(n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
(n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
(n.) A magistrate of a borough.
(n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) Judge John Burgess told the men that their intention was “to do great harm in a peaceful community”.
(3) It’s not everyone’s idea of death, and I don’t know if I could do it either, but for Martin he was quite determined, obviously very determined right to the end.” Burgess visited his friend at her house the weekend before his death and did not tell her of any plans to end his life.
(4) Not everyone was enchanted by Burgess: Edward Crankshaw, for instance, was typical of the 1950s Observer .
(5) A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, says they could have been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
(6) Janet Burgess is Islington council 's executive member for health and wellbeing.
(7) The year before West annointed a Gregory XVII, another one had appeared in Anthony Burgess ’s Earthly Powers (1980).
(8) Simon Burgess, a specialist PPI broker who claims to undercut bank rates by 50%, says: "It is easy to hide profits through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
(9) First, when he travelled to the Ashbourne set of Robin Hood to meet Russell Crowe and sign for the South Sydney Rabbitohs ; then when he was followed to Australia by his elder brother, Luke, and the twins, Tom and George, the quartet making history when they teamed up for Souths against Wests Tigers in August ; and this week when Sam, Tom and George were included in England's squad for the World Cup to leave Julie, the Burgess mother, feeling devastated for Luke.
(10) Less well known is that Burgess separately saw Redgrave.
(11) A labour economist, interested in behavioural change as well as poverty and fairness issues – unequal access to good schools, for example – Burgess doesn’t strike me as a Tory, judging by his CV.
(12) Burgess fled to Moscow with Donald Maclean in 1951 after being tipped off by Kim Philby, the "Third Man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
(13) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding omega, which we call rpoZ (D. R. Gentry and R. R. Burgess, Gene 48:33-40, 1986).
(14) The FWC has yet to release its official finding, but shark expert George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville said he had spoken to one of the commission's scientists on Friday afternoon, who told him "eye in hand" that he was sure that it came from a impressively-sized swordfish.
(15) The documents, released at the National Archives , include a letter Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge spy ring, wrote to his mother shortly after meeting Redgrave, whom he described as his old friend, in Moscow.
(16) The gene for RNA polymerase subunit alpha is a co-transcribed with several ribosomal protein genes (Jaskunas, S.R., Burgess, R.R., and Nomura, M. (1975) Proc.
(17) But Scotland are the only squad with two pairs of brothers: the Hull KR forwards Jonathan and Adam Walker; and the Hendersons, Ian and Andrew, whose story is almost as appealing as that of the Burgess boys.
(18) Photograph: National Archives MI5 began to take close interest in her in 1951, at a time when the agency was desperate to prove that Philby had warned Burgess and Maclean that they had fallen under suspicion, enabling them to escape to Moscow.
(19) Those options should include the choice to end their life at the time and place of their choosing if they are suffering a terminal illness.” Burgess’s friend said she was choosing to speak to Guardian Australia in the hope that her friend’s legacy might help push along the “dying with dignity” campaign, which polls consistently highly in Australia.
(20) Previous studies (Lukas, T. J., Burgess, W. H., Prendergast, F. G., Lau, W., and Watterson, D. M. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 1458-1464) indicated the importance of positive charge clusters in the calmodulin-binding protein, myosin light chain kinase.
Citizen
Definition:
(n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.
(n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
(n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
(n.) One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.
(a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
(3) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(4) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(5) Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.
(6) The prime minister and chancellor threaten legal action over any losses incurred by British citizens as banks are nationalized.
(7) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(8) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(9) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
(10) Institutional legitimacy arises from closer links between citizens.
(11) In an era when citizens expect choice, the council argue, the old model of local government no longer works.” Northants uses the word “right-sourcing” to describe the process of offloading services.
(12) The FCO ask all British citizens to register with the British embassy in Pyongyang and warn that it has limited reach outside the capital.
(13) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
(14) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(15) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(16) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
(17) But I hope that this can close the gap between the police department and the communities, that they can learn to recognise each other as citizens.
(18) Friendly visiting programs may prove helpful in informing homebound senior citizens of these health-related community services.
(19) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
(20) Today no one can doubt that Ukraine is inhabited by European citizens, just like those in England, Germany or Poland.