(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
Postal
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was achieved by means of postal questionnaires, coupled with the biochemical and serological examination of bacterial isolates from 91 outbreaks in poultry and from nine cases in other avian species.
(2) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(3) A postal survey of all Papua New Guinean private medical practitioners was conducted to ascertain their practice characteristics, how well they kept up with current medical knowledge and whether they were interested in contributing to public sector medicine.
(4) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(5) One year later, using postal questionnaires, they were asked about their experience of back pain in the ensuing 12 months and about smoking habits, breathlessness, coughing, and the bringing up of phlegm.
(6) The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, has vowed to fight the sale, which it says will lead to a "worse deal for customers, staff and thousands of small businesses dependent on the Royal Mail".
(7) 5.53pm GMT MPs to seek answers from Royal Mail shareholders And finally, the House of Commons business committee plans to write to large investors in Royal Mail to ask for their views on the flotation of the postal service .
(8) A postal survey has been carried out in order to know the attitudes of general practitioners concerning the harmful effects of alcohol.
(9) In the end, turnout on Thursday was a respectable 40.26%, with 7,115 of the 27,791 ballots cast via postal votes.
(10) Subjects were 279 South Australian non-specialist medical practitioners, selected by quasi-random procedures, of whom 76% responded to a postal questionnaire.
(11) A postal survey was undertaken using a questionnaire to assess the public's knowledge of cancer morbidity and mortality and the role of lifestyle and genetic risk factors.
(12) An extra effort in data collection, involving checking hospital admissions and discharges, inquiries to general practitioners and some postal questionnaires, allowed us to identify 45 extra cases of non-fatal myocardial infarction--the special procedure.
(13) To investigate sexual behaviour under the influence of alcohol and the relationship between drinking habits and unsafe sex we carried out a postal and interview survey of 2174 students in the North East of England.
(14) This article deals with certain preliminary findings obtained in a long-term prospective study begun in 1982 using the interview method; the first follow-up was carried out in 1986, the method consisting of a postal inquiry and the collection of recorded data.
(15) Community nurses received only 36 (four per cent) of all the calls despite the interests expressed by hospital nursing staff in their responses to a postal questionnaire.
(16) A total of 21,889 postal questionnaires were returned (87%) representing households containing 42,826 people aged 16 years and over.
(17) In the wake of direct shipping and postal links, this summer also saw the first direct flights across the Taiwan Straits since the civil war, with passenger services now running daily.
(18) Therefore a postal questionnaire was sent to 100 hospital doctors dealing with children asking which features made them consider a parent to be difficult or unlikeable.
(19) A postal survey was carried out on 1,416 women divided into: 1.
(20) But, as the postal sector demonstrates all too clearly, an economic regulator can unleash a whirlwind.