(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
Slipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, slips.
(n.) A kind of light shoe, which may be slipped on with ease, and worn in undress; a slipshoe.
(n.) A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
(n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
(n.) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib.
(a.) Slippery.
Example Sentences:
(1) But two of the three judges who subsequently considered the issue said: “We are also of the opinion that there was no basis for the primary judge to conclude that Brough was part of any combination with anyone in respect to the commencement of these proceedings with the predominant purpose of damaging Slipper in the way alleged or at all.” Brough said Dreyfus should look at the federal court’s findings on 27 April 2014 – which appeared to be a reference to the decision handed down on 27 February 2014.
(2) In fact, Slipper's role as a senior detective in the Metropolitan police was much more significant over the years than that one incident, which led to both a book and a television film, might indicate.
(3) Dreyfus asked directly whether Brough agreed to obtain unauthorised copies of the Slipper’s diary for a journalist, and whether as a matter of government policy the minister now gave unauthorised copies of other documents to journalists.
(4) Mal Brough has vowed to stare down calls to resign over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper as the Labor party seeks to build pressure on Malcolm Turnbull for backing the special minister of state.
(5) Shonda auditioned everyone and their mother, because for African American actresses this was the glass slipper – so she let everyone try it on."
(6) On Tuesday, Brough told parliament the interview with 60 Minutes, which was aired in 2014 and featured an admission from Brough that he had asked former staffer James Ashby to procure Slipper’s diary, was selectively edited.
(7) But he said: “I don’t think you should call for the resignation of the Speaker lightly.” The former Speaker Peter Slipper was ordered to pay back $954 worth of expenses after a court found he had misused his Cabcharge allowance to visit Canberra wineries.
(8) In Peter Slipper’s case, he has paid back more than $14,000 under the Minchin protocol .
(9) The archaeologists had to wear slippers to preserve the site which, at the bottom of a two-metre trench, picked up much damp.
(10) Dreyfus asked the same question as Hayes: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” “No,” Brough said.
(11) It never does | Lenore Taylor Read more Jamie Briggs resigned as the minister for cities and the built environment after “inappropriate” conduct towards a staffer during an official visit to Hong Kong and Mal Brough stood aside as special minister of state pending a police investigation into his alleged role in the downfall of Peter Slipper.
(12) In 2014 a magistrate convicted Slipper of dishonestly causing a risk of loss to the commonwealth and ordered him to repay the $954.
(13) Peter Slipper's resignation followed a heated debate in parliament during which the prime minister, Julia Gillard , and the conservative opposition leader, Tony Abbott, traded insults over the use of misogynistic language in politics.
(14) Mal Brough faces fresh parliamentary pressure over his role in the downfall of the former speaker Peter Slipper , after his attempt to walk away from a key admission was undermined by 60 Minutes releasing the unedited interview exchange.
(15) The prosecution also had to exclude the possibility that the appellant had determined to conduct meetings about parliamentary business with his staff member at a location other than Parliament House for reasons which he considered adequate.” Comment has been sought from Slipper, who served as the federal MP for the Queensland seat of Fisher from 1993 to 2013 and became embroiled in controversy in his final term in office.
(16) Tales from the Golden Slipper is at the Orkney Arts Theatre , Kirkwall, on Friday and Saturday, and at Stenness School on June 29.
(17) He wears clumpy black shoes instead of the custom-made red slippers favoured by his predecessor, Benedict; refuses to live in the magnificently decorated papal apartments, and drives himself around the city state in a 1984 Renault 4 of the sort favoured by Italian smallholders.
(18) James Ashby’s case against Peter Slipper and the Commonwealth, and the associated infusion of media and political involvement, would have to be one of the grubbiest assaults on a government in recent memory.
(19) The member for Fisher [Brough] stated to me that we needed to destroy Peter Slipper and he had all the evidence to put Peter Slipper away for a very long time.
(20) It transpires they are antique slippers used in the foot-binding process to which Chinese women were subjected: "I make art out of them.