What's the difference between trinity and troika?

Trinity


Definition:

  • (n.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
  • (n.) Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
  • (n.) Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (2) News International will face stiff resistance from rivals such as Sunday Mirror and People publisher Trinity Mirror and Daily Star Sunday owner Northern & Shell, which benefited from the closure of News of the World last July.
  • (3) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
  • (4) Back in 2001, the Guardian Media Group partnered with Associated to print Metro in Manchester, while Trinity Mirror joined forces with Associated in a similar arrangement in Liverpool and Cardiff in 2006.
  • (5) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
  • (6) In a statement to the London stock exchange, Trinity Mirror said Bailey had ensured the company delivered robust profits through the worst and longest economic downturn in UK history.
  • (7) Trinity Mirror attempted to placate investors in April with a new pay deal for Bailey that reduced her remuneration by about £500,000, but that failed to satisfy some major shareholders.
  • (8) Keating was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex and Trinity College Dublin, where he read English and French.
  • (9) Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, said that the company made £25m in savings and would have increased adjusted operating profits year-on-year if not for a £22m rise in newsprint prices.
  • (10) Trinity Mirror could face at least two more legal actions over alleged phone hacking, including from a former football manager, according to the lawyer who brought civil claims against the company's newspapers on Monday.
  • (11) The FoI figures revealed that the Discovery School in Newcastle opened with only a third of its planned pupil numbers, the Harris Academy in Tottenham, north London, opened with 58 pupils, rather than the planned 240, and the Trinity Academy in Lambeth, south London, opened with 15 pupils when it had planned to admit 120.
  • (12) This compares favourably with rivals Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror, which recently reported sliding profits and 4.6% and 8.7% first-half declines in total revenues respectively.
  • (13) "[The] restructuring proposals for its UK national titles represent the next stage in [our] aim to create one of the most technologically advanced and operationally efficient multimedia newsrooms in Europe," Trinity Mirror said.
  • (14) The industry's representatives at these talks were not two Tory peers, but a group of four including the Legal Director of Trinity Mirror, and the Director of the Newspaper Society, both representing the regional newspapers so regrettably excluded from the Delauney meeting.
  • (15) This was fronted at first by Lord Black of Brentwood, the Conservative peer who is a director of the Telegraph group, and latterly by Paul Vickers, a director of Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror.
  • (16) Justin Welby , formerly of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, embarked on a reconciliation between Shell and the Ogoni people of south-east Nigeria.
  • (17) A union spokesman said: "The cull comes after the total directors' pay and pensions bill for Trinity Mirror last year was £3.9m – £1.3m of which was cash bonuses.
  • (18) However, to compensate Bailey, Trinity Mirror said that its chief executive would be eligible to receive a higher long-term incentive scheme.
  • (19) However Trinity Mirror said it remained "confident" that the company will "deliver a robust performance" in 2010 in line with expectations.
  • (20) Trinity Mirror's Daily Record circulated 330,316 copies in Scotland each day on average last month.

Troika


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (2) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
  • (3) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
  • (4) It means that Ireland will make a clean exit from its €85bn financial assistance programme, which ends on 15th Decembe r. It has hit the targets set by its troika of lenders, and Kenny's government must be confident that it can walk alone.
  • (5) Consider the open joke that was the repeated European bank stress tests ; the foot-dragging of the central bankers to quell financial panic; the IMF report last week showing that even if Greece took the troika’s medicine it would still be lumbered with “unsustainable” debt .
  • (6) We also hear that Troika officials have been rather surprised by the latest talk about Greece potentially handing Germany a bill for outstanding war reparations .
  • (7) The EU, ECB and IMF, the troika of bodies keeping the debt-stricken Greek economy afloat, have signalled in no uncertain terms that they want some €8bn of the nearly €12bn package to come from pension and pay cuts, arguing that this will be the fastest way to get the best results.
  • (8) The problem lies in the terms of “reform” that are being demanded by the troika.
  • (9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
  • (10) Photo: Reuters Updated at 1.06pm GMT 12.17pm GMT The troika of lenders - the ECB, IMF and EU - have issued their statement on Ireland after the country successfully completed the final review of its €85bn bailout .
  • (11) The commission, a member of the troika that bailed out Greece, alongside the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank, with packages worth more than €200bn, said it believed the country's debts were sustainable.
  • (12) The return of a government headed by, for example, the centre-right New Democracy, would open up the possibility that Athens would sue for peace on the terms demanded by the troika.
  • (13) The president, however, has not simply expressed “grave reservations” about whether this grouping should take power; he has blocked it on the grounds that this is “the worst moment for a radical change” and is trying to install a pro-troika government led by the very centre-right forces that the electorate has rejected.
  • (14) But the only thing it has achieved is the pre-legislation of harsh measures that the troika [European commission, European Central Bank and IMF] will approve when it returns.” “What we are seeing is a war of propaganda, a lot of doublespeak,” Dimitris Tsiodras, spokesman of the centrist Potami party told the Guardian.
  • (15) Athens is not only dependent on rescue funds from its "troika" of creditors – the European Union, the European Central Bank and the IMF – that rushed to prop up its ailing economy in May 2010.
  • (16) This week Athens was granted a two-month extension of its bailout programme by the EU, European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund, its “troika” of creditors, after negotiations aimed at taking Greece into a “post-bailout” era stalled.
  • (17) After a meeting lasting more than two hours inside the building, the officials–from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, known as the troika–snuck out of the ministry via an external fire escape, thereby avoiding the front entrance.
  • (18) The leftwing party has vowed to stop dealing with the “troika” - the European commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - and appeal directly to European leaders to ease the harsh austerity measures imposed on Greece.
  • (19) If Spain collapses, it will take a large portion of the major European banks with it; this is why the Troika backed off from forcing Spain into a bailout programme.
  • (20) Clearly, it is not for lack of resources that the troika is heading for another showdown with Greece as the economy shrinks a projected 7% this year: the few billion euros at stake in the forced budget tightening for the next two years are pocket change for the European authorities but will mean more pain and unemployment for the Greek people.