(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.
Bury
Definition:
(n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
(n.) A manor house; a castle.
(v. t.) To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
(v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
(v. t.) To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.
Example Sentences:
(1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(2) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(3) That was long after the demolition of nearby Hyde Abbey, where he was originally buried with his son and other members of his family more than 1,000 years ago.
(4) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(6) BB July 8, 2014 Barry Bateman (@barrybateman) #OscarTrial Barry Roux has his head buried in a law journal.
(7) Quenching data indicated that five out of 22 tryptophans in CBH are surface-localized and are available for quenching with both KI and acrylamide, and three other tryptophans are buried and are available only to acrylamide.
(8) Suture knots are buried in the sclera to minimize the risk of late-onset endophthalmitis.
(9) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(10) Between 1972 and 1985, 17 people were abducted, sometimes tortured, then killed and buried.
(11) The results indicate the presence of carbohydrate epitopes buried within collagenous polypeptides that are exposed by harsh denaturing conditions.
(12) "The middle class was buried by the policies that Romney and Ryan have supported," he told the crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, according to the Washington Post .
(13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(14) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
(15) Regions 1-51, 250-310, 567-612, 650-670, and 1307-1382 are particularly buried whereas the 3'-terminal domain and the 5'-proximal region (nucleotides 53-218) are exposed.
(16) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
(17) We took advantage of this conserved structural conformation to help predict which variant subregions of VSG molecules may contain exposed or buried variant specific B cell epitopes.
(18) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
(19) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
(20) The 125,000 dalton complex seems to be buried inside the lipid layer.