(n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
(n.) One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
(2) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(3) They asked why she was "running scared" of the media and being "gagged" by Tory minders when she was out on the stump.
(4) We haven’t escaped from the “minder” you apparently believe we should have, and you’re not about to be called on to become our carer.
(5) Jeremy Corbyn’s minders can put him into a smart blue suit for an interview with Jeremy Paxman – but with his position on Brexit, he will find himself alone and naked in the negotiating chamber of the European Union ,” she said.
(6) When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.
(7) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
(8) In an attempt to show that Nato had struck non-military targets, government minders on Wednesday morning took journalists to see a "nature reserve", occasionally used by Gaddafi to entertain guests, that had been hit the previous evening.
(9) Journalist visas from the government are rare, and travel beyond a few square kilometres of central Damascus requires permission from the ministry of information and the accompaniment of a government minder.
(10) Danish child-minder Karsten Kaltoft was fired from his job because he was too overweight – at 25 stone – to tie a child's shoe laces.
(11) The beach photographs were taken when Andrea Rose, head of visual arts at the British Council, went for a swim with the minders, leaving Danziger free to wander along the water's edge with his camera, chatting to people and accepting food from beach barbecues.
(12) Minders again tried to stop journalists taking pictures.
(13) With Joleon Lescott, his supposed minder, having lost his man, Newcastle’s captain, unleashed a right-foot shot that Guzan should arguably have saved.
(14) In this fantasy land, there are no ropes, red tape, spin doctors or security minders to come between us and our idols.
(15) Last month, Gao slipped his minders to investigate claims of police torture and sexual abuse in Changchun, the provincial capital of Jilin.
(16) Journalists who have managed to leave it or another hotel without minders are detained by police or turned back at roadblocks.
(17) MI6 put Litvinenko on its payroll, gave him an encrypted phone and assigned him a minder, “Martin”.
(18) To suggestions that Hutchings is a loose cannon whose London minders (more evident on the doorstep than local activists) keep her firmly under control, he insists she is a "strong original, local voice".
(19) Libyan minders pushed and lashed out at the journalists, one of them drawing a gun, another smashing a CNN camera.
(20) The North Korean minders escorting us were furious, which perplexed me because the children were well-dressed and well-fed and obviously delighted to see their own images on screen for what was probably the first time.
Pinder
Definition:
(n.) One who impounds; a poundkeeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Mark Pinder Livingstone then told ITV: “If Jeremy wants me to apologise, I will.” Pressed on whether that was a “sorry”, he said: “Well, it’s the best you’re going to get.” He also said Jones should not “pick a fight with people and then start wimping around”.
(2) In the search for a specific test, a method described by Pinder et al.
(3) As a result of the management vacuum it is expected that Richard Pinder, the chief operating officer for Publicis network, will have to spend a large part of his time in the coming months dealing with the company's London office.
(4) Photograph: Mark Pinder I was eager to become a champion for local residents, ensuring that police deliver for our communities.
(5) This practice has led to field resistance to many drugs used in the past (reviewed in Holmes & Scott 1982) and the appearance of resistance to the last available prophylactic drug, isometamidium, is being reported (Bourn & Scott 1978, Küpper & Wolters 1983, Pinder & Authié 1984), (c) the hope for a vaccine has been largely abandoned, in the present state of knowledge, due to the considerable extent of antigenic diversity in trypanosomes (reviewed in Doyle 1977, Turner 1982, Roelants & Pinder 1984), (d) consequently, the possible use of certain West African breeds of cattle, which appear resistant to trypanosomiasis, has been emphasized as a solution to this problem in domestic animals.
(6) Due to the demand for quality rehabilitation services in the region, we founded our rehabilitation service, Chase Park Neuro Centre , and a health club in 2007, winning the prestigious Pinders award for best new care development.
(7) Photograph: Mark Pinder The letter, signed by 96 people, including the broadcasters Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Chris Packham, says the government has a commitment "to nurturing our children's love and respect for nature" under two binding international agreements – the UN convention on the rights of the child and the convention on biological diversity's Aichi targets .
(8) Photograph: Mark Pinder Jones, who has spoken of his experience of depression in parliament , said he found Livingstone’s initial comments gravely offensive “not just personally but also to the many thousands who suffer from mental illness”.