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Empress


Definition:

  • (n.) The consort of an emperor.
  • (n.) A female sovereign.
  • (n.) A sovereign mistress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ava had moved to London to star opposite James Mason as the Empress of Austria in the film Mayerling .
  • (2) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (4) The structure will dwarf nearby buildings, including the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, an officially recognised cultural asset built in 1926 to honour the emperor and empress dowager Shoken.
  • (5) He was a talented musician and spent happy days as first violinist in the orchestra on the ocean liner the Empress of Britain, believing that the sea air helped him recover from the effects of the gas, though he always suffered bouts of bronchitis.
  • (6) She also played the Empress Alexandra in Gleb Panfilov’s Russian film The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000), about the last year and a half of the lives of Tsar Nicholas II and his family until their execution in July 1918.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Empress Michiko (pictured with Emperor Akihoto and Kumamoto’s governor) asked whether Kumamon was single, in 2013.
  • (8) The mean forces of fracture were 964 N for In-Ceram crowns, 814 N for paint-on IPS Empress crowns, and 750 N for layered IPS Empress crowns, compared with 1,494 N for metal ceramic crowns veneered on a nickel-chromium coping.
  • (9) The Guardian has spoken to the former empress about the museum and its remarkable collection on the occasion of an exhibition showing some of the art pieces for the first time .
  • (10) The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist site, attacked Ioffe in a blogpost titled: “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!” Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) .
  • (11) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
  • (12) Recently introduced with pleasing aesthetic qualities, IPS-Empress (Ivoclar, Schaan, Liechtenstein), a new European leucite-reinforced glass-ceramic, has finally drawn attention in some journals and has been reviewed with promising in vitro test results.
  • (13) A friend of Heywood tells the Guardian the businessman had accused Gu of being "mentally unstable" and behaving like an unforgiving "empress".
  • (14) Tang dynasty records show that two of the bear-like beasts were presented to the Japanese court during the reign of the empress Wu Zetian (624 to 705).
  • (15) Shinzo Abe bows to Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko during a national memorial service for the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
  • (16) He’s not sexy, but when the Empress Michiko met Kumamon – at her request – during the imperial couple’s visit to Kumamoto in 2013, she asked him: “Are you single?” A birthday cake was rolled out, and the crowd sang Happy Birthday.
  • (17) It's harrowing to hear accounts of the 1996 Sea Empress disaster in your native Pembrokeshire, even though the clean-up effort was effective and quick (thanks to volunteers), and the weather and the tide washed the oil out of the bay relatively quickly.
  • (18) " Over the next 40 minutes, her phone rings many times: more than once, it's the Swedish pop empress Robyn with whom she is shooting a video in the morning (Cherry answers the calls in Swedish).
  • (19) Did some ancestor of Dave's visit St Petersburg and conduct a bit of nocturnal diplomacy with the empress?
  • (20) Bringing back Corvo, hero of the original, you can also now play as his daughter Emily, who is the ruling empress but conveniently also a dangerously potent assassin.

Leader


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
  • (n.) One who goes first.
  • (n.) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.
  • (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.
  • (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
  • (n.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery.
  • (n.) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.
  • (n.) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.
  • (n.) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.
  • (n.) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
  • (n.) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
  • (n.) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
  • (n.) a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (3) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (4) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
  • (5) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
  • (6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (7) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
  • (9) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (10) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
  • (12) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (13) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (14) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
  • (17) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
  • (18) The nucleoprotein gene is located proximal to the 3' end of the genome and is preceeded by a putative leader sequence.
  • (19) The PUP leader told the ABC his announcement would have international significance.
  • (20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.