(a.) Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has said the remote scheme will require people to work five days a week, 12 months a year to get the dole, compared with the six months the government will require of benefit recipients in urban and regional areas.
(2) Job seekers will learn the behaviours expected of workers, for example by there being immediate consequences for passive welfare behaviour.” It says the continuous work for the dole for all 18- to 49-year-olds, is being introduced only in remote Australia, because in those areas there are “limited or no real labour markets, as well as unique social problems that stem from passive welfare.
(3) The core hypothesis deduced from the Dole-Nyswander blockade formulation is that methadone is a sufficient but not necessary condition for abstinence from heroin.
(4) Labor doled out some money for trades training centres in high schools and Abbott had money for netball courts in Caboolture.
(5) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
(6) He announced the news in a series of doleful tweets, first asking Wiggins if he fancied a city break and then posting a picture of his Tour bike, claiming it was for sale.
(7) They are also, in practice, in support of arguments that claimants are on the fiddle with a net 17% more believing "most people on the dole are fiddling one way or another".
(8) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
(9) The Labour proposal is intended to be compulsory for the young unemployed after they have had a year on the dole, whereas work experience was voluntary for a week, and mandatory thereafter.
(10) The over-hyped and widely trailed Question Time has been an exercise in what it was always going to be: a public outpouring of anti fascist sentiments and establishing anti racist credentials, with the BNP positioning itself as the champion of white working class interests.The BBC can pat itself on the back for its high viewing ratings when the count is done; the panellists can go back to what they were doing and the struggle for equality, fairness and justice will intensify, not on television, but on the streets, the estates, in the playgrounds, the workplace and the dole queues.
(11) In that case, requiring people to work for the dole and apply for 40 jobs a month is merely a pathway to demoralisation.
(12) The reformed RJCP will give job seekers the opportunity to be continuously engaged in work for the dole activities, five days a week, all year round – just like a real job.
(13) Some of the proposals would have had their own senate inquiries in the past,” he said, referring to planned changes such as stripping under-30s of dole for six months at a time, reviewing people who are on the disability support pension (DSP) and changes to the family tax benefit which are included in amendment bills 1 and 2 being examined by the senate.
(14) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
(15) This was an educator singing in a doleful prison cell; Seldon, the Birdman of Berkshire. "
(16) He was married with children, he'd been sacked from his job as a hosiery mechanic and like all sacked people, he was refused dole.
(17) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
(18) But Freeman doled out advice along with the punches.
(19) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(20) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.
Sadness
Definition:
(n.) Heaviness; firmness.
(n.) Seriousness; gravity; discretion.
(n.) Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
Example Sentences:
(1) She loved us and we loved her.” “We would have loved to have had a little grandchild from her,” she says sadly.
(2) Wimbledon said the world No1 Williams had been suffering from a viral illness and it was a sad and bizarre end to the American’s tournament, not to mention a worrying sight, seeing her hardly able to play.
(3) Sadly, the bullet will not only kill off Greece’s future in Europe.
(4) Calum MacLean, Grangemouth Petrochemicals chairman, says, “This is a hugely sad day for everyone at Grangemouth.
(5) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
(6) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(7) I watched as she made the briefest eye contact with me on their way back, the flicker of hurt and sadness in her eyes reflecting mine, before the shutters came down.
(8) Only at 3 days did total plasma volume of SAD rats show a modest reduction of about 16% (P less than 0.05 vs. sham-operated plus unoperated controls).
(9) These sad numbers show that more Washington spending, threats of higher taxes on small businesses, and excessive government regulations don't create a healthy environment for job growth," Boehner said.
(10) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
(11) World Wildlife Fund Great Barrier Reef campaigner Richard Leck said it was a sad day for the reef and anyone who cared about its future.
(12) It is so sad, we don’t let her go out even if the weather is nice,” he says.
(13) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
(14) Half of the rats in each group had SAD surgery 1 week prior to study.
(15) There’s an overwhelming sadness among kids like that who have been kept there for a very long time.
(16) It is sadly slightly the territory we have inherited,” he said.
(17) In a statement the family said they were left "extremely sad and disappointed" by the verdicts: "We appreciate the work and effort over the years since events on Broadwater Farm that night in trying to bring people to justice.
(18) Moreover, no differences were found in abnormal lung function patients with and those without SAD in demographic, clinical, roentgenologic, and serologic features and results of pulmonary function tests.
(19) It is sad that the BBC chose to give Nick Griffin a platform.
(20) The only thing I'd say is that I know, from people who've told me firsthand, that sadly mixed marriages can be a bit conflicted on everyday issues.