(n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
Example Sentences:
(1) Removing a sleeping child from a buggy may be inconvenient, but it is not likely to be as inconvenient for a parent as it would be for a wheelchair user to be prevented from boarding.
(2) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
(3) "When both the lifts weren't working they did say that if you were pregnant, had a health problem or a baby in a buggy you could use the main entrance," she said.
(4) Boutik Services (+33 6 0958 0988) in 1850 has cots, booster seats, changing tables, buggies and child skis for hire.
(5) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
(6) The plug-in architecture is a security nightmare, and a source of numerous breaches through which buggy or malicious code was able to reach into users’ computers and compromise them.
(7) Nor was it about whether parents in the wheelchair space with a child in a folding buggy should fold their buggies in order to make way for a wheelchair user: of course they should, if possible.
(8) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
(9) Companies promise a trip like no other, with buggy tours lasting two days and one evening, 'long enough,' one brochure states, 'for nature enthusiasts to keep their excitement, but not too long to the point of monotony.'
(10) South of Newquay, Perranporth is great for activities from surfing and riding to powerkiting, landboarding and buggy riding.
(11) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
(12) But local people say they had video evidence that it was not sabotage but a Shell contractor working in a buggy which struck the pipeline.
(13) But is it reasonable to give people in wheelchairs priority over people pushing buggies?
(14) As we leave her office, a half-naked child wanders into the corridor, and then the lift stops outside the in-house nursery for Jenny Willott, a Liberal Democrat whip, who is pushing two small children in a double buggy.
(15) There's lots of buggies in the world and it will have one, so don't worry about it.'"
(16) That's a logical falsehood, of course – akin to believing a challenge to the horse-and-buggy industry is a challenge to transportation itself – but it's a scary thought and therefore produces an extreme defensive response (government, do something!).
(17) She couldn't work the next buggy for love or money, so she wandered the streets looking for another similar model, found one, begged for guidance from the owners, which they kindly gave her, but by the time she got home she'd forgotten her instructions.
(18) Other photographs show the US troops boarding a blue and white-striped passenger plane and driving a yellow dune buggy.
(19) While better educated staff may be very welcome when it comes to playing imaginative games with children, or introducing them to the alphabet, there's no substitute for pairs of hands to do up little buttons, push buggies and give out cuddles.
(20) It’s about representing the people.” Suddenly we are almost bowled over by the man himself at the wheel of a golf buggy, heading for the nearby driving range where a few hundred locals on picnic rugs and folding chairs are waiting for a free concert by an Elvis impersonator.
Ruggy
Definition:
(a.) Rugged; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond that, Fifa is committed to using its leverage to ensure respect for human rights.” Ruggie added: “Fifa is not solely responsible for solving these problems where the actions of others are the primary cause.
(2) The author of the Fifa-commissioned report, Professor John Ruggie, said there were major human rights issues facing the tournament in Russia.
(3) Ruggie said: “Its leverage concerns the activities involved in hosting and staging a tournaments.
(4) Ruggie’s report was welcomed by Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation and a trenchant critic of the lack of progress by Qatar on the migrant workers issue.
(5) The system of modern slavery for migrant workers, the absolute denial of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights, the poverty wages and the deep discrimination encountered by those who are delivering the huge 2022 infrastructure programme is completely out of step with the requirements that Professor Ruggie has highlighted,” added Burrow.
(6) Professor John Ruggie’s report makes 25 explicit recommendations, praising Fifa for making a start in addressing the situation by commissioning the report – but he said it must match its words with action.
(7) The UN drafted a document that would impose the same human rights duties on businesses that states have already accepted, but they immediately met fearsome resistance to any kind of regulation from the business community, and so in 2005 John Ruggie was appointed the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, and given the task of coming up with a set of principles.
(8) Fifa can’t impose human rights on countries but in return for hosting a tournament there are certain human rights to which you should have to adhere,” Ruggie told the Guardian.
(9) What is required is a cultural shift that must affect everything Fifa does and how it does it.” Ruggie said that among the immediate priorities must be addressing human rights risks in tournaments that have already been scheduled and following through on promises to include such criteria in the bidding requirements for the 2026 World Cup.
(10) The crisis-hit world football governing body has only now promised to “formalise its human rights due diligence process”, vowed to change its World Cup bidding rules and has commissioned Harvard’s Professor John Ruggie to write a report on its human rights standards.
(11) They all have human rights implications.” Ruggie, a respected expert in the field, who was responsible for drawing up the UN guiding principles on business and human rights during 14 years in senior roles at the organisation, said that Fifa’s human rights responsibilities went beyond those issues related to tournaments.
(12) Ruggie also said there were major human rights issues facing the Russia 2018 World Cup .
(13) The United Nations tapped the Harvard professor John Ruggie to develop guidelines on business obligations on human rights, which it adopted in 2011.
(14) Fifa, which earlier this year published a report from human rights expert Prof John Ruggie of Harvard University and promised to implement his recommendations, has continually claimed that it can’t be held responsible for working conditions but hopes to use the World Cup to bring about change.
(15) The Harvard professor John Ruggie, who last week published a wide ranging independent report into Fifa’s human rights responsibilities and made 25 recommendations, has said Fifa would have “tough decisions” to take if Qatar did not prove to UN inspectors it was making progress on the issue within 12 months.
(16) The report read: “Fifa should include human rights within its criteria for evaluating bids to host tournaments and should make them a substantive factor in host selection.” Another of the recommendations states: “Fifa should set explicit human rights requirements of Local Organising Committees in bidding documents for tournaments and provide guidance on them.” On Qatar, Ruggie noted that the International Labour Organisation had recently given Qatar 12 months to end migrant worker exploitation or face a formal inquiry by the United Nations.
(17) As John Ruggie , professor in human rights and international affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, points out: “Once sustainability is taken seriously as a strategic issue, it becomes something that has to be driven clearly across all business units and functions.
(18) I thought he did as good job as you could, the disappointing thing has been the reaction to it.” Day says that politicians and NGOs should have built on Ruggie’s work, but instead “the impact of it is depressingly limited”.