(n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
(n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crispin Blunt, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, has called for the committee on arms exports controls to look into whether the UK has lived up to its obligations.
(2) Ruffer, who like Moulton called the recession early and has close links to hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey, has taken a 29.5% stake in Better Capital.
(3) Crispin Blunt, who chairs the backbench foreign affairs committee, suggested Downing Street could have handled it better.
(4) Crispin Blunt spoke out after an extraordinary cabinet row broke out between Gove and Theresa May over how to tackle extremism.
(5) If the government truly has nothing to hide, then there is no need to restrict media access to the areas in question in northern Rakhine state,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior southeast Asia representative.
(6) Born Pauline Crispin in Liverpool, the younger daughter of an insurance company manager, she was educated at Merchant Taylor's Girls school at Great Crosby, Northampton High school, and Sutton High school.
(7) Crispin Blunt, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee, said the delays had been because of “bureaucratic complexity”.
(8) It was a bit like Henry V and his St Crispin's Day speech before Agincourt.
(9) Crispin Glover , who played George, was really something.
(10) Sir Michael Bishop, the former chairman of Channel 4 , emerged tonight as the frontrunner to take the role of chairman at ITV after Sir Crispin Davis withdrew from the process.
(11) Sarah Wollaston MP (@sarahwollaston) #Boris was speaking the truth on proxy wars and it's time for all parties in the region to end the sectarian bloodbath December 8, 2016 Crispin Blunt, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, suggested Downing Street could have handled it better.
(12) • Kim Dotcom: 'I'm not a pirate, I'm an innovator' • Crispin Hunt slams Kim Dotcom as 'chubby Che Guevara' • Beware, copyright holders: the Kim Dotcom copyright saga isn't over Megaupload may be defunct, but Dotcom has since launched a successor cloud storage service called Mega, before moving on to work on other projects including digital music service Baboom, recording and releasing his own albums, and launching a political party in New Zealand, where he is fighting extradition to the US to face the criminal charges.
(13) And nothing will make it otherwise’ “No plan survives contact with the enemy,” said Crispin Blunt in Wednesday’s Commons debate on Brexit.
(14) Besides Carr, the panel included US anti-poverty campaigner Linda Tirado, US author and satirist PJ O’Rourke, international security analyst Lydia Khalil, and US defence and politics analyst Crispin Rovere.
(15) Crispin Blunt, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, was elected with a remit to look at the lobbying by both Palestinians and Israelis and the effect on British policy in the Middle East.
(16) On Thursday night, senior Conservatives including David Davis and Crispin Blunt called for a review of the way these cases are brought to court, saying it risks ruining men's lives when many smaller weak cases are gathered together to give the impression of a strong one.
(17) Crispin Hunt, former singer of the 1990s band Longpigs (and an FAC board member), knows that feeling all too well.
(18) Crispin Blunt said: "It's time to end Tony Blair's personal calvary as quartet envoy following his disastrous statesmanship in office on the Middle East.
(19) The Department of Education and Training said: “The department engaged the Australian Government Solicitor to represent it in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal [AAT].” “The cost for this service was $20,932.78.” The FOI applicant, Crispin Rovere, failed in his bid to obtain the government’s higher education modelling, which included the effect of the policy on students and public funding levels.
(20) The former Channel 4 chairman Michael Bishop and Sir Crispin Davis, the former chief executive of Reed Elsevier, both pulled out of the running within days of each other - Bishop after running a "thorough review" of the role using advisers Gleacher Shacklock.
Martyr
Definition:
(n.) One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
(n.) Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause.
(v. t.) To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
(v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(2) As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades,” the military said.
(3) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
(4) Balyana’s mayor said the statue was intended to portray a “martyred soldier hugging his mother”.
(5) We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr.” Responding to Cotton, a White House official said it was worth considering that the Republican supported the presidency of “someone who publicly praised WikiLeaks” and who “encouraged a foreign government to hack his opponent”, in reference to Trump.
(6) We made a mass prayers for the ten bodies and then buried them in Martyrs cemetery.
(7) Aguila Saleh said there were a “number of martyrs” in LNA ranks, without giving a figure.
(8) To most of us, Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian activist and a martyr, a brave and inspiring campaigner who led his Ogoni people's struggle against the decades-long defilement of their land by Big Oil, and ended up paying for it with his life.
(9) So wrote the Negro author Louis Lomax, catching the crucial spark that made Martin Luther King , jun., stand out head and shoulders from his fellow-ministers in the South and step into the ranks of the world's martyrs.
(10) "We told the mujahideen to leave it to us ordinary Fallujans, but those bloody bastards, the sheikhs and the clerics, are busy painting some bloody mad picture of heaven and martyrs and the victory of the mujahideen," said Ali, another refugee.
(11) If she then married a radical jihadi, her status as the widow of a martyr would extend to him in terror circles.
(12) Two other men, Alwyn Jones and George Taylor, became martyrs for the cause after they accidentally blew themselves up behind the library in Abergele, Conwy, while priming a bomb.
(13) But it was Laura, the martyr of East Dulwich, whom traditionalists appointed chief victim of the changes: the poster girl for affluent, stay-at-home mothers.
(14) 'The first convert to Islam was a woman, and the first martyr, and women fought on the battlefield alongside men 1,400 years ago.
(15) Searches of their homes revealed images of Islamic propaganda on both of their computers, including images of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) flags and martyr literature.
(16) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(17) We have paid a lot for the security and stability that we currently live in, so I ask all Egyptians for the sake of the martyrs and the blood to take care of their country,” Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the president, said in a speech to the nation on Saturday.
(18) As he prepares to go into battle, the militant wishes that he and his wife could become “martyrs” at the same time.
(19) Read more “I carried four martyrs from the scene,” one man told local TV, his clothes caked in blood as he sat on the ground near the site of the bombing, having rushed to the scene after hearing the first explosion.
(20) Hassan's remarks on a television programme, during which he also said Pakistani troops killed while supporting the US conflict with the Taliban should not be considered martyrs, were described in an official army statement as "painful and unfortunate".