(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.
Sweetie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(2) The society has taken another step to protect the pandas' value to the zoo by trademarking their popular, anglicised names, Sunshine and Sweetie, to prevent pirate merchandising.
(3) And when Tian Tian (Sweetie) is seated and eating, she seems very human in her movements.
(4) "[Then] he goes along and says, 'I've done a great deal for Europe, I've wrecked the nuclear deterrent, the Americans will be even more angry with the small contribution we make to Nato and now I would like these special sweeties kept for me.'
(5) On Apple's App Store it was Candy Crush Saga , the sweetie-themed match-three puzzle game that has stuck to the upper reaches of the top-grossing chart since its release in November 2012.
(6) Grandparents have long been treasured for their contribution to pocket money and the sweetie jar – but the extent of the reliance on their generosity has been revealed in a new report.
(7) Mandelson could better understand that the New Labour project, like sweeties at the check-out counter, was a catchy little number for a while but insufficiently nourishing or robust in ideas to feed the political appetite for very long.
(8) Britain, too, has stepped back from support so unequivocal that Clare Short, then Labour's international development secretary, called Kagame "a sweetie" and Tony Blair established a foundation to help the man he calls a "visionary leader" to govern.
(9) Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang (Sunshine) will fly out from Chengdu on Sunday on a jet emblazoned with a panda portrait.
(10) 12.46am BST Ann Romney was asked what advice she gave her husband to prepare for tonight's debate, and she said she told Mitt: You know what sweetie, you had five boys.
(11) The guns are more pumped, the giggle less nervous, but Hoult is still a genuine sweetie.
(12) A BBC spokesperson said: "Including Sweetie as one for the annual headline makers was a light-hearted addition to the list, and this isn't the first time it has featured a non-human.
(13) "Do they genuinely believe that the crofters will capitulate if a big enough financial sweetie is dangled in front of them?
(14) A German police officer told me, 'You're crazy sweetie, you can't do that, you cannot prohibit men from buying sex, it's totally impossible.'
(15) Sweetie and Sunlight were born in 2003 and lived at the Ya'an reserve in Chengdu, China.
(16) Thousands of women tweeted that this was "sexist" because Sweetie hadn't achieved anything significant and, anyway, pandas weren't women.
(17) A fairly badly drawn stick-puppet girl and gorilla throw each other a chocolate sweetie covered in hundreds and thousands.
(18) Impulsivity is a characteristic of sweety bulimics, dysphoria and affective lability characterise salty ones.
(19) However much you rationally accept that TV channels and sweetie manufacturers are profit-driven entities, it's still tough to break the emotional conviction that they couldn't possibly be invested in anything that might cause harm to your child.
(20) A post-1994 outpouring of western guilt has, many argue, allowed Kagame to escape criticism for running an authoritarian regime that ruthlessly crushes dissent, including the alleged assassination of opponents abroad .Clinton has described him "one of the greatest leaders of our time", Tony Blair called him a "visionary leader" and former international development secretary Clare Short infamously said of him: "Such a sweetie."