(n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
(n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.
(v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Before the last election the government promised to usher in a 'golden age' for the arts.
(2) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(3) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(4) Moments later Gary is being ushered out in a blur of drivers and batmen and image-straighteners.
(5) The kind of president, like Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt, who ushers in a paradigmatic shift in American politics or society, or both.
(6) Usher's syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by congenital sensorineural hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
(7) In a keynote speech at the Lyndon B Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas, America's first black president said he and others of his generation had greatly benefited from the era of civil rights ushered in by the legislation that was passed by Johnson in 1964.
(8) Cases of hereditary syndromes were found: Usher syndrome, 2 cases; Goldenhar syndromes, 2 cases (brother and sister); Waardenburg syndrome, 1 case; von Recklinghausen's syndrome, 1 case.
(9) Usher disease was diagnosed in 12%, Bardet-Biedl syndrome constituted 5%, and the frequency of Spielmeyer-Vogt disease was 1% of all prevalent RP-cases.
(10) We examined retinas from five patients with RP and four controls and found morphologic defects in the connecting cilia of one RP patient with type 2 Usher syndrome (86% abnormal, P less than .0001) but not in our sample of patients with X-linked (n = 2), simplex (n = 1), or autosomal dominant (n = 1) RP.
(11) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
(12) They see the changes that STPs will usher in as the best way to achieve three key aims: to improve people’s health; to tackle the fact that there is still far too much variation in the quality of care many patients receive; and to address the £30bn gap in NHS funding which is projected to have emerged by 2020-21.
(13) Describing the moment McKellen knocked on his dressing room door he said: “I ushered him in nervously, expecting notes for my poor performance or indiscipline – I was a foolish, naughty young actor.
(14) Furtado's decision has intensified the spotlight on other pop stars, including Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Usher, who performed at parties for the sons of Muammar Gaddafi .
(15) As examples, ultrastructural findings in neural presbycusis, Meniere's disease and Usher's syndrome are presented.
(16) Pundits say the technology ushers in a manufacturing revolution.
(17) After a stirring speech urging the ushering in of a new era of politics delivered to a packed convention hall in the Ghanaian capital Accra, Obama and his family toured the white-walled slave fortress to the sound of beating drums and chanting from a huge crowd outside.
(18) The modern tools of molecular biology and improved understanding of scientific and social issues are expected to usher in an exciting new era in research on diarrheal diseases.
(19) After a two-hour show featuring performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Usher and Nicky Minaj, Beyoncé was joined onstage by her beaming husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy.
(20) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(2) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
(3) The aim of this paper is to elucidate the process of identity formation with particular emphasis on how the 'work ego' of each analyst is formed through various experiences which help the practitioner wed theoretical knowledge with clinical experience.
(4) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
(5) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
(6) A brief courtship was followed by a surprise wedding.
(7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
(8) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(9) I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress,” Morgan said.
(10) One commentator has labelled the Pitt and Jolie wedding “normcore” by comparison.
(11) More than 120 couples joined the mass on Sunday morning to renew their wedding vows and celebrate more than 1,700 years of marriage between them.
(12) They are doing it not because they believe the 66-year-old can win in 2020, but for the same reason people retweet images of same-sex wedding ceremonies.
(13) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
(14) It’s the frontrunner, has the critics on its side and is certainly the Film to Tick Without Watching, but the academy have a track record of shotgun weddings with watchable wild cards in this category – see the wins for The Lives of Others and The Secret in Their Eyes .
(15) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
(16) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
(17) When Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.
(18) He conducted his first mass wedding in Seoul in the early 1960s.
(19) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
(20) A newly wed Mohamed Amine Benmbarek passed away while his wife received 3 shots and is in critical condition at the hospital.” Francois-Xavier Prevost, 26, France La Voix du Nord reports Prevost was killed at the Bataclan.