(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).
Victorian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(2) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
(3) The prevalence of past infection with hepatitis B virus in health care personnel was investigated by questionnaire and by a serological survey of personnel in a representative selection of Victorian hospitals and institutions.
(4) Friends says Cameron has no wish to take Britain back to a Victorian values "back to basics" agenda.
(5) In contrast to the aggressive capitalism of the US, for example, he observed that in spite of the Victorian boom: “England did not become a business society ...
(6) Rather than his extensive musings on art and politics, Morris is perhaps better known for his wallpaper and fabric designs of the late Victorian period.
(7) Victoria published its school funding heads of agreement in early August, and a Victorian government spokeswoman said this week it considered that binding.
(8) Ian Hislop’s Victorian Benefits airs on 7 April on BBC2.
(9) On the information available to me all relevant matters were dealt with in compliance with commonwealth law and to the satisfaction of the Australian Electoral Commission.” “The Liberal party regarded working papers and process issues as internal matters between it and the AEC.” The Victorian Nationals and the NT Country Liberals did not respond to requests for comment.
(10) Mike Ashley running Sports Direct like 'Victorian workhouse' Read more I find the fact that the majority of workers at Shirebrook are agency staff troubling.
(11) An audit of the interval cases of cervical cancer that had been diagnosed within 36 months of a smear having been reported as negative by the Victorian Cytology Gynaecological Service among women registered with cervical cancer during 1982-6.
(12) I act with deeds and words, because the government seems determined to resurrect the old Victorian approach to disabled people.
(13) "We inherited a crumbling infrastructure, starved of funding; Victorian schools with rundown gyms, and thousands of playing fields sold off," Sutcliffe said.
(14) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(15) The rather small amount of semen the man ejaculates suggests he is a frequent masturbator.” To my surprise, I sense there is some nobility in Gerald’s enterprise and I recall a book written by a professor who is not quite so brilliant as me, in which Victorian sexual activity was explored through the prism of voyeurism.
(16) The fall took place at a three-storey Victorian house in Herne Hill, near Brixton, where the group are believed to have lived for about seven years from 1997.
(17) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(18) While Victorians celebrated the empire on which the sun would never set with successive jubilees (golden, 1887, and diamond, 1897), many readers fretted over foreign (increasingly German) threats to the harmony of English life.
(19) Origin Energy , which owns Australia’s largest power station, Eraring, has proposed a progressive phase-out of brown coal generation in response to a Victorian government review of climate policy.
(20) The AWU’s Victorian branch secretary, Ben Davis, ordered the correction in February 2015.