(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.
Tanner
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(2) Included in the study was a measure of developmental age, assessed by using sex maturity ratings formalized by Tanner.
(3) The original said that Jo Tanner, the PR person now acting as press secretary for Andy Burnham, is the same Jo Tanner who worked on Boris Johnson's London mayoral bid.
(4) Systolic blood pressure for boys and girls showed an increase with a change from Tanner stage 2 to 3.
(5) The methods are used to fit the centiles for boys' weight and for boys' height velocity from Tanner, Whitehouse and Takaishi (1966).
(6) The objective of this study was to determine the utility of Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) height percentile standards in comparison to Tanner's, in the evaluation of children with short stature.
(7) To this end, we sampled blood at 20-min intervals for 12 h overnight in 50 girls, 37 of whom had Turner's syndrome and 13 of whom were healthy Tanner stage I controls.
(8) The diabetic girls showed a slight delay of uterus development, which is adjusted, however, at the end of puberty (Tanner IV and V).
(9) In a study of absorption of iron from meals by preadolescent children (Tanner stage 1), we had noted that erythrocyte incorporation of the extrinsic iron label was somewhat greater by girls than by boys.
(10) Growth of their pelves in length as well as in width was similar to that found by Tanner.
(11) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
(12) Finally, it was found that the difference between bone age, as determined by the Tanner Whitehouse (TW2)-method, and chronological age was not significant and the adult height in all patients except two could be adequately predicted from bone age and height.
(13) All four groups of children exhibited different growth patterns from those of the NCHS and Tanner reference curves.
(14) The relationship between lower-extremity strength and flexibility and maturational status as measured by Tanner staging (TS) was assessed in 84 male high school athletes.
(15) The patient progressed from Tanner pubic hair and breast stage I to stage II during treatment, which was terminated due to an allergic reaction to GnRH.
(16) We studied 15 normal boys, 5 sexually developed (Tanner stages IV-V) and 10 sexually infantile, before and after chronic (1-month) administration of a selective micromicron-opiate-receptor antagonist (naltrexone).
(17) These data suggest that for a correct auxological evaluation it seems useful to compare children not only to Tanner's standards but to centiles derived from the same population.
(18) Subjects were 10 non-obese (14.6% fat) and 11 obese (32.3% fat) males matched for age (15-18 years), level of maturity (Tanner stages IV and V), lean body mass, and height.
(19) The McCanns' friend, Jane Tanner has said that at about 9.15pm she saw a man carrying a small child, walking away from apartment 5a.
(20) We evaluated basal somatomedin-C (SmC) levels in 98 subjects 2 to 16.6 years of age, with height less than 3rd centile (Tanner), and in 274 healthy controls 2 to 15.8 years, with height greater than 10th centile.