What's the difference between borough and burgess?

Borough


Definition:

  • (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
  • (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.
  • (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.
  • (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
  • (2) Because of her son's disability she has been told the council will try to find her something cheaper within the borough, but for the moment nothing suitable has been found and the hotel room has been booked until next week, costing Hammersmith and Fulham council about £69 a night for each of the two rooms.
  • (3) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
  • (4) Kieron Williams is head of health and wellbeing, adults and community services, Lambeth borough council This article is published by Guardian Professional.
  • (5) Two London boroughs will be chosen as pilot schemes to demonstrate how better school food can improve health and educational performance.
  • (6) However, deeper analysis suggests that the patient vote was independent of the borough of residence, tending to be more Democratic-Liberal and less Republican-Conservative.
  • (7) The council had been politically unstable and divided, and although parents were voting with their feet – less than half were choosing to send their children to the borough's secondary schools – there was a widespread feeling that nothing could be done, that the borough's failings were irrevocable.
  • (8) How do you draw a supportive social services ring around these families if they are forced as a result of housing benefit caps to move miles away to different boroughs and schools, or downsize into an overcrowded flat?
  • (9) In a 2010 essay, Berman wrote of visiting the Bronx again, with trepidation, fearing that the borough's notorious self-immolation would have left nothing of the world he remembered.
  • (10) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
  • (11) In September 1974 a study was made of all residents of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, aged 65 or more, who were known to have been receiving continuous medical and nursing care in hospital for more than a year.
  • (12) The Bronx, a borough of New York City with 1.16 million people, has a distinctive pattern of prevalence and distribution of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), i.e., 62.2% of AIDS patients are intravenous drug users, 20.3% are female, 87.3% are black or Hispanic, and 4.5% are children under age 13 years.
  • (13) In this, Locog has learned from and been supported by the initiative of the London boroughs that host the Olympic sites, in particular Newham, in which the main park is located.
  • (14) Godfrey Olson , the leader of the Tory group on the borough council, summed up the relationship between his party and the Lib Dems as "confrontational".
  • (15) Reading, a rapidly growing borough, has recently borrowed £34m for new school buildings, while Essex council has had to find £38m for the same reason.
  • (16) A Scotland Yard statement said: "On Friday 4 April the Metropolitan Police Service received three files of material from the Department for Communities and Local Government relating to the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
  • (17) We tend to live in the cheaper parts of the city, so we're less affected than those in the more affluent boroughs.
  • (18) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
  • (19) They are dealt with on a case-by-case basis by individual boroughs.” However, Aaron Schoenberger, CEO of Beverly Hills-based social-media threat-assessment company Soteria, can offer some insight.
  • (20) Kids Company has a drop-in service in Camden, north London, where the council is planning to move poor families out of the borough because the coalition's benefit cap will make paying for housing impossible.

Burgess


Definition:

  • (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
  • (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
  • (n.) A magistrate of a borough.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
  • (2) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
  • (3) It’s not everyone’s idea of death, and I don’t know if I could do it either, but for Martin he was quite determined, obviously very determined right to the end.” Burgess visited his friend at her house the weekend before his death and did not tell her of any plans to end his life.
  • (4) Not everyone was enchanted by Burgess: Edward Crankshaw, for instance, was typical of the 1950s Observer .
  • (5) A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, says they could have been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
  • (6) Janet Burgess is Islington council 's executive member for health and wellbeing.
  • (7) The year before West annointed a Gregory XVII, another one had appeared in Anthony Burgess ’s Earthly Powers (1980).
  • (8) Simon Burgess, a specialist PPI broker who claims to undercut bank rates by 50%, says: "It is easy to hide profits through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
  • (9) First, when he travelled to the Ashbourne set of Robin Hood to meet Russell Crowe and sign for the South Sydney Rabbitohs ; then when he was followed to Australia by his elder brother, Luke, and the twins, Tom and George, the quartet making history when they teamed up for Souths against Wests Tigers in August ; and this week when Sam, Tom and George were included in England's squad for the World Cup to leave Julie, the Burgess mother, feeling devastated for Luke.
  • (10) Less well known is that Burgess separately saw Redgrave.
  • (11) A labour economist, interested in behavioural change as well as poverty and fairness issues – unequal access to good schools, for example – Burgess doesn’t strike me as a Tory, judging by his CV.
  • (12) Burgess fled to Moscow with Donald Maclean in 1951 after being tipped off by Kim Philby, the "Third Man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
  • (13) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding omega, which we call rpoZ (D. R. Gentry and R. R. Burgess, Gene 48:33-40, 1986).
  • (14) The FWC has yet to release its official finding, but shark expert George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville said he had spoken to one of the commission's scientists on Friday afternoon, who told him "eye in hand" that he was sure that it came from a impressively-sized swordfish.
  • (15) The documents, released at the National Archives , include a letter Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge spy ring, wrote to his mother shortly after meeting Redgrave, whom he described as his old friend, in Moscow.
  • (16) The gene for RNA polymerase subunit alpha is a co-transcribed with several ribosomal protein genes (Jaskunas, S.R., Burgess, R.R., and Nomura, M. (1975) Proc.
  • (17) But Scotland are the only squad with two pairs of brothers: the Hull KR forwards Jonathan and Adam Walker; and the Hendersons, Ian and Andrew, whose story is almost as appealing as that of the Burgess boys.
  • (18) Photograph: National Archives MI5 began to take close interest in her in 1951, at a time when the agency was desperate to prove that Philby had warned Burgess and Maclean that they had fallen under suspicion, enabling them to escape to Moscow.
  • (19) Those options should include the choice to end their life at the time and place of their choosing if they are suffering a terminal illness.” Burgess’s friend said she was choosing to speak to Guardian Australia in the hope that her friend’s legacy might help push along the “dying with dignity” campaign, which polls consistently highly in Australia.
  • (20) Previous studies (Lukas, T. J., Burgess, W. H., Prendergast, F. G., Lau, W., and Watterson, D. M. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 1458-1464) indicated the importance of positive charge clusters in the calmodulin-binding protein, myosin light chain kinase.

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