(1) Abbott has punted some key decisions off into a new defence white paper he'll commision if he wins next Saturday.
(2) "Well, if you were to pick up our March edition (on sale February 5), you could see the single healthiest foodstuff available at each and every Premiership ground in the country," writes kindly GU alumnus and now commisioning editor at Men's Health magazine, Dan Jones.
(3) Hodge also pointed out that a new IT system being introduced by the commision to try to save money is already late.
(4) WWF-UK pointed to a set of scenarios it commisioned last year showing that to decarbonise the electricity sector by 2030, as Mr Davey has proposed, gas plants would only be able to run infrequently as back up to renewables.
(5) Obama used the speech to highlight his technology acumen, saying he was the first president to speak at the Federal Trade Commision since Franklin D Roosevelt in 1937.
(6) New standards for pharmaceutical services in hospitals, recently approved by the Board of Commissioners of the Joint Commision of Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH), are presented and compared with the previous standards.
(7) Hammer Films commisioned scripts of all three Quatermass stories, which were box-office successes and are often reshown on TV.
(8) Commisions for the site’s operators would total around $80m at today’s Bitcoin valuations.
(9) Almost three-quarters of older people in the UK are lonely and more than half of those have never spoken to anyone about how they feel, according to a survey carried out for the Jo Cox commision on loneliness.
(10) The first curveball came when the head of the ethics commision, Peter Zevenbergen, attackedcriticised a letter sent by McQuaid to member federations attacking Cookson as anti-democratic, then, as if to ensure balance, detailed allegations from two days ago that the Cookson camp had attempted to bribe the Greek vote with €25,000 (£21,000), had asked them to canvas the Balkan countries, and had hoped that Igor Makarov would sponsor the Tour of Hellas.
(11) Soon after the Russo-Georgian war, on Germany's initiative, the EU created the Tagliavini Commision to study the origin of the conflict, which while not able to ignore the basic facts of Russia's actions enabled the EU to get back to business as usual with Russia.
(12) Fifth, the government is not only repealing the carbon price but also almost every other related government policy or program, including the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the Climate Commision, and has appointed a self-professed climate sceptic, businessman Dick Warburton, to review the renewable energy target, with a strong expectation the target will be wound back.
(13) The report, commisioned by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority , said the effects of sea level rise and changing weather patterns would be felt as early as the next decade.
(14) The most effective method (44.9%) of communication was that of direct, ''face-to-face'' contact, followed by dispensing of information by the Commision for Abortion (24.2%), advertising (7.3%), and by means of maternity service (2%).
(15) Now that we are all talking about it, they need to make sure that we do so in a civilised way.” The result of the general election is still far from certain, with no party able to persuade more than 17% of the electorate to commit to saying they will “definitely” vote for them, according to polling run by ICM and commisioned by British Future.
(16) Quotas should be introduced to ensure that at least a third of all senior judges are women, according to a report commisioned by the Labour party.
Sympathy
Definition:
(n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
(n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
(n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
(n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
(n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
(n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
(n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
(2) Former Tory minister Edwina Currie has tweeted that she had "no sympathy" for food bank users, that they were just "opportunists".
(3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
(4) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(5) He added: “I have no sympathy for real paedophiles.
(6) But obviously if people have been injured or indeed killed that is a tragedy and our sympathies are with the victims and their families.” He added: “We never condone violence – whatever the cause.
(7) A Facebook page created for friends, family and well-wishers to write messages of sympathy was filling with tributes.
(8) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
(9) There was little sympathy from the Lib Dems' coalition partners in the Conservative party.
(10) A year after the establishment of the so-called caliphate by Islamic State , western governments are struggling for strategies to challenge sympathy among their citizens towards the militants.
(11) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(12) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
(13) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(14) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(15) The Labour leader is determined to retain autonomy on policy and to avoid being dictated to by his party when he is not in sympathy with the message it is giving him.
(16) Too many of his answers start with, “I have some sympathy with what you say, but...”; he comes across as just another politician.
(17) He has little sympathy for those displaced along the way.
(18) This includes the carbon content of fuels, driver behaviour, infrastructure, as well as the potential of car connectivity and intelligent transport systems (ITS).” The industry’s position has won the sympathy of oil companies, which also oppose fuel economy targets for 2025 and 2030.
(19) "I've got a great deal of sympathy with the situationist position.
(20) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.