(n.) The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(4) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(5) As James said in Friday’s announcement, his goal was to win championships, and in Miami he was able to reach the NBA Finals every year.
(6) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(7) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(8) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(9) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(10) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(11) Today we have evacuated six bodies from inside the fuselage,” Supriyadi said on Friday.
(12) 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.
(13) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(14) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
(15) Anthony Ray Hinton, 58, was released on Friday from an Alabama prison.
(16) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
(17) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(18) Disagreements over the language of the text continued throughout Friday.
(19) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
(20) After Paris, Europe may never feel as free again | Nick Cohen Read more On Friday evening six separate attacks took place across Paris in what the French president, François Hollande, described as an “act of war”.
Sabbath
Definition:
(n.) A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day.
(n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival.
(n.) Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tour begins 22 November, NIA, Birmingham, thenia.co.uk Black Sabbath Still without original drummer Bill Ward, but with their first US No 1 album (the Rick Rubin-produced 13), the undisputed godfathers of metal play a handful of UK shows.
(2) Bill Ward has threatened to pull out of the Black Sabbath reunion.
(3) Iommi, who was recently diagnosed with early-stage lymphoma, is making "excellent progress", according to the Black Sabbath website, "and is looking forward to getting back out on the road".
(4) On Sunday, gun control advocates plan to hold a "National Gun Prevention Sabbath", where they say 150 houses of worship will advocate a plan to prevent gun violence, and people who have lost friends and relatives to gun violence will display their photographs.
(5) Far-right activists had organised their protest for the Jewish sabbath in an area with a 40% Jewish population.
(6) The band, who were informed by British post-punks such as Wire and the Pop Group rather than hardcore heroes such as Black Sabbath and the Stooges, were initially unpopular.
(7) On the Sabbath the fleet of earthmovers that ordinarily grind the route to Lombrum – ferrying gravel to the detention centre building site where a crew of 300 labor to finish new staff accommodation – are resting in their compound.
(8) But the evidence from Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was that "some Christians will not work on the Sabbath (except for mercies), others may work only in an emergency".
(9) Black Sabbath couldn't not laugh their way through the intro to Ringo.
(10) "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy": this commandment is regarded as so important that (as our children will learn when they flock into the school library to read the Gove presentation copy) a man caught gathering sticks on the sabbath was summarily stoned to death by the whole community, on direct orders from God.
(11) It’s happening to Christians now right across the Middle East and Africa, and the dangers of not speaking up have been made clear since the Paris attacks, when innocent people were gunned down mercilessly while shopping for food for the Shabbat [Jewish Sabbath].
(12) During childbirth the health of the mother is primary and supercedes all other rules or laws, including those of Sabbath observance.
(13) Meanwhile, this year's nominees for best rock album include Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and Neil Young.
(14) Click here to listen Destruction Unit - named one of the Best Live Bands in Rolling Stone - have released two albums this year: Void, which came out in February, and now there's Deep Trip, which as we say joins the dots between metal and psychedelia, like Black Sabbath riding a White Bicycle .
(15) Cohn had predicted the sea change; he had fallen out of love with pop just as the Beatles-led consensus years came to end: pop was split, hard left and right, between Radio 1 factory‑farmed pop (“Sugar, Sugar”) and self-conscious, album-based heavy rock ( Led Zeppelin , Jethro Tull , Black Sabbath ).
(16) The train skirts the main Jewish ultra-orthodox enclaves of the city, where stones are thrown at cars breaking the sabbath prohibition and women are instructed to wear modest dress (“closed blouse, with long sleeves, long skirt – no trousers, no tight-fitting clothes,” according to the text of wall posters), and up to French Hill, the site of the first post-1967 Jewish settlement across the green line and later, of numerous bus bombings carried out by Palestinian militants.
(17) Avraham was not the protector she had imagined those Sabbath nights back in the East End, when he had bewitched her with his talk.
(18) The appeal tribunal took that as proof that "many Christians will work on the Sabbath".
(19) I'm not holding out for a 'big piece' of the action (money) like some kind of blackmail deal … I want a contract that shows some respect to me and my family, a contract that will honour all that I've brought to Black Sabbath since its beginning."
(20) In 2015, as Jewish communities across Europe were reeling from antisemitic attacks in France and Denmark, Muslims organised to stand guard around the synagogue in Oslo while those inside offered Sabbath prayers.