(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.
Sayer
Definition:
(n.) One who says; an utterer.
Example Sentences:
(1) What chance do historians have to address histories honestly when even today the questions remain over whose stories shall be told?” In an interview before his departure, Sayers reflects that this politically charged atmosphere had dissipated by the time he began his directorship in 2010.
(2) The shot and javelin are the clear weak points in my heptathlon so when Barrie thought of it [teaming up with Sayers] and brought it to me, it felt a stroke of genius for sure,” says Johnson-Thompson, who will compete in the British indoor championships in Sheffield this weekend and then the Birmingham indoor grand prix.
(3) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
(4) Sayer is referring to the Watership Alan episode of I'm Alan Partridge when irate farmers drop a dead cow from a bridge on the hapless DJ while he's trying to film a crummy commercial for Hamilton's Water Breaks.
(5) My cold call was the most painful experience of my life,” confesses Sayers.
(6) The nay-sayers argue that it will waste billions of pounds when a straightforward upgrade of the west coast line would do just as good a job without tearing up idyllic parts of Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.
(7) Alexander Sayer Gard-Murray Oxford • Never was a word so misused as the application of the term “radicalisation” to the mental abduction of young people by doctrinaire and violent adherents of Islam.
(8) Many of these are people with posh names, liberal-baiting sayers of the unsayable – the “unsayable” generally just being routine racism, sexism and idiocy.
(9) smiles Jude Sayer, our guide to Norwich, as we stand by the river Wensum watching the motor boats puttering towards Wroxham.
(10) It had always been her ambition – "in fact, my intention" – to write, and the decision to try her hand at detective fiction, following in the footsteps of her heroes Margery Allingham and Dorothy L Sayers, was straightforward.
(11) The nay-sayers insist loudly that they're "climate sceptics", but this is a calculated misnomer – scientific scepticism is the method of investigating whether a particular hypothesis is supported by the evidence.
(12) Both analogues showed remarkable steroidogenic activity as measured by Sayers test.
(13) Their first session, just before Christmas, was judged a success by Sayers, Johnson-Thompson and her coach, Mike Holmes.
(14) The ACTH-releasing activity of hypothalamic extract and rat plasma was examined with the dispersed rat pituitary cell technique of Swallow and Sayer (8).
(15) For one senior lawyer, the former Law Society chief Robert Sayer, his public designation of one rival as "a dog turd" plainly has no bearing on his current work at Sayer Moore & Co solicitors.
(16) QUEEN'S VOLUNTEER RESERVES MEDAL QVRM Sqn Ldr Stuart John Sayer Talton.
(17) When it came to choosing a detective, however, she turned her face against the tradition for the talented amateur, from Sherlock Holmes to Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey, and plumped for a professional instead.
(18) The results of Study 1 suggested the existence of six MHLC clusters: pure internal; double external; pure chance; yea sayer; nay sayer, and believer in control.
(19) She is also receiving specialist coaching in her weakest event from Goldie Sayers, the leading British javelin thrower .
(20) recalls Larry Sayer, a retired engineer, "and it was obvious: Dorridge residents against Sainsbury's."