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Hackneyed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hackney

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The model was strongest among the two samples of Hackney respondents.
  • (2) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
  • (3) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
  • (4) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
  • (5) Despite the best efforts of Moore and the other wannabes in Hackney North, Abbott doubled her majority at this latest election.
  • (6) We can see this most explicitly in the way that flats in Shoreditch and Hackney and Peckham are too costly for the students and young artists that turned those neighbourhoods into creative hotspots in the first place.
  • (7) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
  • (8) Over the last 10 days, the company has held meetings with Richard Blakeway, London’s deputy mayor for housing, Meg Hillier, the tenants’ Labour MP, Jules Pipe, the elected mayor of Hackney, and Philip Glanville, the cabinet member for housing at the council.
  • (9) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
  • (10) On the top floor of an abandoned office block in Hackney, rehearsals have begun for Beyond Caring .
  • (11) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
  • (12) But in November, the pub on Hackney Road announced its closure: the site was earmarked for high-end property development.
  • (13) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
  • (14) Storing the coins offline, as TradeFortress now recommends, is technologically more complex – and also makes it harder to spend them in the real world (for example, if attempting to buy a beer in Hackney's Pembury Tavern ).
  • (15) Westbrook could not be contacted for comment, while Hackney council did not respond to a request for comment [see following note].
  • (16) Finding a long-term partner, and living together Facebook Twitter Pinterest Party time at the Dalston Superstore club in Hackney, London.
  • (17) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
  • (18) Neighbouring Tower Hamlets and Hackney also enjoyed a big uplift, with prices up 146% and 143% respectively.
  • (19) Once keeping their own business taxes, the City of London gains £517m, Westminster and Chelsea gain £1.6m each while the great losers are Birmingham, cut by £175m, Hackney by £116m and Liverpool by another £104m.
  • (20) Hackney council's planning department is quick to hand out permission to large developers with ambitious high-rise plans, and rumours circulate among planning consultants and architects about the supposed revolving door between jobs in planning and developers' offices.

Threadbare


Definition:

  • (a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
  • (a.) Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, due for renewal next year, was "threadbare" and that the existing nuclear powers would be in a much better position to tell non-nuclear countries not to develop weapons if they pursued deep cuts in their stockpiles.
  • (2) However, Australia are a threadbare side with absolutely nothing about them.
  • (3) Substitute Felipe Pardo scores twice as Olympiakos beat Dinamo Zagreb Read more Wenger’s options on the bench looked threadbare; Bayern’s rather less so and Pep Guardiola was able to introduce Robben in the 54th minute.
  • (4) The 57-year-old, working with a threadbare squad which contained just eight players and no senior goalkeeper when the pre-season friendlies started , has publicly questioned the club’s transfer policy on a number of occasions.
  • (5) Why keep daytime TV churning through the wastes of the day on both BBC1 and BBC2 when one channel could do the threadbare run of Angela Lansbury series and jumble-sale reality without anyone missing or caring?
  • (6) It is the point where the already threadbare veil of "meritocracy" falls off to reveal a fiscal system designed to reward already concentrated pots of wealth.
  • (7) With Tom Huddlestone, Jermaine Jenas, David Bentley and Danny Rose all unfit too, Tottenham's midfield has a threadbare look.
  • (8) But the reaction leaves BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s assertion that his policy is having its intended effects looking increasingly threadbare.
  • (9) Most of it is pretty threadbare, especially since photos exist of Boris and Zac with some of the same people.
  • (10) Pellegrini had criticised Uefa for allowing the match to go ahead on a threadbare pitch that he described as "unbelievable".
  • (11) 2007: It snapped up Coley Pharmaceutical of the US for a relatively modest $164m in order to boost Pfizer's threadbare pipeline of new drugs.
  • (12) [A few months ago, I signed a letter with Monbiot and others to British Prime Minister David Cameron, arguing that environmentalists were dressing up their doctrinaire technophobic opposition to all things nuclear behind scaremongering and often threadbare arguments about cost.
  • (13) The shutdown has closed national parks, museums and monuments, and reduced many government departments and agencies to a threadbare staff.
  • (14) 5.03pm BST 1 min: The pitch is threadbare but also unnaturally green - a jarring combo.
  • (15) The threadbare agreement thrashed out last night has not even laid the foundations.
  • (16) This was not the home debut David Moyes had hoped for when he succeeded Sam Allardyce last month but Sunderland’s new manager deserves praise for making the best of some extremely threadbare resources.
  • (17) Since I arrived in the Netherlands last December, I did not get any money to buy a single item of clothing,” says Fahmi, still making do with a threadbare jacket and boots given to him by the Red Cross in Hungary.
  • (18) Some professors hold on to their careers for dear tenure, eking out threadbare research material and desperately placing articles in whichever journal will take them.
  • (19) Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.
  • (20) Not bad for an entrepreneur who recalls helping his mum colour in the pattern on the family's threadbare carpets with oil paints when he was a child.