What's the difference between bookend and breton?

Bookend


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's fascinating that 2010 will be bookended by two controversial political books, one about the latter years of the Government [Observer writer Andrew Rawnsley's The End of the Party], and one by the man that delivered New Labour to the country in the 1990s."
  • (2) That’s how I ended up in Cervejaria Ramiro , visits to which bookended my first trip to Lisbon.
  • (3) There’s very little demand for investment so it’s basically weak on both demand and supply sides.” Meanwhile, a number of Fed officials lined up on Thursday behind a likely rise in interest rates from their historic near-zero levels, bookending a seven-year stretch of unprecedentedly cheap credit for the world economy.
  • (4) The defender played only once for Manchester United – as a substitute in 2009 – but after opening proceedings for Hull City, produced the unwanted bookend by heading past Steve Harper, who replaced Allan McGregor at half-time, for the 66th-minute winner.
  • (5) Photograph: YouTube Bookended by the flooding of the city of New Orleans after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina – and by which the city’s black residents were disproportionately affected – and a black child in a hoodie dancing opposite a police line and a quick cut to graffiti words “stop shooting us”, Beyoncé morphs into several archetypical southern black women.
  • (6) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
  • (7) On growth, Sorrell said that "the bookends of Europe, the UK and Germany," are performing well, but that the countries in between are struggling.
  • (8) While the words he uttered were thank you, there was no "and goodbye" to bookend the remark.
  • (9) And of course I had the chilling realisation that this is where Cromwell begins, and it is where he will end – lying in his own blood, on the scaffold, with a voice in his ear saying, “So now, get up.” And the whole project was bookended.
  • (10) Bayern Munich will play much the same formation, with Arjen Robben (RW) and Franck Ribery (LW) bookending an advanced trio ahead of Central midfielders Luiz Gustavo and Bastian Schweinsteiger, with Mario Gomez ploughing a lone furrow up front.
  • (11) This bullish assurance is bookended by Okoye's studied nonchalance.
  • (12) Another, bookending the summer with further disappointment, deprived them of two Premier League points.
  • (13) After the turmoil of the Arab spring and the disaster of the Syrian conflict, Trump’s speech on Sunday marked a deliberate bookend to his predecessor’s values-led approach.
  • (14) 4.23am BST Spurs 94-80 Heat, 7:35 left, 4th quarter Kawhi Leonard is bookending this game with some impressive offense here at the end of the fourth.
  • (15) "Fear," suggested one wag, and that seemed pretty accurate: the day was bookended by speeches from culture secretary Ben Bradshaw and his shadow Jeremy Hunt, with all ears primed for hints about future arts spending.
  • (16) It was bookended by Gary Barlow's Big Ben Bash Live – the Take That frontman was watched by 6.8 million viewers, a 38.4% share, between 11.15pm and 11.55pm, and 10.2 million viewers (58.5%) between 12.10am and 12.30am.
  • (17) The leadership's aim is to try to bookend Clegg's week by starting with the ground-clearing apology for making the fateful populist promise on tuition fees, and then conclude it with a vision of a party now capable of taking the difficult, painful decisions.
  • (18) He talks of “ski slopes” swooping down towards St Paul’s and the Tower of London, how buildings must “ramp up” to the peak of the cluster, and how Gotham City is the “bookend” to the east, beyond which it’s unlikely more towers will be allowed (within the City limits at least).
  • (19) Referee: Pavel Kralovec (Czech Republic) Linesmen: Roman Slysko (Slovakia) and Martin Wilczek (Czech Republic) Goal-line officials who some pundits still think do nowt: Radek Pfhoda (Czech Rep) and Micahal Patak (Czech Republic) How City will line up: In a 4-2-3-1, almost certainly, with Pablo Zabaleta and Gael Clichy bookending Matija Nastasic and Vincent Kompany on the right and left of a back four protected by the defensive midfield screen of Javi Garcia and Yaya Toure.
  • (20) For a start, they bookended communism – Morris was in on its idealistic beginnings, Abramovich made his billions out of its collapse.

Breton


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They may not be Kurds or Kosovans, but they have much in common with Basques, Bretons and Catalans.
  • (2) He dismisses as "recycling" a pact announced by the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault – a former Breton mayor – last month to defuse the red caps' protests, providing for €2m of investment in the region.
  • (3) When Claudie Le Bail joined tens of thousands of Breton "red cap" demonstrators protesting in Carhaix at the end of November to oppose regional job losses and a green tax on road freight, she took her 79-year-old mother with her.
  • (4) The area is part of a chain of uninhabited barrier islands in the Breton national wildlife refuge.
  • (5) By 6 May oil was reported as reaching the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana and Freemason Island in the Breton national wildlife refuge .
  • (6) Tips: Hook a mackerel and fry it for dinner just off the Cabot Trail, and learn to make Acadian potato pancakes for $22pp while savouring the cultural lore of Cape Breton.
  • (7) It has been highly commended in the Michelin guide and serves Breton food with a strong seafood theme.
  • (8) An epidemic of hepatitis B occurring in 1988 and 1989 in Cape Breton brought to light the existence of a group of "buddies" who engaged in injection drug use.
  • (9) 187, 227-232; Mäntele, W., Wollenweber, A., Nabedryk, E., & Breton, J.
  • (10) The pairing of owners Stephen Toman in the kitchen and Breton Alain Kerloc'h out front brings a superb balance of fine dining on the plate, with a fist-pumpingly rocking atmosphere.
  • (11) Seafood stalls are loaded with locally caught fish and fruits de mer , and look out for the excellent Breton oysters.
  • (12) At the foot of the hill lies the contemporary tide line of sex-sleaze – the surrealist André Breton once called it "diamantiferous mud", but nowadays it is all mud and any diamonds are paste.
  • (13) Earlier this year, a radio announcer in Canada set up a website inviting Americans to move to Cape Breton, population 100,000, should Trump win.
  • (14) She’s a locavore (where possible, she eats locally produced food) and has been recycling since the 80s, a habit learned from her Breton grandmother.
  • (15) Concentrations of progesterone and oestrogens were determined by radioimmunoassay in the peripheral blood of 22 Percheron and Breton breed mares from the 6th day of oestrus to the 150th day of pregnancy.
  • (16) This latter result is in agreement with previous photoselection studies on the same bacterial species (Vermeglio, A., Breton, J., Paillotin, G. and Cogdell, R. (1978) Biochim.
  • (17) The close linkage between the disease locus and several DNA markers allowed a study of the DNA restriction polymorphism pattern in 30 Breton families.
  • (18) But his main focus now is preparing for the second act of the revolt with a big congress in March which will formally take up Breton grievances.
  • (19) We have previously described a monoclonal antibody (FA6-152), obtained by immunizing mice with fetal human erythrocytes [Edelman, Vinci, Villeval, Vainchenker, Henri, Miglierina, Rouger, Reviron, Breton-Gorius, Sureau & Edelman (1986) Blood 67, 56-63].
  • (20) Delicious crepes and galettes , and Breton cider, are found on other stalls.