(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.
Seminary
Definition:
(n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
(n.) Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced.
(n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
(n.) Seminal state.
(n.) Fig.: A seed bed; a source.
(n.) A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.
(a.) Belonging to seed; seminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
(2) A Catholic seminary, the Centro de Atendimento ao Migrante, has been receiving food and clothes donations after taking in 219 Ghanaians, two of them women, the centre’s director said.
(3) From St Bede's college , a Roman Catholic grammar school, he went to study for two years at Ushaw College in Durham, a seminary for trainee priests, and then at Birmingham Polytechnic, now Birmingham City University , where in 1976 he received a certificate in residential care of children and young people.
(4) He also attempted, less successfully, to expand his influence in the seminaries through greater regulation.” The jury is very out on how far last month’s election to the Experts Assembly will shape the succession.
(5) Scant progress has been made on regulating the country’s religious seminaries, one of the items on a much trumpeted “national action plan” drawn up in the wake of the APS killings.
(6) He was standing beneath the neoclassical October Palace – once a girls' seminary and later the HQ for Lenin's secret police – when a sniper shot him in the head.
(7) Robert Lauder, principal of the nearby Friends Seminary, said he could see why Sedwill saw similarities between Kabul and New York .
(8) Stickel, 40, said she was a teacher at a Mormon seminary in California when Prop 8 passed.
(9) Thousands of Israeli troops and police have joined in the hunt for the three seminary students – Gil-ad Sha'er and US-Israeli national Naftali Frankel, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 – who disappeared while hitchhiking home from a yeshiva, or religious school, on the West Bank.
(10) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
(11) I give below a few instances where a large number of innocent people were killed by US drone strikes in Pakistani tribal areas: 13 January 2006 – Five women, five children and six men killed in Damadola, Bajaur tribal region; 30 October 2006 – 80 children killed in drone strike on a seminary in Chingai village; 23 June 2009 – 60 people killed in a drone strike on a funeral; 17 March 2011 – 41 innocent civilians killed in drone strikes on a tribal jirga called to settle a chromite mine dispute.
(12) Now Sadaullah does not go to school and gets only a religious education in a madrasa – Islamic seminary – in his village.
(13) Sexual attitudes and attitude changes in the AAPM&R-sponsered workshop were similar to those measured in participants in other workshops involving medical and seminary students and community members.
(14) Initially I was at a seminary and I was kicked out for asking too many questions.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pakistani seminary students gather outside Bin Laden’s final hiding place in Abbottabad, 2011.
(16) It is being built by volunteers led by Baba Harnam Singh, the head of the seminary Bhindranwale once led.
(17) There are really only seven passages in the Bible that refer directly to homosexual behaviour, and none of them are associated with Jesus.” That’s Davis Lose from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia .
(18) "It's hard to complete because they have more manpower from all their religious seminaries," said Mohammad Rashid from the Edhi Foundation in Islamabad.
(19) The tribunal, which prosecutes people accused of being involved in the Rwandan genocide, found that on at least four occasions in April and May 1994, Rukundo played an integral role in kidnapping and killing Tutsi refugees who sought shelter in a seminary.
(20) A Pakistani intelligence official claimed five people were killed by the early morning strike on a religious seminary in Hangu, a district bordering the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where nearly all US drone strikes have taken place in the past.