(1) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(2) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(3) Bath-shaped recession If viewed huffily by his own peers, Sorrell is feted elsewhere, with invitations to the Obama inauguration and to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
(4) There, he has been feted by the king for making investments abroad to keep the kingdom fed.
(5) Biggs wasn't a cuddly heart of gold cockney character to be feted .
(6) Carney arrived at Threadneedle Street by tube shortly before 7am, ahead of most camera crews and photographers hoping to catch a glimpse of the governor feted as the rock star of central banking.
(7) But it may not have been coincidence that two months later, Farage was being feted by Murdoch’s the Times, which dubbed the controversial leader “Man of the Moment” .
(8) Bond doesn't expect WI sales at local fetes and markets to be affected as the biscuits and preserves "have been made in members' kitchens in limited quantities, as opposed to the WI Foods products that are produced by small-scale family manufacturers in larger quantities for the general public".
(9) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(10) And as for his much-feted reticence and unwillingness to be made into a 'personality' himself well, you'd have to say that was the icing on the cake.
(11) While here they were being feted, going to the match, invited to the House of Commons to meet the all-party football group, as well as a return to the scene of their triumph, Middlesbrough.
(12) In 1896, Bridget Driscoll was attending a summer fete in Crystal Palace, London, when a car travelling at a “tremendous pace” – somewhere under its top speed of eight miles per hour – struck and killed her.
(13) They are its flower arrangers and cleaners, its priests’ housekeepers and its soup kitchen operators, its fete organisers and its catechists .
(14) Two years ago Leahy had appeared to retire on a high when he was feted by outgoing chairman David Reid as "undoubtedly one of the leading businessmen of his generation … [who] has put in place a strategy which can secure the progress of Tesco for years go come."
(15) But by feting two cynical politicians who have sought to harness religious feelings for their own agendas, as Abbas is doing now with the furore over the Jerusalem mosques and Peres did nearly 40 years ago – when, as defence minister, he authorised the first settlements in the West Bank, in the hope the settlers would support him against his rival Yitzhak Rabin – the pope helped perpetuate the myth.
(16) Harris, for example, has been feted by Spotify, but also played Apple’s iTunes Festival in London this month.
(17) Sisi was feted when he attended the World Economic Forum in Davos last month.
(18) The first African American to run the Department of Justice was feted by the president as the “people’s lawyer”: a champion of voter rights, same-sex marriage, sentencing reform and civil liberties.
(19) Though he would go on to become feted by the fashion establishment, he never lost the anarchic approach of his youth.
(20) Oh, and by the way: While the Tories were celebrating the defeat of Ed Balls, I wonder how many of them reflected that the much-feted powers of the Bank of England to aim at sufficient growth to achieve the inflation target were the work of Brown and Balls, as was the curbing of Tony Blair’s wish to take the UK into the euro.
Soiree
Definition:
(n.) An evening party; -- distinguished from levee, and matinee.
Example Sentences:
(1) The soiree's proclaimed objective is to build a "caucus of common sense" with Senate Republicans.
(2) At the Downing Street soiree, Gadhia said companies should set their own gender-balance record, put senior individuals in charge of attaining the goals, and include the targets among those used to set bonuses.
(3) You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think a little more information would be useful to make up your mind whether there was anything untoward about the Brooks-Cameron soiree.
(4) If Ford's recent London show was his usual immaculate nightclub-ready glamourpusses, this was a similar muse – but she was hosting a soiree at home.
(5) Best drink Moët Ice Imperial at the Moët beach sunset soirees – champagne on ice is surprisingly nice (I could have been in Mad Men )… Best music Alberto Iglesias's score for Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In .
(6) In fact, I think the scene in which the bug-like Gregor creeps up on the little soiree his family have organised for their three new lodgers is mostly an excruciating confirmation of conventional music's role as a pro-forma social construct.
(7) The menu was first posted by a Brisbane chef who claimed he used to work at the unnamed restaurant which hosted the Liberal National Party soiree and a staff member who was catering the dinner had taken a photo of the menu.
(8) • A fine summer, and the party season was kicked off by Westbourne Communications with a "classy soiree at Carlton Gardens West, in the heart of Westminster", according to lobbyists' magazine Public Affairs News .
(9) One of the "carrots" was inviting a young Saudi member of AQAP who was hiding out in Yemen but claimed to have seen the error of his un-Qu'ranic ways to attend his private Ramadan soiree.
(10) A new controversy over the British Museum's stewardship of the 2,500-year-old Elgin Marbles erupted yesterday with the disclosure that corporate clients and millionaires are being allowed to hold costume dinners and soirees around the priceless artefacts.
(11) But Saturday night’s soiree was deemed private, though there were some 200 guests in attendance, including Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault and former Baltimore Orioles player Brian Roberts.
(12) Updated at 11.35pm GMT 11.09pm GMT Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull on 'nothing like a dame' at a soiree for TV executives in Canberra last night.
(13) The four-times Italian PM said that the soirees he held at his Arcore villa near Milan were simply "elegant dinners", though other witnesses painted a different picture.
(14) The disclosure that the museum is using the marbles for such themed dinners and soirees - just days after Greek experts came to inspect the marbles in the continuing controversy over conservation and ownership - has shocked academics, MPs and former trustees.