(n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
(2) Butler was convicted of grevious bodily harm and child cruelty, and sentenced to prison.
(3) Tony Abbott pretended to support the renewable energy industry before the election but is now “launching a full-frontal attack” according to Labor’s environment spokesman Mark Butler.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(5) Among them was James Butler, a 21-year-old acting and theatre student from Staffordshire University, who visited the park more than 60 times last year.
(6) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(7) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(8) The Butler-Sloss panel would have to examine whether Havers played down allegations of child abuse during that period.
(9) Patrick Butler is the Guardian's head of society, health and education
(10) The council fought all the way to the high court to stop Butler and Gray from getting their children back.
(11) "She has done some excellent work on child protection, but the Home Office has not managed to address the concerns about either victim confidence or conflict of interest, and Lady Butler-Sloss's decision is the right one."
(12) But reform does not lie along the lines suggested by the Butler Committee or the Criminal Law Revision Committee.
(13) The way it was used in the dossier was criticised heavily by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee and by the Butler inquiry into the use of intelligence to support an invasion of Iraq.
(14) After The Arbor's success, said Barnard, the women who would become The Selfish Giant's executive producers, Lizzie Francke at the BFI and Katherine Butler from Film4, "were fantastic about saying, 'What do you want to do next?
(15) No butlers, dressers and footmen (if the Queen wants them she can pay for them herself).
(16) These findings are discussed in relation to recommendations made by the Report of the Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders, 1975 (Butler Report) and legislative changes introduced by the Mental Health Act 1983.
(17) This article describes one local effort to develop a monitoring system at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.
(18) The Liberals went to the election saying there was no difference between the parties on renewable energy, but they weren’t being straight with the Australian people because now they are launching a full-frontal attack,” Butler said.
(19) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(20) The bill was seconded by the Labor MP for Griffith, Terri Butler, and has support from Teresa Gambaro (LNP), Laurie Ferguson (Labor), Adam Bandt (Greens), Cathy McGowan (independent) and Andrew Wilkie (independent).
Handmaid
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Handmaiden
Example Sentences:
(1) What goes on in The Handmaid’s Tale [the overthrow of the US government by a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses the rights of women] is actually confined to what used to be the United States.
(2) To those of us who work to protect women’s freedoms this case feels like the early days of The Handmaid’s Tale: the temperature in the bathtub is rising swiftly and silently.
(3) I was perhaps too optimistic to end the Handmaid's story with an outright failure.
(4) To quote The Handmaid’s Tale : “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
(5) Morally provocative and darkly funny with plenty of sex (including some fashionable sadomasochism), the series will be lapped up by fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake .
(6) The Handmaid’s Tale neatly set my world on its head.
(7) The Handmaid's Tale has often been called a "feminist dystopia", but that term is not strictly accurate.
(8) Sarah: I read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale at 19, struggling through my second year at a conservative Baptist college.
(9) Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale seems to have moved from fiction to prophecy, with news of a court case in England that could lead to the prosecution of women who drink alcohol while pregnant.
(10) The Handmaids themselves are a pariah caste within the pyramid: treasured for what they may be able to provide – their fertility – but untouchables otherwise.
(11) The Handmaid's Tale is reissued this month by the Folio Society
(12) No, this is not The Handmaid’s Tale , we are told, in a “ calm down, dear ” sort of way, and we should merely accept the DUP’s mix of creationism, misogyny and homophobia as a quirk of coalition.
(13) People – not only women – have sent me photographs of their bodies with phrases from The Handmaid's Tale tattooed on them, " Nolite te bastardes carborundorum " and "Are there any questions?"
(14) When asked whether The Handmaid's Tale is about to "come true", I remind myself that there are two futures in the book, and that if the first one comes true, the second one may do so also.
(15) The Handmaid's Tale has not been out of print since it was first published, back in 1985.
(16) On 10 June there is a cryptic entry: "Finished editing Handmaid's Tale last week."
(17) Stories about the future always have a "what-if" premise, and The Handmaid's Tale has several.
(18) In fact, in The Handmaid’s Tale , England is the country of choice where escaped women want to go.
(19) It has become a sort of tag for those writing about shifts towards policies aimed at controlling women, and especially women's bodies and reproductive functions: "Like something out of The Handmaid's Tale " and "Here comes The Handmaid's Tale " have become familiar phrases.
(20) Photograph: PR Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines) Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) Loving (Jeff Nichols, US) The Handmaid (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) The Last Face (Sean Penn, US) Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, Romania) Elle (Paul Verhoeven, France) The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, US) Out of competition Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steven Spielberg’s The BFG.