(a.) Dearly beloved; regarded with especial kindness and tenderness; favorite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Turner was at a meeting last month where the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, clinched an agreement with the five biggest UK banks – Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Chartered – to accept the G20 principles.
(2) Banda, 64, began her term as a darling of the west, inheriting the presidency after the unexpected death of her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, in 2012.
(3) At $226, Netflix's share price is up 220% in the last year, 172% in the last six months, once again enjoying internet darling status.
(4) Darling, one of the Cabinet's Eeyores, took a more cautious view but even he has been surprised by the length, depth and breadth of the crisis.
(5) Having bought the album as a present for her 12-year-old daughter, Tipper Gore, wife of Al, was horrified by the lyrics to Darling Nikki.
(6) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
(7) It is now a little more than five years since Alistair Darling bailed out RBS.
(8) In a sign of Labour's need to avoid tension with business, Darling was careful to stress he was not criticising the signatories but said: "I wonder if one of their finance directors came to them and said 'look, we have this wonderful idea, and we are going to pay with it by savings we have not yet identified and by calculations we cannot verify', they would say 'that is complete nonsense'."
(9) A green investment bank or fund is expected to be unveiled in Alastair Darling's budget tomorrow.
(10) The government is to sell off water allocations to farmers who operate alongside the Murray-Darling river system for the first time since a deal that aims to end two decades of arguments on how to manage the resource.
(11) Osborne and Alistair Darling would be daft to rule out a 20% VAT band; don't expect them to admit as much this side of polling day.
(12) In the pre-budget report, Darling announced £20bn in tax cuts and increased spending, in an attempt to stop the UK economy falling off a cliff.
(13) His electorate includes the city of Toowoomba and parts of the Darling Downs farming region.
(14) Once a stock market darling, the company issued two profit warnings in six months, prompting fears that its stellar growth had peaked.
(15) This would mean that everyone earning under £35,000 would be protected from the planned rise in national insurance announced by Darling in the budget.
(16) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
(17) But the theory that this meant Salmond's Scottish National party government had agreed to free Megrahi was untenable, Darling said.
(18) Darling told an event in London today that the Wall Street firm had failed to understand that the public's attitude to bonuses had changed dramatically after its admission last week that it was on track to pay out record bonuses from an estimated $22bn (about £13bn) bonus pool.
(19) Now it is up to 50% and Darling admitted in his budget speech that it would rise to 80% over the next few years.
(20) It also found high levels of negativity on the issue of independence towards Alistair Darling, the Better Together chairman and former Labour chancellor, and David Cameron, the prime minister.
Dearest
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
(2) It's a perfect line, that sums up not only the dearest wish of every character in the film (and some might say those outside it), but also one that lays the foundations for the film we're discussing now, Beginners.
(3) I write articles on subjects I'd previously kept secret from my nearest and dearest.
(4) Dorothy Rowe, the author of My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds, told me three years ago : "Most of us like to be seen to behave well, even if in private we're not.
(5) She was one of the most mature users of Twitter and her Twitter feed was so Tayloresque as to be nigh-on parodic, mixing passionate defences of Jackson with shout-outs to reality TV android Kim Kardashian and the occasional – and necessary – denials that she had re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-remarried ("Jason is my dearest friend!"
(6) Predominantly, rural Scotland (143.4p), Wales (143.1p) and Northern Ireland (143p) are the dearest for diesel, with London the cheapest at 141.8p a litre.
(7) In a heartfelt statement last night, Thatcher said he had been one of her 'closest political and dearest friends', and would be missed by millions of people who now lived in freedom thanks to his administration: 'Ronald Reagan had a higher claim than any other leader to have won the Cold War for liberty, and he did it without a shot being fired.
(8) Dearest addresses 1 Campden Hill Square Kensington and Chelsea, west London, (average property price £4.9m) 2 Parkside Merton, London, south-west London (£4.8m) 3 Drayton Gardens Kensington and Chelsea (£4.4m) 4 Dawson Place Kensington and Chelsea (£3.89m) 5 Duchess Of Bedford's Walk Kensington and Chelsea (£3.86m) 6 Cadogan Square Kensington and Chelsea (£3.7m) 7 Hamilton Terrace Westminster (£3.62m) 8 Cedar Park Gardens Merton London, (£3.6m) 9 Bramerton Street Kensington and Chelsea (£3.52m) 10 Hampstead Lane Camden (£3.5m)
(9) It was only when she discovered her phone had been hacked on an industrial scale (she changed her number three times in three months, but it never did any good) that she realised all her nearest and dearest were blameless.
(10) Ikea has finally broken this silence, calling upon us to stop taking pictures of our food using our dearest role models: the landed gentry of 17th-century Europe.
(11) Yet, despite this, he displays little interest in talking about those who have taken up the causes dearest to his heart.
(12) Tory donor Theodore Agnew is rumoured to be replacing Lady Morgan, while the Department for Education is so full of donors and cronies it is starting to look like a get together for Gove and Cameron's nearest and dearest.
(13) Another tactic some partners have is to set aside a little time each day to think about the dangers their nearest and dearest are facing and thus try to control or contain the anxiety.
(14) Jos Dings, its director, laughs: “I could say it changed everything overnight, but in the first vote two days ago on real driving emissions, some of our dearest member states – including Britain and Germany – stuck, in an inexplicable way, to short-term measures.” The European commission has delayed more stringent tests by a year , allowing engines to emit more than twice the legal limit of nitrogen oxides until 2021.
(15) One refugee, Bashir, 20, a film student from Raqqa in Syria, said: “All of my nearest and dearest have left Syria and my family is doing the same.
(16) The result is that at times Battle Hymn reads like an American-Asian version of Mommie Dearest .
(17) To retreat now, I believe, would put at hazard all that we hold dearest, turn the UN back into a talking shop, stifle the first steps of progress in the Middle East; leave the Iraqi people to the mercy of events on which we would have relinquished all power to influence for the better.
(18) Henry writes: Newly released figures this afternoon from the Republic's Central Statistics Office reveals that Ireland is the fifth dearest nation in the EU.
(19) In his speech last Friday at Nike’s headquarters in Oregon, Obama said unions have been “fellow travelers” with him on increasing the minimum wage and job training, but he added: “On trade, I actually think some of my dearest friends are wrong.
(20) But when I tried this theory out on one of my nearest and dearest, the answer was simple: "MacAskill hasn't the balls."