(n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
(n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(4) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(5) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(6) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(7) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(8) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
(9) Totò was a legend in the Vesuvian city – a comedian of genius; poignant, mysterious.
(10) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(11) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(12) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(13) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(14) The analysis of blood lead concentration revealed an evident biological response to this environmental change: there was a decrease in blood lead level between 1977 and 1987, in both the countryside (control group) and, to a lesser extent, in the city.
(15) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(16) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(17) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(18) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(19) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(20) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
Coventry
Definition:
(n.) A town in the county of Warwick, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cities with the biggest increases were Cambridge, up by 6% at £336,667, and Coventry, up 3% at £165,100; the biggest fallers were Bradford and Manchester, both down by 9% to £145,478 and £171,830 respectively.
(2) None of Coventry’s subsidiaries recognised trade unions.
(3) The deal has encouraged E.ON to cut out staff duplication in its remaining Coventry and Nottingham offices.
(4) However, the prevalence of diabetes in hyperparathyroidism did not differ significantly from that of the white population of Coventry, where the prevalence is higher than that of Oxford, Poole and Southall.
(5) Coventry City (@Coventry_City) Welcome to #CCFC Joe Cole, yes actual Joe Cole.
(6) They systematically denied the boy meals and tortured him when he tried to sneak food before brutally beating him to death at their Coventry home.
(7) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(8) I have been working with people with dementia for more than 20 years, most recently in my role as a clinical nurse specialist in dementia care, at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS trust (UHCW).
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sexual health stand offering 60-second HIV tests at Central Library in Coventry.
(10) The centre-half Davies, 25, has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal but though he is not cup-tied he will be unavailable for tomorrow's FA Cup match at home to Coventry.
(11) "Coventry building society's three-year fix at 2.75% looks good value," adds Andrew Hagger from website MoneyComms.
(13) What I actually suggested to him (at a meeting where he finally agreed that we shouldn't be considering bookings until we had all rehearsed together) was that if rehearsals went well, we could consider a very big date or series of big dates in London, followed by a date at Coventry's Ricoh Arena to celebrate the 30th anniversary.
(14) From January to March the review will take evidence in public hearings across the UK in a tour planned to take in towns and cities including Glasgow, Coventry and Maidstone.
(15) When Daniel Pelka was killed by his mother and her partner, the serious case review criticised his school, Little Heath primary in Coventry, for failing to report incidents that raised staff suspicions.
(16) Analysis of the clinical results according to the criteria of Stauffer and Coventry shows that good results were noted in 69 per cent of cases treated by anterior arthrodesis, in 43 per cent of those treated by postero-lateral arthrodesis and in 74 per cent of those treated by combined arthrodesis.
(17) Coventry city council said: "The report published today found that caseloads for social workers are too high.
(18) Updated at 2.55pm GMT 11.44am GMT Pilot programs Natural England, Defra and local councils are currently managing six pilot programmes for biodiversity offsetting in: Devon Doncaster Essex Greater Norwich Nottinghamshire Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull The EAC was critical of the uptake in the programmes, which started in 2011, saying that the requirement for developers to opt in meant few measurable results had emerged.
(19) Rose O'Malley is a clinical nurse specialist at University hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS trust This article is published by Guardian Professional.
(20) Callum Lynch, a 24-year-old student, says: “I think men should be unashamedly open about identifying as a feminist to help to remove the unwarranted stigma surrounding the term.” Mark Woodward, head of careers at Bablake School in Coventry, has supported the creation of a school feminist society, but says he and one boy are currently the only male attendees.