(n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major behavioural assessment was the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS) designed to measure the coronary-prone behaviour pattern (Type A).
(2) Jenkins's technique has been used to close 238 abdominal wounds.
(3) The method used was the AFMS questionnaire, which is based on the Matthews Youth Test for Health and a Swedish version of the Jenkins Activity Survey.
(4) However, Teryn Norris and Jesse Jenkins, of the Breakthrough Institute , argue that as the recession has deepened, Obama has been relatively silent on cap and trade emissions schemes similar to the one operating in Europe in which companies can trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.
(5) Relatives of some victims have expressed anger with Jenkins for choosing not to talk to them: "But, you know, it's not a movie about them.
(6) That is why we are confident we won’t see a large number of cases from this.” Duncan’s family were moved on Saturday to a house at an undisclosed gated community which Jenkins said had been donated by someone from “the faith community”.
(7) I’m glad cryonics is legal – we should all have rights over our bodies | Simon Jenkins Read more The world’s three major facilities - two in the US and KrioRus , a Russian centre on the outskirts of Moscow, differ slightly in price and ethos.
(8) It has been postulated that mammalian aspartic proteases, which contain two structurally homologous lobes, are derived in evolution from a homodimer enzyme by gene duplication and fusion (Tang, J., James, M. N. G., Hsu, I.-N., Jenkins, J.
(9) Jenkins also warned that other sources of funding for the trust were "under pressure".
(10) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(11) Whether we like it or not a lot of us have grown up with very poor education about the issues facing Indigenous Australians,” Jenkins said.
(12) This is no time for partisan politics | Simon Jenkins Read more Downing Street has also hinted that the 1% cap on public sector pay increases could be lifted in the autumn budget, after a growing number of Tory MPs aired their concerns about the policy continuing.
(13) Nigel Jenkins, DNS chief executive officer, says the appetite is there.
(14) "It is clear that some young people are not fully aware of the prevalence of STIs and how they can protect themselves against getting one," said Helen Jenkins, contraception and sexual health specialist.
(15) ‘‘P oor people don’t know how to cook,” Anne Jenkin said at the launch of the Feeding Britain report on Monday, and suddenly it was as though 10 months of evidence gathering, and 160 pages of written report, hadn’t happened, cast aside to be summed up in seven words.
(16) "We have interested a whole group of women who have never been interested in politics, never mind the Conservative party," Mrs Jenkin said.
(17) The Dallas Morning News reported that the Highland Park school district sent a note aiming to reassure parents that their children could not contract Ebola through contact with the daughter of Clay Jenkins, a judge who is in charge of emergency management for Dallas County and who drove Troh and her family from her apartment to a temporary home in an undisclosed location.
(18) The cost of menu-item forecast errors resulting from the use of adaptive exponential smoothing and Box-Jenkins formulations was approximately 40 per cent less than costs associated with the manual system.
(19) McDonald’s appointment is likely to disappoint the womenswear, lingerie and beauty head, Jo Jenkins, who will report to her.
(20) He was eventually approached by the then home secretary, Roy Jenkins, who had been impressed by what he had heard of Mark, and was asked to come to London as assistant commissioner.
Patronymic
Definition:
(a.) Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
(n.) A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tom Jaine writes: Robert Carrier was born Robert Carrier MacMahon, but dropped the patronymic when in France after the war: "It sounds good in French and it looks well visually," he remarked.
(2) Several explanations are offered for this, including polyphyletism of surnames and the presence of Scandinavian patronyms in this population.
(3) The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Offred – not her real name, but the patronymic she has been given by the new regime in an oppressive parallel America of the future – and her role as a Handmaid.