(v. t.) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
(v. i.) To mind; to consider.
(n.) Attention; notice; observation; regard; -- often with give or take.
(n.) Careful consideration; obedient regard.
(n.) A look or expression of heading.
Example Sentences:
(1) RBS had received complaints from two clients, in October 2010 and January 2012, about the activities of forex traders and in November 2011 one of its own traders raised concerns, which were not heeded.
(2) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(3) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
(4) the question of how the patients' subjective considerations and medical cost-benefit calculations could be heeded in as open and trustful an exchange between doctor and patient as possible.
(5) The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what’s in the best interests of children.
(6) "The government must heed the economic warning signs and change course," he said.
(7) "We sincerely hope that the government heeds these calls when introducing its draft bill," she said.
(8) The prime minister listened carefully to the cautious Foreign Office voices but will heed Osborne's advice when he declines to raise the issue of the Dalai Lama and Tibet in Beijing.
(9) More here: European Central Bank must heed eurozone warning signs And I'm handing over to my colleague Nick Fletcher .... thanks all GW 1.59pm BST Photos: Italian vote of confidence debate A couple of photos from today's confidence debate in the Italian senate, which the new government won confortably ( see 1.26pm ) Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi shakes hands with an unidentified lawmaker as he attends a session for a second vote of confidence to confirm the new government, in the Italian Senate in Rome, Tuesday, April 30, 2013.
(10) We have long been campaigning on the issue of income drawdown restrictions and so are pleased to see the government taking heed of the plight of these savers.
(11) The greater the distance I’ve travelled from government, the more sceptical I’ve become about how it operates.” Sadly, politicians show no sign of heeding that message and, as Hyman says, it’s difficult to imagine them ever doing so.
(12) The archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, said he felt the wishes of the Church in Wales had not been heeded by the government.
(13) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
(14) She is perhaps more aggressive politically than Bernie and she is perhaps, some would say, less afraid, or less intimidated – or whatever it is, she has what Bernie has and perhaps more.” Stein is set to be confirmed as the Green party’s nominee on Saturday and is openly courting the seemingly large number of Sanders supporters who are reluctant or refusing to heed his call to support Clinton.
(15) The Liberal Democrats were cheered by the heavily trailed £500 increase to £10,500 in the tax-free personal allowance from next spring, but Osborne failed to heed calls from the Conservative right for increases in the threshold at which people start paying income tax at 40%.
(16) But he also made clear he had heeded the industry's warnings that banks could move overseas if tax changes were too draconian.
(17) The Mackay Conservation Group said the government was not heeding the court’s decision nor respecting the independence of the judiciary.
(18) If we heed it we can repair our Temple and avoid the fate of Babylon.
(19) The Dutch foreign minister refused to heed Dutch MPs when they asked for similar action.
(20) Sewel, who had declined to apologise on Monday night when he announced he would take a leave of absence from the House of Lords, heeded growing calls for him to resign altogether in letter on Tuesday morning to the clerk of the parliaments, David Beamish.
Heep
Definition:
(n.) The hip of the dog-rose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remarkably, Fight the Power contains a sample of the English rock band Uriah Heep (3) .
(2) Some of the city’s best known modernist buildings date back to this period, including David Libeskind’s Conjunto Nacional , Franz Heep’s Edifício Itália , and Oscar’s Niemeyer’s iconic S-shaped Copan building .
(3) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
(4) In truth, I did not much care for Heep, finding him a deeply aspirant member of the lower orders, but I bore myself with the dignity expected of distressed gentlefolk and treated him with a patronising contempt disguised as good manners.
(5) It does have to be admitted that there is something irresistible about the delivery of a custard pie to a face, even when the victim is a confused octogenarian belatedly starting a new life as Uriah Heep.
(6) As for you, Heep, I shall visit you in prison to lecture you once more."
(7) The inclusion of a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number index in HEEP has led to the need for a special database designed to link substance names with their appropriate CAS chemical compound Registry Numbers.
(8) rarities or Uriah Heep bootlegs, because, hey, it’s all vinyl, huh, vinyl’s great, it’s what we do downtown.
(9) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
(10) "Why I have been investigating your business dealings with Mr Wickfield, Heep, and it seems you are a crook …" "So my father wasn't totally incompetent," cried Agnes.
(11) With Heep having finally been exposed as the crook I had always assumed his petit-bourgeois aspirations would lead him to be, I never enquired how someone as feckless as Mr Micawber should be such an astute accountant.
(12) It’s a treaty, he said, just that, and should not be viewed as a tablet brought down from on high with Australians behaving as Uriah Heeps grateful to be in the glow of American greatness.
(13) Just don't marry Uriah Heep now he's running your father's business."
(14) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
(15) And our hero proprietor, so famously fastidious about such matters, has to tell Uriah Heep: "That is not my job."
(16) But I certainly don’t feel that I need to be Uriah Heep-ish about it in any way.
(17) It really isn’t lost on me what a privilege it is to be given a show like this,” this latterday Uriah Heep tells his audience, “and I will really do my best not to let any of you down.” The reviews suggest Corden’s passed this supposed trial-by-fire, but what’s interesting is the criteria applied.
(18) I did not hesitate to work still harder for Mr Micawber's release and the only break in my day was the invitation to take tea with an unattractive clerk by the name of Uriah Heep.