(1) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(2) Forest Whitaker has a warning for Jinn Forest Whitaker Photograph: YouTube He’s not playing Darth Vader, despite the rumours.
(3) Jinn reportedly secured a $7.5m (£6m) investment last year, partly to expand its service to cities outside London.
(4) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.
(5) It is better than going on the dole, which I have never been on in my life.” Asked about the complaints of low pay, Jinn’s co-founder and chief operating officer, Leon Herrera, said couriers were free to take or refuse work and were not exclusively contracted to Jinn.
(6) But they have complained after Jinn, which is based in east London, scrapped a minimum hourly rate of £8 an hour in January.
(7) Dhiab attributes his condition to Jinns, or “nefarious spirits”.
(8) He had expected to earn £759.60 for two weeks’ work in Leeds, but when Jinn removed the minimum hourly payment he was paid just £264.
(9) Couriers on our platform are 100% free to log in at their own schedule, accept or reject proposed drops, and do all of this on a completely non-exclusive basis.” He said Jinn shared with couriers “spaciotemporal data” about when and where there was demand “so that they can make informed decisions regarding log-in days, times and locations.” Jinn is one of several “gig economy” companies to have been criticised by workers for low pay.
(10) A courier in Leeds self-employed through Jinn, an app that allows customers to have meals and groceries delivered to their homes from outlets such as McDonalds, KFC and Sainsbury’s, provided evidence to the Guardian that he had been paid just £125 for 72 hours’ work.
(11) Jinn promises its customers: “We can get you anything you desire, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week … as long as it’s legal.” Couriers wait on bicycles or mopeds for orders that come through on their phones and can range from collecting a full meal for 10 from a branch of Nando’s to picking up a couple of chocolate bars from Sainsbury’s for a customer who would rather not leave their sofa.
(12) Stephen Xenakis, a retired army brigadier general and psychiatrist who also recently examined Dhiab, declined to offer a diagnosis, saying Guantánamo has insufficiently examined him neurologically, and considered Dhiab’s “Jinns” explanation metaphorical.
(13) Their rabbi-healers, however, are predisposed towards molding these events into a covert-demonic pattern, the core of which involves a human injuring a jinn and the latter's retaliation.
(14) One Jinn courier Riz Ali, 33, said he had fallen into debt as a result of the fall in earnings.
(15) How to contact the Guardian securely Read more Last month angry Jinn couriers in London surrounded Herrera outside the company’s head office.
(16) Qui-Gon Jinn is impatient, imperious and patronising, while Luke is, above all, humble.
(17) Jinn is a delivery marketplace that aggregates demand and supply for collection and delivery services,” he said.
Jinx
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It took us 35 hours to get to London because of delays, so I think we’re jinxed,” said Jillian Masselos, who is pregnant.
(2) "Very serious allegations have been made and this is no run-of-the-mill, high jinx affair," he said this afternoon.
(3) 4.21am BST Red Sox 8 - Cardinals 1, top of 9th May Low (@TeamMassMayhem) @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid YOU JINXED IT!
(4) "Do I switch the lights on and risk jinxing the Reds?
(5) I'm not saying this was a jinx or anything, I'm just saying.
(6) Imagine the high-jinx when a man who likes meatballs has to eat, um, cod.
(7) Over the course of a jinxed shoot and a mixed critical reception he discovered that being King of the World was not all it was cracked up to be.
(8) Ah now, it'd be unfair for me to try to jinx one team over the other.
(9) I’m sitting in a windowless room with two gigantic pictures of [The Jinx’s villain] Robert Durst on the wall,” he explains on the phone from New York.
(10) Although given that my only other bet was on England beating Algeria 5-1, I think I've probably jinxed them."
(11) She chose her university, in part, because of its strong reputation for sport and Rosenfeld names the tennis star Martina Navratilova as an inspiration, although an injury jinxed her own hopes of competing at a top level.
(12) But the crowd are prepared to wait... 10.09pm BST I don't normally publish emails like this, but we've had a lot of them in the past week I'm banned by my highly superstitious family from watching live coverage of the Olympics because I jinx Team GB," says Claire Robins.
(13) "After such a victorious and uplifting welcome of Lima love, the contaminated jinx had its way via a simple restaurant meal of penne pasta and tomato," he wrote.
(14) But the resurgence would never be complete, the jinx not entirely broken, until they had defeated their rivals.
(15) When the San Francisco 49ers seemed to respond to the power outage by starting to play like they could actually steal the game away from the Baltimore Ravens, we wanted to give a certain amount of credit to the lights, call it momentum or a jinx or whatever.
(16) Fielding says the new book is about "a whole new idea for a phase of her life that I can't jinx by describing it".
(17) 1.53am GMT Kansas City here we come Of course in the other game last night, Sporting KC finally overcame their Houston Dynamo jinx to not just get to the MLS Cup final but to ensure that they'll be hosting it (having been to a great All Star Week there, I can tell you they'll do a great job too).
(18) They've been rather spoiled this week after lifting that home elimination game jinx.
(19) Lucy Beaumont: 'I'm paying three times the price for what looks like Elton John's outhouse' Lucy Beaumont I'm jinxed with accommodation in Edinburgh.
(20) Updated at 7.28pm GMT 7.23pm GMT 90 min +5: “Okay, with three minutes to go I think I’m just about ready to put my Niall Mullen voodoo doll away after his fate enticing attempt to jinx things at half time,” writes Phil Sawyer.