(n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
(n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
(n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(2) After the emperor's death, they are named after an era chosen for them; thus Hirohito is known exclusively in Japan as Showa Emperor.
(3) The viral titer was 10(1.8) tissue culture infective doses (TCID) higher than that of commercial ERA vaccine.
(4) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(5) We have now entered the era of climate change induced loss and damage.
(6) In an era when citizens expect choice, the council argue, the old model of local government no longer works.” Northants uses the word “right-sourcing” to describe the process of offloading services.
(7) He is seeing clubbers with their hands in the air again: "In the dubstep era everyone just stood there and nodded their heads.
(8) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(9) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
(10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(11) The new era of medical economics emphasizes prospective payment and alternative delivery systems.
(12) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
(13) A “shock to the system” is precisely how his adviser Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly described the new era.
(14) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(15) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
(16) The modern era of leg lengthening has therefore brought two things: new technical versatility to correct complex and coexisting deformities and new concepts of the biology of lengthening that are not device specific and can be applied with most lengthening devices.
(17) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(18) These infections must have been more common in the pre-antibiotic era and perhaps a search of the older literature would have been more fruitful.
(19) In 1994, he appeared as himself in the television special Smashey and Nicey, the End of an Era.
(20) The club’s increase in capacity from 35,000 at the Boleyn Ground to 60,000 at the former Olympic Stadium also makes it the biggest and most successful stadium move in Britain in the modern era.” The club’s vice-chairman, Karren Brady, added: “David Sullivan, David Gold and I have always believed in the West Ham fanbase and knew we could fill the new stadium “Reports consistently show that we have highest average capacity in the Premier League and every game in our final season at the Boleyn Ground sold out within days of going on sale.
Gingerbread
Definition:
(n.) A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Fiona Weir, chief executive of single parents charity Gingerbread, said today: "We fear that many parents will be pressured by their ex and by the new charges to stay out of the new system, and instead will enter into a private arrangement that offers no guarantee of regular, reliable income for their children."
(2) He also helped to organise a Woodcraft group, the local Gingerbread group, a charitable furniture scheme and the local credit union.
(3) However, the single-parent organisation Gingerbread said families with young children would soon feel the pain of the budget.
(4) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(5) Updated at 4.21pm GMT 4.12pm GMT Benefits changes to push thousands more into poverty - Gingerbread Gingerbread, the UK charity for single parents, wasn't impressed with the autumn statement.
(6) She was president of the National Association of Bereavement Counsellors, Gingerbread and the Patients' Association, and devoted much of her time to campaigning for improved care for the elderly, sitting on the Royal Commission on Funding of Care of the Elderly (1998-99).
(7) It points to Google's own platform data , which shows that at the beginning of December 24.1% of devices accessing Google Play were running Android 2.3 "Gingerbread", released in December 2010, and 18.6% running version Android 4.0.x, released in October 2011.
(8) It started with Android 1.5 “Cupcake”, and continued through the alphabet via Android 1.6 “Donut”, Android 2.0 “Eclair”, Android 2.2 “Froyo” (frozen yoghurt), Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”, Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” and most recently Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”.
(9) While the Resolution Foundation and the Gingerbread Foundation for single mothers welcomed the £300m allocated by the government, they were alarmed by these other effects.
(10) Among those who signed the letter were Fiona Weir, the chief executive of single parents charity Gingerbread, Alison Garnham, chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), and Anne Marie Carrie, the chief executive of Barnardo's.
(11) Most anticipated "showstopper" bake Gingerbread reconstruction of the Sydney Opera House This year's Great British Bake Off final is on Tues, 8pm, BBC2
(12) Berlin's Hotel Adlon, which overlooks the Brandenburg Gate and is sandwiched protectively between the US and British embassies, knows how to welcome its guests the traditional German Christmas way – with huge amounts of luxury gingerbread.
(13) John’s gingerbread Colosseum was amazing,” says Sue.
(14) Fiona Weir, the chief executive of Gingerbread, a charity for single parents , said she was concerned that the delayed introduction of universal credit has meant many millions of people simply aren't being informed about how the programme will affect them.
(15) In its evidence, Gingerbread, which lobbies for the rights of single parents, also warns: "While sanctions may be necessary for a small minority of claimants who deliberately evade their jobseeking responsibilities, the current high levels of sanctions across all [jobseeker's allowance] claimants reveal a system in crisis and one that is systematically failing single parent jobseekers."
(16) The letter's signatories, who include representatives from the NUT and ATL, the Child Poverty Action Group, Unison, Gingerbread, Children England, the Grandparents' Association and the Child Accident Prevention Trust, call for new statutory guidelines that say a route can only be deemed safe if a child of 11 is able to walk it alone.
(17) But he was missing that spark of invention that Whaite and Morton were able to conjure up, whether creating a gingerbread barn or a colosseum.
(18) Gingerbread's chief executive, Fiona Weir, said: "We are very unhappy at the heavy reliance being placed by the commission on charging parents to use the future child maintenance service in order to meet their own costs targets, and the admission by the commission to the committee that cost considerations will reduce the amount of collectable maintenance arrears owed to children that they are willing to collect."
(19) The home of the gingerbread latte and caramel macchiatto will be targeted by protesters with a series of actions that illustrate how the coffee chain has become the focus for a series of political battles.
(20) Over time, challenges became more perilously architectural – a croquembouche (choux puff tower) in season two, and in season three a gingerbread building (the eventual winner, John, re-created the Roman Colosseum).