(a.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
(n.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those outside Los Angeles, including San Franciscans and New Yorkers, assume some rivalry must exist between these major American cities, yet most Angelenos I know look forward to their their trips to NYC and would no sooner entertain the notion of a rivalry with San Francisco than they would a rivalry with Disneyland.
(2) Serra’s mandate only arose because the Vatican temporarily disbanded the Jesuits in 1767, and many of the mistakes he and the Franciscans made were the result of inexperience, according to Professor Starr.
(3) Round the corner was a tiny brick house called the Dwelling Place, a homeless shelter for women run by the Catholic Franciscan Sisters.
(4) From the back porch I can watch the fog roll in across the San Franciscan skyline.
(5) Campos has introduced a proposal that would make it available to any San Franciscan – male, female or transgender – who could benefit from it.
(6) I didn’t know that existed Trent Loos, farmer and radio host “I find regular Americans incredibly exotic,” the native San Franciscan said.
(7) Americans have been quick to back the nuns with protest vigils outside churches and a 50,000-strong petition, while seven groups of US Franciscan friars denounced the Vatican crackdown as "excessive".
(8) Pope Francis said on Monday his US trip in September will be limited to Washington, New York and Philadelphia and he will not go to California to canonise Junípero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan priest who founded missions there.
(9) Accredited classics of psychedelic art – museum pieces by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and the San Franciscan poster designers – rub up against fleeting paper products that are now extinct.
(10) The Christian denominations which jointly manage the church, including the Greek Orthodox, Franciscans and Armenians, have begun a campaign to win support in their battle with Hagihon.
(11) What appalled white San Franciscans was, of course, the craziness and random nature of the killings.
(12) Serra knew he couldn’t keep California a Franciscan mission protectorate forever.
(13) The perspective of Franciscans and Dominicans of that era was: God will punish us for the way we treat the Indians, so we’ve got to protect them as some kind of atonement,” Starr told the Guardian.
(14) "A recession calls into question our assumption that we can have it all and that we can have it now," says Hazel Buckley, a Franciscan sister.
(15) The only reason I’m here today writing this piece is because my ancestors didn’t live near any of the state’s 21 Franciscan missions.
(16) Elias Castillo , a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, spent seven years researching and reading books published by the Franciscans, which include letters written by Serra himself.
(17) Forty-two churches have been torched, and so have many other buildings: the beautiful 19th-century villa that housed the Giza governorate office on the Pyramids road, the Franciscan girls' school in Beni Sweif south of Cairo, the library of veteran journalist Mohamed Heikal on the Qanater road, and more.
(18) We’re throwing a penalty flag on Ed Lee for unnecessary roughness on the homeless.” One positive outcome from the Super Bowl, however, is the surge of support for homeless residents from housed San Franciscans.
(19) They’re only entitled to a hearing,” said André LeMay, a Franciscan Brother working in the church shelter on Monday.
(20) The food heritage which Americans enjoy today owes its great diversity to the influences of many ethnic groups--the native Indians, Franciscan friars in California, Mexican-Americans, the British, the French, the Creoles, and later, northern Europeans and those of Mediterranean stock.
Guardian
Definition:
(v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
(v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.
(a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(4) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(5) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(6) Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian Because health is devolved, the Welsh government can do things differently from England.
(7) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
(8) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(9) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
(10) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(11) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(12) The Guardian has a mortgage advice service, provided by London & Country
(13) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(14) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(15) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(16) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(17) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(18) But there were red faces in the MoD when it withdrew details of more than £14m in expenditure following questions from the Guardian.
(19) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.