(n.) A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; /, in s/am, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
(2) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
(3) In a political landscape with a strong hard left and far right, Macron faces the challenge of trying to win a parliamentary majority for his fledgling political movement En Marche!
(4) Macron and Trump will attend the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Élysée on Friday morning, before the Trumps return to Washington.
(5) After Trump had described his “America first” approach to trade , Macron reportedly took out his mobile phone in order to illustrate his thoughts on the issue.
(6) Macron, a former investment banker and senior civil servant who grew up in a bourgeois family in Amiens, served as deputy chief of staff to Hollande but was not part of the Socialist party.
(7) Trump, on his inaugural foreign tour, which has also taken in stops in Saudi Arabia and Israel, has a lunch date with the newly elected French president, Emmanuel Macron, in Brussels.
(8) Macron pledged to fight racism, and called for a thorough investigation into the recent killing of a Parisian woman believed to be linked to anti-Jewish sentiment.
(9) Macron’s defiant, alpha-male handshake with Trump when they first met in Brussels in May played well at home in France.
(10) Almost all media in France are drawing on polls that have shown since mid-February that Fillon, a former prime minister, is trailing in third place behind Macron and the Front National candidate, Marine Le Pen , for the 23 April first round.
(11) If it has a grand theme, it is what Macron describes in his book, Revolution , as a “profound democratic revolution” to restore faith in mainstream politics.
(12) So the question now is: will Europe succeed in defending the deep values it brought to the world for decades, or will it be wiped out by the rise in illiberal democracies and authoritarian regimes?” Macron said the key to reconciling European people with the European project was to tighten rules on workers and make it harder for companies to employ cheaper labour from other EU countries or shift production to lower-wage countries, undercutting others.
(13) The Guardian view on the French campaign: a defining election | Editorial Read more The Kremlin denied in February that it was behind media and internet attacks on Macron’s campaign.
(14) Macron’s fledgling “neither right nor left” political movement, La République en Marche (La REM), and its smaller centrist ally Democratic Movement (MoDem) needed 289 seats to have an absolute majority.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emmanuel Macron ‘out-alphas Trump with a knuckle-crushing handshake’.
(16) An opinion poll on Monday put Le Pen seven points clear of the centrist outsider Emmanuel Macron and his conservative rival François Fillon, who are tied on 20%, in the first round.
(17) Asked if the door really remained open for Britain to go back on Brexit – after his recent remarks , taken as an encouraging sign by opponents of a hard Brexit, that there may be room for compromise – Macron said: “The door is open until the moment you walk through it.
(18) Key figures on the centre of the Socialist party could jump ship to Macron after Hamon’s win.
(19) The official Twitter account of Fillon’s party, Les Républicains , published a caricature of Macron depicting him as a hook-nosed banker in a top hat cutting a cigar with the communist symbol of the red sickle.
(20) Macron hit back by publicly slapping down the general at the annual summer military garden party, telling army generals in a speech: “I am the boss.” Macron’s speech surprised military observers and was seen by some as a shocking humiliation of De Villiers.
Matron
Definition:
(n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
(n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(2) By the age of 25 she was a head OT; four years later she took on her first general management role as a hospital matron.
(3) Only a minority of physicians opposed the introduction of the English model of nursing care, with the matron who had the power of organizing the hospital.
(4) It was using the charity to help transport patients who were fit enough to leave A&E, but the Red Cross was not providing healthcare to patients, the hospital’s duty matron said.
(5) Although ostensibly instituted to render care to "female paupers," the matronized nursing service was readily expanded, and subsequently delivered care to the entire, predominantly indigent patient population.
(6) And look over there; surely it can’t be, but yes, my word: stern old Mr Sillars getting all frisky with Ms May, the boarding school matron, and her kitten heels.
(7) Richard Brothwell, Wakefield's community heart failure matron, is one of the professionals trialling the system.
(8) In one short visit, using questionnaires to the matron, cook and the residents and a check-list of general observations, the degree of risk, high, moderate or low, can be assessed.
(9) 98 Hospices in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland of 111 that had a named matron or senior nurse, including 17 funded by NHS and 81 independent units.
(10) Along with Shields and Brinkley, other names who have portrayed Chicago's fictional showgirl Roxie Hart include Ugly Betty's America Ferrera, Coronation Street's Jill Halfpenny and presenter Denise Van Outen, while Kelly Osbourne and the EastEnders actor Anita Dobson are among those who have played the hard-as-nails prison matron Mama Morton.
(11) The incidental pleasures in Fading Gigolo start with its sweet and slightly risible premise: John Turturro – a florist named Fioravante – has the sexual magic touch for the lonely, libidinous matrons of the One Percent.
(12) "But having said that, we are working with community matrons and they could do it for you.
(13) While prosecuting as witches those women careproviders who were matrons and sages, the Church instituted consecrated women to provide what she expected from care-giving, and had them recognized as the socialized model of care-providers.
(14) Our view of the NHS and of the nursing role is still based on the traditional picture of matrons in white caps, but we need to look at the evidence and rethink who is best placed to deliver care of a high quality, and how to ensure that this also represents value for money.
(15) One minute the reception at Private Eye 's chaotic Soho office is quiet, and a matronly receptionist is making me a cup of coffee.
(16) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
(17) At their wedding in Acapulco in 1957, Mike's lifelong friend, the crooner Eddie Fisher, was best man, and Eddie's wife, Debbie Reynolds, was the matron of honour.
(18) Lectures on malignant melanoma, hazards of sunburns in childhood, and the importance of sun awareness were arranged for the nursery school matrons in the preschool sector.
(19) Although matrons (nursing administrators) who have graduated from the College are capable of performing special tasks to ensure quality care, they do not have the corresponding authority and recognition.
(20) We are not doing them a favour by serving them, they are doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so.” Inside that hospital Henley spoke to a matron, Nadine Opiniano, who told him: “I do think some people here don’t appreciate what the NHS means.