(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) He said: “I want [homes] marketed first and sold first to the people of this country, not to oligarchs from the Planet Zog.” When we showed the mayor’s office Galliard’s plans to sell to Hong Kongers first, a spokesman called the adverts “shameful”.
(3) The concordat is a voluntary agreement based on goodwill, and the mayor expects every company signed up to honour their pledge.” Galliard confirmed it is launching the development in Hong Kong this weekend and then in the UK next weekend.
(4) Because Galliard sold to these buyers first – many of whom are in the UK – it argues that Hong Kong was not given priority.
(5) In December 2013 Galliard, along with other major developers such as Barratt and Taylor Wimpey, signed a pledge that they would give UK purchasers an equal chance to buy, amid widespread concern about the number of developments pre-sold to investors abroad.
(6) Dinesh Kumar was queueing outside a Galliard development for the second time this year, after buying another property in Canary Wharf.
(7) Only this week at the Conservative party conference, Johnson – whose Uxbridge constituency is just minutes away from the Galliard development – demanded that new homes in the capital be sold first to Londoners.
(8) Priced from £180,000, Galliard Homes is building studio and one-bed apartments minutes from local shops and only a half-hour tube journey from central London.
(9) As the rain started pouring, Galliard staff brought out umbrellas to the waiting crowd and reminded them that they had to hand them back before they went home, before letting them shelter inside the complex.
(10) The tool used to collect the data was a precoded questionnaire developed by Jones & Galliard.
(11) We will discuss with Galliard the specifics of this particular development of which we understand the majority is available – and has been sold – exclusively in the UK.
(12) Guardian Money was alerted to Galliard’s decision to sell to Chinese investors ahead of the British by a recent emigrant to the city, who spotted its promotion.
(13) The developer, Galliard, is selling 228 flats, starting at £199,000 for a 28 sq metre (301 sq ft) “studio suite” up to £355,000 for a one-bedroom apartment, on a first-come, first-served basis.
(14) It emerges that Galliard has a database of private buyers who purchase multiple properties (in other words, major buy-to-let landlords) and who are given first opportunity to buy.
(15) For UK buyers, the doors remain closed until next weekend, when Galliard launches what is left of the development to the public here.
(16) Because they are being built under government rules allowing a change of use from offices to residential , Galliard has not had to provide any social housing on the site.
(17) But if you are British, you may find yourself at the back of the queue: Galliard is putting the flats on sale to investors in Hong Kong this weekend, one week before they go on sale in the UK – despite a written promise by the developer to give British buyers at least an equal chance.
(18) But this week, in material sent to potential buyers in Hong Kong, Galliard told investors they could snap up apartments “releasing one week ahead of UK” in what it dubbed a “world exclusive”.
(19) I got one this morning and it clearly shows that one of the companies – Galliard Homes – who signed the pledge is still selling overseas ahead of buyers in the UK.” Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the GLA who campaigns on housing issues, said: “The wider issue is that developers in the London market are simply not meeting the housing needs of ordinary Londoners.
(20) Four months later Galliard – the second biggest housebuilder in London – stood shoulder-to-shoulder with mayor Boris Johnson (right), with a separate undertaking.
Music
Definition:
(n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
(n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
(n.) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
(n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
(n.) Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
(n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
(2) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(3) 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.
(4) Subjects' musical backgrounds were evaluated with a survey questionnaire.
(5) On raw music scores a sex-linked, time-of-day-induced priming effect was due to the prior presentation of CVs--that is, cognitive priming.
(6) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(7) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(8) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
(9) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
(10) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(11) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(12) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(13) The musical would begin previews in Chicago on December 21, and move to Broadway in February.
(14) His coding talent attracted attention early: a music-recommendation program he wrote as a teenager brought approaches from both Microsoft and AOL.
(15) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(16) In film, music videos and TV shows, especially those traditionally consumed by a young demographic, we are used to seeing women stripping and frolicking with one another.
(17) If we’ve a duty to pass folk music on, we should also bring it up to date and make it relevant to our times,” he says.
(18) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
(19) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
(20) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.