(n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
(n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
(2) Sir Mick Jagger showed a sign of rigor mortis by refusing to serenade the burghers of Davos, but struts and frets his years upon the world's stages to little cogent effect.
(3) A closer look at the conception and evolution of Rodin's masterpiece, "The Burghers of Calais," amply illustrates this vision.
(4) With 18 years of parliamentary service under his belt, the 57-year-old Galloway had a good idea of how to win an election – even if he had suffered two recent black eyes at the ballot box, having failed both to charm the burghers of Poplar and Limehouse in 2010 after relinquishing his Bethnal Green and Bow seat, and to convince his old comrades in Glasgow to anoint him an MSP at last year's Scottish parliamentary elections.
(5) Corbyn’s – and Labour’s – opponents will seize on anything to paint him as an unreconstructed Stalinist itching to send the burghers of Kensington off to some marshy gulag.
(6) You may suspect the Burghers of Brussels of imperial overreach.
(7) If the pollsters are correct, the risk-averse burghers of Baden-Württemberg – with their locally assembled Mercedes in their garages and their jobs for life – may end up electing, by a narrow vote, Germany's first Green regional prime minister.
(8) Two ethnic groups--Moors and Burghers--were relatively over-represented compared with the proportion of these groups in the national population.
(9) It's a piece of news that no doubt had good burghers from the shires choking on their cornflakes .
(10) moelfabansuppers.com Jelly & Gin A driving force in Scottish guerrilla restaurants, Jelly and Gin's owners, Aoife Behan and Carol Soutar, have a suite of pop-up events in rotation, such as Burgher Burger, in which an established chef leaves their restaurant to cook burgers in a greasy spoon.
(11) Tickets for Burgher Burger cost £35, often including drinks such as craft beers.
(n.) The manifestation of contentment or satisfaction; good nature; kindness; civility; affability.
Example Sentences:
(1) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(2) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(3) He continued: "There's quite a lot of complacency going on and self-delusion going on.
(4) This posture of racially tinged complacency underlies most of the frequent backlashes endured by western feminists.
(5) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(6) "One [of the dangers] is complacency, generated by a few quarters of good economic data.
(7) And if he wins substantially, it is quite possible that he will feel comfortable and complacent and focus again on his nationalist agenda rather than the economy.” At the standing bar, Tani, a striking figure in his dark-blue kimono and a trilby, puts down his drink, pauses, and recalls the time he spent working abroad.
(8) His approach, however, will be challenged by Labour, which this week accused the chancellor of "breathtaking complacency".
(9) But we shouldn’t be complacent – less than half of GCSE students are taking a foreign language, and more need to carry their languages forward into their careers and lives for the UK to really profit on the world stage - both culturally and economically.
(10) Perhaps it was a little bit of complacency, a sense that their mere presence on the pitch would be sufficient to beat Newcastle, but collectively they rarely matched Klopp’s dynamism in the technical area.
(11) The barrier to Rio is high and Pavey is not complacent: to ensure automatic qualification she will have to finish first in the trials and reach the 10,000m Olympic qualifying standard of 32min 15sec.
(12) But let's abandon any complacency that such injustice could not happen again.
(13) Applications and limitations of the findings to the problem of complacency in automated systems are discussed.
(14) The director of public prosecutions issued a timely warning against complacency this week.
(15) A recent survey of 1,002 people in Wales has supported these earlier findings, but found additionally that discriminatory and complacent attitudes on AIDS or towards people with the 'AIDS virus' are held by a significant proportion of the population.
(16) Mike Penning, the road safety minister, said: "I am not complacent about road safety even though Britain has some of the safest roads in the world.
(17) Meanwhile, an influential cross-party Westminster committee of MPs and peers has accused the UK government's national security council of complacency for failing to carry out any assessment about the impact Scotland's independence would have on the UK's defence and the future of Trident.
(18) He wrote on Twitter on Saturday that complacency had allowed racism to prevail and reiterated those comments in a column for the Sun on Sunday.
(19) "But even if domestic violence remains a priority for the Crown Prosecution Service, there remains the wider issue of complacency."
(20) That is in large part why Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor and chairman of the cross-party pro-UK campaign Better Together, warned in a Guardian interview last week that complacency was his campaign's greatest enemy.