(1) She wrote: “The reinterment of King Richard III is an event of great national and international significance.
(2) It is worth reinterating that percentiles mean nothing more than the proportion of children who had reached given heights at given ages when they, the standardizing population, were measured.
(3) Bishop Stevens acknowledged Richard’s “contested reputation’” to the Guardian, but insisted that it was a privilege for everyone in Leicester to be part of what he called “the great drama of Richard III’s reinterment … a moment when as a nation we can touch a critical moment in our story, recalling the intense conflict of the Wars of the Roses, and the fundamental shift in the monarchy of the late Middle Ages.” “In the great services that will mark his reinterment, we shall recall the events of Richard III’s life and death, we shall commend him to the mercy of God and we shall pray for the healing of the world’s conflicts in our own day.
(4) "This has been a major research project and we were always very clear from the outset that our intention was to reinter the remains in the cathedral," he added.
(5) The alliance, which was set up by the 16th great-nephew of Richard III, who had no direct descendants, favoured reinterment in York Minister, arguing it had been the wish "of the last medieval king of England" who was known as Richard of York.
(6) The reinterment ceremony will take place next spring.
(7) It was not a funeral but a reinterment, the dean of Leicester, David Monteith, reminded his congregation, because in 1485 Richard III did have a funeral, albeit hasty and improvised.
(8) They are now bound for reinterment in the nearby cathedral following a failed legal challenge by descendants who favoured York minster as his final resting place.
(9) Without the reminder that this was a reinterment, it might have looked like the grandest state funeral in living memory.
(10) Since then "passions have been roused and much ink has been spilt" over his life, death and place of reinterment", said Lady Justice Hallet, sitting with Mr Justice Ouseley and Mr Justice Haddon-Cave.
(11) Buried as a foreign menance more than twenty years ago, exhumed, examined and reinterred once or twice since then, brainwashing has risen again, this time to take its place on the stage of domestic horrors.
(12) Descendants of the family of Richard III , the last king of England to die on a battlefield, have lost a legal battle over where his recently discovered remains should be reinterred.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Members of the public gather outside Leicester Cathedral for the reinterment ceremony.
(14) Tsar Nicholas II was reinterred in St Petersburg 80 years after his execution.
(15) So while there is no longer any pretence that the unsettling facts can be reinterred, the new suggestion is that we learn to live with them.
(16) They were believed to represent the remains of the "Princes in the Tower" (who had disappeared in 1483), and were reinterred as such in Westminster Abbey.
(17) The Plantagenets have asked for the matter to be put out for consultation with the public, the Queen, English Heritage and themselves, buying time to further the case for reinterment in York.
(18) It will be reinterred at Saint-Denis next year with full state honours.
(19) Fast forward two years and, following a High Court decision, a reinterment was to be held on 26 March, broadcast live around the world.
(20) As car horns hooted outside his window, Leicester’s mayor, Peter Soulsby, told the Guardian: “We thought it couldn’t get any better 12 months ago when the eyes of the world were on us as we reinterred the bones of Richard III , but this is even better.
Renter
Definition:
(n.) One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
(v. t.) To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
(v. t.) To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.
Example Sentences:
(1) LCP said one- and two-bedroom flats in the centre of the city were popular with corporate renters and international students, and that demand was fuelling rental growth.
(2) There is no evidence that buying a house means you personallly lose your job a couple of years down the line, which suggests Britons will not easily be turned on by the idea of becoming a nation of renters.
(3) The paradox is that while Fergus and Judith Wilson can evict 200 benefit-receiving tenants in their Kent buy-to-let empire, confident they will be replaced by working renters, many from eastern Europe, in other places landlords are heavily reliant on benefits.
(4) The group, which campaigns for more affordable housing, used the English Housing Survey's income profile of private renters, and the Office for National Statistics' latest house price index, to work out how many people could afford the average first home, based on the assumption that a home is affordable if it is no more than four times household income.
(5) Other politicians think all housing problems can be tackled by simply building more houses, but Corbyn has recognised that this alone won’t give private renters the rights they need.” Both Corbyn and Healey made clear that housing is the biggest problem facing the UK, and committed to policies that many in the housing sector have been long argued for.
(6) Private renters account for more than 20% of the housing market; in 1985 the figure was 9% .
(7) A lack of rights for private renters puts them at risk of sudden eviction, even if they are up to date with the rent.
(8) In 2002, 100,000 private renters in London were forced to claim housing benefit in order to pay the rent; by the end of the New Labour era, rising rents had increased the number to 250,000.
(9) The Resolution Foundation thinktank has warned that the under-35s are becoming permanent renters , with home ownership reserved for the well-off and elderly.
(10) In the rest of Europe, Berlin still enjoys a reputation as a renters' paradise.
(11) We need to bring an end to these extortionate prices and give people real choices, by building the homes this nation needs.” UK tenants pay more rent than any country in Europe Read more Roger Harding for the housing charity Shelter said private renters “are bearing the brunt of our dramatic housing shortage”.
(12) Unaffordable cities: Berlin the renters' haven hit by green fog of eco-scams Read more “I used to be able to pay my rent for the whole month just by working one shift as a waiter,” he said of his housing situation in 2003, when he lived in a shared flat in a now very desirable neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Kreuzberg.
(13) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
(14) The rise of the landlord-lodger arrangement could help utilise the estimated 15 million unused bedrooms in England alone, giving renters more options and helping squeezed families and retirees cope with the higher cost of living.
(15) Families in the UK pay an average £6,760 a year in housing costs alone, with mortgaged homeowners paying £7,436 compared to £8,320 for private renters, according to the 2010-11 English Housing Survey.
(16) Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said: “As home ownership gets increasingly out of reach, ever more people will find themselves as permanent renters throughout their lives.
(17) For those of us who want a fairer deal for renters, this feels a lot like Groundhog Day – with the joke very much on us.
(18) Britain has up to 11 million private renters, often being charged rip-off rents and deprived of basic housing security.
(19) Ministers say the change tackles an unfair spare room subsidy not available to private-sector renters and suggest it will save around £500m a year as part of the government's deficit-reduction strategy.
(20) Banning upfront letting agency fees Facebook Twitter Pinterest To Let Signs on New Housing, houses, homes, houses for rent Photograph: Alamy Widely trailed as a plan to help “just about managing’ familes, the government’s plan to ban spiralling letting agency fees will benefit renters if it is introduced as planned.