(n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Visiting town criers, before their competition outside the Bulls Head, walk by in ceremonial dress, carrying bells.
(2) Significant differences were seen between the two groups, 'the criers' group of pairs interacting less (P less than 0.01) and were less responsive to their partners (P less than 0.01); the most marked difference being the percentage of overtures made by the 'cryer' babies which were not responded to by their mothers (P = 0.001).
(3) Storytelling is important, whether it's a ruddy and robust town crier or Homer (I mean the Greek one but the other one counts too).
(4) Rather than endorsing strategies that target individuals, mothers suggested increasing the level of social control exerted by decision makers in their communities (the village chief could direct the town crier to announce the passing of each week to help parents keep track of time between immunizations) and increasing the level of social support by having a meeting to support the importance of completing the vaccination series and to organize mothers who go to the clinic to inform others in their neighborhoods about vaccination.
(5) Health workers and a traditional communication channel, the 'town-crier', also played significant roles.
(6) Some difficulties encountered were lack of financing for the program (cancelled in 1984), informing villages by local news criers, selecting candidates, and handling social conflicts.
(7) And that's the dilemma: press the panic button too early and you risk being labelled a wolf-crier.
(8) We probably all know a few pre-Games humbug-criers – shouting themselves hoarse in stadiums or rapt and sometimes in tears in front of the TV – who have looked like Scrooge on Christmas morning in the last few weeks.
(9) Mick Jagger's brother, Chris Jagger, and the Wells town crier, Len Sweales, are also appearing.
Cryer
Definition:
(n.) The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They supported me throughout the difficult times, and though I'm not a cryer I nearly did at that moment," the striker said.
(2) Griffin lost, polling just 9.2% of the votes to Cryer's 44.7%, but police were worried enough about Cryer's safety to install a panic button with a direct line to Shipley police station.
(3) Commenting after Cryer's conviction, Wendy Williams, head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the north-east, said: "In recent months we have seen a number of similar cases in the north-east, in which people have been racially abused through social networking sites.
(4) Cryer told police on Tyneside, where he is studying at Newcastle University, that he hoped to get a reaction from the former England striker, who has campaigned against racism in football and society more widely for many years.
(5) But the upshot was that the elders allegedly said, 'Go back to Ann Cryer and tell her it's nothing to do with us.
(6) Significant differences were seen between the two groups, 'the criers' group of pairs interacting less (P less than 0.01) and were less responsive to their partners (P less than 0.01); the most marked difference being the percentage of overtures made by the 'cryer' babies which were not responded to by their mothers (P = 0.001).
(7) The Guardian understands that the mediated discussions are likely to involve the leader and his office, the party’s chief whip, Rosie Winterton, the parliamentary Labour party’s chairman, John Cryer, and Watson.
(8) Veronica Jordan, prosecuting, said Cryer – a keen footballer and the captain of a Newcastle University team – had given in to "showing off and boasting to friends that he had found a new hobby".
(9) Seeing Rotherham's shame on the front pages made Cryer think of her struggles as she sought to get a hearing for the concerns of her constituents.
(10) Griffin could do real damage to Ann Cryer's slender Labour majority of just 4,005.
(11) At an angry parliamentary Labour party meeting, senior figures including John Cryer and John Spellar said the party’s deputy leader was being wrongly vilified in anonymous attacks from sources close to the leader’s office.
(12) According to Cryer, "Ken was convinced I had got it all wrong.
(13) Cryer said male colleagues in parliament privately congratulated her on her courage.
(14) Jeremy Cryer, energy spokesman at price comparison website Gocompare.com , said customers who want more control over what they spend on energy should consider switching to a fixed deal.
(15) Cryer's solicitor, Andrew O'Hanlon, said in mitigation that his client had many Asian friends and was "not somebody I would regard as being a dyed-in-the-wool racist.
(16) If the PLP chair, John Cryer, agrees to call a vote – as he did when a motion of no confidence in Corbyn was tabled in June – it would act as a strong public signal of Labour MPs’ stance.
(17) Cryer, the chair of the parliamentary party, said he was at the shadow cabinet meeting and that the briefing bore “no relation” to what had happened.
(18) 11.39am BST John Cryer , a Labour MP, asks Clegg why, since he believes so much in consultation, the third-party spending plans were not put out to public consultation.
(19) ' " Twelve years on, Cryer described these women as "enlightened mothers, members of the Labour party, women who I would never in a million years have described as racist".
(20) The Observer has learned that the chairman of the parliamentary party, John Cryer, has agreed to hold a debate among Labour MPs about the return of shadow cabinet elections, a move seen by many as a pivotal part of a plan to disrupt a swift “Corbynista” takeover of the party machine.