(n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
Example Sentences:
(1) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
(2) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
(3) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested on the eve of Russia's presidential vote last weekend, days after an impromptu performance of an anti-Putin song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
(4) Here, we show that Ultrabithorax and even-skipped homeo domain proteins (UBX and EVE) of Drosophila melanogaster exert active and opposite effects on in vitro transcription when bound to a common site upstream of a core promoter.
(5) The warning was issued as Miller held negotiations with the industry on the eve of an agreement by the three main parties over a royal charter, which was announced on Friday.
(6) These results provide evidence that the eve protein acts combinatorially with other transcription factors to enhance its own expression.
(7) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(8) "If nothing is done … the government will be demoralised on the eve of Rio+20."
(9) On the eve of the latest suicide data for the UK, Madeleine Moon, chair of the all-party parliamentary group for suicide and self-harm prevention (APPG), said a third of local authorities in England had no suicide action plan.
(10) 1.49pm GMT RobertNeville asks: RobertNeville 14 February 2014 10:11am This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate Eve, I sometimes get the feeling that women's issues are cherry picked depending on where they live.
(11) Elsewhere, Lady Edith dares spend the night with her boyfriend, on the eve of his supposed departure to Germany, where he plans to become a citizen in order to divorce his wife on the grounds that she’s a lunatic, so that he may marry Edith.
(12) As candidates and supporters packed out cafes and community centres, desperate to shore up to support on caucus eve, life continued as normal for most Iowans on Monday – with many critical of how hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have conducted their campaigns.
(13) Later on Monday, Obama made a eve-of-convention visit to the flooded Louisiana coast to console victims of hurricane Isaac.
(14) The 69-kDa ttk protein has been shown to bind multiple sites within important regulatory elements of the pair-rule genes even-skipped (eve) and fushi tarazu (ftz), and it has been suggested that this protein may function as a repressor of ftz transcription.
(15) We suggest that the establishment of parasegment borders, a consequence of eve expression and witnessed by subsequent en expression, is a necessary precondition for homeotic gene expression in the visceral mesoderm.
(16) Adam and Eve sound like the original simple nuclear family, one plus one for life.
(17) Benefit claimants will face lie detector tests and will lose benefits for a month if found guilty of fiddling the system under proposals unveiled by Gordon Brown on the eve of today's Queen's speech .
(18) The eight people in the dock had been arrested following clashes between protesters and riot police at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012, the eve of Vladimir Putin's third inauguration as Russian president.
(19) The announcement comes on the eve of his departure from Downing Street tomorrow and is privately welcomed by Gordon Brown.
(20) The announcement came on the eve of the speech by the shadow chancellor, George Osborne , to the Conservative party conference in Manchester today.
Halloween
Definition:
(n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.
Example Sentences:
(1) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
(2) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
(3) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(4) Oh, wait... @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 Miles Bjornstam (@xeyednpainless) Appropriately enough for the day before Halloween, Stephen Drew has come back from the dead.
(5) October Everyone loves Halloween, and the PR team spots a perfect opportunity for Ed to mix this fun occasion with traditional politics: he'll do an old-school door-to-door canvas of local neighbourhoods, dressed as Freddie Krueger.
(6) Alex Wood, 22, claimed that he was simply reaching out for a friend’s mobile phone during a Halloween party where he was dressed as a pirate [see footnote].
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest At a Halloween party this year with her husband Stephen Belafonte and her three daughters (from left), Madison, Angel and Phoenix.
(8) Halloween should be an opportunity for people to show off their creativity, not their side boob.
(9) A few weeks ago she turned up at Jonathan Ross ’s fancy dress Halloween party as Scary Spice.
(10) Radiographic screening of Halloween candy is not effective.
(11) • For details of Fence's forthcoming Halloween Festival (in Glasgow on 31 October) and other dates, including New Year's Eve, see fencerecords.com .
(12) The Village Market complex in Gigiri district, which is also home to the US embassy and a United Nations outpost, has cancelled its Halloween family party this weekend.
(13) I know Halloween is SO last week, but if you can just hang on a tiny bit longer, we'll get the Strictly results show out of the way and move on.
(14) In the first study, 363 Halloween trick-or-treaters were instructed to only take one candy.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Halloween-tinged genre titles The Last Witch Hunter and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension also failed to inspire audiences.
(16) Halloween’s ghoulish festivities have turned into a dangerous culture that brands mentally ill people as “psychos or schizos or freaks”, a government minister warns.
(17) "Binders full of women," his badly chosen phrase, became the meme of the night and will likely haunt him past Halloween.
(18) Toca Boo (£1.99) Toca Boo may have been released for Halloween, but its appeal will last all year round.
(19) It claims the top publisher for global Google Play games downloads in November was Chinese firm Tiny Piece – maker of kid-apps like Baby Pet Vet Doctor, Pets Nail Salon and Halloween Spa – ahead of Gameloft, EA, King, Rovio, Disney and others.
(20) In the Halloween solar storms in 2003, the crew on the International Space Station was forced to take shelter in a shielded compartment until the radiation risk had passed.