(n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
(n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
(n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
(18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
Chancellery
Definition:
(n.) Chancellorship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isis is a hybrid of insurgency, separatism, terrorism and criminality, with deep roots in its immediate local environment, in broader regional conflicts and in geopolitical battles that link what happens in Raqqa or Mosul to chancelleries in capitals across Asia and the west.
(2) Having greeted David Cameron on the red carpet with a military guard of honour outside Berlin’s chancellery on Friday, she has two aims in mind: to keep Britain in the European Union while appearing not to concede to his demands.
(3) Von der Leyen – whose father, Ernst Albrecht, was prime minister of Lower Saxony – has been touted as a candidate for the chancellery before, most notably when Merkel made her families minister in 2005, just days after she entered the federal parliament for the first time.
(4) Thomas de Maizière, Merkel's one-time chief of staff in the chancellery, moves from Germany's home office, where he has been interior minister since October 2009.
(5) The protesters were soon joined by a curious crowd of Berliners, strolling about their business on a peaceful Friday morning, pausing to rubberneck at the visitor through the chancellery fence.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel makes her new year speech at the chancellery in Berlin.
(7) Hillmer's charlatanism was proven by the Medical Chancellery at Petersburg when he visited Russia in 1751.
(8) The truth is there was very little the German chancellery wanted the press to hear.
(9) But other than the chief of staff of her chancellery saying that scandal "had been dispensed with" , there was no other truly meaningful statement from Merkel's team amidst the international debate on mass surveillance.
(10) Her decision to elevate Altmaier effectively means that, just weeks after her first ever visit to an asylum seekers’ home in her 10 years as chancellor, she has brought the refugee issue right into the heart of her chancellery.
(11) Jarosław Kaczyński ran Wałęsa’s winning campaign and was rewarded with a position as the head of the presidential chancellery.
(12) Some might seek relaxation by going fishing or hiking; Merkel leaves no doubt that entering the chancellery every morning at 8am and living on a schedule of rapid-fire 20-minute appointments for the next 16 hours is her idea of a perfect day.
(13) Cameron may be feted in the chancelleries of Europe.
(14) Kaczmarczyk, who has defended the right of business owners not to serve black customers if doing so would be “contrary to their conscience”, was recently transferred to the prime ministerial chancellery, where he is overseeing Szydło’s plans for the department of civil society.
(15) "Remember that she is not the only name you hear in association with the chancellery.
(16) Amid the financial crisis swirling the chancelleries of Europe and the perennial backbiting about an uncompetitive economy suffering at the hands of cheaper labour in the east the economic premise for the EU is often lost: that over the past 25 years, the single market has made goods cheaper, labour cheaper, and trade more secure and more competitive.
(17) Angela Merkel was due to deliver her reaction to the prize in a speech at the Chancellery in Berlin at around 11.30am GMT.
(18) It was billed as a town hall get-together, taking place in the breezy "sky lobby" of Angela Merkel's cuboid chancellery with a handpicked audience of students and diplomats.
(19) German idealism appears to be reviving in the Berlin chancellery.
(20) It is not a collective panic in the chancelleries of the west that Johnson might make some inappropriate joke about Putin’s chest muscles or Soviet-era female shot-putters at a time of heightened political tension.