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Hermitage


Definition:

  • (n.) The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.
  • (n.) A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was coincident with the area of occurrence of ko-kq and ko-no Oxford-Hermitage hybrids.
  • (2) A corrupt group of officials expropriated his fund, Hermitage Capital, and used it to make a fraudulent tax claim.
  • (3) Interior ministry officers arrested Magnitsky last November as a suspect in the case against Browder, the co-founder of Hermitage, once Russia's biggest investment fund.
  • (4) When you reach Inver, it's only a short walk back to the start point at the Hermitage carpark, just off the A9, after Dunkeld.
  • (5) Alekseyeva and others said Cameron must focus on the prison murder case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working on a case for Hermitage Capital, a London-based investment fund run by UK citizen William Browder.
  • (6) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
  • (7) Hermitage, a solicitor, and Middleton, an agronomist with extensive experience in Africa , planned to make the 216 hectares (533 acres) of prime farmland their home and business.
  • (8) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
  • (9) Two congressmen today introduced the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky bill, named after Hermitage Capital's 37-year-old lawyer, who died last year in a Russian jail without access to medical help when he was seriously ill. Magnitsky had been imprisoned two years ago by Russian officials following an alleged $230m (£143m) tax fraud involving Hermitage Capital.
  • (10) Magnitsky was arrested last November as a suspect in the case against Hermitage's co-founder William Browder.
  • (11) Within hours of learning of the unexpected decision to send the monumental statue of the river god Ilissos to the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaris, hit back.
  • (12) Investigating the charges in 2008, Browder's auditor and lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, discovered that police and tax officials had colluded to steal Hermitage's tax payments for their own enrichment.
  • (13) Vaughan Thomas Norwich • British Museum lends Elgin marbles to Hermitage; later, Putin forwards it to Athens: two fingers to London.
  • (14) "Niet, Niet, Niet," intoned curator Kasper König in a speech at the opening reception on Friday night , rehearsing the bureaucratic mantra that met many of the requests he, and the participating artists, made of the Hermitage museum, which is hosting the Manifesta.
  • (15) The investigation into the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky , who was involved in Hermitage Capital Management's long legal dispute with the Kremlin, should be carried out by independent experts, William Browder, head of the investment fund, said today.
  • (16) But even though Magnitsky was directly employed by William Browder , who runs a London-based investment fund, Hermitage Capital Management, the UK government has failed to act or even criticise the Russian authorities over the affair.
  • (17) Last week, prosecutors in St Petersburg opened an investigation into the Hermitage museum after complaints that an exhibit by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman showed signs of extremism .
  • (18) 1.57am BST Barry O'Farrell has just resigned over his evidence to Icac, in which he said he did not receive a gift of a 1959 bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage from the head of Australian Water Holdings, Nick Di Girolamo.
  • (19) I did not give evidence in that case and the court made a finding that Hermitage's account of what transpired in the Silverdale affair was unchallenged.
  • (20) Although the original allegations were lodged against Hermitage, during the investigation Magnitsky discovered what he believed to be a cover-up for Russian state officials to embezzle an estimated $230m from the Russian treasury.

Laura


Definition:

  • (n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
  • (2) Dr Helen Pankhurst and Laura Pankhurst Care International UK • So half the world’s women work ( Gender pay gap ‘will not close for another 70 years’, 6 March).
  • (3) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
  • (4) A State Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman, Laura Southard, said the storm had the potential to be a "historic ice event".
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Cumming beside Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man at Apsley House, where John Snare would also have seen it.
  • (6) Unsurprisingly, Laura Bates turned to an anonymous talkboard to ask for help soon after she founded the Everyday Sexism Project 18 months ago.
  • (7) This underfunding was highlighted by Ellis Bragginton and Laura Piddock from Birmingham University, who found that of almost £14bn research funding for bacteriology in the UK from 2008 to 2013, just £95m (0.7%) was awarded for work on new antibiotics.
  • (8) Laura Kuenssberg (@ITVLauraK) Royal Mail says they believe CWU will vote to strike- result earliest on 3rd Oct, strike earliest on 10th - deal + union on collision course September 12, 2013 7.29am BST Five key points So how does the Royal Mail privatisation work?
  • (9) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
  • (10) Álvaro “Tata” González recalls what Lugano told his team-mates in the dressing room before going out to face Venezuela in Puerto Ordaz, before that match that could have been the end of the line: “In these moments in which we are playing for so much, in this game which will decide so much, if they let me choose who to play alongside … If they let me choose from the best players in the world … If they let me choose from anyone to go out and fight right now … I don’t have any doubts: I choose you.” Ana Laura Lissardy is a Uruguayan-Italian journalist and author.
  • (11) This is what Laura Kuenssberg has put out on Twitter .
  • (12) Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates is published by Simon & Schuster inspring 2014.
  • (13) Cate Blanchett and Laura Linney both paid tribute to Rowlands, calling her a trailblazer and inspiration.
  • (14) A second former patient Laura from Evesham in Worcestershire told BBC Radio 5 how Savile would do "ward rounds" and take children to a private room he had.
  • (15) [see footnote] Laura Ashley, fashion The celebrated late designer moved to St Tropez at one point to avoid UK tax.
  • (16) Bono participated in the event and praised our policy ... Laura, Barbara, Jenna, and I consider him a friend.” Three years later, in preparations leading up to the G8 conference, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, was in discussion with Bono and Sir Bob Geldof .
  • (17) The plan is for Laura to play those two small tournaments late in February before she uses her protected ranking to get into Indian Wells,” Eisenbud said.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.
  • (19) Laura Minnett is a 'quality checker' with the charity, Choice Support.
  • (20) But I reckon Laura Tingle is dead right on the substantive challenge - the statement just shows the country can no longer coast.

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