(a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
(a.) Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
Example Sentences:
(1) On tour, meanwhile, the band have supported some true indie gentry: Thurston Moore, the Breeders, Stephen Malkmus.
(2) The Red Army attacked despotic gentry and evil landlords, people who exploited our country and exploited individuals," she says, recalling her reasons for joining.
(3) We previously reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding omega, which we call rpoZ (D. R. Gentry and R. R. Burgess, Gene 48:33-40, 1986).
(4) It was extremely tiring and cold, with nowhere to sit down and nothing they told us appeared to be correct.” Simon Gentry (@Simon_Gentry) The arrival of the #eurostar to collect us has now been pushed back to 8:30.
(5) Having sold his once-expensive books of literary theory for a derisory sum, he finds himself in a food store for "the super-gentry of SoHo and Tribeca", where the midsize piece of wild salmon he has selected has just been priced at $78.40 (2001 rates).
(6) Further analysis of conditioned media with antiserum to either a pro- [amino acid (aa) residues 1-220] or mature [aa 297-414] peptide of the TGF-beta 2 precursor suggests that TGF-beta 2, similar to TGF-beta 1 production in Chinese hamster ovary cells [Gentry et al., Mol.
(7) Kinsler at the plate and he gets jammed by a Price fastball but manages to muscle one just beyond the reach of the second baseman Zobrist who was pursuing the pop in right field - Gentry comes home and the Rangers have an important run back.
(8) Ikea has finally broken this silence, calling upon us to stop taking pictures of our food using our dearest role models: the landed gentry of 17th-century Europe.
(9) The stature of the Habsburg boys was greater than the poorest boys of contemporary London but compared unfavourably with the height of the English gentry and American cadets of the nineteenth century and, of course, with the height of today's populations.
(10) Having shocked purists by displaying a shark in formaldehyde and servicing his art with other dead and decaying animals, Hirst last week joined what once seemed a dying breed, the landed gentry.
(11) Previous studies (Gentry, L. E., Lioubin, M. N., Purchio, A. F., and Marquardt, H. (1988) Mol.
(12) Oh wait ... October 1, 2013 3.39am BST Rays 4 - Rangers 2, bottom of 7th Gentry skies to right center field and that's it for Texas in their half of the seventh.
(13) Gentry said it was only at that point that he felt Eurostar had let the passengers down.
(14) Landed gentry to self-made millionaires • Back to the top Duke of Westminster (Wealth: £7.9bn) Gerald Grosvenor and his family owe the bulk of their wealth to owning 77 hectares (190 acres) of Mayfair and Belgravia, adjacent to Buckingham Palace and prime London real estate.
(15) Best if you have a very big, paved garden, or a friend from the landed gentry.
(16) This is what happens when your city becomes a global reserve currency.” Before you know it a draughty Victorian terraced house in what was once a slum costs more than £1m Danny Dorling warns of the UK becoming a resort for the jet set: “London takes the role that Mayfair had in the past, where the gentry came in for the season.
(17) 1-beta-d-Arabinofuranosylthymine (ara-T), a metabolite of the sponge Tethya crypta, has shown selective activity against herpes simplex virus (HSV) replication (G. A. Gentry and J. F. Aswell, Virology 65:294-296, 1975).
(18) Good start in the home half - Gentry lines one off the glove of Escobar's great glove at shortstop, the ball heads to left field and the speedy left fielder is on.
(19) Matt Gentry, who previously looked after Murray's media commitments for Fuller's XIX Entertainment, will be managing director of the new company, working with Mahesh Bhupathi, who will be in charge of new business and sales, and Juan Martín del Potro's manager, Ugo Colombini, who will continue to be responsible for tournament-related activity.
(20) The same could happen on a global scale with the global gentry.” This model is not without benefits.
Poverty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(3) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(4) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
(5) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(6) Years of education completed and poverty status did not significantly affect folate concentrations; however, the prevalence of low folate concentrations among users of vitamin or mineral supplements was significantly lower than it was among nonusers in selected subgroups.
(7) "Due to much higher housing costs, one in seven of London's employees receives wages which are below the poverty threshold," says Mr Livingstone.
(8) After adjusting for health status, persons below poverty were shown to have significantly fewer physician contacts than persons above poverty.
(9) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(10) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(11) Mother's oligophrenia, poverty, and familial unbalance were underlying causes.
(12) The potential benefits [of AI research] are huge, since everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools AI may provide, but the eradication of disease and poverty are not unfathomable,” the letter reads.
(13) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
(14) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
(15) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
(16) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
(17) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
(18) Yet … real incomes did not rise and absolute poverty was unchanged."
(19) This is supposed to happen without pushing up energy bills excessively or extending fuel poverty.
(20) The cycle of events which leads to an impairment of the immune response in the malnourished child includes poverty, food deprivation and frequent infections.