(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.
Reverend
Definition:
(a.) Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(2) Pope decries 'inhuman' conditions for migrants on US-Mexico border Read more Last Christmas, though, the Jesuit reverend who runs Kino discovered that a very powerful man is paying close attention.
(3) "When the Reverend Flowers gave evidence to the [Treasury] select committee, he was quite clear that the Co-op's expansion, in particular the attempt to buy 600 Lloyds branches, which the bank was in no position to do ultimately, had been actively encouraged by Conservative ministers at the Treasury.
(4) President Bush and Mrs Bush, Governor Bentley, members of Congress, Mayor Evans, Reverend Strong, friends and fellow Americans: There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.
(5) An overcome Esaw Garner was escorted from the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters in Harlem, which was packed with hundreds of people.
(6) Seeing this legislation come out of a state I know and love has been painful.” Standing next to him, Linda Whitworth-Reed, a Presbyterian reverend in Little Rock, agreed.
(7) The grace that Reverend Pinckney would preach about in his sermons.
(8) But the AMA Coalition chair, Reverend LeRoy Haynes, like others pressing for police reform, is also critical of the agreement because he says the Justice Department sidestepped the real issue – race.
(9) The prime minister describes the fallen reverend as the "man who has broken a bank" and "trooped in and out of Downing Street under Labour".
(10) The reverend Paul Flowers is accused of possessing drugs including cocaine and crystal meth .
(11) Today we are in a battle to stop this state taking rights away from North Carolina citizens – this is our Selma,” said Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, the lead plaintiff.
(12) When I was on a panel this spring in San Francisco with Alicia Garza, a co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter , she said Ferguson marked “the first time in my lifetime”‚ in which the Reverends “Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were begged to leave” the scene of a civil rights crime.
(13) For example, he could not work out how Thomas could describe a portrait of the Reverend Eli Jenkins's mother as "propped against a pot in a palm".
(14) The evangelical Christian university was founded by televangelist Reverend Jerry Falwell, and is known for hosting only the most conservative Republican candidates on its campus.
(15) President Barack Obama on Friday made his second speech on race issues in two days, telling the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference in New York that the Republican party was threatening voting rights more than at any time since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
(16) Schad's pastor, the Reverend Ronald Koplitz, said the statement likely was a reference to "I'll Fly Away," a Gospel song he gave Schad a couple of weeks ago.
(17) He seems as agitated by his home state’s drama with the Confederate flag as he is by how state officials have refused to expand Medicaid health cover for the poor largely with federal money – an issue of importance to one of those killed in the church attack, Reverend Senator Clementa Pinckney , who Jackson knew.
(18) The Reverend Robert Weiss said he was planning to keep the church open 24 hours on the anniversary of the shooting, to give people a place to go and pray.
(19) "In view of this, and having spoken to the Reverend Jeremy Pemberton, his permission to officiate in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham was revoked," he said.
(20) The Reverend Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest and prominent local activist, said he thought the march itself would cost businesses money because the publicity surrounding it would discourage shoppers from even venturing into the area.