(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 Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.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.
Regency
Definition:
(a.) The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.
(a.) Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government.
(a.) A body of men intrusted with vicarious government; as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(2) The variation in the breastfeeding period between the regencies is a matter of further investigation.
(3) They live in a Regency house in Brighton and must be reasonably well off.
(4) When the former Liberal party leader Jeremy Thorpe needs attention, he presses the buzzer hanging from his neck and Disney's It's a Small World After All rings round his large Regency house in Notting Hill.
(5) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
(6) A microscopic study in 1975 and 1977 revealed unusual cytoplasmic vacuoles in the sperm of "Regency" prompting us to send semen to A. J. Luedke, USDA-ARS, Denver, Colorado, USA, to attempt virus isolation.
(7) Pyongyang, a film commissioned by New Regency pictures and set to star Steve Carrell playing a character accused of espionage by the regime, will no longer go into production, according to deadline.com .
(8) Considerable and rather unexpected differences existed between regencies.
(9) Regency, Victorian and Edwardian have resonance, but trying to crystallise her decades into an epoch will cause furious debate.
(10) In the regencies along the south and north coast of East Java 90%, respectively 94% of children aged 19-24 months were still breastfed; in Sidoarjo, a relative 'surplus' area, the corresponding figure was 73% and on the island of Madura 51%.
(11) For many years they lived in a handsome regency house near Frome in Somerset.
(12) In 1985, the disease had spread to 26 of 27 Provinces and 160 of 300 regencies or municipalities.
(13) "There is already a system in place for the Dalai Lama's regency.
(14) The second charge alleges that between September 2005 and September 2006 Mr Chaytor dishonestly claimed £12,925, purportedly for renting a property in Regency Street, London, when he was in fact the owner of the property.
(15) For Mike Hussey, director of Land Securities' London , who was managing the development at the time, that meant an architect working in traditional or classical styles, such as Quinlan Terry, one of the princes' favourite architects, who specialises in building grand houses in historical modes: Ionic, Gothick, Corinthian, Regency, but definitely not "ultra-modern" as Nouvel proposed.
(16) Build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for Jon Favreau “It’s very easy for all of us to go down the rabbit hole … then you waste all your time and energy on the Trump tweet of the day, and you don’t build the message that Trump is screwing the very people he said he’d fight for.” In Baltimore, between closed-door panel sessions, Democrats milling about the lobby of the Hyatt Regency were mindful of the constant media churn surrounding Trump.
(17) In this study an intervention alternative was carried out with weekly chloroquine prophylaxis to children below 10 years of age in 3 malaria areas of central Java, namely the villages Bedono Kluwung and Kalikutes in Purworejo Regency and Pablengan in Karang Anyar Regency.
(18) I've done a regency print that I've also developed into a jacquard in royal blue.
(19) Legislation will amend laws including the Bill of Rights 1688, the Act of Settlement 1700, the Act of Union with Scotland 1706 and the Coronation Oaths Act 1688, Princess Sophia's Precedence Act 1711, the Royal Marriages Act 1772, the Union with Ireland Act 1800, the Accession Declaration Act 1910 and the Regency Act 1937.
(20) He is understood to have bought a Regency townhouse in Edinburgh, and apartments in London and New York.