(n.) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
(n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) But British ambassador Sir Anthony Parsons famously got it wrong, reporting that the shah's position was secure as late as 1978.
(3) Nick Parsons, head of strategy at National Australia Bank, said: "Europe's leaders probably thought they had bought themselves three months.
(4) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
(5) The decision to move Parsons and Woodhouse to the Conservative party payroll represents an embarrassment for Cameron, who strongly defended paying them from public funds during his tour of China last week.
(6) But Steve Parsons, the club secretary of Staines Town Football Club, who campaigned against the change, said: "The council have decided they don't want to be linked with the Ali G show.
(7) In its original format the show was was presented by Mark Lawson from 1994 until 2005, when Kearney and Wark took over, and in the early years often featured a regular panel of Tom Paulin, Allison Pearson and Tony Parsons.
(8) The five projects selected are those that the government's engineering consultants, Parsons Brinckerhoff, deemed to be based on the most proven technology.
(9) In a statement released on Thursday night, Parsons’ employers, Business and Commercial Finance Club said they were suspending Josh from work with immediate effect pending investigation into his alleged role in the Métro incident.
(10) "I have a sense that he smoked because he was addicted, as I was," Parsons said.
(11) The salaries of Parsons and Woodhouse, between £36,000 and £44,000 each, will now be paid for by the Conservative party.
(12) The European Union and the International Monetary Fund had handed enormous power to the Greeks, Parsons argued, just as Theseus handed power to Hippolyta by agreeing to lay down his sword.
(13) Nick Parsons, head of strategy at NAB Capital, said that any bail-out of LDV by the government was unlikely to lead to a single extra van being sold.
(14) Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed allegations that the government's engineering consultants , Parsons Brinckerhoff, had miscalculated the costs of a tidal lagoon project of the kind championed by FOE.
(15) Two leading sociological theorists of mental illness, Parsons and Scheff, depict the mentally ill as enacting a deviant social role which sets them apart from others.
(16) The perfused in situ rat jejunum preparation originally described by Hanson and Parsons (1976) was adapted for use in absorption and metabolism studies with drugs.
(17) According to a Cabinet Office source, at least one senior minister questioned the appropriateness of hiring Parsons as a civil servant but the appointment was pushed through with the support of Cameron and his director of communications, Andy Coulson.
(18) All of Fort McMurray, with the exception of Parson’s Creek, was under a mandatory evacuation order on Tuesday, said Robin Smith, press secretary for the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo in the Canadian province.
(19) Marshall did not give details on redundancies and Parsons Brinckerhoff is the only Balfour Beatty business up for sale.
(20) A No 10 source said: "The PM has decided that Andrew Parsons and Nicky Woodhouse will no longer be paid for by the taxpayer.
Protestant
Definition:
(v.) One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church.
(a.) Making a protest; protesting.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(2) A number of asylum seekers detained in the family camp on Nauru have begun peaceful protests over conditions at the centre.
(3) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
(4) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(5) We are already witnessing a wholly understandable uprising of protest.
(6) "I saw my role, and continue to do so, as doing everything I can to accelerate the Lib Dems' journey from a party of protest to a party of government," he said.
(7) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
(8) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
(10) Brazil and Argentina unite in protest against culture of sexual violence Read more The symbolic power of so many women standing together proves that focusing on victims does not mean portraying women as passive.
(11) Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than Protestant rates (1.64 vs. 1.91).
(12) "I did so in protest at using unethical ways to make unjust allegations, therefore I hereby withdraw my complaint against this artist."
(13) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(14) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
(15) They plan to continue the hour-long demonstrations daily, potentially inviting arrest under laws introduced last year that allowed some protests to be criminalised.
(16) Down the road another group of protesters gathered outside the chain-link fence surrounding the Marriott's perimeter.
(17) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
(18) The authorities had said they used water cannon, teargas and smoke grenades to break up the protest.
(19) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(20) They vote as a protest, no matter what the consequences of it.