(n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
Example Sentences:
(1) His first, in fact, since just after the release of 1991's Loveless, along with Nirvana's Nevermind the most influential album of the 1990s.
(2) Still, with the many different stairways charting looping courses around the buffeted white peaks of the galleries, this rooftop landscape will be a kids’ nirvana for hide and seek.
(3) So Big Machine signings such as the Cadillac Three – marketed as the "Nashville Nirvana" – made good on promises to tour early and often.
(4) Her native cycling habitat may be the relative bike nirvana of Copenhagen but Anne Hedensted Steffensen , Denmark's ambassador to the UK, claims to nonetheless enjoy braving the roads of her current home city.
(5) Nor would membership of the EEA achieve the migrant-free nirvana that some advocates of withdrawal fantasise about.
(6) We are not in a state of nirvana on women’s rights at any stretch of the imagination.
(7) The X-Files is to Anderson as an unasked-for hit single is to a painfully cool rock band – think Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.
(8) It’s also worth remembering Nirvana’s spectral cover of The Man Who Sold the World , immortalised on their Unplugged Live in New York performance recorded five months before Kurt Cobain’s death, which indicated exactly how much alternative American music owed to Bowie.
(9) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
(10) The Beatles, who won Best New Artist at the show in 1965, are the 2014 winners of the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award on the night, while McCartney has also been nominated for Best Music Film for concert movie Live Kisses and Best Rock Song with Cut Me Some Slack , his collaboration with the surviving members of Nirvana.
(11) We are treating it as if it’s cultural – we don’t want to offend people – and that is wrong.” Pointing out that numbers of teenage girls disappear every summer from British schools, Sanghera said that Karma Nirvana had recently written to every school in West Yorkshire inviting them to a free educational event, but that only two schools turned up.
(12) I'm not going to pretend that there's some nirvana of two separate worlds, relating to each other on the basis of total transparency and ethical perfection.
(13) Coupled with my vast repertoire of recently acquired medical knowledge, this seemed like professional nirvana.
(14) This is the nirvana that Cameron believes will cause re-shoring because our energy prices will be so low.
(15) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
(16) Download this app and on your lunchbreak, instead of doing what you usually do – curling up in the staff room next to the radiator in the hope of a short nap – make a few clicks and you might reach nirvana.
(17) People on the right tend to pin all Labour's problems on Miliband, and mock him as a toxic mixture of caution, confusion and woolly-minded north London socialism; on the left, there are regular calls for him to slough off the New Labour inheritance, be "bold", and lead us all into some new social-democratic nirvana.
(18) Behind this was a hazy notion of rolling back time to an Ottoman nirvana of what might have been if Ataturk and the Young Turks – neither much troubled with democracy – had not existed.
(19) But for a small global community of hackers and entrepreneurs, this is a technological nirvana – a vibrant, multi-coloured landscape of possibility, opportunity and creative exploration.
(20) Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) Ok so I have unreleased wu, Beatles, 2pac, nirvana, radiohead, Hendrix, brand new, smiths, Elliot smith, Ramones... What do you want first?
Seeker
Definition:
(n.) One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
(n.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.
Example Sentences:
(1) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(2) Shorten said any arrangement needed to be consistent with international obligations, with asylum seekers afforded due process and their claims properly assessed.
(3) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(5) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(6) Labor’s left faction is yet to settle its position on the politically controversial issue of turning back asylum-seeker boats , ahead of the party’s national conference at the end of the month.
(7) The UNHCR said in a statement: “International law prescribes that no individual can be returned involuntarily to a country in which he or she has a well-founded fear of persecution.” The Tamil Refugee Council said it had spoken with a relative of one of the asylum seekers on board the vessel from India.
(8) I think there have been concerns expressed going back to our time in government about ensuring safety at sea in all of these operations, including the possibility of turnbacks, safety at sea not only for asylum seekers but also importantly for Australian personnel.
(9) But a former Manus immigration caseworker, Liz Thompson, told Guardian Australia on Tuesday she was aware of at least three cases where asylum seekers on Manus had presented their sexuality as a reason for their persecution during protection interviews since September last year, indicating the department would be well aware there were gay asylum seekers on Manus.
(10) Also, we’ve had a number of people want to donate directly to the asylum seekers we’re following for this series - Said and Wali Khan Norzai .
(11) Quite a few have been referred over their reporting on the government’s asylum seeker policies.
(12) The review, conducted by Keith Hamburger, a former director general of the Queensland Corrective Services Commission, found that asylum seekers had been told in March 2013 that their claims would be completed within four to six months.
(13) In an extensive interview with Guardian Australia, Coleman spoke out for the first time about the state of Australia’s asylum-seeker policies.
(14) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
(15) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
(16) A Tamil asylum seeker, speaking on condition on anonymity, fears being re-detained or deported: We are scared to go and meet the government.
(17) There is strong support across parties for Britain to act.” The children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, giving evidence to the Lords’ committee on unaccompanied minors in the EU, said too many unaccompanied asylum seekers went missing from local authority care after they had been allocated a home.
(18) Tensions on the island escalated in February leading to widespread unrest, dozens of serious injuries and the death of an Iranian asylum seeker, Reza Barati.
(19) No asylum seeker on Manus has had a refugee claim processed.
(20) The summit is likely to agree new hotspots in Greece and Italy where asylum seekers can have their claims processed.