(1) Alisdair Aird and Fiona Stapley, the joint editors of the guide, said in their foreword: “Although around 28 pubs are still closing every week, this is about half the number that were closing a couple of years ago, which is good news all round.
(2) In a foreword to a report on the importance of world-class universities, Russell Group chair Professor Michael Arthur and director general Wendy Piatt say it is vital the government does not cut funding.
(3) As Hague writes in a foreword to the guidance, it is "in police stations, detention centres and court houses that the state exerts its greatest powers over individuals and so where fairness, human dignity, liberty and justice are most critical."
(4) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
(5) "The foreword was overtly a political statement signed by the prime minister, so it was his wording and his comments.
(6) Javid wrote about his early life for a pamphlet with a foreword by Major, which spotlighted the working-class backgrounds of more than a dozen Conservative MPs.
(7) In his foreword to Scotland's Future – Your guide to an independent Scotland, Salmond said: "That is the real democratic value of independence – the people of Scotland are in charge.
(8) "Many countries of a comparable size and world influence would dearly love to possess even a tiny handful of our leading universities," the foreword says.
(9) Kelly's foreword says: "In the early stages there was also a distinct failure of leadership in the house and in the political parties in dealing with the situation as it developed."
(10) Here's an extract from the foreword from Sir David Nicholson , the NHS chief executive.
(11) In the foreword, iconic black activist Angela Davis describes Shakur as a "compassionate human being with an unswerving commitment to justice".
(12) In a foreword to the report, Kjaerum calls for all member states to sign and ratify the Council of Europe Istanbul convention, which demands more protection for women, as well as action from private and public organisations.
(13) With a foreword by Martin Parr , the man who matters most in the world of the photobook, it arrived in Arles with buzz attached from the recent photobook festival at Bristol co-curated by Parr.
(14) "It's vital that in straitened economic times, the UK government does not make the grave mistake of making cuts to higher education and research funding or spreading limited funds too thinly," the foreword says.
(15) Nigel Farage rightly dismissed Ukip's 2010 election manifesto as total drivel, then tried to distance himself from such nonsense as bringing in uniforms for taxi drivers, until it emerged he'd written the foreword.
(16) In the foreword to the 2010 act, Cameron and Nick Clegg wrote that they were making the NHS "more accountable to patients" and freeing staff from "excessive bureaucracy and top-down control".
(17) In her foreword to the consultation, which will run until 11 January 2017, Sturgeon writes: “In May 2016 the current Scottish government was elected with a clear mandate that the Scottish parliament should have the right to hold an independence referendum if there was clear and sustained evidence that independence had become the preferred option of a majority of the Scottish people – or if there was a significant and material change in the circumstances that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will.” She adds: “The UK government’s recent statements on its approach to leaving the EU raise serious concerns for the Scottish government.
(18) The former home secretary, Lord Hurd of Westwell, says in a foreword to the report that the net is being too widely drawn for IPP sentences being used not only for those who pose a continuing risk to public safety but also for those who are the most vulnerable due to mental illness or a learning disability.
(19) Polanski, who was out of town when the attacks took place, writes in the foreword: "Even after 40 years, it is difficult to write about Sharon.
(20) The foreword to the book was written by the lawyer Gareth Peirce, who has worked on countless such cases.
Introductory
Definition:
(a.) Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
(2) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(3) The results reached are to be considered as an introductory information for further inquiry on the more extensive methodical basis.
(4) This introductory chapter has presented an overview of how retroviruses replicate and how they are classified within the family Retroviridae.
(5) Two hundred and forty-two female college students (53% Mexican-American, 47% Anglo-American), from introductory psychology classes completed a survey concerning violence occurring in dating situations.
(6) This introductory overview highlights the issues that are addressed in this Clinics devoted to non-small cell lung cancer.
(7) In this introductory paper to a series of papers analyzing the specificity of action of the various chemical and biological immunosuppressive agents on the blastogenic responses of T and B lymphocytes, optimal concentrations of cells and blastogenic substances and other parameters were tested, and the kinetics of transformation was investigated in detail.
(8) The former Liverpool, Chelsea and Real Madrid coach made an immediate impact, interrupting a scheduled squad day off by summoning his players for an introductory meeting and training session on Friday afternoon.
(9) These two developments had a catalytic effect: after introductory courses had begun in 1881, a complete medical faculty was established in Lausanne in 1890, enabling the former Academy inherited from the days of Bernese administration to be transformed into a fullscale university (1890).
(10) June 2015 Former Google employee Joanna Shields holds an introductory meeting with the company, weeks after taking up her post as minister for internet safety and security.
(11) The resulting group OSCE (GOSCE) was used as an introductory session in two residential refresher courses for general practitioners.
(12) Following some introductory mention of the physiology of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and some notes on the physiology of postbronchitic emphysema and its cardiac, hepatic, renal and neurological sequelae, a personal method of hyperbaric treatment is described.
(13) Blood samples were taken every 4 h for 24 h during the introductory period and after 24, 51 and 79 days of treatment.
(14) And better late than never, here's a link to Mario Draghi's opening statement explaining why the ECB cut rates: Introductory statement to the press conference .
(15) Now some agents are taking the process a step further with "sale by informal tender" contracts for buyers who make sealed bids – the contracts commit the successful buyer to paying an introductory or finder's fee to the agent, usually around 2-2.5% of the cost of the property.
(16) In a single month the company meets with five ministers: the home secretary, Theresa May, holds bilateral talks; Francis Maude, the minister of state for trade and investment, joins Google at a Tech City event; Lucy Neville-Rolfe, the intellectual property minister, discusses copyright; the international development minister, Grant Shapps, meets with Google Foundation, the firm’s charitable arm, to talk about “innovation in the not-for-profit sector”; and Justin Tomlinson, minister for disabled people, agrees to an introductory meeting.
(17) Her rhetoric hits a modest peak in the introductory remarks: "This book is the result of a long practical experience, a lively curiosity and a real love for cookery.
(18) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(19) However, a Tesco Bank spokesman said that unlike some other rivals, it was not pulling customers in with an introductory interest rate that would expire after a certain period.
(20) Therefore, the course titled 'Introductory Lectures on Occupational and Environmental Health' was planned for the 2nd-year students with the purpose of giving them the motivation to become occupational health physicians.