(1) When asked if climate scientists get sick of being asked about records by headline hungry media, he graciously laughed, and said: "For a particular month there is very little significance.
(2) Earlier Labour's interim leader, Harriet Harman, told the first post-election meeting of the (PLP) to be "gracious" in defeat.
(3) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(4) The first tweet was a Qu'ranic phrase in Arabic, meaning: "In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful."
(5) The leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten, who sponsored similar legislation earlier this year, deserves credit for pushing the issue forward, and even greater credit for his graciousness in standing aside for the cross-party bill.
(6) Over the past year, facilitated by the steering group of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network we were invited through email, personal study, and virtual conferencing, to begin considering how we might live out, with urgency and in hope, the Fifth Mark of Mission “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.” Our reflections entered a new depth when, in February 2015, ACEN chair Archbishop Thabo Makgoba graciously hosted a face to face meeting in South Africa.
(7) "McElderry took his defeat graciously, saying: "Fair play to the guys who have organised the Facebook campaign – it's been exciting to be part of a much-hyped battle and they definitely deserve congratulations.
(8) * Christine spelled 'defense' and 'offense' in the American style, but I graciously changed them to proper English for her.
(9) I always thought The Kumars and Goodness Gracious Me could never have appeared on any other channel; they were BBC2 products.
(10) if this was to have been his last game for New York – and possibly the last of his career – he was gracious enough to leave the limelight to the victors.
(11) Nina Wadia, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar in the BBC2 comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.
(12) On stage with Iggy Pop (left) and Ricky Gardiner (centre) in 1978: ‘Back then he was very spontaneous.’ Photograph: Getty Images But he's a very normal, gracious person.
(13) It adds: "As we pursue this community-based approach to school construction, Raising Malawi would like to graciously return the land in Chinkhota granted to us by the government for the original Raising Malawi Academy for Girls project."
(14) Djokovic, who remains world No1 was gracious in defeat.
(15) "We were graciously received by His Royal Highness, who responded in these terms 'What the bloody hell are you doing here?'
(16) As late as 2012, the gracious address contained flecks of modernising reform – the (largely delivered) move to abolish male primogeniture in the monarchy and the (entirely aborted) effort at electing the Lords.
(17) The Zona Rosa was fashioned by the city's europhile elite after the revolution; they named its streets after European cities, and built gracious European residences for themselves and the émigrés among them.
(18) The Goodness Gracious Me team are reuniting to do a one-off special, we're all very happy to be back together, to commemorate the show and BBC2.
(19) He was gracious about Romney, talking not only about his challenger but his father, the former governor of Michigan.
(20) It was the Afro-Caribbean Goodness Gracious Me, but before that show.
Largess
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Largesse
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Newell , who made Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire , directed Great Expectations, but there was no big-budget largesse this time.
(2) Despite numerous irregularities ... you have managed to thwart this regime’s congenital traps of fraud.” Bongo, 57, who first won election after his father Omar died in 2009 after 42 years as president, has benefited from the power of incumbency as well as a patronage system lubricated by oil largesse.
(3) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
(4) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
(5) Now, with the nation he inherited from his father squeezed by prolonged international sanctions and largesse from its former communist allies mostly gone, Kim is calling on farmers to win him another battle.
(6) In some societies, particularly Islamic ones, the wealthy bestow their largesse on religious foundations.
(7) In June, when the chancellor announces future government spending plans, he will claim that recent growth in the AME budget has been as much structural as cyclical, driven by political choices, not social need, and he will attack Labour for increasing spending on tax credits and welfare largesse.
(8) Sixth-formers would miss out on the largesse, however, with the IFS calculating that “spending per student in 16-18 education would remain about 10% lower than it would be for secondary schools”, no matter who wins the coming election.
(9) Nor was the largesse recouped only by wealthy councils, since redistribution shared revenue nationwide.
(10) From central European minnows such as Slovakia to Baltic eurozone republics such as Latvia and Lithuania , hard-pressed pensioners and workers earning barely €500 a month are at a loss as to why Greece should qualify for more largesse.
(11) By the time Mobutu was overthrown in 1997, after two decades of American and other western largesse, his country had just about one tenth of the paved roads it had had at independence in the early Sixties.
(12) They have guns, supporters and, after years of western largesse, plenty of money, and are once again flexing their muscles, so the Taliban cannot only talk with the government.
(13) But in saying that he "expects" the two parties to campaign separately at the next general election , he was providing a foretaste of a nightmare for most of Clegg's foot soldiers – come 2015, those Lib Dem MPs who cling to their seats will do so thanks to Cameron's largesse.
(14) The oldest argument against the largesse of capitalism's winners is that philanthropists can achieve more simply by paying higher wages, rather than amassing wealth and giving it away as they see fit.
(15) It is more, really, than he deserves for his single outburst of politeness and his periodic financial largesse.
(16) But one UN official said sarcastically that it had just been "an accident of history" that South Korea's largesse to Africa coincided with the secretary general's selection.
(17) Back then, companies that made the Unix operating system could afford largesse.
(18) The goal for most communities in any electoral exercise is to be on the winning side and thus better placed to benefit from the winner's largesse.
(19) The call for largesse to rescue the European south riled the former prime minister: "We shouldn't pay for Greece.
(20) In addition, although the consultation portion of the effort can be reimbursed in part in some cases through fee for services, the liaison portion is dependent on the donation of psychiatry time or the largesse of the host department.