The phrase "affairs big" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe significant or important matters, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The company is dealing with affairs big that require immediate attention."
Alternatives: "major affairs" or "significant matters".
Perhaps for just that reason, in foreign affairs big personalities can look even bigger, and passion is spoken of in code phrases like "political will".
Perhaps for just that reason, in foreign affairs big personalities can look even bigger, and passion is spoken of in code phrases like "political will". Richard Holbrooke was one of those big personalities.
Next: a Lebenberg dinner, which was a heavy affair, big on schnitzel and strudel, all washed down with tall glasses of Gösser beer.
This was the Spiegel Affair, big news in 1962; Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was the national leader saying that the journalists, at what was then a relatively new German newsweekly, were a bunch of greedy traitors.
The annual lunch banquet was held to give out Gracias Awards, and was meant to be an eat-and-be-merry affair: big plates of bourbon chicken and cake served up in a packed hotel auditorium alongside Highway 169.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet This was the Spiegel Affair, big news in 1962; Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was the national leader saying that the journalists, at what was then a relatively new German newsweekly, were a bunch of greedy traitors.
International art biennials can be lavish affairs, with big budgets, big art and participants flying in from hither and yon.
Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman: "Big hitter.
Her suggestion comes amid mounting public anger at the tax affairs of big companies and their use of aggressive tax avoidance schemes, often aided by the big four accountancy firms.
"What are they going to do about it?" Richard Murphy, a tax expert, predicted that the focus would now switch from individuals' tax affairs to big business.
But it was also criticised last year by MPs on the public accounts committee for supposedly cutting "cosy" deals to settle the complicated tax affairs of big companies such as Vodafone and Goldman Sachs.
