(a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(2) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(3) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(4) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(5) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(6) The £77m, split between Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Norwich, will help improve existing cycle networks and pay for new ones, creating segregated routes in some areas.
(7) Adam Ramsay, 28, from Oxford, is volunteering over the weekend.
(8) The group receiving an Oxford meniscal-bearing implant, with no medial release, showed significantly better mechanical alignment than that receiving a fixed-bearing implant.
(9) "The more I've worked on data protection over the past 20 years, the more I've realised that at the heart of this, what matters as much as the privacy aspect is the issue of human decision-making," said Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute.
(10) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(11) Cambridge was on the target list but not Oxford; Bristol but not Brighton; and Edinburgh but not Aberdeen.
(12) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
(13) Opsonization of Staphylococcus aureus (Oxford strain) and specific IgG subclass antibodies against formalised staphylococci were measured in plasmas from 27 patients with significant S. aureus infections and 35 healthy adults and 15 children.
(14) She decided to become a teacher when she visited inner-city schools on an Oxford scheme to encourage state school pupils to apply there.
(15) Studies of age-specific incidence in Scotland and Oxford showed a close correlation between the regions and between men and women.
(16) A Mantel-Haenszel analysis of fetal irradiation subfactors indicated that most of the "extra" X-rayed cases in the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers were radiation induced.
(18) This was coincident with the area of occurrence of ko-kq and ko-no Oxford-Hermitage hybrids.
(19) The Oxford and Bethesda methods are presently the most commonly used techniques for measuring these antibodies.
(20) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
Postmaster
Definition:
(n.) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
(n.) One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.
(2) Sub Postmaster, Mowden Park Post Office, Darlington.
(3) In 1952, after discovering the interception of his mail, Hilton complained to his local postmaster.
(4) Dense crowds of spectators lined the route taken by the procession, which was witnessed from the Grand Stand at the Fifth Avenue Hotel by President Cleveland; Mr. Bayard, Secretary of State; Mr. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy; Mr. Vilas, Postmaster General; Mr. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior; General Sheridan, Commander in Chief of the United States army; M. Bartholdi, M. de Lesseps, Admiral Juarez, and the other French guests, as well as by other distinguished persons.
(5) The postmaster general, in response to a question in parliament about the future of broadcasting in April 1922, responded that “it would be impossible to have a large number of firms broadcasting.
(6) Post Office Ltd has to bridge a gap of around £37m in its crown network (the post offices owned and run by Post Office Ltd rather than by the independent sub-postmasters) and to do this it has embarked on a further cost-cutting exercise.
(7) Many people would argue that post offices are ethical to some degree, in that they are very much at the heart of local communities, and the accounts provide income for sub-postmasters.
(8) Sub-postmasters in the 11,500 post office branches are having a horrible time – their income has dropped by up to a third in the last five years.
(9) 7.59am BST George Thomson , general secretary of the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters, has also heavily criticised the plan: I am extremely disappointed and concerned that the Government is pressing ahead with a plan that will undoubtedly jeopardise the future of thousands of post offices.
(10) However, the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters (NFSP) has previously called for a halt in the sale until safeguards are put in place to protect post offices.
(11) Postmasters are now prohibited from aiding any attempt to conceal from those to whom letters are addressed the knowledge of the place where they originate; which knowledge is, under ordinary circumstances, obtainable from the post-mark.
(12) That said, post offices are very much at the heart of local communities, and a spokesman says the accounts will help generate increased income to sub-postmasters, thereby supporting the financial future of branches across the country.
(13) "This is an area of outstanding natural beauty, so I can't see how they're getting away with it," says Compton Martin's sub-postmaster, Ray Stewart, who runs a post office that is almost surreally tiny.