What's the difference between jobless and nobless?
Jobless
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(1) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) "Yes, these are areas where there's high levels of joblessness, but most people are still in jobs.
(4) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(5) In an economy still struggling with high joblessness and the threat of renewed recession still looming, convincing some of the party's stressed base might not be easy.
(6) A rising jobless total and an unemployment rate sticking at a stubbornly high 8% overshadowed a better than expected 27,100 fall in the claimant count in April, which compared with analysts' forecasts for a 20,000 drop.
(7) Spending, though, has continued to rise in line with Labour's plans, buoyed by growing expenditure on unemployment benefit as the jobless total has risen by over 600,000 in the past year.
(8) There is now widespread suspicion among experts that the claimant count figures are not representing the true state of joblessness since many unemployed people are unable to claim benefit.
(9) The governor admitted that the recent fall in unemployment would force a re-think of the Bank's forward guidance policy – the pledge not to even discuss raising interest rates from 0.5% until the jobless rate falls to 7%.
(10) The worsening unemployment picture sent the jobless rate up from 7.7% to 7.8% and left the total number unemployed at 2.52 million.
(11) It doesn't look like that, of course, when the doctor's surgery starts putting up signs in Polish, or your child can't get in to the nearest primary school, and the trajectory of the jobless figures seems relentlessly upwards – even when it is not.
(12) When combined with economic hardship, this loss makes the jobless more likely to suffer depression and even to take their own lives, as starkly shown by Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler in The Body Economic .
(13) The Office for National Statistics said the broadest measure of unemployment showed joblessness at 2.47 million in the three months to August, up 88,000 from the previous three months but a similar level to that it reported for July and one which left the jobless rate steady at 7.9%.
(14) The number of people claiming jobless benefits across Britain dropped by 5,900, defying City forecasts of an increase.
(15) The Lib Dems are especially aware that spending cuts in some departments of over 15%, a near-two-year freeze in public sector pay, higher jobless forecasts and early reductions in welfare benefits will combine to shock many of the party's traditional supporters.
(16) In countries like Spain and Greece, overall jobless rates are approaching 25%, with youth unemployment over 50%.
(17) None of these suggest a bumper year for the high street, since the jobless total is going up, house prices are going down, consumer confidence has cratered and real disposable income in 2011 saw its biggest fall since 1977.
(18) The Bank has been surprised by the recent performance of the economy, having predicted last August that it could be early 2016 before the jobless rate hit 7%.
(19) The chancellor said he was extending the current three-day wait before the jobless can claim benefits to seven days.
(20) At points the jobless rate has fallen noticeably while growth lags.
Nobless
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Noblesse
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(1) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(2) We all have our own unique DNA and our own life experiences.” But rather than run from the family name entirely, the former Florida governor is appealing instead to his party’s sense of noblesse oblige – crafting a new version of his brother’s somewhat faded brand of compassionate conservatism.
(3) Nevertheless it has acquired a title of noblesse demonstrating its long survival, and in the meantime has given an impulse to the use of the gastroepiploic artery.
(4) Yet, if the Post is to be an ongoing business, as opposed to purely a science project or exercise in noblesse oblige, it will need paying customers first and foremost, and Bezos knows that.
(5) It also seeks to legitimize, and deflect unwanted attention from its wealth and power by pretending that its open borders stance is a form of noblesse oblige.
(6) But this is hardly what we think of as "social enterprise" – it looks more like a kind of feudalism, run on tithes and tributes and grudging sense of noblesse oblige .
(7) A reference to "parents who think that noblesse oblige is the latest perfume from Chanel" was one of his put-downs.
(8) The triumph of the rich is now almost complete, as their interests dominate a Tory party divested of all noblesse oblige.
(9) They had a sense of noblesse oblige and people appreciated it and as a result welcomed them in their midst.
(10) The Tory Eurosceptics were all on their best behaviour – noblesse oblige, etc – and the Labour benches were far more preoccupied with the ongoing shadow cabinet reshuffle that was well into its second day, with only one move confirmed – by ousted shadow culture secretary Mike Dugher himself rather than Labour head office, which might yet still deny it.
(11) The Duke’s attitude to his property empire was one of noblesse oblige: when Westminster council proposed selling off a housing estate in Pimlico, intended by his ancestors specifically for the use of the working classes, he took the council to court (Westminster claimed that the working class no longer existed) and won.
(12) But I think it goes back to the elite roots of the movement, and the fact that when a lot of these conservation groups began there was kind of a noblesse oblige approach to conservation.
(13) Before he was elected, David Cameron had Harold Macmillan’s picture on his desk to show he, too, was a one-nation, noblesse oblige, postwar consensus sort of politician – part of his “big society” disguise.
(14) Noblesse oblige Son of a noted diplomat and Arabist, alumnus of Ampleforth and Cambridge, husband of a former lady in waiting to Princess Michael of Kent — Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes , 61, might be considered perfectly placed to chronicle the moneyed lives and scandalous loves of the English upper classes in a number of screenplays and comic novels.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Guardian’s 60-second guide to why the Paris climate summit will succeed Bernie Sanders’ campaign is built around precisely this logic: not the rich being stroked for a little more noblesse oblige, but ordinary citizens banding together to challenge them, winning tough regulations, and creating a much fairer system as a result.