(1) Brent crude surged by $1.05, or 1%, to $124.65 a barrel on Friday, while US crude jumped by 98 cents to $111.90, its highest level since September 2008.
(2) But it says the fall in the oil price, which for Brent crude is now below $50 a barrel , also presents opportunities to reform energy subsidies and taxes in both oil exporters and importers.
(3) Brent crude rebounded more than 7.5%, adding $2.23 to $31.48 a barrel, helped by comments from Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil producer.
(4) London's 120-store Brent Cross shopping centre was forced to close on Saturday due to "adverse weather conditions".
(5) O'Shea told the Brent & Kilburn Times : "I thought the behaviour of the immigration officers was heavy-handed and frightening.
(6) A verdict has not yet been returned on a judicial review of Brent council's proposed closures held in July.
(7) As a child growing up in the 1960s she loved comics and books including Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School stories , but a career as a writer was not on her radar because she never came across black writers or characters.
(8) "For many of the communities in Brent, there is a strong culture of caring for extended family members on an informal basis.
(9) It’s a disease that can only be cured by police forces rooting it out from within.” The new prime minister, Theresa May, highlighted racial discrimination in the justice system as she took office last week, saying outside Downing Street : “If you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white.” Kennedy-Macfoy was cleared of obstructing police after a two-day trial at Brent magistrates court.
(10) The biggest problem for BP has come from low crude prices , with Brent averaging $44 a barrel across the fourth quarter, compared with $77 for the same period 12 months earlier.
(11) The increase has been caused by a combination of factors: rises in the wholesale price of fuel have produced steady rises since the beginning of the year with Brent crude costing an 18-month high of about $86 (£56) a barrel, while tax rises since December 2008 have also added about 10p to the cost of a litre of fuel.
(12) Brent crude oil dropped $1 to $27.7 and US crude headed towards $26 a barrel.
(13) We demonstrate the special requirements of this team approach and also pay a tribute to Burt Brent, who has set the standards of modern ear reconstruction.
(14) Today, as the Brent field winds down its production, we are preparing for one of the world’s most complex engineering challenges.
(15) Better to have announced something, even if less than hoped for, than nothing at all...” A barrel of benchmark Brent crude was changing hands for less than $41 a barrel in New York on Monday night after Opec – heavily influenced by Saudi Arabia – did nothing about a market already seen as saturated.
(16) A quarter of a century after I was hanging around Brent Cross, I was one of the team at the New Economics Foundation on the Clone Town Britain campaign, a plaintive cry against everywhere looking the same.
(17) Brent crude declined 2.5% to $59.7 per barrel on Tuesday.
(18) Today, the Sunday Times reports that the Liberal Democrat children's minister Sarah Teather arranged a meeting between Gove and council leaders from her Brent constituency days before those schools won a reprieve from the cuts.
(19) China is the world’s biggest energy consumer, so signs of an economic slowdown helped push down the oil price last week: at one point benchmark Brent crude was below $43 per barrel compared with a peak of $115 last summer.
(20) London's 120-store Brent Cross shopping centre shut early on Saturday.
Rent
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Rend
(v. i.) To rant.
() imp. & p. p. of Rend.
(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Example Sentences:
(1) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(2) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(4) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(5) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
(6) Lucy Morton, a senior partner at WA Ellis in Knightsbridge, says most foreign students want one-bed flats at up to £1,000 a week and they often pay the whole year's rent up front.
(7) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
(8) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(9) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
(10) Karzai had come under criticism in the past from Afghans for renting the property to international officials.
(11) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
(12) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
(13) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
(14) To some extent, housing associations have taken their place, but affordable, social rented homes have been sold off more quickly than they have been replaced.
(15) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(16) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
(17) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(18) The average rents in social housing meanwhile increased by 6.1% from £88.90 to £94.30 a week.
(19) The scheme, which will be completed in 2016-17, comprises 491 homes for social rent and 300 for private sale.
(20) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.