(n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Deamonte Driver Dental Project mobile clinic was parked outside, offering tours to dignitaries and care to schoolchildren.
(2) Mervyn Davies learnt of his promotion to the position of chief executive at Standard Chartered seven years ago while cooking dinner for Hong Kong dignitaries.
(3) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
(4) Foreign dignitaries were invited to attend for the first time and it is a pity that from Europe only Javier Solana chose to take the offer up.
(5) Education, housing, everything you can think of, he’s taken care of for us.” Leaders and dignitaries from more than two dozen countries attended the funeral.
(6) Many of those dignitaries, particularly those from rich countries and from financial institutions like the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, are planning to push the role of the private sector in development.
(7) Disclosure of the note prompted further questions asking why Ashcroft is allowed to accompany Hague on official visits to meet dignitaries when he is not on the shadow foreign team.
(8) The bitterest conflict centres on a plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 that claimed the lives of scores of Polish dignitaries.
(9) I’ve been involved with meeting a whole range of beer buyers, meeting politicians and other dignitaries, including Prince Charles, to speaking to publicans and doing tastings in big and small stores.
(10) Fast forward to 2010, when a Polish aircraft carrying the country’s president and other dignitaries crashed near Katyn in Russia .
(11) It wasn’t quite the same when Ronald Reagan came.” Other dignitaries to have come through Shannon over the years include Fidel Castro and Barack Obama.
(12) Turkish dignitaries are frequent visitors to Sarajevo.
(13) Karzai surprised the international community and many Afghans in December when he ignored the recommendation of an assembly of tribal leaders and other dignitaries to sign it, saying he would leave the final decision to his successor after 5 April elections.
(14) Standard security checks in the US frequently make front-page news in India when they involve visiting dignitaries, who are ushered through airports as VIPs in their own country.
(15) Within 20 minutes, the refugees were off the commercial aircraft and taken by an airport people carrier to the VIP terminal, which is typically used by royalty, government officials and dignitaries.
(16) Under the blistering heat of the southern African sun, the dignitaries did not linger.
(17) The official start to Climate Week got under way around midday yesterday, with the UN chief, Yvo de Boer, Tony Blair , and other dignitaries issuing a call for action.
(18) King Alexander and Queen Maxima and other dignitaries attended the ceremony.
(19) The collision of protests about cuts to legal aid and foreign dignitaries eager to learn from England’s judicial heritage produced contrasting legal blasts of invective and appreciation in Westminster.
(20) It explains the rash of postponed visits by foreign dignitaries to Tokyo.
Verger
Definition:
(n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
(n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
(n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
(n.) A garden or orchard.
Example Sentences:
(1) This description of the group was endorsed Dr Philippe Verger, a WHO official and secretary of the UN panel on glyphosate.
(2) The kinetic results presented in the form of double reciprocal plots of initial velocity against bulk PC or interfacial PC concentration were linear according to the Verger et al.
(3) Verger told the Guardian: “ILSI is not an independent body.
(4) In comparison to the previous procedure reported by Verger, R., de Hass, G.H., Sarda, L and Desnuelle, P. (1969) Biochim.
(5) Finally the isoenzymes were separated on CM-cellulose as in the Verger procedure, but under slightly modified conditions.
(6) kinetic model (Verger, R., Mieras, M. C. E., and de Haas, G. H. (1973) J. Biol.
(7) We previously reported that the inhibition of pancreatic and Rhizopus delemar lipases by proteins is due to the protein associated with lipid and is not caused by direct protein-enzyme interaction in the aqueous phase [Gargouri, Y., Piéroni, G., Rivière, C., Sugihara, A., Sarda, L., & Verger, R. (1985) J. Biol.
(8) Several 2-acylaminophospholipid analogues have been demonstrated to behave as potent competitive inhibitors of porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (De Haas, G.H., Dijkman, R., Ransac, S. and Verger, R. (1990) Biochim.
(9) Verger said: “Every year we evaluate 10-30 compounds, and I can tell you that a lot of them are more dangerous and potent than glyphosate.
(10) A. Virtanen, R. Verger, and P. K. J. Kinnunen (1987) Biochim.
(11) (Gargouri, Y., Moreau, H., Piéroni, G. and Verger, R. (1988) J. Biol.