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Hansard


Definition:

  • (n.) An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
  • (n.) A merchant of one of the Hanse towns. See the Note under 2d Hanse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow says in a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday that parliament needs to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
  • (2) O'Donnell also called for an independent body, such as the Hansard Society, to be given responsibility for overseeing the rules on TV election debates between the party leaders.
  • (3) For those who remain in doubt, the clearest possible case is made out in the Hansard Society's recently published Audit of Political Engagement 9, Part Two, Media and Politics .
  • (4) Dr Ruth Fox, director and head of research at the Hansard Society, who co-authored the findings, said: "PMQs is a cue for the public's wider perceptions of parliament.
  • (5) In the debate today Harris said it was his understanding that BBC Newsnight were also being "threatened" by Carter-Ruck if they repeated a claim, even though it was recorded in parliamentary Hansard.
  • (6) A 2009 examination of all of her recorded words in Hansard gave Thatcher a "conceptual complexity" score way below that of any other postwar prime minister.
  • (7) Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová , who star, wrote and sang all its beautiful songs, one of which went on to win an Oscar in 2008.
  • (8) But, as research from the Hansard Society showed last year , for voters it confirms everything they believe about the sheer futility of the political world.
  • (9) Kaufman’s last spoken contribution in the Commons chamber was in a debate paying tribute to the Queen on her 90th birthday on 21 April last year, according to Hansard, the official report of proceedings in parliament.
  • (10) Dastyari thanks Cormann for the effective justification he's just read into the hansard.
  • (11) On Thursday, Ruth Fox, director of the Hansard Society, one of UK’s oldest parliamentary campaigning groups, said it was likely that the prime minister would have to share a stage with the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, as Labour would be “very opposed to it all being done just through the prime minister”.
  • (12) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow said in a speech to the Hansard Society that parliament needed to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
  • (13) He claimed that he was the first to present the detailed arguments in favour, in a Hansard Society paper in 1963.
  • (14) A Hansard Society report on the 2005 intake of MPs found that there were some who spent 90% of their time on constituency work, and now there are increasing worries that an MP's complementary role, that of keeping a check on the executive, is being damaged.
  • (15) There's still the problem of machine-gun speakers, of course, but I can catch up with Hansard."
  • (16) It's "like a scene from a school playground", complained a member of a focus group convened by the Hansard Society .
  • (17) The Hansard Society – an independent political research and education organisation – recommended a range of reforms be made to the session, including moving it to a Tuesday or Wednesday evening to allow more people to watch it and introducing a "sin bin" penalty for unruly MPs.
  • (18) The present results show that the total percentage of plasma 59Fe transferred to the milk and sucklings in the lactating rat is much more than those values reported in lactating rabbits (Tarvydas, Jordan and Morgan, 1968) and sows (Hansard, 1965).
  • (19) On the question of which changes the 1,300 site users who responded to the survey would like to see in the UK's political culture, 84% backed the proposal from the Hansard Society earlier this year to vary the format of the notoriously rowdy prime minister's questions (PMQs), including introducing rapid-fire Q&As, more open questions and penalties for MPs who behave badly.
  • (20) The report, leaked to the Daily Telegraph and since read into Hansard by the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, offers no evidence, only suspicion, that STC were encouraging protests.

Merchant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
  • (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.
  • (n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
  • (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, the Bank of England was nationalised in 1946, but remained in effect the voice of merchant bankers in the City.
  • (2) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
  • (3) Among them, tourists, servicemen and merchant seamen are the groups most at risk.
  • (4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
  • (5) RAAF aircraft have been joined in the search by six merchant ships, with one Norwegian automobile carrier still in the area, and another on its way.
  • (6) Born Pauline Crispin in Liverpool, the younger daughter of an insurance company manager, she was educated at Merchant Taylor's Girls school at Great Crosby, Northampton High school, and Sutton High school.
  • (7) Keating was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex and Trinity College Dublin, where he read English and French.
  • (8) Eight months before the general election, the “shrink the offer” merchants are back in the ascendant.
  • (9) Command and control servers for Shylock, so named as its code contained quotes from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, were located and seized by international law enforcement bodies, including the FBI, the German Federal Police and Europol.
  • (10) Inhalation is clearly related to the development of lung cancer in (copper) smelting and arsenical pesticide manufacturing, and also in heavily exposed wine merchants who had an additional source of exposure by ingestion.
  • (11) Consider it a metaphor: faced with a choice between saving for the future of those who have given years and decades in service to their employers, or handing some money to those who may have taken a paper stake for the most fleeting of moments, big British business favours the fast-buck merchants, every time.
  • (12) The stylish, varnished wooden interior and whitewashed walls has a slightly Danish feel, but General Merchant’s brunch-y, all-day menu is inspired by Australian cafe culture, where good coffee and pan-global fusion plates are the norm.
  • (13) "The administration's proposals … will be harmful to our US merchant marine, harmful to our national defence sealift capability, harmful to our farmers and millers and bad for our economy," said chairman James L Henry.
  • (14) He thinks it's complicated – though in the case of Shylock , his reworking of the Merchant of Venice , he is prepared to be specific.
  • (15) As Jeffreys says: “Imhotep becomes himself an iconic figure, not only architect – and possibly not one at all in the technical sense – but an early power merchant.
  • (16) This week a Danish cargo vessel carrying tons of the world's deadliest chemical weapons will sail into an Italian port and carefully begin transferring its lethal cargo to an ageing US merchant ship .
  • (17) A block north of the waterfront on Merchant Road, workmen up ladders are carefully painting corinthian capitals with yellow limewash and adjusting teak window frames, putting the finishing touches to a restoration project that offers a different model for saving heritage structures, while training local builders in the process.
  • (18) Lawyer Tony Merchant deposited more than US$800,000 into an offshore trust.
  • (19) But the rise of Ukip looks to me to be legitimising a very different view, in which the average English person will be characterised as an avowed Eurosceptic, a fierce opponent of immigration, a hang-'em-and-flog-'em merchant, and a hater of government.
  • (20) James Agate (1877‑1947) started out as a Manchester cotton merchant, moved to London as a shopkeeper, then rose to prominence as the most brilliant theatre critic of his day.