(1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(2) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(3) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
(4) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
(5) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
(6) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.
(7) And according to Tory insiders, Shapps had lobbied hard for a more prominent role in the government, making some enemies within the party.
(8) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
(9) As extreme forms the two polarized radicals who now fanatically stylize the other as the enemy, will fight to the death their own denied opposite side psychodynamically.
(10) "I wanted to direct the first production [Ibsen's An Enemy of the People ] and then spend a year being the artistic director."
(11) Around the same time Kadyrov said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former oligarch who became an opponent of Putin and now resides in Switzerland after spending a decade in prison, was now his “personal enemy”.
(12) But while France has plainly moved on from the days when François Hollande could say his true enemy was “the world of finance”, major players remain wary of the country’s rigid employment laws .
(13) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
(14) Rebels moved unchallenged along a road littered with evidence of the air campaign and the speed of their enemies' retreat.
(15) Al-Shamiri has been held as an enemy combatant without charge at Guantánamo since 2002.
(16) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
(17) The interview, broadcast Sunday, was taped not long after the president tweeted on Friday night that he considered the media “the enemy of the American people”.
(18) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
(19) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
(20) So new newspaper enemies turn against the BBC, thrashing around for someone to blame for the danger newspapers are in.
Headhunter
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Example Sentences:
(1) Patten is understood to have ruled out any such plan after consultation with Egon Zehnder, the headhunting firm that recently delivered the "job spec" for the next director general to the BBC Trust.
(2) The fact is we are going to be collateral damage,” Another woman told Linde how she was currently being headhunted for a major job in London but had been asked to sign a contract guaranteeing her rights to permanent residency in the UK, something she said she could not do.
(3) Global headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles found that more than one in four (27%) chief executives in Germany had a background in engineering.
(4) As Bauckham cautions, though, however much schools are prepared to pay for headhunting, the problem of filling vacancies will persist until more fundamental issues about the shortage of candidates are addressed.
(5) Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, told Monday's Times that he has appointed headhunters Egon Zehnder to identify the scope and remit of the director general role that will be filled by Thompson's successor.
(6) After a year in London working for Elf Aquitaine, Welby was headhunted by Enterprise Oil, a company formed to exploit the privatisation of British Gas's North Sea assets.
(7) All the interviews supported the notion of an arbitrary norm for pay, which almost all firms felt was grossly and inappropriately high … The general view of search firms is that a lower norm would not materially affect what happens.” One headhunter said: “I think there are an awful lot of FTSE 100 CEOs who are pretty mediocre.” Another added: “I think that the wage drift over the past 10 years, or the salary drift, has been inexcusable, incomprehensible, and it is very serious for the social fabric of the country.” The findings are being made public just as an analysis by the High Pay Centre thinktank shows that the average pay of a chief executive – including pensions, share options and bonuses – stands at about £4.6m.
(8) The group, which has appointed headhunting firm Egon Zehnder to lead the search, did not expect to select a new chief executive until the outcome of the general election – and the new government's plans for Royal Mail – became known.
(9) Robert Peston The BBC's enthusiastic business editor, Peston would be on any headhunters' list although he will be seen as an outsider.
(10) Curtis, a Glaswegian with a clipped English accent, ran the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for 11 highly regarded years and had to be persuaded by headhunters to apply for the Tate Britain job, replacing Stephen Deuchar, who moved to the Art Fund.
(11) "Some of the Northern Rock staff brought their money to Barclays," said Hoffman – now one of the country's highest paid civil servants after being headhunted to become chief executive of the Newcastle-based lender.
(12) During a seven-hour congressional hearing, chief executives from eight leading US banks urged the Obama administration to adopt a light touch, claiming that proposals for a $500,000 cap on Wall Street salaries are already causing a frenzy of headhunting by European rivals.
(13) In appointing Mann to find Hester's replacement, Hampton is turning to one of the City's best-known headhunters.
(14) Headhunter Richard Willis, in a coffee chain (it was a Costa) on Gresham Street, agreed with this: "Bankers' pay may seem excessively large, but I don't think paying a proportion of the money you make to staff is a bad thing.
(15) Headhunters have been appointed and an advert has been placed for a successor to Jana Bennett, who has moved to become BBC Worldwide's president of worldwide networks and global iPlayer.
(16) His attempts to return to the City at the investment bank Greenhill were derailed by the Financial Services Authority while his role at headhunters Odgers Berndtson only lasted a week .
(17) In 2010 she moved to Bauer to publish Grazia during a period of significant growth before being headhunted to join Hearst UK, where she published brands including Cosmopolitan, Red and Esquire across print, digital and events platforms.
(18) The job went to Entwistle and the same headhunters have now been asked to begin the director general succession process.
(19) They have also got to be highly respected in the City.” So who might the headhunters place on their list?
(20) Meanwhile, public sector headhunters will also be out in force, searching for a new member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, following last week’s announcement of Kristin Forbes’s decision to turn down a second term and return to her native US.