(n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions.
(n.) The art of an orator; the art of public speaking in an eloquent or effective manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
(2) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
(3) The movie sticks mostly to the facts , although a community meeting in a church, where Obama displays his rare talent for oratory, is incorporated from a later date.
(4) Choice of the Oratory was criticised because the school had opted out of local authority control; choice of St Olave's was criticised because admission was selective.
(5) The Oratory, which achieves about twice the national average for GCSE scores, did not respond to a request for comment.
(6) Former prime minister Tony Blair was also heavily criticised for sending his sons to the selective Oratory school in south London.
(7) Martin was alleged to have met at least six pupils in his rooms at the London Oratory church, to which the highly regarded school is affiliated.
(8) Ritchie began designing the bike in 1975 from his flat in South Kensington, London, which overlooked Brompton Oratory, the imposing Roman Catholic church from which he took the name.
(9) Related special report Special report: religion in the UK Related stories 5 December: Sex abuse issue haunts the Catholic church 6 November: Archbishop steps aside in paedophile scandal 5 November: Bishop ignored warnings over abuser priests 13 September: Nolan to review Catholic rules on child abuse Useful links The London Oratory school ChildLine ChildLine's child abuse factsheet Hammersmith and Fulham council
(10) Political events continue to remind us of the importance of persuasive arguments and good oratory that appeal not only to our rational side, but our emotional side too.” He also thinks the ability to see the other side is particularly important.
(11) The Conservative party today pounced gleefully on an embarrassing dilemma for Prime Minister Tony Blair as his children's school, the London Oratory, sent a letter to parents asking for money after the government scrapped its grant-maintained status.
(12) The collision of history threatens to overshadow his first visit as US president to Africa's biggest economy, although his oratory can be expected to rise to the occasion of honouring the anti-apartheid hero.
(13) With all the arrogance of 21 I replied: ‘A harmless lunatic with the gift of oratory.’ I can still hear his retort: ‘No lunatic with the gift of oratory is harmless.’” Binchy had a second encounter with Hitler in Berlin in 1930, when the Nazis were on the brink of power.
(14) The Office of the Schools Adjudicator ruled that the London Oratory school in Fulham, a state secondary, broke a section of the official admissions code for schools intended to prevent parents from obtaining places for their offspring by giving practical or financial support to schools or associated bodies like the church.
(15) In opposition, the Blairs' decision to send one of their children to London Oratory grated with the Labour party.
(16) But having won, he returned not only to the oratory but to famous lines from earlier speeches, reprising once again his 2008 slogan about "hope".
(17) He was not a dynamic leader, had no great powers of oratory, but he knew absolutely everything that was going on in school,” says Michael Allen, who taught him history and cricket.
(18) "We occasionally go to the same church in Oxford – they really think there that the BBC is run from the pews of the Oratory.
(19) This is about more than great oratory, it is about a kind of fear.
(20) Faith schools like the London Oratory, which are quickly oversubscribed, can use faith-based criteria for admission to decide who gets the places.
Private
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.
(a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.
(a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.
(a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.
(a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.
(n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
(n.) Personal interest; particular business.
(n.) Privacy; retirement.
(n.) One not invested with a public office.
(n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.
(n.) The private parts; the genitals.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(3) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(4) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(5) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(6) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(7) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
(8) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(9) Also on Saturday, the VA said it would allow more veterans to obtain healthcare at private hospitals and clinics.
(10) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(11) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(12) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(13) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
(14) The alignment of Clinton’s Iowa team, all but guaranteeing a declaration of her official campaign before the end of next month, was coming into view amid reports that she was due to address by the end of the week controversy over her use of a private email account as secretary of state.
(15) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(16) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(17) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(18) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(19) A team-oriented problem-solving procedure using management project teams was developed to improve quality of care and productivity in a private, nonprofit hospital.
(20) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.