(n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.
(n.) A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum.
(v. t.) To shelter, as in a haven.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(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) I f you haven’t got a family, you need that replaced in some way, that’s the most important thing you can do for someone in care,” says 24-year-old Chloe Juliette, herself a care leaver.
(4) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(5) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(6) And we haven’t asked for a recusal, which we may do.
(7) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(8) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
(9) A small band of shadow cabinet members have lined up to refuse to serve in posts they haven’t even been offered, on the basis of objection to economic policies they clearly haven’t read.
(10) "For tax evaders, she should turn to Pasok and New Democracy to explain to her why they haven't touched the big money and have been chasing the simple worker for two years."
(11) Above all, Addis could help close tax loopholes that allow multinational companies to report profits in tax havens – rather than where their workforces, assets or sales are.
(12) It's remarkable, I haven't seen this in five years of doing integrated care."
(13) We've all been there, and if you haven't your girlfriend has.
(14) So it’s not that we haven’t seen the progress we’d hoped for – in some places it really is that there are no services to be had.” Official as well as anecdotal feedback illustrates how serious the situation is, he says.
(15) Davies is understood not to be seeking substantial money either for the club itself, which he owns via Fildraw, a private trust registered in the tax haven of Bermuda.
(16) We haven't changed that much, we still take the piss out of each other, there's an understanding there that hasn't gone away.
(17) Tallents's two children haven't exactly rebelled and joined the navy; one is involved in direct action, but he has chosen climate change.
(18) Rachel Reeves, shadow chief secretary of the Treasury, said: "This doesn't feel like a safe haven to families and businesses and young people.
(19) I haven't had the swine flu jab yet because I'm not in a risk group; but as soon as I can get it, I will.
(20) We haven’t toured that much, for many different reasons.
Shaven
Definition:
() of Shave
Example Sentences:
(1) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
(2) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(3) My shaven-headed Barbie was a squealing contestant.
(4) In terms of the public eye since the departure of Jeremy Paxman from Newsnight, we are now back to an entirely clean shaven BBC TV newsreading workforce too.
(5) That's what they were doing when an impassive, shaven-headed Lemtongthai stood in the dock to receive the strictest sentence ever imposed in South Africa for wildlife crime: Framing the rhino as a symbol of Africa and poaching as an affront to African pride, Judge Prince Manyathi sentenced him to 40 years.
(6) His shaven head shows off the fine, sculpted skull.
(7) Because of a continued requirement by the U.S. Army for clean-shaven faces, a significant racial furor and hostility has been aroused, and definitive medical care has been difficult to achieve.
(8) Police wearing black balaclavas raided Udaltsov's Moscow flat at around dawn, before carting the thin shaven-headed activist away for questioning at the investigative committee's headquarters.
(9) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
(10) A total of 27 tests were conducted, covering three brands of half-mask respirators; facial hair on test subjects ranged from clean-shaven to bearded.
(11) The in vivo photodegradation of chlorpromazine (CPZ) in the skin was investigated after systemic administration of 3H-CPZ to shaven Wistar rats and exposure to UV-A.
(12) Stocky and shaven-headed, Clapper is part boardroom, part boxer.
(13) After 6 hr the dressing was removed, the shaven area was washed with ethanol and the dressing and washings were counted for 14C.
(14) He was filmed holding his left hand to his bloody, shaven head while continuing to drive with his right hand until it was safe to stop.
(15) The Beard Liberation Front has lamented the decision to go clean-shaven, saying: "We support people's right to dress and appear as they want so, while we regret Jeremy Paxman's decision to shave off his gravitas-adding beard, the choice should be entirely up to him, BBC pogonophobia notwithstanding."
(16) When the Guardian met Liu Xia around that time, she might have passed for a grad student despite her 49 years: a slight figure with a shaven head and a cigarette between her fingers.
(17) He's not quite clean shaven, his cropped hair a little grown out, and white bristles show through.
(18) Shaven and unshaven rats were exposed to a cold stress at 4 degrees C for 6 hr (SE and UE).
(19) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
(20) Georgios is a stern man, still strong, smartly shaven and dressed in a clean green polo short and jeans.