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Grandmother


Definition:

  • (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
  • (2) She said it could indicate Bernardi’s grandmother was Indigenous.
  • (3) As a mother and a grandmother I am deeply concerned about the impact that fracking will have on our environment, our water sources, air and way of life.
  • (4) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)
  • (5) "Everyone and their grandmother would have done it better, of course."
  • (6) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
  • (7) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
  • (8) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (9) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
  • (10) The authors present three cases of multiple, intra-cranial meningiomatosis with contact hyperostosis affecting the grandmother, mother and daughter, in a very stereotypic manner.
  • (11) My grandmother doesn't understand unpaid internships .
  • (12) The origin of the defect arises spontaneously in the grandmother of the proband and must be assumed to be a de novo mutation.
  • (13) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
  • (14) He survived but two days later his 13-year-old sister died, followed by his grandmother eight days later.
  • (15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
  • (16) The paternal grandmother was thought to carry the abnormal Factor X I gene, although her Factor XI level was normal, because of a significant bleeding history.
  • (17) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
  • (18) Bond yields continue to soar and it's become increasingly clear that markets read the papers like my grandmother used to: only registering the bad news.
  • (19) There has already been speculation that the baby’s birth could coincide with the 89th birthday of its great-grandmother the Queen on 21 April.
  • (20) The members of this family have since been followed-up regularly by the author, examination of the corneas of the grandmother and the grand'daughter made by electron microscopy, the morphology compared, and an attempt made to establish the progression of the lesion.

Mather


Definition:

  • (n.) See Madder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The continent is fertile ground for WPP, which owns the agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam, and counts Germany as its fourth largest market and France as its seventh largest.
  • (2) Several attempts to resolve the site's problems have failed to come to fruition, including masterplans by Sir Terry Farrell, Lord Richard Rogers and the late Rick Mather who drew up the last scheme in 2000.
  • (3) At the core of the Ashmolean Museum 's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no heart.
  • (4) Internal candidates who could succeed Sorrell include Dominic Proctor, the head of WPP's media-buying arm, Mindshare, and Shelley Lazarus, boss of Ogilvy & Mather.
  • (5) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said this morning that the 181-turbine project , which would have dominated the moors of northern Lewis, would have had "significant adverse impacts" on rare and endangered birds living on the peatlands – a breach of European habitats legislation.
  • (6) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
  • (7) Campaigners against the HS2 rail line Pat Mather and John Keleher in Pickmere, Cheshire.
  • (8) Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
  • (9) Ogilvy & Mather created a public service advert last year to encourage drivers to use seatbelts by showing a group of transgender hijras at a red traffic light.
  • (10) The farm was bought by Mather's family 60 years ago: now, HS2 will take away 19 of their 23 acres, and 60% of land that they rent close by, along with their farmhouse and outbuildings.
  • (11) The model is compared with Mather's polygenic balance theory, with models that include mutation-selection balance, and others that have been proposed to study the role of linkage disequilibrium in quantitative inheritance.
  • (12) The new galleries are the second phase of the Ashmolean's redevelopment and follow the dramatic internal overhaul of Britain's oldest museum by architect Rick Mather.
  • (13) Other companies to sign up this year include Ogilvy & Mather, the global communications company, the food company Nestlé and Heart of Midlothian football club.
  • (14) The report and accounts also reveal that WPP, which owns the US offshoots J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, has agreed to contribute to the expenses of maintaining Sorrell's apartment in New York as he is required to spend a considerable amount of time there "due to the size of the company's business in the US".
  • (15) Case studies Katrina Mather Katrina Mather's teachers have predicted her a stunning four A*s in her A-levels .
  • (16) Cavanagh and Mather (1989) reviewed literature concerning the possible distinction between short- and long-range processes in motion perception and concluded that the distinction cannot be supported.
  • (17) The Spectator , the right-leaning political weekly, has appointed the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather to develop a campaign to support a revamp later this year.
  • (18) Sorrell, who has been chief executive since 1986, embarked on a string of acquisitions and WPP's vast family of companies now includes the advertising agencies JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, the buyers Mediacom, Kantar market researchers and the public relations firms Hill & Knowlton and Finsbury.
  • (19) The Marshall Mathers LP 2, released 13 years after the seven-times-platinum Marshall Mathers LP, will be released on 5 November .
  • (20) The data could not be fully analyzed because of the failure to fulfill Mather's first criterion for an adequate scale.

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