(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".
Sandal
Definition:
(n.) Same as Sendal.
(n.) Sandalwood.
(n.) A kind of shoe consisting of a sole strapped to the foot; a protection for the foot, covering its lower surface, but not its upper.
(n.) A kind of slipper.
(n.) An overshoe with parallel openings across the instep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount he is being paid for three short columns a week would “only get you sandal wearers all upset” if revealed, he says.
(2) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
(3) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(4) A pick-up in sales of swimwear, sandals and other holiday items was barely enough to offset the continuing decline in food sales and that left like-for-like sales up just 0.2% on February 2014, matching January’s lacklustre growth .
(5) Photograph: Landmark Trust It’s supposed to be an easy, hour-and-a-half walk but on the boat we sit in summer dresses and sandals watching what seems to be an awful lot of scrubby, mountainous terrain float by.
(6) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(7) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
(8) Black-and-white tasselled patent-leather pumps, Madras-print sandals and neon-pink stilettos all featured.
(9) Saira, one of his several targets, is petite, though the wedge sandals and feather headdress may mislead at first.
(10) They expect to see a rise in respiratory infections, especially among the young and the old, burn injuries caused by makeshift fires, and chilblains and frostbite among the many whose feet are clad only in plastic flip-flops or sandals.
(11) "Carpenter was the man who introduced the sandal into left-wing circles," said MacCarthy, delighted to be borrowing the original sandals from Sheffield Archives .
(12) The millionaire who rescues migrants at sea | Giles Tremlett Read more Xuereb said the image of the child on Bodrum beach, in the red T-shirt and sandals, had affected him personally.
(13) Our uncle took us on a horse and cart.” Abdul Fatah has a runny nose and broken sandals.
(14) He is wearing a pair of old tweed trousers, a yellow and blue T-shirt that says "Dada" and blue sandals.
(15) Various attempts have been made to produce protective footwear such as the microcellular rubber-car-tyre sandals.
(16) Dad was wallpapering in socks and sandals in a house in Coffs Bay, smiling.
(17) Clothing sales enjoyed their strongest April rise in more than five years as shoppers splashed out on shorts and sandals amid the warm spring weather.
(18) On higher floors there were empty tins of tuna and tomato paste, blankets, mattresses and sandals, and a few discarded green uniforms.
(19) Oliver Stone's 2004 swords-and-sandals epic, Alexander , in which Farrell tackled the lead role, earned less than $35m at the US box office (against a production budget of around $150m), while Michael Mann's neon-hued Miami Vice fell short of the $65m mark in the States (it cost $135m to make).
(20) A generation of journalists, formed by the personal experience or collective media-memory of Europe’s velvet revolutions, greeted the Arab Spring of 2011 as if it might be 1989 in sandals.