How To Use Patten In A Sentence

  • The 'gora' Sue in Rang De Basanti, Alice Patten has since played a student joining the CIA in the political thriller Trade Routes and is currently acting in Richard The Lionheart in the BBC TV miniseries Heroes and Villains. NAACHGAANA
  • There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep. Country diary: North Derbyshire
  • Dorothy will be presented with her honorary degree by the university's chancellor Lord Chris Patten of Barnes.
  • Party chairman Chris Patten, who repeatedly urged caution, was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless.
  • Made between 1750 and 1830, pattens were worn over the shoes and served to raise the wearer's foot above the mud and dirt beneath, rather like prototypical galoshes.
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  • Like Patten, Veblen feared that the impoverishment of workers was leading them to lives of undisciplined pleasure-seeking. A Renegade History of the United States
  • The Patten plan, detailed in a Government draft circular, risks further heightening confrontation with teachers already boycotting national curriculum tests.
  • In a tribute he said that Mr Patten was a very popular and committed member of the group of people who had dedicated themselves to the revival of the yawl.
  • Education Secretary John Patten believes the £1.4 million venture will raise standards by encouraging parents to demand more from schools.
  • I declined the offer of what Patten calls "refection" also, tho 'I needed it on coming down stairs; for it had pained me very much to get thro' that interview. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Yet that weakness makes it extremely difficult for Patten to make any concessions on his plan.
  • Made between 1750 and 1830, pattens were worn over the shoes and served to raise the wearer's foot above the mud and dirt beneath, rather like prototypical galoshes.
  • She borrowed a pair of pattens to walk to the waterside, pretending to visit her grandmother.
  • Mr Patten was the only Cabinet casualty, although eight other middle-ranking and junior ministers also lost their seats.
  • Mr Patten was the only Cabinet casualty, although eight other middle-ranking and junior ministers also lost their seats.
  • Patten estimates that at least 50 per cent of travellers abroad are uninsured.
  • Neil Kinnock is at minus 1, Chris Patten at minus 2, and Peter Mandelson at minus 49 percent.
  • Mr Patten lost his seat of Bath despite being the architect of Mr Major's 21-seat majority.
  • Party chairman Chris Patten, the tragic hero of the hour, arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem.
  • Their ranks also included proctors, ‘apparators,’ tapsters, a toll taker on London Bridge, and ‘pattentees.’
  • Patten promises to strengthen hand of pollution agency.
  • Mr Patten pledged to continue fighting for greater democracy for the colony.
  • Yesterday's letter spelled out Mr Patten's concern that councils were helping hostile groups fight opt outs with misinformation campaigns.
  • Mr Patten yesterday issued a draft housing planning policy guidance note, which will update previous documents.
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  • But he had long ago forgotten all this, as it was proper that a wholesale fruiterer, alderman, common-councilman, member of the worshipful Company of Patten-makers, past sheriff, and, above all, a Master Humphrey's Clock
  • Standard" -- he invariably referred to "the _editress_" -- wears pattens as The History of "Punch"
  • London a substantial citizen, who united in his single person the dignities of wholesale fruiterer, alderman, common-councilman, and member of the worshipful Company of Patten-makers; who had superadded to these extraordinary distinctions the important post and title of Sheriff, and who at length, and to crown all, stood next in rotation for the high and honourable office of Lord Mayor. Master Humphrey's Clock
  • Then, in Hong Kong, Chris Patten and family were reunited with their beloved terrier whose disappearance caused a diplomatic incident.
  • Taylor Patten Communications paid travel expenses and honoraria to the working party members.
  • Kate, Where can I find a patten for those nifty pencil holders? Deja vu all over again
  • In 1768, for example, young William Drayton complained that ‘a man named Thompson’ had poured beer on him, while in 1771, young James Murdoch complained that ‘a woman named Palmer’ had hit him with a patten.
  • Patten said the most important way thea - gainst global terrorism was by restoring peace the Middle East.
  • Which doesn't mean that there won't be grilling and goadings as Lord Patten proceeds to anointment. Lord Patten's role could be to take the BBC into Europe
  • That flag would fly over the island for 156 years, until a ceremonial hand-off that saw the final British governor, Chris Patten, in tears, and reduced Prince Charles to angry diarist mode. Hong Kong: The Sky Unlimited
  • Maybe because I have noticed a patten even here at EC --- it is Friday night and whatever slant needs to stay up all weekend in the 'important news', whether postings or polls, will have a finger on the scale to, er, mostly keep front and center the Clinton messages. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview
  • Mr Patten's former college, Balliol, has produced a number of the university's chancellors.
  • Patten tried to reverse years of authoritarian British administration in Hong Kong by encouraging democratic institutions.
  • Sincerely Yours is the label operated by The Tough Alliance, Swedish Neo-Saint Etienne, post-modern electro pop," says Oliver Pattenden. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
  • Chris Patten deserves an award for endurance as well as resilience in the face of adversity.
  • Patten noted that victory relied on nationally-ranked athletes but also those new to the sport.
  • The handmaids of these august assemblies are Senor Solana and Mr Patten, the two External Affairs Commissioners.
  • Suspicions abount that, to appease Ken Clarke, Patten, Heseltine and Hurd, adeal has been done whereby no real challenge to the EU will be made by the Tories in opposition or in power. Tory Wriggling On Europe (again)
  • Sue McKinley (Alice Patten), the Hindi-speaking granddaughter of a colonialist, is attempting to make a film about Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh, and ends up in Delhi where, with few resources, she embarks on a low-budget film she calls The Young Guns of India. GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 2.
  • Where was the statue to Nathaniel Patten which had caused such consternation at Thrush Green?
  • If you aren’t exposed to a certain patten of speech (or thought, or dress), then how do you know to use it? Godwin’s law: NEW RECORD « Love | Peace | Ohana
  • Douglas Hurd's active citizen and John Patten's lager louts are both given an airing.
  • Ilka Schröder, a German Green MEP, said: "Patten just carries on not answering the question and finding his way around it, so we feel forced to take this step. Daimnation!: Squirm, Patten, Squirm A group
  • Same way with a certain kind of patten leather button shoe or something. Oral History Interview with Clay East, September 22, 1973. Interview E-0003. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep. Country diary: North Derbyshire
  • It's a curious irony that the term "heavy- weight" has been applied to Chris Patten's appointment as the new chair of the BBC Trust Patten to be named BBC Trust chair, 19 February, as it would seem the other possible candidates lacked such an accolade. Letters: Jobs for the boys in a biased media
  • Patten, a tall, bony man with a balding dome of a forehead, makes his living loaning money to ranchers.
  • What better way than to bring to heel the EuroMafia of Clarke, Patten, Hurd and Heseltine whose snidey anti-referendum comments are wheeled out against the Conservatives by the BBC every time any of them tries to make the case for a referendum. Referendum News
  • Old treatises on brewing must be plentiful, as doubtless are volumes on all the larger and more important industries; but are there manuals for the loriner, the patten-maker, the umbrella-manufacturer? The Book-Hunter at Home
  • The Patten plan, detailed in a Government draft circular, risks further heightening confrontation with teachers already boycotting national curriculum tests.
  • To remove a leaf from its sprig, Patten grasped it gently by the stalk and pulled it back towards the branch of the limb to prevent tree damage.
  • Mr Patten also said that he believed in the validity of the present system for predicting what housing needs will be.
  • Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, has signalled that the corporation would address what he called a "toxic" public relations problem by cutting the pay of some of its most senior executives. Lord Patten targets 'toxic' executive pay to restore public sympathy for BBC
  • Studies the neural network model which is useful for behavioral patten's detection in the anti - fraud model.
  • Through the Pattens, Joe met many new friends, some highly influential, others merely famous.
  • For instance a patten with lots of green will be out of place in the dead gray woods of winter. In your opinion what is the best camo out there? do you think scent lok really works?
  • Beginning in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, shoes were worn with pattens - carved wooden supports with pedestals under the heel and ball - to protect the shoes.
  • They are at a real disadvantage because if they don't agree to the price that the Canadian government is going to allow they are not allowed to sell their drug in the market and if they don't start selling in Canada within two years after they start selling in the US, the Canadian government can take away the company's patten on the drug and let another company produce and sell the drug in Canada. Plenty to Like in Freedomnomics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The journey culminated in a Friday night debate where Patten gave a lecture on proper posture.
  • The April rain from last night had made the ground muddy and she had no pattens to keep her shoes out of the mud.
  • Mr Patten hinted that extra cash for public sector housebuilding will go where shortages are greatest.
  • It was a wooden patten, once commonplace domestic equipment in most farmyards. Country diary: North Derbyshire
  • With the BBC Trust looking for a new chairman, the appointment of moderate Chris Patten 66 would annoy swivel-eyed fellow-Tories more than choosing Vladimir Putin, whose no-nonsense media views they share. Michael White's diary
  • Occasionally he played a game of chess with Parson Fisher, the jolly ex-clergyman, or smoked a pipe with the sadler-postmaster; he attended all the East Patten tea-parties, too, but he made himself so uniformly agreeable to all the ladies that the mothers in Israel agreed with many sighs, that the major was not a marrying man. Romance of California Life

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