(n.) A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
(2) Some express nostalgia for the manicured city centre of the old days.
(3) Here's Bey and Jay, smoking a cigar in what looks like a well-manicured garden!
(4) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
(5) Whenever there's an alternative popular movement that grips the national imagination, left-ish commentators and journalists fight whitened tooth and manicured nail for public alliance to this season's worthy cause of resistance.
(6) The manicured lawns of Mill Waters sweep down to the Thames at Cookham, the Berkshire village where Stanley Spencer painted.
(7) Now, look at the art at the tips of our perfectly manicured hands!
(8) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(9) This manicured façade at Fifa, which made $1.3 bn from selling the global rights to the football World Cup, has now been shattered.
(10) The Wag style, with its manicured nails, high heels, huge false eyelashes and tiny dresses, is as feminised as it can possibly be – underlining these women's status as possessions, part of the package for footballers.
(11) When we came to London we finally went to the Blitz , and we thought, “This is it?” Because it was all so manicured and nice.
(12) Something I don’t generally depend on my manicure for, however, is warding off rapists.
(13) It is rare for me to stay out of the bar like I did last night but knowing that I had to get up at five in the morning, I decided for once to be sensible," he says as he sits in the basement of his Times Square Virgin Megastore waiting for yet another well-manicured American news anchor to show up and interview him.
(14) The snails collected by filter paper in an experimental area were marked with manicure and released in the same area.
(15) The institute is in the middle of a huge industrial estate, albeit the richest, most innovative and manicured industrial estate in the world, otherwise known as Silicon Valley.
(16) But in 2012, a whole wave of fearless gay New York rappers are stepping out and sticking two well-manicured fingers up to the notion that there is no room for them in hip-hop.
(17) Its two whitewashed, self-catering bungalows are just steps from the historic cobblestones but far enough away to give a sense of isolation while you lounge around in poolside in hammocks surrounded by manicured tropical gardens.
(18) Casas da Comporta, Alentejo Don't be fooled by the sleepy, slightly ramshackle air: Comporta is where Lisbon's fashion and media set come to get some sand between their perfectly manicured toes.
(19) Meanwhile, to reassure its foreign partners, the UAE has built the world's greatest labour camp, complete with manicured cricket grounds, a chess centre, a multilingual library with works by Ayn Rand and Barack Obama, the UAE's first multi-denominational prayer hall, film screening rooms, tug-of-war competitions, a coffee shop and landscaped grounds.
(20) I loved my manicures and pedicures, and driving around in my BMW and I believed that life wouldn't be OK without a just-out-of-the-oven croissant and a cup of Earl Grey tea in the morning.
Manus
Definition:
(pl. ) of Manus
(n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is unclear if the steps against Australian advisers have any connection to the Manus dispute.
(2) But a former Manus immigration caseworker, Liz Thompson, told Guardian Australia on Tuesday she was aware of at least three cases where asylum seekers on Manus had presented their sexuality as a reason for their persecution during protection interviews since September last year, indicating the department would be well aware there were gay asylum seekers on Manus.
(3) In figures from 2014 and 2015, Iranians were the dominant cohort on both Manus and Nauru.
(4) No asylum seeker on Manus has had a refugee claim processed.
(5) The immigration minister, Scott Morrison, headed to Papua New Guinea on Friday to discuss Manus Island violence and refugee resettlement and to iron out what the PNG foreign minister, Rimbink Pato, describes as “bumps” in an asylum policy partnership that is still intact.
(6) In a tweet, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection denied the incident took place: “Reports of a disturbance at the Manus Offshore processing centre are false.” Detainees and staff on the island insist it did take place.
(7) Manus Island detention centre to close, Papua New Guinea prime minister says Read more Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton , told Sky News on Thursday morning there was room on Nauru to take additional detainees.
(8) Refugees still stuck on Manus Island need to be allowed to move freely, get jobs and be productive members of PNG society – that is, to get on with their lives.
(9) Already one man held on Manus, Hamid Kehazaei, has died this year from an infection .
(10) Guardian Australia has been told some of the men imprisoned were taken from the Manus centre’s secret solitary confinement cells, the Chauka isolation unit.
(11) Only a handful of countries raised the issue of the Manus detention centre during PNG’s UPR session.
(12) Lomai’s case is on similar grounds to the successful challenge brought by PNG opposition leader Belden Namah , which argued the detention regime on Manus breached Section 42 of the PNG constitution guaranteeing a person’s right to liberty.
(13) A spokesman for Transfield Services, the company contracted by the Australian government to run the Manus Island detention centre, said the guard’s employment was terminated and he was taken from the island after the investigation.
(14) Geographical location of Manus Island The immigration minister, Tony Burke, who recently moved women and children off Manus Island because of substandard conditions, said families would not be sent to the centre until it was upgraded.
(15) Why can't we know what's happening on Nauru and Manus Island?
(16) Morrison, who did not respond to a request from Guardian Australia for comment on the letters, said in December he was “unaware of any claims or declarations of homosexuality” from asylum seekers on Manus.
(17) We are continuing to see heart wrenching reports of sexual abuse and assault, self-harm and hopelessness of refugees detained on Nauru and Manus Island with over 2,000 people left to languish in detention,” Szoke said.
(18) Don’t forget you live in Manus.” Guardian Australia has approached detention centre operators Transfield and security subcontractor Wilson Security for comment on Satah’s security regime.
(19) 4.25am BST Scott Morrison said the Manus events of 16-18 February were a "terrible, tragic and distressing" series of incidents.
(20) That is to say, the violence on Manus Island and elsewhere comes from inside (let's call it "The Process"), and the students' protest intrudes from without.