(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.
Roman
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(2) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(5) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
(6) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(7) They too will almost certainly play a 4-2-3-1, with Messrs Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels and Schmeizer lining up from right to left in front of goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
(8) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(9) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(10) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(11) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(12) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(13) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(14) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(15) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(16) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(17) Analysis of the genetic distance between Romanians and other Europeans who have been studied serologically are consistent with the hypothesis that Romanians descend from Roman ancestors who colonized Dacia between the 1st century B.C.
(18) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(19) "I am a Roman Catholic and it's the backbone of my life.
(20) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.