(v. i.) To play the sovereign; to act the monarch.
(v. t.) To rule; to govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(3) Its investments have included the airline Monarch, which has returned to profit after nearly collapsing a year ago, Morrisons convenience stores , and the now defunct Comet electrical goods chain.
(4) However the NCPO did prosecute 56 people for the crime of criticising the monarch, with one man sentenced to 60 years – which was later halved – for Facebook posts.
(5) Officials revealed that the monarch’s London residence needs a total overhaul to tackle a series of problems common to homes occupied by older people: the palace needs rewiring, new plumbing, asbestos removing, and redecoration inside and out.
(6) In June, Chen Feng, the founder of Hainan, appeared to confirm his interest in Monarch.
(7) Indeed, the word establishment is testament to its one-time importance: the term is likely to derive from the fact that the Church of England is the country's "established church", or state religion, with the monarch serving as its head.
(8) If implemented, the ESM will reverse the greatest 19th-century political achievement in Europe: the transfer of the power to determine taxation and expenditure from unaccountable monarchical governments to formally accountable parliaments.
(9) Under a convention dating back to 1728, the monarch must consent to any parliamentary bill affecting the crown.
(10) The appropriately named Monarch pub in Camden, north London, is jumping on the jubilee bandwagon by hosting a free "Monarchy in the UK" music night on bank holiday Monday and will be showing the football during the European championships.
(11) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(12) Queen Victoria’s physician was a great proponent of the value of tincture of cannabis and the monarch is reputed to have used it to counteract the pain of menstrual periods and childbirth.
(13) To crush any residual affinity for the monarchy, British propaganda against Thibaw “went into high gear”, said Thant Mtint-U, painting the monarch as an ogre, despot and drunkard.
(14) If that means you have to build strong relationships sometimes with regimes that you don’t always agree with, that I think is part of the job and that’s the way I do it and that’s the best way I can explain it.” Government buildings flew the union flag at half mast for 12 hours on the day of the death of the king last month on the instructions of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which said it was acting in line with protocol for the death of a foreign monarch.
(15) During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
(16) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
(17) "We will share a monarch, we will share a currency and, under our proposals, we will share a social union, but we won't have diktats from Westminster for Scotland and we won't have Scottish MPs poking their nose into English business in the House of Commons," said Salmond.
(18) Grieve said it was crucial that, under the British constitution, the monarch was not seen to be biased towards any political party, or to become entangled in political controversies.
(19) Monarch would be turning around its planes at Sharm at a quieter period of the day, later on Friday afternoon.
(20) Since then, the crown estate has run the royal lands and paid all its revenue surpluses to the Treasury (a record £230m last year), although every new monarch has to decide whether to confirm this arrangement.
Play
Definition:
(n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
(n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
(n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
(n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
(n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
(n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
(n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
(n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.
(v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
(v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
(v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
(v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
(v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
(v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
(n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
(n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
(n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
(n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
(n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
(n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
(n.) Performance on an instrument of music.
(n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
(n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(6) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(8) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(10) In concert with TF expressed by monocytes and macrophages this endothelial cell procoagulant activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of thrombotic disease.
(11) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(12) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
(13) Anti-human factor V IgG decreased this enhanced thrombin formation in the presence of platelets, indicating that factor V from platelets was playing an important role in thrombin formation.
(14) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(15) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(16) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(17) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(19) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.