(n.) A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.
Example Sentences:
(1) His cabinet colleagues promised to increase bursaries and loans for students and to cut fuel bills – something for the middle-class, something for the workers.
(2) The bursaries will provide studio space for up to six months and a living allowance while they rebuild their portfolios.
(3) The same can be said of education bursaries and money channelled through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), various audits into the CDF kitty have revealed massive corruption."
(4) They will have access to higher maintenance grants, new fee waivers and student bursaries.
(5) Adesunloye’s new film, White Colour Black , will be shown at the LFF alongside films from the other three (white) finalists for the inaugural IWC Schaffhausen Filmmakers bursary award.
(6) A typical scheme from one of the Russell group universities, combined with government grants, gives fee reductions or bursaries totalling about £6,000 for students from families with incomes up to £25,000, falling to about £4,500 just above it and then tapering off to be withdrawn by the time family income reaches £43,000.
(7) Scrap the social work bursary, and lose students like us Read more The government’s recent announcement that it plans to make the Frontline graduate development programme a national scheme – where trainees receive a salary instead of a bursary – has only increased suspicion among those delivering the courses.
(8) But the scheme, described as "16-19 bursaries", represents a cut of two-thirds from the previous £560m annual budget and will be targeted only at the poorest students, so depriving hundreds of thousands of students of state support for further education.
(9) A means-tested bursary, not exclusive to social work, is another option.
(10) The Christian lobby group Care (Christian Action Research and Education), which helped to support Nadine Dorries's proposed abortion amendment last month, has connections with researchers working for six MPs, in several instances offering bursaries to fund researchers' time in Westminster.
(11) The Charity Commission has acknowledged before that schools will need time to set up partnerships or introduce bursary programmes.
(12) Students receive a bursary in their first year followed by paid work placements.
(13) Fifty-three percent of bursaried students have honoured their commitment.
(14) Westminster University is offering £6,000 bursaries to the first 50 eligible applicants through adjustment, while Northumbria University has been tweeting a similar offer worth £2,000 a year to adjustment-eligible applicants.
(15) Our recruitment campaign, Your Future Their Future, is attracting new people and encouraging top graduates to consider training to teach priority subjects like maths, physics and computing, and we continue to offer bursaries worth up to £25,000 and prestigious scholarships.” And then there’s performance-related pay.
(16) He gave her the nickname of Dusty, because of her “gold-dust” hair, and an Arts Council bursary of £500 covered the cost of their marriage in 1958.
(17) But Ledniczky, who went to Maidstone grammar school in Kent, explains: "I'm lucky that I'll come out of college in the US with no debt at all thanks to Harvard's generous bursary system.
(18) John Cater, vice-chancellor of Edge Hill University, Lancashire, which offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, admits: “I think it’s quite likely that bursaries could go.” Cater says the current system in England is confusing and complex, with students often unclear whether they qualify for financial support.
(19) Heriot Watt also expects that a third of its student from the rest of the UK will be able to get bursaries to help the new fees.
(20) It warned teenagers were also unaware that they could qualify for substantial bursaries and scholarships, and urged ministers to launch a publicity campaign to address the public's misunderstandings over tuition fees.
Religious
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
(a.) Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
(a.) Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
(a.) Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
(n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
(5) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(6) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(7) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(8) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(9) Males scored higher than females on theoretical and lower on religious scales.
(10) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
(11) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(12) However, social support significantly correlated with depression and there was some indication that the type of institutional setting and frequency of religious participation also interacts with the level of depression.
(13) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(14) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(15) There are long-running tensions between the state and the region's large Uighur Muslim population, with many angered by cultural and religious restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities and some aspiring to independence for what they call East Turkestan.
(16) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
(17) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(18) But first he flew to Saudi Arabia to make the religiously encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca; he found himself stranded in Bahrain after he was unable to enter Kenya.
(19) In the afternoon he reads historical or religious books and novels.
(20) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.