(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.
Unkempt
Definition:
(a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
(a.) Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) While speaking to a group of drivers in the park, an unkempt lady interrupted us with taunts.
(2) Isolation and analysis of mutations affecting the unkempt gene, including complete deletions of this gene, indicate that there is no zygotic requirement for unkempt during embryogenesis, presumably due to the contribution of maternally supplied RNA, although the gene is essential during post-embryonic development.
(3) In a typical outbreak, 5% of the pullets were stunted and listless with unkempt feathers.
(4) Unkempt, exhausted families arrive every few minutes at the Sacred Heart church hall in downtown McAllen, eight miles from the Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
(5) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
(6) Let’s just be brutally honest about that stereotype: an eccentric bohemian hippy, unkempt beard, John Lennon-style glasses, wading through muesli in dishevelled sandals.
(7) Kate was in jeans, looking a little unkempt and sleep-deprived, telling bystanders that the month-old Prince George "is with Granny at the moment" and "sleeping for now, fingers crossed!"
(8) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(9) As the prosecution spoke, Tsarnaev looked almost relaxed, his goatee trimmed, his hair fluffy and unkempt, wearing a grey suit and open-necked shirt.
(10) The unkempt gene of Drosophila encodes a set of embryonic RNAs, which are abundant during early stages of embryogenesis and are present ubiquitously in most somatic tissues from the syncytial embryo through stage 15 of embryogenesis.
(11) Expression of unkempt RNAs becomes restricted predominantly to the central nervous system in stages 16 and early 17.
(12) A burgeoning excrement problem In a nearby grassy plaza kids are tearing around a playground and some office workers kick a soccer ball about near several unkempt men and women who are sleeping or visibly high.
(13) But while Sanders continues to gain momentum and money, political observers remain wary of whether the unkempt septuagenarian socialist can actually defeat Clinton in the era of almost unlimited campaign spending, or whether Democratic voters are just enjoying what one political operative in New Hampshire this week called “a summer fling”.
(14) Randomly approached lower-ranking enlistees and draftees are much more likely to complain about their disease, even if minor, and are more likely to refuse to shave and be unkempt even without permission to grow a beard (in contravention of Army regulations).
(15) The room was full of sunlight, and now I saw him clearly: a stocky man, thirties, unkempt, with a round friendly face and unruly hair.
(16) Domestic chicks experimentally infected with Echinostoma caproni for 2 weeks showed a dilated ileum, unkempt feathers, watery diarrhoea, and weight loss.
(17) In that part of the forest is the unkempt and unloved world of civil service pay and reward.
(18) At that time, 78% of respondents thought that the vogue among young people of cultivating an unkempt look was past or on the wane (Table 1.).
(19) Both genes modify the normal smooth coat to a more upright, somewhat unkempt pelage.
(20) True, you could spot Hannah's backcombed bob and Dot's unkempt bird's nest in silhouette.