(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.
Sister
Definition:
(n.) A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
(n.) A woman who is closely allied to, or assocciated with, another person, as in the sdame faith, society, order, or community.
(n.) One of the same kind, or of the same condition; -- generally used adjectively; as, sister fruits.
(v. t.) To be sister to; to resemble closely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(2) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(3) Besides the 15 cases reported in 1984, 6 additional cases of anti-vWF alloantibodies were reported, i.e., one from Spain (a relative of a previously reported case), two from Venezuela (brother and sister) and three from North Carolina (unrelated patients).
(4) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(5) In this article, two siblings, a brother and his sister who showed simultaneous occurrence of MDS and monoclonal gammopathy are reported.
(6) Another friend’s sisters told me that the government building where all the students’ records are stored is in an area where there is frequent shelling and air strikes.
(7) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(8) A family of four siblings is described in which two phenotypically female XY children and one male each have developed germ cell tumors, demonstrating that brothers of affected sisters may also be at risk.
(9) I can always spot something for my sisters Gretchen and Amy.
(10) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(11) Biosynthetic studies were performed in a patient with beta-thalassemia intermedia heterozygous for both beta-thalassemia with normal hemoglobins A2 and F and beta-thalassemia with increased Hb A2, in his both parents, one sister and one brother.
(12) Stimulated human phagocytes produce sister chromatid exchanges in cultured mammalian cells by a mechanism involving oxygen metabolites.
(13) These composite data indicated that the definable metabolic defects of these two sisters with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia were the sluggish clearance of cholesterol from the body coupled with low total body synthesis of cholesterol.
(14) RNA fragments are detected that extend into the O gene from the cleavage sites, while the sister fragments that extend into the cII gene cannot be detected and must be eliminated by additional hydrolytic events.
(15) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(16) In the whole group, the recurrence of severe mental subnormality was high: 1 in 8 for brothers and 1 in 25 for sisters.
(17) A 65-year-old hypertensive woman (case 4), an elder sister of case 3, was admitted with subarachnoid hemorrhage.
(18) Growth of cells in medium containing BrdU for two generations allows fluorometric documentation of the semiconservative distribution of newly replicated DNA between sister chromatids, and regions of sister chromated exchange are demarcated.
(19) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole,’ his sister said.
(20) The localization of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome in chromosomes of human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) transformed with EBV, and the effect of EBV DNA on the level of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in Bloom's syndrome (BS) B-LCLs, were examined with chromosomal in situ hybridization techniques using a 3H-EBV DNA probe.