(n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gap would have been closer had Sexton not missed those consecutive kicks but the fly-half was back on track in the 61st minute and Ireland had passed their Welsh target with O’Brien about to reach out for his second try that the replacement fly-half Ian Madigan converted.
(2) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
(3) Sexton converted for 17-3 after 25 minutes, which could have been worse had Hogg not performed his second try-saving act before being at the heart of the Scottish try.
(4) He explains in detail how opportunities came about in his early days at Fulham and Chelsea, name-checks everyone who has influenced his coaching career, from Dave Sexton through to Carlo Ancelotti, the Real Madrid manager who is sitting alongside him at the Spanish club's training ground, and stresses over and again the importance of learning.
(5) Richard Sexton, a director at e.surv, said: “This is a trend which started at the end of last year and has continued into 2017.
(6) Sam Sexton Kenilworth, Warwickshire • George Monbiot ( Comment , 9 September) paints a sunny picture of a nation united in the struggle to free itself from foreign domination, ready to emerge on to the level playing fields of independence.
(7) Richard Sexton, director of e.surv, said the first-time buyer market was "alive and kicking again" and confidence was returning to the housing market.
(8) Commenting on the BBA figures, Richard Sexton director of chartered surveyors e.surv, said: “Borrowers finally have more money in their pockets as inflation remains limited and wages are experiencing a tangible rise.
(9) In the Australian on Monday, Michael Sexton, a legal academic and New South Wales solicitor general, also called for the changes to go ahead.
(10) "Wilf McGuinness, Frank O'Farrell and Dave Sexton never managed it and Tommy Docherty took us into Division Two before finding the magic formula.
(11) Richard Sexton, business development director at chartered surveyors e.surv, said: "The market is still very delicate at the moment.
(12) History shows Andrew Sexton Gray to have been a founder of Australian ophthalmology.
(13) In her poem "Rapunzel," Anne Sexton maps out a model of lesbian etiology that at once parodies the model proposed by Freud and significantly amends it.
(14) "In February 2013, immediately after the revelations about horse meat, total supermarket organic sales increased to their highest level in nine months, indicating a growing desire among consumers for food that they can trust," Sexton said.
(15) Sexton says, perfectly accurately, that FLS has been like a "course of steroids" for the mortgage market.
(16) She said something like, "Anne Sexton is dead – she's done it too," and some floor of some world seemed to fall away from under us, and keep falling and falling.
(17) The female pre-Oedipal phase is crucially at stake in such a comparison, as Sexton's account suggests that the pleasures of the pre-Oedipal mother-daughter dyad are dangerously strong for the girl child, and seem to be the force that compels the majority of girls into the rechanneling of libidinal desire from the mother to the father.
(18) Literary editor David Sexton will also contribute to the TV column.
(19) Sexton added the conversion – off the left upright, further suggesting that what luck there was might be going Ireland’s way – and the holders were seven points up in six minutes and 10 after 10 minutes – the Welsh differential halved – when Sexton landed his first penalty.
(20) Richard Sexton, business development director of e.surv , said: "With the economy in peril from every angle, lenders are playing it safe and training their sights on wealthier borrowers.
Undertaker
Definition:
(n.) One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
(n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.
(n.) Specifically, one who takes the charge and management of funerals.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(3) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
(4) The performance of the instrument was evaluated by undertaking in vitro measurements of the reflectance spectra of blood.
(5) This work undertakes the study of changes in urinary, plasmatic and tissue levels of Thromboxane B2 (TXB2) as well as in tissue Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) after pancreas transplantation and the effect of superoxide dismutase (SOD) on these changes.
(6) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(7) So far, there is little sign of similar hubris at the Human Brain Project, a far more complex undertaking, but perhaps for the moment Markram's ambition is precisely what is needed.
(8) This report describes how the difficulties were surmounted, and how the National Technical Centre then proceeded to undertake activities to extend awareness of the ICIDH.
(9) Since the regime was introduced, we have been undertaking work to ensure that senior manager responsibilities are properly allocated and understood in firms.
(10) The questions facing nursing now are not whether nurses should undertake this role, but how well do they provide information?
(11) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
(12) Additional reconstruction of the "donor" limb arteries and dilatation of the iliac artery improve circulation in the "donor limb", which makes it possible to undertake cross femoral-femoral shunting in patients with a high risk of aorto-femoral reconstruction in atherosclerotic affection of the "donor" limb.
(13) They were charged with undertaking acts in preparation or planning for a terrorist act.
(14) Despite the fact that this approach has several caveats, consistent results obtained in short-term studies would more readily justify the undertaking of a large-scale, long-term controlled study using colon cancer or adenomatous polyp recurrence as an endpoint.
(15) The chance discovery of an oesophageal localisation of Crohn's disease led the authors to undertake routine study of the oesophagus in their last 18 patients suffering from the disorder.
(16) Pedro is due in London on Wednesday to undertake a medical and discuss personal terms, with United having withdrawn their interest.
(17) Maybe this will be increasing the frequency of patrols, or going to places that the Obama administration has been hesitant to go – such as actually undertaking a non-innocent passage military patrols within 12 miles of an artificial island.
(18) He held out a hand to North Korea again, calling for it to denuclearise; and to Burma, if it undertakes democratic reform and frees political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
(19) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
(20) Prior to undertaking the exploration of phenomena in a research study with people from different cultures, certain elements must be addressed in order to bridge cultural and linguistic differences.