(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(3) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(4) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(5) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
(6) Here petrol is practically a free gift,” Arias said.
(7) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
(8) The ball's lost, but Tiago gifts it back to Bale, who makes for the Atlético area with great purpose.
(9) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(10) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(11) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(12) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(13) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
(14) The lack of data on the fertilizing capacity of sperm in GIFT procedures in cases of male infertility is a real disadvantage and currently precludes the management of severe male infertility with this method.
(15) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(16) An attempt was made to correlate the intelligence level of three well-defined groups (Gifted, IQ 140; Normal, 95 IQ 105: Mentally retarded, 45 IQ 55) and the habituation rate and pattern of a GSR response to a series of light stimuli.
(17) And now Diskerud does the same, gifting Johnson a chance to cut inside from near the byline.
(18) A subset of 60 primiparous breast-feeding adolescents were enrolled in an investigator-blind, randomized, prospective study to compare the effects on breast-feeding duration of a standard hospital discharge feeding gift pack containing formula and a specially designed study pack that was free of infant formula.
(19) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
(20) The embryo transfer itself still requires a pelviscopy, which is only performed once fertilization of the oocyte has been confirmed; which is in contrast to GIFT, in which pelviscopy is an inherent part of each treatment cycle.
Wunderkind
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
(2) Perhaps the most sensational competition debut is the 25-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan with his black-comedy-cum-Oedipal heartbreaker Mommy .
(3) Juve replied with a brace of their own, both by the man who would become Ranieri's predecessor at Chelsea, Vialli, then an unforgettable late winner from a teenaged wunderkind called Del Piero.
(4) He has also worked for several long-established companies (Monte-Carlo Ballet, Geneva Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Cullberg Ballet in Sweden, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York); as well as in several duets – Zero Degrees (2005) with British-Bengali wunderkind Akram Khan , Dunas (2009) with flamenco dancer María Pagés , and Play (2009) with Paris-based Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa .
(5) Andy Hornby Photograph: Getty Images Andy Hornby, former HBOS boss The former wunderkind of British business who came top of his 800-strong class at Harvard and rose to become a board director of Asda by the age of 32 was the man running HBOS when it had to be rescued by Lloyds.
(6) Later, as the packed room erupted over Nigerian wunderkind WizKid's Azonto Freestyle.
(7) After saying that there would be an announcement on Monday, Solskjaer suddenly reappeared and produced Mats Moller Daehli, an 18-year-old Norwegian wunderkind from the manager's old club, Molde.
(8) Not that anyone seemed to have told Ben Barry , the wunderkind who started his own model agency at the age of 16, who for reasons best known to himself chose to deliver a Harvard Business School first-year PowerPoint lecture on fashion marketing.
(9) You see, despite the glowing reports that regularly appear in the international media featuring Iceland as some kind of "economic recovery wunderkind" – which are usually grossly exaggerated – the present government has failed to live up to expectations.
(10) Is there a more remarkable wunderkind at Cannes 2014 than the 25-year-old Québécois Xavier Dolan, making his competition debut with Mommy, his fifth feature film as director.
(11) While Thompson appears to have been the technical wunderkind of the Derp operation, the group is still active.
(12) The screen adaptation , however, finessed its narrative problems and begat a sleek and vividly thrilling movie from the then unknown wunderkind Steven Spielberg.
(13) NEXT WEEK Discovering just what happened to Ajax's English wunderkind, Sonny Pike, and the player who has played for clubs in six capital cities.
(14) His latest single, Wavvy , has received Twitter love from the likes of Grimes and Devonté Hynes, and his upcoming mixtape has been produced by current wunderkinds Brenmar and Nguzunguzu among others.
(15) Consider, for instance, last week's excited headlines over the fact that American venture capitalists had invested $50m in Buzzfeed , the wunderkind of website growth (currently claimed at 75% a year).
(16) A marketing wunderkinds slant on the Easter egg, the Kinder Surprise is often placed strategically in check outs within toddler reach, and the attraction more often lies with the plastic toy inside it, rather than the promised calcium-rich chocolate hit.
(17) No whiff of misdemeanour ever attached itself, however, to the other rising stars, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Helen Whately, Jeremy Brier, Mark Clarke – all young, all described as wunderkinder , all brought in as part of this Milk Tray advert politics (in fairness, Blair started it) where a fit person, in black, is held to be capable of anything.
(18) First, there was the wunderkind author of Goodbye, Columbus (1959), a landmark postwar debut.
(19) As copies of the original go, this stuff's almost as faithful as Faithful , that 1976 album by Todd Rundgren – a favourite, incidentally, of Tame Impala, and the feeling's mutual – wherein the skinny 70s wunderkind reworked psych-era classics including the Fabs' Rain and Strawberry Fields Forever .
(20) He isn’t Hillary Clinton , gritting painfully through every interaction with a voter or a reporter, but nor is he some sort of retail wunderkind like Bill Clinton who feeds off of human interaction.