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Stanhope


Definition:

  • (n.) A light two-wheeled, or sometimes four-wheeled, carriage, without a top; -- so called from Lord Stanhope, for whom it was contrived.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
  • (2) The Stanhope chief executive, David Camp, said: "Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land.
  • (3) It was left to Americans Michael Moore (at the Roundhouse in London in 2002) and Doug Stanhope to remind us that speaking truth to power can equal electrifying standup.
  • (4) "We've come to know each other ..." At school, Stanhope says he was too dark to be considered the class clown and, after a spell as a "fraud telemarketer" ("borderline legal stuff, trying to scam people basically"), he decided to give stand-up comedy a go at an open-mic in Las Vegas.
  • (5) One of the thrilling things about Stanhope's material is that, when it really works, it offers a refreshingly honest take on life, often exposing our own double standards.
  • (6) Sir Mark Stanhope, the head of the navy, told the committee that the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its jumpjet Harriers would have been used to bomb Libya had they not been axed.
  • (7) Hanging on a wall in Doug Stanhope's Arizona home is a framed letter, written in 1979 by his school psychiatrist.
  • (8) Stanhope said if the death had been a traffic accident police would be open about it and would not cite the coroner’s involvement as an obstacle to discussing it.
  • (9) The chiefs of the three services are paid slightly different salaries: • Sir Mark Stanhope, chief of the naval staff, is paid between £185,000 and £189,999.
  • (10) Ann Cleeves, creator of the Vera Stanhope and Shetland novels, said she is concerned about a trend she believes has entered ever more morbid territory following the worldwide success of Stieg Larsson 's Millennium trilogy.
  • (11) Stanhope reiterated this and said the government had acknowledged more spending was necessary.
  • (12) I don't want to create things to be angry about, I'd sooner start doing happy shit' Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian After pulling out, Stanhope switched his allegiances to Ron Paul – "I look at it like I look at football teams, it's a bit of fun so I root for the underdog" – then switched again to Barack Obama once Paul was knocked out of the race.
  • (13) In a briefing at Admiralty House, Stanhope said: "How long can we go on as we are in Libya?
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest World-weary pilgrims make their way to the Greek river of forgetfulness in John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s ‘The Waters of Lethe’ (1880).
  • (15) Stanhope denied this would involve a review of the cuts set out in last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR).
  • (16) The park has two campsites , Stanhope and Cavendish, with pitches from £12 a night, and the historic Dalvay-by-the-Sea hotel , once an oil tycoon’s summer home, with 25 antiques-filled rooms and cottages from £120 room only.
  • (17) "You could close down chicken shops, but you're not going to take away the need," Stanhope says.
  • (18) Stanhope's remarks come amid growing concern within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) about the prolonged nature of the Libya effort and its cost.
  • (19) Stanhope also admitted that the navy was having to buy more Tomahawk cruise missiles from the US to replace the ones it had already fired.
  • (20) Based on all this, a certain sense of apprehension is perhaps the natural response to meeting Stanhope.

Surname


Definition:

  • (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
  • (n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
  • (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
  • (3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
  • (4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
  • (5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
  • (6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
  • (7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
  • (8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
  • (9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
  • (10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
  • (11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
  • (12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
  • (13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
  • (14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
  • (15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
  • (16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
  • (17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
  • (19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
  • (20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.

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