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Foreword


Definition:

  • (n.) A preface.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Word


Definition:

  • (n.) The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
  • (n.) Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.
  • (n.) Talk; discourse; speech; language.
  • (n.) Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.
  • (n.) Signal; order; command; direction.
  • (n.) Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.
  • (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.
  • (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.
  • (v. i.) To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To express in words; to phrase.
  • (v. t.) To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.
  • (v. t.) To flatter with words; to cajole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These 150 women, the word acknowledges, were killed for being women.
  • (2) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (3) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
  • (4) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (5) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
  • (6) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (7) The government has blamed a clumsily worded press release for the furore, denying there would be random checks of the public.
  • (8) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
  • (9) The force has given "words of advice" to eight people, all under 25, over messages posted online.
  • (10) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
  • (11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (12) There on the street is Young Jo whose last words were, "I am wery symbolic, sir."
  • (13) Sagan had a way of not wasting words, even playfully.
  • (14) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (15) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
  • (16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (18) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (19) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (20) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.

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