(1) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
(2) It's this canny media awareness that has made obscure Kafranbel one of the unlikely focal points of the revolution.
(3) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
(4) However, even if they did tune in for that reason, the quarter-hour breakdown suggests viewers stayed with the debate – a canny bit of scheduling by the broadcaster.
(5) But the paper was also canny enough to say the school would be run by evangelical Christian sponsors."
(6) Adopted by studio owner Chris Moon and manager Owen Husney, he began plotting his route to a record deal, cultivating a canny air of mystique while playing up to an X-rated image he'd developed after an early immersion in pornography.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
(8) Such gestures reveal a canny politician with a carefully cultivated folksy style.
(9) But with Asda, Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Ocado and Morrisons vying for our custom, canny shoppers can take advantage of the competition and shave pounds off delivery costs – and even demand free delivery in return for loyalty.
(10) These lands once taught Americans what it meant to be independent, stubborn and canny.
(11) "The chasm in price between a home inside the M25 and one in the country is at last no longer growing but canny buyers are seeing this and far more inquiries I receive are now from people wanting to cash in on the seemingly ludicrous value of their shoebox of a home and snap up a slice of country living."
(12) Her new book, Vagina, is attracting a lot of attention, not least for the title, a canny piece of marketing that she didn't hesitate to use, she says, "because that word is either so taboo or surrounded with negative connotations or draped in shame or medicalised , it's really important to take it back".
(13) It was one of those canny-to-the-point-of-irritating references the Old Etonian used to specialise in; a flash of his real-world accreditation.
(14) Cameron would have to prove he was being politically canny, inviting Lib Dems into areas that are most likely to explode.
(15) He’s also one of the first players to emerge out of the league to become one of its coaches, and his and general manager Garth Lagerwey’s canny use of the draft may well reflect his own experience as a player.
(16) It stands as a testament to the boom years of Gaza’s smuggling business with Egypt, when a canny tunnel operator could get rich transporting anything from cars to cattle and household goods.
(17) But the Conservatives don’t see what’s happened to their dominance.” Crosby’s British admirers make much of the canny anti-Livingstone campaigns he orchestrated for Boris Johnson in left-leaning London in 2008 and 2012.
(18) She had also run a canny campaign in which she toted a rifle and went hunting, but also demonstrated a tenderness towards disadvantaged children.
(19) No wonder some canny infants like to play with train sets.
(20) One minute later Soldado dragged a shot wide from the edge of the area after being brilliantly set up by Paulinho who, until he was forced off by injury in the second half, was outstanding in midfield, bewildering opponents and delighting the home supporters with canny flicks and festive tricks.
Nanny
Definition:
(n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
(2) David Cameron has made a strong defence of his decision to employ a Nepalese nanny, while at the same time refusing to say that his government will meet its target to cut the number of net migrants to the UK to fewer than 100,000 by next year.
(3) Wise, she says, did the bulk of the childcare during filming of Nanny McPhee, though Gaia did sometimes join her on set.
(4) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
(5) Although the guidance is not a statutory code and leaves room for doctors' professional judgment, both the government and Labour are wary of "nanny state" approaches.
(6) Bermondsey asks: Could you explain to the British public why 14 year old children are thrown into prison for 3 years for writing nonsense on Facebook and why someone looses their home and goes to jail for doing a nanny job while receiving £70 week in social security while Fred Goodman lives in his holiday home in Barbados for 3 months a year?
(7) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
(8) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
(9) The Good Care Guide results reveal that children receive better quality of care than their elderly relatives, with 88% of nurseries and 91% of nanny agencies achieving top marks in terms of quality of care – in contrast to 78% of care homes.
(10) Thompson, best known for her acting roles in films such as Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, also wrote many of those screenplays.
(11) The couple's son Moshe, two, was rescued by his nanny.
(12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
(13) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
(14) As Labour called for complete transparency over the nanny, Downing Street issued a statement saying Gita Lima had been awarded British citizenship after David Cameron became prime minister in 2010.
(15) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
(16) She had been looking for a job for nine months but had just landed a position as a nanny for a family on the Upper East Side, starting in January.
(17) Whitehall is bracing itself for a potentially damning report from Sir Alan Budd tomorrow into events surrounding the fast-tracking of a visa application for the nanny of David Blunkett's then lover, Kimberly Quinn.
(18) (I later hear that Mercy has been taken by a nanny to a secret location in the north, ready for the adoption.)
(19) Best pope Michel Piccoli, in Nanni Moretti's otherwise awful Habemus Papam .
(20) The basis of this change has not been published, and yet it will apparently enable considerable funds to be showered on couples with a combined income of up to £300,000 , and serious nannying bills.