(1) So a rider was added to the contract at the end of 2013, authorising SETE not to refurbish the east lift or redevelop the area at the foot of the tower.
(2) In a country where the tax collection system is so inefficient, credit cards are the easiest way of clamping down on evasion,” said Andreadis, who heads the Confederation of Greek Tourism (Sete).
(3) SETE has set a target of 24 million visitors by 2021 – a rise that would contribute an annual €44bn or 20% to gross domestic product.
(4) "We had a real do for the 120th anniversary," says city councillor Jean-Bernard Bros, who heads SETE, the operator of the tower.
(5) As the 20-year-old peered nervously from under her veil and picked at her hand, her mother, Engocha Sete, recalled: "She wanted to go and I couldn't stop her.
(6) "We have revised our number upwards to around 19 million arrivals, an all-time record," SETE's chairman, Andreas Andreadis, said.
(7) The numbers picked up again last year, with a 7% rise, enabling SETE, a semi-public company controlled by the city council, to report a €6m profit on revenue totalling €73m.
(8) On the green drive from Sete Cidades, we pass a romério of men in rough shawls and bright scarves bearing metal-tipped staffs and chanting prayers whilst pilgrimaging around the island’s many churches.
(9) The company, established by SETE last year, is the private sector's answer to what is increasingly seen as the country's marketing conundrum and marks the first time entrepreneurs have actively sought to promote Greece abroad.
(10) This month the Confederation of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) revised its projections for the second time this year – from 18.5 million to 19 million arrivals (excluding 2.2 million on cruise ships) - nearly twice the Greek population.
(11) Despite the fact that there was so much negative publicity, people have booked and it now looks very realistic that we will get to 16 million [visitors], if not more," said Andreas Andreadis, who presides over the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (Sete).
(12) "It has taken three times longer than planned and cost three times more," says Eric Spitz, SETE's general manager.
(13) In Jorge’s lively company, Sete Cidades becomes a sacred space, a place of wonder.
(14) He takes me to Sete Cidades , a spectacular caldera three miles across, complete with breeze-ruffled, human-free, jade-hued lake.
Sofa
Definition:
(n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(3) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
(4) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(5) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
(7) When my wife Mia finally gets home, I hand the baby over and drop exhausted on to the sofa.
(8) Since furanoses in the envelope form are analogous (in some ways) to half-chair or sofa conformations and since lactones with six-membered rings probably have half-chair or sofa conformations, the results indicate that beta-galactosidase probably destabilizes its substrate into a planar conformation of some type and that the galactose in the transition state may, therefore, also be quite planar.
(9) Many iPad users see the device as a more relaxed device than a computer: something to be kept close at hand on the sofa or even in bed, with its instant-on nature.
(10) "I've ended up with everything I could want – a pool table, a table football table, dining table and chairs, sofas, carpets.
(11) Christine Bleakley, Chiles's co-presenter on The One Show, had been linked with a possible move to ITV to join Chiles on the GMTV sofa.
(12) The couple, who are Polish nationals, claimed he had fallen off a sofa.
(13) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
(14) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(15) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
(16) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
(17) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
(18) After all, who needs private detectives to follow Tom Watson when you can find out about his office playlist and Portal 2 marathons from the comfort of your own sofa?
(19) The online auction service has been redesigned with a focus on bigger images and a touchscreen interface, making it the perfect way to browse from the sofa.
(20) He then took aim at the viral picture of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting in the Oval Office in a strange, overly comfortable manner, shoes on the sofa.