(n.) The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has his job to do and he has to do it the way he thinks best.” On Saturday night, in a sign of the growing concern at the top of the party about the affair, one shadow cabinet member told the Observer : “The issue is already echoing back at us on the doorsteps.” At all levels, there was despair that the furore had turned the spotlight on to Labour’s difficulties as a time when the party had hoped to take advantage of the Tories’ second byelection loss at the hands of Ukip.
(2) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(3) Grayling asks a Labour householder on one suburban doorstep. "
(4) I think I would've benefited from more time on the doorstep."
(5) Back on the doorstep is The Pilot , a music-themed pub where you can eat, too.
(6) Years ago the concept of homelessness was drug addicts and bag ladies – now there is a new wave of homelessness since the economy dived – people who are older, had savings and a home, but lost their jobs and their health insurance and finally ran out of money and turned up on our doorstep with a suitcase.
(7) In a Telegraph article, written days before a published version in which he backed leaving, Johnson wrote of the EU: “This is a market on our doorstep, ready for further exploitation by British firms.
(8) Bernardi also attacked Kevin Rudd for changing his position on same-sex marriage, saying he was a “conviction politician of convenience” who used to deliver doorstep interviews outside a church.
(9) Meanwhile, on the doorsteps of the Margate district of Cliftonville, one of Kent’s most deprived areas and historically a Labour stronghold, Scobie, the party’s 25-year-old candidate, was working hard last to consolidate core support in what he characterised a three way marginal where he could emerge as the “anti-Ukip” choice.
(10) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
(11) But in the end, immigration has proved the most successful argument on the doorstep for the party’s campaigners, especially given confirmation that Cameron has failed in his promise to get net migration down to the tens of thousands.
(12) I was dropped right on my doorstep in Blackheath, south London, at 4am.
(13) On a doorstep in Dewsbury, Dorothy Hague promised Sherriff her vote.
(14) Because the nastiness on our doorstep has piled too high for too long, and I just want to get out of the house.
(15) The Debt on our Doorstep pressure group said that many entering "pay lending" or short-term loan agreements become locked into debt because of the rate of interest incurred.
(16) Clegg said: "I think we have to deal with the emergency on our doorstep, rather than tilting at windmills."
(17) Big names frighten them on their doorsteps, oozing bogus bonhomie.
(18) It is too big to leave,” was a common view on the doorstep.
(19) He now sells over 2,000 litres of milk each week on doorsteps, in restaurants and it’s sold at the local shops for £1.20 a litre under the label Maple Field Milk .
(20) I’m usually Labour” is an ominously noncommittal doorstep refrain: Jeremy Corbyn’s name often follows.
Interview
Definition:
(n.) A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President.
(n.) A conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited.
(v. t.) To have an interview with; to question or converse with, especially for the purpose of obtaining information for publication.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.43am BST A little more from that Field interview on Today.
(2) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(3) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(4) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(5) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(6) Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted at both times.
(7) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(8) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(9) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(10) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
(11) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
(12) Patients were randomised to day care or out-patient care, and assessed at entry and at six months using the Standardised Psychiatric Interview and in terms of their time structuring and socialisation.
(13) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
(14) Fourteen of the 24 patients in one renal clinic and 18 of their at-risk relatives were interviewed.
(15) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
(16) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(17) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
(18) Gove said in the interview that he did not want to be Tory leader, claiming that he lacked the "extra spark of charisma and star quality" possessed by others.
(19) To identify the responsible virus and the consequences of the epidemic, during 1985 we interviewed and serologically screened 597 veterans who had been in the army in 1942.
(20) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.