(n.) One who has care or custody, as of some public building; a keeper or superintendent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like a reforming editor, he needs to convince people that his changes are designed to strengthen, not undermine, the inestimably valuable tradition of which he has the privilege to be the temporary custodian.
(2) Today's children are tomorrow's custodians of nature."
(3) Just as Labour learned (and then unlearned) that economic credibility is a precondition of electoral victory, so the Tories grasped that they must be trusted as custodians of public services.
(4) It would be a custodian for the atmosphere and biological diversity, areas in which all humanity has a stake.
(5) A 48-year-old male custodian and part-time gardener was hospitalized for treatment of renal tuberculosis.
(6) She just gave them the opportunity to argue their case.” Habeas corpus petitions are used, in theory, to fight unlawful imprisonment by forcing a custodian to prove they have legal cause to detain someone.
(7) When Mubarak took office in the early 1980s, the Egyptian state remained as undemocratic as ever; by now, though, its operation was less concerned with delivering material security to its population and more with carving up social assets for the financial benefit of its custodians.
(8) He praised the proposal by the Jordanian king, the custodian of the al-Aqsa compound, for 24-hour video surveillance at the site and said Netanyahu had agreed to “an excellent suggestion”.
(9) The late Peter Porter called his fellow countryman "the custodian of Australia's soul".
(10) "Chiefs are important as custodians of tradition," says Jok, who is now serving as an under-secretary in the Southern government's Ministry of Culture.
(11) The state's prosecution team, led by assistant state attorney Bernie de la Rionda, will attempt to portray Zimmerman, 29, as an overzealous, self-appointed custodian of his gated community who pursued, confronted, then shot a black youth in a hoodie whom he assumed was up to no good.
(12) The NSW Liberal Party and four of its associated entities – Bunori Pty Ltd, Dame Pattie Menzies Foundation, Liberal Asset Management (Custodians) Ltd and Liberal Properties Limited – also attempted to suppress the reviews.
(13) So on Australia Day, we honour the ancestors who were custodians of this ancient continent; we pay tribute to our forefathers who enshrined freedom, fairness and unity in Australia’s constitution; and we reaffirm our commitment to make this country of ours a beacon of hope and optimism in an uncertain world,” Abbott said.
(14) The move infuriated Jordanian King Abdullah, who is custodian of the sacred compound that also houses the Dome of the Rock mosque.
(15) But where was Cipfa, once the custodian of best practice in public sector budgeting?
(16) We need to rebuild the reputation of banks and bankers as trusted custodians of people's money, giving objective, impartial advice untainted by opportunities for personal gain, and at the same time make banking transactions as frictionless as possible.
(17) Mr Turnbull’s decision now means there have been more defence ministers in Australia than prime ministers in the last three years.” Andrews urged Turnbull to continue the Liberal party’s “broad church”, which he said was custodian to Liberal and conservative traditions.
(18) I am a custodian at the minute and owners are also custodians; the one thing that remains interested in a football club is, of course, the fans.
(19) We were all watching; we had a custodian in the corner who was watching.
(20) Abbott added: “We are all conservationists, we are all utterly committed to protecting this priceless environmental asset of which we are today’s custodians.
Depository
Definition:
(n.) A place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.
(n.) One with whom something is deposited; a depositary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radioisotopic indication was used to investigate the processes of the metals' absorption in the blood, their distribution to the secondary depositories and elimination from the organism.
(2) A reproducible pattern of resorptive and depository areas was found on the bony surface.
(3) In about half of the specimens, arch width was not decreased, because the lateral side of the corpus is usually of a depository nature.
(4) It might be an indication of differential processes of bone transformations in such a way that bone surfaces corresponding to areas of enzyme reactions are depository whereas bone surfaces corresponding to areas of lack of enzyme reaction are resorptive.
(5) Cl2MBP also decreased the osteoblast number and bone apposition rate on depository surfaces of alveolar bone, and reduced the rate of molar drifting (p less than 0.05).
(6) Blood was taken from a patient and marked by the department of nuclear medicine; it was then injected in the concha in the way a depository cortisone preparation is injected, and after several moments blood was taken from an arm vein and the radioactivity measured.
(7) Here's Dick Raaz, the outgoing head of the waste depository: "The good news about radioactive waste is it self-destructs, if you just give it long enough."
(8) Also, over-all arch length is not decreased, because the surface of the mental protuberance is retained as a depository type of field (or at least does not become actively resorptive).
(9) Mandibles were removed 9 weeks after injections, the mineralizing front of the depository surface of the interdental septum was exposed by fracture through the periodontal ligament, rendered anorganic, and examined by scanning electron microscopy.
(10) In most of the edentulous specimens, the surface of the basal bone on both the medial and lateral sides of the corpus is of a depository nature.
(11) Significantly, the placement of the reversal line between the alveolar resorptive and the basal depository areas is much lower (i.e., at the level of the mental foramen) on the buccal side.
(12) Horta-Osório bought the equivalent of 600,000 shares on Thursday through American depository receipts.
(13) The lipase releases fat from the body depositories in addition to the fat, who is coming out of the fracture gap.
(14) These observations suggest that, in early diabetes, Sharpey's fibers and depository surfaces of the middle and apical thirds of the interdental septum have morphologic evidence of aging, which precedes significant reduction in alveolar crest height.
(15) CHILDES is a depository of child language corpora, and the publisher of CHAT (a transcription manual), and CLAN (an electronic package for child language research).
(16) That trust is undermined with each public sale and risks the public's perception of a museum as a safe depository.
(17) This conclusion has been reached by comparing the distribution of the two enzymes on the surfaces of fibulae from young rats with the patterns of apposition and resorption on the periosteal surfaces of this bone, revealed by in vivo staining with alizarin red S. Presence of reaction to acid phosphatase is, as shown before, an indication of resorptive surfaces, while the presence of reaction to alkaline phosphatase is an indication of depository surfaces.
(18) The entire perimeter of each section was analyzed for the distribution of resorptive and depository periosteal surfaces, and from this information, the fields of remodeling were mapped for the mandible as a whole.
(19) That doesn't feel like a fulfilment of the promise on the big green rag depositories that "your donation helps us to support people in need".
(20) Also, is it me or have the French become the lone gunmen in the book depository building of the finance world?