(v. t.) One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
(v. t.) One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs.
(a.) Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(2) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(3) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(4) Another Guardian podcast, Days in the Life, won silver in the same category.
(5) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(6) Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian Because health is devolved, the Welsh government can do things differently from England.
(7) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
(8) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(9) A spokesman for Hunt told Guardian Australia: "We have been deeply respectful of the process and will continue to be so."
(10) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(11) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(12) The Guardian has a mortgage advice service, provided by London & Country
(13) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(14) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(15) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(16) Illustration by Andrzej Krause Photograph: Guardian The Foreign Office attributed the forgotten boxes to "an earlier misunderstanding about contents" and stated that there needed to be an "improvement in archive management".
(17) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(18) But there were red faces in the MoD when it withdrew details of more than £14m in expenditure following questions from the Guardian.
(19) "We are planning a sequel [to Alpha Papa], yes, that will be great," Normal told the Guardian.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.
Guardianship
Definition:
(n.) The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elderly female patients with organic brain disease were the group on whom guardianship was most used either to support them in the community or to facilitate admission to residential care.
(2) This is in keeping with the restrictive laws governing women’s rights in the country, which includes the guardianship system which restricts women’s independent free movement, and the inability to drive.
(3) "There is a difference between a civilian democratic state that guarantees man's basic rights and military guardianship," warned the Nobel laureate.
(4) Evidence suggests that children can do just as well in other forms of stable placements such as long-term fostering and "special guardianship" – a court order that gives a guardian legal parental responsibility for a child without removing responsibility altogether from the birth parents.
(5) The government has also declined to endorse moves advocated by Field and the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, towards the introduction of a pilot guardianship scheme under which a trained adult would be given the task of looking after child victims.
(6) Multidimensional scaling of the aggregate proximity matrix for the items showed three dimensions in the caregiver task domain: type of impairment (physical vs. cognitive-emotional), location of caregiving (within home vs. outside home), and response to parental incompetency (autonomy-fostering vs. guardianship).
(7) Guardianship was rarely used to prevent hospitalization.
(8) In particular, standardized and reliable assessments of competency are lacking; a family member's petition for guardianship is seldom challenged by the older person; and the primary goal of most guardianship cases to preserve the estate of the older individual.
(9) The powers of guardianship under the 1983 Mental Health Act confer on the guardian powers to require the patient to reside in a specified place, to require attendance for treatment and to require access to the patient for appropriate health and social services personnel.
(10) The legal measures covering protection and care in connection with legislation governing guardianship and fosterage involving medical nursing, which have remained unchanged in principle since 1896, increasingly create the risk of obstructing and hampering the treatment and rehabilitation of mental patients.
(11) Stories such as his suggest that, although they’ve been used in Britain for more than a decade, property guardianship schemes are not all they are cracked up to be.
(12) The areas covered in the Call to Action are: A stronger focus on the needs of adolescents entering the care system; Investment into and effective implementation of Staying Put; Improvement of educational outcomes for looked-after children; Improving access to mental health services for looked-after children, adopted children and care leavers; Prioritisation and effective measurement of wellbeing for looked-after children; Access to adoption support at an earlier stage in the process; Changing Special Guardianship Order processes so they are used only when appropriate and allow for effective support.
(13) In addition, Pennsylvania guardianship statutes have been amended.
(14) Originally developed in the Netherlands as a form of "anti-squatting" to secure buildings against uninvited guests, guardianship is a rapidly growing part of the UK property security industry, with around 20 private companies offering space for up to 10,000 guardians.
(15) Part I deals with the historical evolution of the concept and definition of mental subnormality, both in the medical and in the legal field, and also the civil issues concerning the mentally subnormal, such as education, employment and community living, marriage, parenthood and involuntary sterilization, the right to treatment and the right to refuse treatment, guardianship and mental incompetency.
(16) There are still many questions to resolve about the details of the tunnel and where the portals should be sited, but I think the advantages of a tunnel of at least 2.9km, which is what the government is proposing, far outweighs the disadvantages.” While broad agreement has been reached between Historic England , the statutory authority for ancient monuments, the newly split off English Heritage, which has guardianship of Stonehenge itself and the new visitor centre, and the National Trust, which owns thousands of surrounding acres of land, nothing happens at Stonehenge without passionate argument.
(17) FASD is also having an impact on children who are undiagnosed and who are subject to special guardianship orders or being looked after by kinship carers.
(18) Such guidelines are of special importance both because they have not been set down in detail, and because of recent moves to establish adult guardianship legislation in various jurisdictions.
(19) The male guardianship system, which deprives women of the right to make decisions about almost all aspects of their lives, is still in place although the government promised the UN human rights council in 2009 that it would abolish the system.
(20) Three cases of guardianship for mental impairment were excluded from the analysis leaving 23 patients with mental illness.