(n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.
Example Sentences:
(1) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
(2) He added that the Halloween challenge will become an annual event for psychics and others who claim supernatural abilities.
(3) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(4) Oh, wait... @HunterFelt October 31, 2013 Miles Bjornstam (@xeyednpainless) Appropriately enough for the day before Halloween, Stephen Drew has come back from the dead.
(5) October Everyone loves Halloween, and the PR team spots a perfect opportunity for Ed to mix this fun occasion with traditional politics: he'll do an old-school door-to-door canvas of local neighbourhoods, dressed as Freddie Krueger.
(6) Alex Wood, 22, claimed that he was simply reaching out for a friend’s mobile phone during a Halloween party where he was dressed as a pirate [see footnote].
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest At a Halloween party this year with her husband Stephen Belafonte and her three daughters (from left), Madison, Angel and Phoenix.
(8) Halloween should be an opportunity for people to show off their creativity, not their side boob.
(9) A few weeks ago she turned up at Jonathan Ross ’s fancy dress Halloween party as Scary Spice.
(10) Radiographic screening of Halloween candy is not effective.
(11) • For details of Fence's forthcoming Halloween Festival (in Glasgow on 31 October) and other dates, including New Year's Eve, see fencerecords.com .
(12) The Village Market complex in Gigiri district, which is also home to the US embassy and a United Nations outpost, has cancelled its Halloween family party this weekend.
(13) I know Halloween is SO last week, but if you can just hang on a tiny bit longer, we'll get the Strictly results show out of the way and move on.
(14) In the first study, 363 Halloween trick-or-treaters were instructed to only take one candy.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Halloween-tinged genre titles The Last Witch Hunter and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension also failed to inspire audiences.
(16) Halloween’s ghoulish festivities have turned into a dangerous culture that brands mentally ill people as “psychos or schizos or freaks”, a government minister warns.
(17) "Binders full of women," his badly chosen phrase, became the meme of the night and will likely haunt him past Halloween.
(18) Toca Boo (£1.99) Toca Boo may have been released for Halloween, but its appeal will last all year round.
(19) It claims the top publisher for global Google Play games downloads in November was Chinese firm Tiny Piece – maker of kid-apps like Baby Pet Vet Doctor, Pets Nail Salon and Halloween Spa – ahead of Gameloft, EA, King, Rovio, Disney and others.
(20) In the Halloween solar storms in 2003, the crew on the International Space Station was forced to take shelter in a shielded compartment until the radiation risk had passed.
Ireland
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(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) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(4) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(5) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
(6) Theresa May has shown a complete and utter lack of interest in Northern Ireland since taking office.
(7) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(8) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
(9) A comparison between SA 11 virus and the Northern Ireland cell culture adapted bovine virus showed that the electrophoretic mobilities of each of the 11 corresponding segments differed.
(10) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(11) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
(12) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(13) It offers us a new start, and a far more hopeful future.” The first minister, Peter Robinson , described the deal as a “monumental step forward” for Northern Ireland.
(14) "The performance of Italy and France kind of puts Ireland's heroic non-qualification in context," suggests Sean DeLoughry, giving everyone pause for thought.
(15) Recent polls confirmed that Martin read the public mood right as a big majority put improved health and social services well above tax cuts.” Some of the counts across the 40 constituencies of the republic are expected to continue until Monday due to Ireland’s single transferrable vote system.
(16) So, for example, Cork City's first-leg victory over Apollon Limassol in the first qualifying round of this season's Champions League means one point will be added to the League of Ireland's coefficient next season - but not to Cork's.
(17) The strain of E. granulosus infecting equines in Spain and Ireland is genetically identical to that infecting horses in the United Kingdom.
(18) Investors and analysts are concerned that while the European emergency fund had enough cash to rescue Greece, Ireland and potentially Portugal, if needed, it may not be large enough to fund Spain's borrowing needs.
(19) It means that Ireland will make a clean exit from its €85bn financial assistance programme, which ends on 15th Decembe r. It has hit the targets set by its troika of lenders, and Kenny's government must be confident that it can walk alone.
(20) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.