(n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.
Example Sentences:
(1) The latest payout emerged as Charterhouse pressed the button on a flotation, with Card Factory chief executive Richard Hayes announcing plans to raise £90m from an offer of new shares.
(2) I sympathise a little with Hunt – he was born into military aristocracy, a cousin of the Queen, went to Charterhouse, then Oxford, then into PR: trying to get him to understand the life of an overworked student nurse is like trying to get an Amazonian tree frog to understand the plot of Blade Runner.
(3) That division – which provides services such as replenishing cash machines and accounts for about 18% of the group's revenues – has attracted an approach from Charterhouse Capital, although G4S quickly rejected the offer on the grounds that the price of £1.55bn was too low and that the unit was strategically vital to the group and not for sale.
(4) Charterhouse is also selling some of its majority stake with the company, targeting a free float of at least 25%.
(5) Lawrence Stone was born in Epsom, and educated at Charterhouse, where the headmaster, Sir Robert Birley, subsequently headmaster of Eton and then professor of social science at the City University, London, was a strong influence.
(6) Everything going marvellously well here apart from Snorks, Bill and Denis all dying and Dulwich losing a close run chase against Charterhouse.
(7) Carswell went to St Andrew's School, Turi, in Kenya and then Charterhouse in the UK.
(8) Top job New culture secretaries rarely attract brickbats, but even so the former Charterhouse head boy is a favourite of industry leaders.
(9) They don’t care as much as he does about Europe and they don’t care as much as Ukip does about immigration – although they are not keen on it.” While there are also pockets of deprivation in the area and some areas more befitting a “classic” Ukip mould – industrial territory along the Thames estuary are among them – Ford asks: “Just how fertile are they if the chap knocking on the door seeking a Ukip vote is a Charterhouse, public school, PPE-educated, former city financier, former Tory MP?” At the same time, if Reckless can pull off a win then the political earthquake is potentially even greater than that likely to be generated by Carswell winning Ukip’s first seat in Clacton-on-Sea.
(10) The Padua of the setting belongs more to the repertoire of theatre (like the Shakespearean play or the romantic opera) or perhaps to Hawthorne's reading of Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma or even Manzoni than to any sort of serious background research, much less immediate experience.
(11) He says he didn't read it closely, but closely enough to notice it said he was at school at Charterhouse – a factoid added to his Wikipedia entry by an over-enthusiastic Old Carthusian.
(12) • This article was amended on 13 October 2011 to remove an incorrect assertion that Jeremy Paxman attended Charterhouse School.
(13) Last year Charterhouse put Card Factory up for sale but shelved the plan after bids fell short of expectations.
(14) The great French novelist spent years adventuring around the world, before returning and, in just 53 days, dictating The Charterhouse Of Parma .
(15) The debt included almost £300m of shareholder loans with £46m repaid to Hoyle and related family trusts and the near £200m in Charterhouse's name settled in a balance of cash and equity.
(16) The schools, of course, are not private, like those attended by Gove (Robert Gordon's), culture secretary Jeremy Hunt (Charterhouse), sports minister Hugh Robertson (King's, Canterbury) – or the prime minister, David Cameron, whose alma mater, Eton, offers 12 squash courts, 20 tennis courts, an indoor and outdoor swimming pool, four cricket fields, a nine-hole golf course, and rowing on the lake that will host the 2012 Olympics.
(17) He attended private schools in Surrey, including Charterhouse, and studied at Oxford, graduating with a third-class degree.
(18) He joined the boutique bank Charterhouse , masterminding the buyout of Woolworths .
(19) The comedy of that.” He has written some great female characters – Enid Lambert; Patty Berglund; in Purity, Tom’s mother Clelia, her name a nod to Stendhal’s The Charterhouse Of Parma – these hard, awkward, embarrassing women who turn out to have been heroes.
(20) But you have to look in all directions, not just downwards, and for a person like Hunt – educated at Charterhouse school and Oxford – that is probably a good idea: it would stop giving him a crick in the neck.
Monastery
Definition:
(n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(3) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
(4) The Ioannou family were originally fishermen, and still bring in the catch and cook it fresh to order • +30 22270 31487 Don't miss Just to the south of Limni is the monastery of Ayiou Nikolaou Galataki, set on the wooded slopes of the mountains overlooking the mainland.
(5) Neither of them - both now teenagers - lives in Tashilumpo monastery.
(6) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(7) The latter rivalry may play an important role in social relations within and among Buddhist monasteries.
(8) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
(9) I walked down into town from the pagoda and was enveloped in a happy crowd outside a monastery celebrating the full moon.
(10) Founded in 1088, the monastery’s fortress-like walls dominate the island’s skyline.
(11) SuperSub Monastery art, southern Serbia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frescoes at Zica Monastery, near Kraljevo.
(12) In recent years, the maharishi, who broadcasts on a private satellite channel from a converted monastery in Vlodrop, in Holland, has proffered opinions on everything from crime to the Israel-Palestine conflict to how countries can best foster military defence.
(13) Gayed entered the El Suryan (St Mary) monastery in Egypt's remote western desert in July 1954.
(14) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(15) Palmyra – what the world has lost Read more They include “all the Christian churches in Mosul, most of the monasteries – some of the earliest Christian sites in the world”.
(16) Tisannyi monastery has caught fire "multiple times since 2009", it said.
(17) "For several years the authorities have been piling pressure on the monastery – and on monasteries in general.
(18) The International Campaign for Tibet said hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the monastery in Aba county, also known as Ngaba, believing the authorities were preparing to forcibly remove the monks for "patriotic education".
(19) Free Tibet said Choepel had been expelled from the monastery after Phuntsog's death.
(20) Once they landed, the warriors could forage with ruthless efficiency, as many a coastal community or wealthy monastery discovered.