(n.) A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
(n.) A stilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(2) Lord Patten , the BBC Trust chairman, has signalled that the corporation would address what he called a "toxic" public relations problem by cutting the pay of some of its most senior executives.
(3) A t the end of April two chairs in Westminster will await the arrival of Tony Hall , incoming director general of the BBC, and Chris Patten, chairman of the corporation's trust.
(4) Previous chairmen have been appointed because of their political links – Gavyn Davies was a Labour donor, while Patten is a Conservative peer.
(5) Patten is understood to have ruled out any such plan after consultation with Egon Zehnder, the headhunting firm that recently delivered the "job spec" for the next director general to the BBC Trust.
(6) One insider said: "Lord Patten wants total transparency.
(7) In an interview with the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins in February 2014, when he was chairman of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, Whittingdale said: “The BBC is the most wasteful, bloated organisation on the planet.” He said: “Chris Patten [the BBC Trust’s former chairman] used to make jokes about the army of the People’s Republic of China being the organisation that’s the closest he’s encountered to the BBC: it is just huge numbers of people, many of whom don’t appear to be doing anything.” On Thursday, Whittingdale will unveil a green paper on the future of the BBC that sets a demanding agenda before the renegotiation of the corporation’s royal charter.
(8) This issue was also raised in March by its new chairman, Lord Chris Patten, during a pre-appointment vetting process conducted by the culture media and sport committee.
(9) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
(10) The night before the hearing, Patten sat down in front of the box to watch Mud Sweat and Tractors: the Story of Agriculture on BBC4.
(11) Among them are former director general Greg Dyke, who described the trust under Fairhead’s predecessor Lord Patten as a “busted flush” .
(12) Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, said in a press conference after the publication of the Pollard report that it was taking legal advice about Entwistle's payoff, which has attracted significant criticism.
(13) "I don't think [Patten's] doing a good job because I don't know where he was when the crisis happened," Dyke told MPs on the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee on Tuesday.
(14) "I don't have a closed mind around Patten, he is a big figure and clearly capable, but there are some very serious questions to be asked about the governance of the BBC."
(15) She won't be intimidated by it but it won't be the Patten-esque highlight of her career grappling with [Tory MP and BBC critic] Philip Davies ," said one friend.
(16) Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, told Monday's Times that he has appointed headhunters Egon Zehnder to identify the scope and remit of the director general role that will be filled by Thompson's successor.
(17) But Patten said: "If you want to know how good the BBC is, just spend time somewhere else ...
(18) We start by talking about Salford, which will soon be the new home of Radio 5 Live, BBC Sport, BBC Breakfast and CBBC (Patten was there only yesterday, looking at MediaCity's "terrific" new facilities).
(19) Now it is Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust , who must do better, required to appoint his second director general in less than six months after Entwistle's 54-day fall from grace.
(20) BBC trustee Anthony Fry said members of the corporation's governing body, including Patten, had "serious concerns around the issue of whether the gravity of the situation had been grasped by the director general and some of his colleagues".
Sabot
Definition:
(n.) A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
(n.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Montmartre , at his bar, Le Sabot Rouge, Henri Legourgue watched as the patrol passed outside.