(n.) A kind of plain sweet cake seasoned with ginger, and sometimes made in fanciful shapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Fiona Weir, chief executive of single parents charity Gingerbread, said today: "We fear that many parents will be pressured by their ex and by the new charges to stay out of the new system, and instead will enter into a private arrangement that offers no guarantee of regular, reliable income for their children."
(2) He also helped to organise a Woodcraft group, the local Gingerbread group, a charitable furniture scheme and the local credit union.
(3) However, the single-parent organisation Gingerbread said families with young children would soon feel the pain of the budget.
(4) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(5) Updated at 4.21pm GMT 4.12pm GMT Benefits changes to push thousands more into poverty - Gingerbread Gingerbread, the UK charity for single parents, wasn't impressed with the autumn statement.
(6) She was president of the National Association of Bereavement Counsellors, Gingerbread and the Patients' Association, and devoted much of her time to campaigning for improved care for the elderly, sitting on the Royal Commission on Funding of Care of the Elderly (1998-99).
(7) It points to Google's own platform data , which shows that at the beginning of December 24.1% of devices accessing Google Play were running Android 2.3 "Gingerbread", released in December 2010, and 18.6% running version Android 4.0.x, released in October 2011.
(8) It started with Android 1.5 “Cupcake”, and continued through the alphabet via Android 1.6 “Donut”, Android 2.0 “Eclair”, Android 2.2 “Froyo” (frozen yoghurt), Android 2.3 “Gingerbread”, Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”, Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” and most recently Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean”.
(9) While the Resolution Foundation and the Gingerbread Foundation for single mothers welcomed the £300m allocated by the government, they were alarmed by these other effects.
(10) Among those who signed the letter were Fiona Weir, the chief executive of single parents charity Gingerbread, Alison Garnham, chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), and Anne Marie Carrie, the chief executive of Barnardo's.
(11) Most anticipated "showstopper" bake Gingerbread reconstruction of the Sydney Opera House This year's Great British Bake Off final is on Tues, 8pm, BBC2
(12) Berlin's Hotel Adlon, which overlooks the Brandenburg Gate and is sandwiched protectively between the US and British embassies, knows how to welcome its guests the traditional German Christmas way – with huge amounts of luxury gingerbread.
(13) John’s gingerbread Colosseum was amazing,” says Sue.
(14) Fiona Weir, the chief executive of Gingerbread, a charity for single parents , said she was concerned that the delayed introduction of universal credit has meant many millions of people simply aren't being informed about how the programme will affect them.
(15) In its evidence, Gingerbread, which lobbies for the rights of single parents, also warns: "While sanctions may be necessary for a small minority of claimants who deliberately evade their jobseeking responsibilities, the current high levels of sanctions across all [jobseeker's allowance] claimants reveal a system in crisis and one that is systematically failing single parent jobseekers."
(16) The letter's signatories, who include representatives from the NUT and ATL, the Child Poverty Action Group, Unison, Gingerbread, Children England, the Grandparents' Association and the Child Accident Prevention Trust, call for new statutory guidelines that say a route can only be deemed safe if a child of 11 is able to walk it alone.
(17) But he was missing that spark of invention that Whaite and Morton were able to conjure up, whether creating a gingerbread barn or a colosseum.
(18) Gingerbread's chief executive, Fiona Weir, said: "We are very unhappy at the heavy reliance being placed by the commission on charging parents to use the future child maintenance service in order to meet their own costs targets, and the admission by the commission to the committee that cost considerations will reduce the amount of collectable maintenance arrears owed to children that they are willing to collect."
(19) The home of the gingerbread latte and caramel macchiatto will be targeted by protesters with a series of actions that illustrate how the coffee chain has become the focus for a series of political battles.
(20) Over time, challenges became more perilously architectural – a croquembouche (choux puff tower) in season two, and in season three a gingerbread building (the eventual winner, John, re-created the Roman Colosseum).
Parliament
Definition:
(n.) A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
(n.) A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
(n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.
(n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(2) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(3) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(4) Adviser to Solidarity, then member of parliament in 1989.
(5) The speaker issued his warning after William Hague told MPs that the government would consult parliament but declined to explain the nature of the vote.
(6) Gladstone's speech was not made in Parliament, but to a crowd of landless agricultural workers and miners in Scotland's central belt, Gove pointed out.
(7) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
(8) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(9) The politician had to rely on a handful of independent members of parliament finally backing her before she could take up office at the head of a minority government.
(10) He said: "I don't want to talk any more about politics for one reason because I'm not in the House[es] of Parliament, I'm not a political person, I will talk about only football."
(11) Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.
(12) There will be a "significantly accelerated reduction" in the structural element of the deficit over the parliament.
(13) Both Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before parliament.
(14) Dunne added: “If we find any evidence, we will pass it on to the committees on arms export controls.” No such evidence, until Monday, had been given to parliament.
(15) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
(16) Its findings will be presented to the BBC Trust as well as to both Houses of Parliament.
(17) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(18) Osborne sought to turn the crisis to his advantage, however, telling parliament that falls in bond yields – the interest rate the government pays on its debts – were a "huge vote of confidence" by international investors in the coalition's plans to repair the public finances.
(19) And it comes as members of the European parliament in Brussels plan to establish a specialist group to campaign in favour of carbon divestment and demand new carbon reporting requirements.
(20) Now we need parliament to step in to fix what should have been fixed a long time ago.” In relation to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the IPT found that “email communications ... were lawfully and proportionately intercepted and accessed ...