(n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
(n.) An embankment against inundation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Sue Anne Tay In 2008, a group of Shanghai urban planning academics and advisers, led by the respected preservationist Professor Ruan Yisan (responsible for championing the Bund restoration), proposed to local authorities to preserve 111 historically significant shikumen neighbourhoods.
(2) He expects total outflows of about €800m, including conversions into German bunds [bonds] and other such things."
(3) The propose analysed the main percentages be bunded in Literature.
(4) But the deal's deliberate opaqueness, mixed with uncertainly over how long it would take for the money to be paid out, saw spreads soar again this week, with the difference in yields between Greek and benchmark German 10-year bunds increasing to about 4.15% yesterday.
(5) 9.04pm BST 60 min: There's plenty of tiki taka on display, but it's all coming from Bayern, who triangluate beautifully down the right, their supporters indulging in some loud bundes¡olé!
(6) Money also flowed into German government debt, a classic safe haven, driving down the yield on bunds.
(7) This narrowed the spread between 10-year gilts and Bunds - a barometer of investor sentiment - to 92 basis points from 96 basis points yesterday.
(8) Behind us was the Bund, the waterfront of aristocratic Italian Renaissance and art deco buildings that sprang up at the start of the 20th century, the last commercial frenzy in the city.
(9) The yield on German 10-year bunds fell to a new low of 0.718% as investors abandoned shares for the relative safety of government bonds.
(10) "With any luck we will start to see those Bund spreads coming down over the next few months and that should improve prospects for growth," she said.
(11) It estimates that if yields could fall back relative to German government bonds - also know as Bunds - to a spread last seen in January it would improve Greece's large deficit by 0.9% of GDP and also significantly boost growth.
(12) 12 Shortly you will come to a path running along the Bund on your right.
(13) Government costs of borrowing : German government Bunds rally - making it cheaper for Germany to borrow as investors seek a safe haven.
(14) On Monday, as the euro fell on the foreign exchanges, the Greek stock market plunged and investors piled into the safe haven of German bunds, it no longer seems quite so far-fetched.
(15) Britain's total personal, corporate and government debt is substantially worse than Italy's, but the bond markets now freakishly rate London a safe haven, with the interest rate on gilts falling to 2.1%, just a smidgen over German bunds.
(16) More here : German Oct trade surplus narrows, gives euro zone cheer 8.15am GMT Chinese trade surplus hits five-year high A tourist with a protective mask watches the buildings at the Bund under heavy haze in Shanghai, China, this morning.
(17) At 9am there were a few hundred students near the Bund, Shanghai's river-front, several thousand more in People's Square and hundreds more here and there throughout the downtown area.
(18) Spain's main Ibex 35 stock index rallied on the report, up 1.6% by lunchtime, while the spread between Spanish government bonds and their equivalent German Bunds narrowed.
(19) The world has been sorely disappointed," said Hubert Weiger, head of Germany's association for environment and nature protection, Bund.
(20) • US 10-year Treasury yield: 2.88%, down from 2.97% overnight • UK 10-year gilt yield : 2.93%, down from 3% overnight • German 10-year bund yield : 1.94%, down from 2.04% overnight Updated at 2.02pm BST 1.55pm BST Economics professor Nouriel Roubini insists today's jobs data means the US Fed should not slow its stimulus programme yet: Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) Q2 growth is 1.9% ex inv.
League
Definition:
(n.) A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land measure) chiefly on the continent of Europe, and in the Spanish parts of America. The marine league of England and the United States is equal to three marine, or geographical, miles of 6080 feet each.
(n.) A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
(n.) An alliance or combination of two or more nations, parties, or persons, for the accomplishment of a purpose which requires a continued course of action, as for mutual defense, or for furtherance of commercial, religious, or political interests, etc.
(v. i.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support; to confederate.
(v. t.) To join in a league; to cause to combine for a joint purpose; to combine; to unite; as, common interests will league heterogeneous elements.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(3) Having been knocked out of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup before Christmas, they lost an FA Cup fourth-round replay at West Brom on 1 February.
(4) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(5) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(6) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(7) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(8) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(9) We are deeply saddened," said Nyan Win, a spokesman of National League for Democracy.
(10) Huth, a Stoke player for more than five years, has made only one Premier League appearance since suffering a knee injury in November 2013.
(11) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(12) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(13) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(14) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(15) "Consider this, all six or so hours of his Champions League finals would have been torture."
(16) Just when Everton thought they might start 2014 by keeping Liverpool out of the Champions League positions, they came close to failing the wet Wednesday at Stoke test thanks to a goal from an Anfield loanee.
(17) The joint Premier League leaders announced the 21-year-old, who can play in central midfield or at right-back, had signed a contract until 2020.
(18) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
(19) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
(20) Champions League would be better than Europa League, but it makes it difficult to get the result.