(n.) A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
(2) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(3) Cantor accused Obama of an unwillingness to negotiate: The president continues to refuse to sit down with us Republicans.
(4) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor went with the "Ad?
(5) Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist who served as an aide to former House majority leader Eric Cantor, also said the rest of the field should distance itself from Trump “early and often”.
(6) John Harwood quoted Cantor as saying, if "Mr. Obama shows he is ‘serious about fixing the problem,” he said, "then we’ll see" about additional taxes.
(7) I think Paul Ryan is soon to be ‘Cantored’, as in Eric Cantor,” she said, alluding to the former Republican House leader who was knocked out of his seat in 2014 by a more conservative candidate.
(8) Though criticising Obama for a "'my way or the highway' approach", he insisted “there should be and is common ground if we would just allow ourselves to work together.” Obama himself weighed into the Republican drama on Wednesday night, insisting Cantor's exit did not spell the end of immigration reform.
(9) In other words, how many times can we expect John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Steny Hoyer, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Pelosi , and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz all to vote the same way on a relatively divided debate?
(10) House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner, meanwhile, have built a publicity campaign to blame Obama for the "Obamaquester."
(11) Even before news of Cantor's departure leaked, the battle to succeed him was under way, laying bare the deep fissures tearing the GOP apart.
(12) The results are in accordance with those from the simulation study, showing that Jukes and Cantor's model is as useful as a more complicated one for making inferences about molecular phylogeny of the viruses.
(13) The ML tree estimation based on Jukes and Cantor's model is also revealed to be resistant to GC content, but rather sensitive to the ratio of transitions to transversions.
(14) Cantor did add that the aid package should ultimately be offset by other savings, Reuters notes.
(15) Republicans were in the grip of an intense power battle on Wednesday as rival factions in in the House of Representatives, which the party controls, jockeyed to replace the outgoing majority leader Eric Cantor.
(16) Others with similar left-to-right rankings, but who were closer to the establishment, such as Senator John Barasso , Representative Cantor, Representative Billy Long of Missouri , and, yes, even very conservative Mitt Romney-backed Representative Steve King of Iowa often voted the opposite way.
(17) Robin Byde, an analyst at the stockbroker Cantor Fitzgerald, said: “A lot of companies are being very cautious on the outlook at the moment and I think we will see a lot more of that.
(18) Before the World Cup re-focused our attention on our incredibly diverse world, the conventional wisdom in the Beltway was that Pelosi's counterpart, the House majority leader Eric Cantor, had lost his primary because of a relatively open stance on immigration – and that any chance at meaningful reform (which Cantor actually opposed) would go down with him.
(19) But the imminent removal of Cantor from the corridors of power on Capitol Hill will undoubtedly have one more immediate impact: on the Republican leadership's deliberations over whether to allow a House vote on immigration in the narrow window between now and November's midterm elections.
(20) The crucial contest for Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives has been won by Kevin McCarthy, after a swift, decisive victory that will reassure a party establishment shaken by the sudden demise of Eric Cantor.
(a.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
(a.) Chastity; modesty.
(a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump and Hillary Clinton’s dismal honesty ratings, he says, show scrutiny is working.
(2) The authors conducted the course together and an atmosphere of intellectual honesty was developed through open discussion between faculty and students.
(3) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
(4) Also on Monday, rock musician and leading opponent of the cull Brian May issued a call for Paterson to resign, claiming he had failed to meet the public's expectation of "honesty and transparency".
(5) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
(6) The battery assesses constructs related to honesty, violence, substance abuse, emotional stability and safety.
(7) (part 1 of 2) #mufc April 22, 2014 Manchester United (@ManUtd) BREAKING: The club would like to place on record its thanks for the hard work, honesty and integrity he brought to the role.
(8) The prayer appeals for “grace to debate the issues in this referendum with honesty and openness”.
(9) Hopefully these observations will help bring some honesty to the debate about alcohol, which kills up to 40,000 people a year in the UK and over 2.25 million worldwide in the latest 2011 WHO report .
(10) But for those Eurosceptics he needed to secure the party leadership, the realignment was an act of honesty and principle since the Tories oppose the Lisbon treaty and are utterly at odds with Europe's dominant Christian Democrats.
(11) An NHS trust's lack of honesty caused "unnecessary pain and further distress" to a family who had already suffered from the tragic and avoidable death of a baby boy, the health service ombudsman has said in the latest scathing verdict on the defensive culture within the health service.
(12) I am truly saddened by Dick’s decision but I respect him for his honesty and for doing what he feels is right for the club,” said Sunderland’s owner.
(13) The diplomats told Washington that certain themes in American movies seemed to appeal to the Saudi audience: heroic honesty in the face of corruption (George Clooney in Michael Clayton), supportive behaviour in relationships (an unspecified drama that was repeated during an Eid holiday featuring an American husband dealing with a drunk wife who smashed cars and crockery when she wasn't assaulting him and their child), and respect for the law over self-interest (Al Pacino and Robin Williams in Insomnia).
(14) It is necessary to face the problem with complete intellectual honesty and say that a fetus is a human being no matter what its age, but that voluntary abortion is also a social necessity.
(15) Envelopes stuffed with cash, it is claimed, were their reward for ensuring Blatter beat Lennart Johansson, the 'honesty' candidate, to become the soccer world's most powerful leader.
(16) Rather they are a plea for greater honesty in the evaluation process.
(17) Now that the book is published, does she regret such naked honesty?
(18) Today's verdict ‑ the striking-off of Wakefield and Prof John Walker-Smith, who was in charge of the department of paediatric gastroenterology at the Royal Free hospital in London, where the research took place and the acquittal of the-then junior consultant Simon Murch, who had doubts about the project ‑ was about ethics and honesty, not science.
(19) But the frailty of a three-minute song – the concise honesty of that expression – amazes me and turns me into a bucket of jealousy.
(20) The shadow chancellor said it "will come down to honesty versus dishonesty", as parties battle for votes ahead of the general election, which is expected to take place on 6 May.