(1) Gordon Clark, UK country manager of travel shopping consultancy Global Blue, predicts even higher spending in 2015: “Last year, spend by Arabic shoppers was up 43% for the period,” he says, “and as retailers and hotels improve their services to accommodate them, by bringing in Arabic-speaking staff and learning their culture’s customs, the UK is becoming an increasingly appealing shopping destination for them and we expect spend growth to remain strong.” Interestingly, even without explicit “Muslim-friendly” branding, it’s a doddle to shop for “modest” looks on the high street these days.
(2) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
(3) The iPhone 3GS turns all that on its head: anything to do with the web, email, services such as Twitter and maps is a doddle; but things that are natural on a normal mobile phone, like sending a text or picture message, become fiddly.
(4) They have made the so-called Group of Death seem a doddle: and now Italy face a do-or-die showdown with Uruguay, who, as you may be aware, of good recent experience of such clashes.
(5) Doddle has 7,000 members who pay £5 a month for unlimited collections at its stores.
(6) ''As long as I get a clear view, the distance is a doddle.''
(7) If there were an abundance of fuel for mid-course corrections, then interplanetary navigation would be a doddle – indeed simpler than driving a car or ship, in that the destination is always in clear view.
(8) Moyles seemed astonished that a live news programme would have such documents, suggesting that hosting the show must be a "doddle" when you are told "the questions to be used in the interview and what the answers are going to be".
(9) Compared with the delicate gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery she uses for five-hour gender-reassignment operations, FGM-restorations are a doddle.
(10) The interim first-team coach's assistant, Eddie Newton, ended up departing the stadium with a smile and "this job's a doddle, isn't it?"
(11) Crushing sweet ginger biscuits into melted butter is a doddle.
(12) It suits him: people give him a lot of bananas, and clambering up to retrieve books from high shelves becomes a doddle.
(13) According to the TES, teachers posted in an online forum claimed iGCSE English papers were "an absolute doddle" and "way easier" than the domestic version.
(14) Delivering a lecture is a doddle compared to linking theory or research to real families, with everyone watching.
(15) People have looked to books like the Savoy Cocktail Book and 60% to 70% of the recipes use gin; vodka wasn’t available.” Gin’s heritage also helps explain demand, Stokes says: “A good story will always help you sell your product.” Plus, it can be made quickly: you can distill gin in just eight hours, a doddle compared to ageing a whisky for 10 to 12 years.
(16) Britons' enthusiasm for click-and-collect services has also seen Network Rail set up a joint venture with Travelex founder Lloyd Dorfman to invest £24m in 300 Doddle pick-up-points at stations.
(17) One of the sector’s more recent arrivals is parcel service Doddle , which has more than 30 outlets – it calls them “stores” – located mainly at urban train stations in places such as London, Brighton, Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and Southampton.
(18) Perhaps it was felt that a decision on airport capacity would be a doddle for a man who has dealt with all that.
(19) They’re never going to be nicking this stuff without it having a place to go to already arranged.” As for getting it out of the country these days: “It’s a doddle.
(20) Handle this ordeal and running Britain is a doddle.
Job
Definition:
(n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
(n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
(n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
(n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
(n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
(v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
(v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
(v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
(v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
(v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
(v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
(v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
(v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
(n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(3) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(4) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(5) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(6) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(7) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(8) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
(9) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(10) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
(11) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(12) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(13) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(15) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(16) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(17) This defeat, though, is hardly a good calling card for the main job.
(18) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(19) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(20) Pearson had been informed after that bizarre incident that he was out of a job only to be told that he was back in work a few hours later .