(20) In fairness to Cameron, he understands this and disowns the "bonfire" phrase as simplistic.
Cave
Definition:
(n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
(n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
(n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
(v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
(v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(2) Biogastrone treatment influences the pain in a higher per cent as compared with Caved-S and oxyferroscorbon (p greater then 0.05), whereas regards the rest of the clinical symptoms -- no statistically significant difference was established.
(3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
(4) It is the Altamira cave, not the Altimira cave as we had it.
(5) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(6) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
(7) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(8) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(9) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(10) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
(11) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
(12) And the confirmation that Greece won't get its bailout tranche unless its debt development is deemed sustainable means that Brussels has caved into IMF demands.
(13) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
(14) Many of the bodies are mummified, most of them were not interred, but deposited in caves.
(15) In the 20 years he was away, Malick moved to Paris and travelled the world, exploring caves in Nepal and the Alps as well as studying ancient civilisations and visiting Greece.
(16) Given that I'm trying to actually do some work while this whole thing is going on I'm not sure how successful I'll be before I cave in and *cough* go down the pub.
(17) The final band, at gone 4am, was Eigg's own metal band called, naturally, Massacre Cave.
(18) Only 11 cases of paratrigeminal epidermoid, including the cases localized in the Meckel's cave have been reported in the past literatures (Table 1).
(19) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(20) She and her friends recalled that this land was occupied by “cave-houses” – homes built from holes in the rock – in the 1950s.