(n.) A dwelling house, generally with land attached.
(n.) The parsonage; a clergyman's house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if the prospect of David Cameron fighting the corner of once-loyal working-class Labour voters sounds absurd, that's what will surely define tomorrow night's debate: egged on by tomorrow morning's headlines (and get ready for a real peach from the Sun), the moneyed Old Etonian carpeting the son of the manse for his failure to understand the concerns of ordinary folk.
(2) Not for him Mr Osborne’s crowd-pleasing flourishes or Gordon Brown’s sermons from the manse.
(3) Like many a child of the manse he reacted against the puritanism of his childhood without abandoning its high-mindedness or sense of moral certainty.
(4) The manse – which still exhales an air of four-square Victorian respectability – occupies the high ground above the green spaces of Kelvingrove Park, in which, before the first world war, its son John Reith would walk, feeling the winds of destiny brushing his cheek as they blew down from the Campsie Fells – or so he said.
(5) Many years later, after I had got to know him as a constituent in the old manse of Makerstoun in the Borders, he told me that he had at various times been half-promised a peerage by both my predecessors as Liberal leader, Grimond and Jeremy Thorpe.
(6) (Emerson may have turned out to be an unforgiving landlord, but he had after all written the greatest of his essays, "Nature", in the attic-study of the manse.)
(7) A childhood in the rough hills of southern Scotland didn't help: there were manses, not vicarages, in the Borders, and a more outspoken democratic spirit against the feudal set-up that prevailed there.
(8) Last June, though, the basketball-playing "skinny kid" from Hawaii and the son of the manse got on surprisingly well.
(9) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
(10) Tennant was born David John McDonald and grew up with his brother and sister in a manse in Paisley, Scotland.
(11) The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c. It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse.
(12) Sophia and Nathaniel moved to Concord, west of Boston, where they rented, from Ralph Waldo Emerson's family, the Old Manse, close by the river and the Old North Bridge where a bloody skirmish had taken place between British troops and local militia on April 19 1775, the revolution's baptism of fire.
(13) And, given that the virtues of the manse are not dissimilar to the virtues of the mosque, the gurdwara or the Women's Institute, it's a multicultural, shared, open polity.
(14) Doubles £80 (make your own breakfast) Plockton Gallery and Guesthouse, Plockton Plockton Gallery Checking into the Red Room or Blue Room of this lovely old manse in pretty little Plockton could end up costing you a fortune.
(15) Its Ludwig-like atmosphere is enhanced by the gilded steam barge by which one sails across to Ruskin’s retreat, ascending the banks to the manse.
(16) Alasdair Gray, writer "Self-rule for Scotland would make us grow up" David Greig, playwright "The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c. It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse."
(17) The manse on Lynedoch Street, Glasgow, is a handsome double-fronted house with nine steps up to its front door.
(18) Few of Gordon Brown's friends and admirers would have predicted during his dominant decade as chancellor that his life's journey from the Presbyterian manse in Kirkcaldy to No 10 would end in such a painful exit.
Minister
Definition:
(n.) A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
(n.) An officer of justice.
(n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
(n.) A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.
(n.) One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.
(n.) To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
(v. i.) To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
(v. i.) To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(3) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(4) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(5) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(6) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(8) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(9) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(10) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(11) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(12) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(13) Speaking to a handpicked audience of community representatives, the prime minister said he had not allowed the EU to get its way.
(14) The prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We think this can be done in line with EU and international law and it is important it is introduced and set up in the right way.
(15) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(16) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(17) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(18) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
(19) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(20) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.