(1) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(2) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(3) This fiscal Cinderella, once called rates and now council tax, has been hated by chancellors down the ages, largely because it is not collected and controlled by them.
(4) "There are so many competing areas that private fostering is still the Cinderella service at the bottom of the pile."
(5) Later in the year she is charged with a public order offence and common assault after allegedly attacking a theatre manager during a family production of Cinderella.
(6) Lily James, who plays Lady Rose, is the star of the new Cinderella film due to premiere this week.
(7) The circular economy at Disney World may not be as pretty as Cinderella’s Castle, but this process for turning organic waste into energy, which is known as anaerobic digestion , could turn out to be the best way to extract value from food scraps and treated sewage that would otherwise wind up in a landfill.
(8) "Energy saving is the cheapest way of closing the gap between demand and supply, yet it is the Cinderella of the energy ball.
(9) That means more resources devoted to further education colleges, currently the Cinderellas of the education service, and to university technical colleges, for those whose skills are technical and vocational rather than academic.
(10) As Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, pointed out: "In the end, it wasn't about being brave at all.
(11) Thereafter, she appeared only occasionally on television as a guest, and sometimes acted in pantomime, as in Cinderella at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 2010.
(12) Digital rights will always be one of those Cinderella issues while the voting system focuses politicians' attention solely on a handful of swing voters in a small number of marginal constituencies.
(13) Its Three Little Pigs, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood show it is perfectly possible to make a fairytale app with craft and care, while ensuring that interactivity and inventive use of device features like the camera and accelerometer don't detract from the app's main purpose: storytelling.
(14) Outside, a more than faintly surreal urban beach scene in a June downpour: battered garden chairs and tables, dripping merry-go-round horse, Cinderella's pumpkin.
(15) As a metaphor, the Cinderella law – the name of proposed changes to the child neglect laws , meaning that mothers and fathers who starve their offspring of love and affection could be criminally prosecuted – is perfectly apt.
(16) The magic of reading a whole book in one sitting because I couldn’t tear my child away from the kids’ club (“Cinderella is coming later and we’re going to play bingo with Donald”).
(17) Incidentally, it also features small roles for Frances de la Tour and Emilia Fox, who also pop up as minor characters in another forthcoming London-set noir, Trap for Cinderella , by Iain Softley.
(18) Royal Ballet Christmas season Instead of its regular Christmas staples – The Nutcracker, Cinderella or The Tales of Beatrix Potter – the Royal is courting the festive box office with two recent productions: Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote.
(19) The proposal of a Cinderella law sparked outrage, and a lot of jokes about parents being dragged to court for refusing to buy their kid a pony.
(20) US box office chart 17-19 April Fast & Furious 7 : $29.1m, $294.4m Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 : $24m – New Unfriended: $16m – New Home : $10.3m, $142.6m The Longest Ride : $6.8m, $23.5m Get Hard : $6.8m, $78.2m Monkey Kingdom : $4.7m – New Woman in Gold : $4.5m The Divergent Series: Insurgent : $4.1m, $120.6m Cinderella : $3.8m, $186.3m
Mistreat
Definition:
(v. t.) To treat amiss; to abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
(2) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(3) Seven (64%) had been misdiagnosed and mistreated as chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, bronchiectasis etc.
(4) But Cleveland city hall released out a statement that read: "Media reports of multiple calls to the Cleveland police reporting suspicious activity and the mistreatment of women at 2207 Seymour are false."
(5) Her Majesty's government will co-operate fully with the police investigations into allegations made by former Libyan detainees about UK involvement in their mistreatment by the Gaddafi regime."
(6) When domestic workers are so systematically denied the basic labour rights afforded to other workers, employers cannot be held accountable for the mistreatment of those working in their households.
(7) Al-Harith was reportedly awarded compensation after claiming that British agents knew he was being mistreated during the time he was held without charge at Guantánamo.
(8) "When, not withstanding any caveats or prior assurances, there is still considered to be a real possibility of mistreatment and therefore there is considered to be a risk that the agencies' actions could be judged to be unlawful, the actions may not be taken without authority at a senior level.
(9) Evidence of systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as the UK's Abu Ghraib emerged today during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates.
(10) Earlier this year, a former prisoner in Sichuan complained that he was beaten by officers after filing anonymous complaints relating to the mistreatment of fellow inmates.
(11) The police have repeatedly said they investigate all reported cases of mistreatment.
(12) Miliband repeatedly states that the government "condemns" torture and does not "condone" torture, but does not address the allegation that the UK was "complicit" in Binyam Mohamed's illegal detention and severe mistreatment.
(13) Surely, thought I naively, my GP has a duty to see that other bits of the NHS don't mistreat me.
(14) The UK government denies that mistreatment was as widespread as alleged.
(15) The second concerns Shaker Aamer , a Saudi national and UK resident who was detained and allegedly mistreated at Bagram, before being flown to Guantánamo.
(16) The influx of complaints – mainly from former detainees alleging mistreatment, false imprisonment or UK complicity in rendition – demonstrates, according to the Cabinet Office, why secret court hearings are required.
(17) Civil cases which are currently not heard at all – including cases where mistreatment is alleged – will be able to be fully investigated and scrutinised by the courts.
(18) Allegations of mistreatment by adults made by children of preschool age are often dismissed as fictitious with the suggestion that children of this age are prone to fantasy and unable to discriminate fact from fiction.
(19) We weren’t given any official explanation only that it was routine procedure but extraofficially police officers told us they said they had been given an order from above.” “There was no physical mistreatment but our group, especially the women, felt intimidated by the constant detentions,” he added.
(20) Of 206 cases of serious child mistreatment brought before a metropolitan juvenile court on Care and Protection Petitions (C & P), 63 (31%) were dismissed (returning the child to the parent(s].