(1) In Fort McMurray, the town the tar sands built, the downturn created a society of haves and have-nots, said local social service organisations.
(2) A resurvey conducted 8 years later in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli revealed the persistence of filariasis amongst its residents.
(3) The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (1988) was Terkel ill-at-ease, in a book about rifts across society, not just between "haves, have somewhats and have-nots", but race and religion.
(4) Having thus polarised the country between haves and have-nots, the moderate liberals committed their fourth error.
(5) Schneider pointed out that even within countries like the US, there will be IoT-haves and have-nots.
(6) He says: "I believed from a very young age that all race warfare is essentially class warfare, and that it's in the better interests of the haves to have the have-nots fighting among themselves.
(7) "Either opt for a one-hit wonder – something that you wouldn't normally wear that is perfect for an event like a wedding, or aim for classic must-haves such as a great coat that will work season after season."
(8) For these settlements, this is a strike against the state and the haves, not just a union matter.
(9) Bercow says the commission will need to ask "searching questions about the digital divide, the haves and have-nots of the internet and the smartphone, not least because of the accumulating evidence that the Berlin Wall which undoubtedly exists in this terrain is no longer about age but relates to affluence and the lack of it".
(10) Sit and contemplate the world-class luxury of the haves; a short distance across the city are the have-nots.
(11) It's undeniable that there still exists a somewhat rigid social class system, with very little inter-generational social mobility and, almost inevitably, a widening of the gap between rich and poor, the haves and have-not's.
(12) What has become clear in the 10 years since Alma-Ata is the global split between the health of the "haves" and the "have nots".
(13) How has hegemony of the haves in our politics, at the expense and exclusion of the have-nots, fostered our democratic values?
(14) Cheshire said: “By 2030, the divide between housing haves at the top and the have-nots at the bottom will be even wider than it is now.
(15) The number of properties in Britain worth £1m or more is set to more than triple by 2030, widening the gap between the housing haves and have-nots, according to a report.
(16) Professor Robert Watson, the director of the IAASTD secretariat and the chief scientist at Defra, said: "Business as usual would mean more environmental degradation and the earth's haves and have-nots splitting further apart.
(17) Playing them on BBC One will massively increase the reach of these programmes for young audiences and guarantee that we do not risk creating a 'haves and have nots', a digital divide when it comes to enjoying what we are making for the public.
(18) Responding to a question after giving a speech on the economy, Clegg said he wasn't going to comment on leaks – Gove's letter proposing the idea – but joked about "haves and have-yachts".
(19) As a result, São Paulo earned the reputation of being one of the world’s most unequal cities, divided between the haves of the centre and the have-nots of the periphery.
(20) "Playing them on BBC1 will massively increase the reach of these programmes for young audiences and guarantee that we do not risk creating a 'haves and have nots', a digital divide when it comes to enjoying what we are making for the public."
Pound
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
(v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
(v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
(v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
(n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold.
(n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.
(n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
(pl. ) of Pound
(n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
(n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
(3) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(4) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(5) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
(6) Each malnourished child was given 1 pound of dried skimmed milk (DSM) per week.
(7) The pound was also down more than 1% against the US dollar to $1.2835, not far off a 31-year low hit in the wake of June’s shock referendum result.
(8) I paid 200,000 Syrian pounds (£695) to leave Syria.
(9) "A pound spent in Croydon is of far more value to the country than a pound spent in Strathclyde," Johnson told the Huffington Post in an extraordinary interview this weekend.
(10) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(11) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(12) "If we are going to turn our economy around, protect our NHS and build a stronger country, we will have to be laser-focused on how we spend every pound," he will say.
(13) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
(14) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
(15) Detailed analysis of the resources used revealed that the mean cost to the NHS of each case of NSAP was 807 pounds, the bulk of which was attributable to the hospital stay.
(16) Current obstetric recommendations call for 22-27 pound weight gain.
(17) She also complained of occasional night sweats, a 6-pound weight loss, vaginal discharge, and a low-grade fever for 6 weeks prior to admission.
(18) Correcting all this would cost hundreds of millions of pounds, a sum which councils and other housing providers simply cannot afford, they say.
(19) A total weight gain of 22 to 26 pounds is recommended, with the pattern of weight gain being more important than the total amount.
(20) Labour is exploring radical plans to give local councils and new regional bodies a central role in shaping the way billions of pounds of welfare funding is spent in order to bring down the benefits bill.