Sentence examples for christen from inspiring English sources
The word "christen" is a perfectly acceptable word to use in written English
It can be used as either a verb or a noun. For example: The family gathered to christen their newborn daughter.
verb
To perform the religious act of the baptism, to baptise.
Not everyone can come up with an ideology based around self-delusion, christen it Juche, and tell people that it's about self-reliance self-reliance, that iself-reliance self-reliancedogself-reliance self-reliance
A tax increase in 1935 corresponded with an increase in the taxable incomes of the rich at a time when William Randolph Hearst ordered his newspaper editors to christen the New Deal the "Raw Deal" and harangue Franklin Roosevelt for his attempts to "soak the successful .Mr Goolsbee also questioned whether the behaviour of the rich hurt growth over the long run.
"An awful lot of people climb out of poverty every year, but a lot drop back in because they have no savings, no buffer, so when something bad happens they have to sell assets and lose a lot of ground," says Mr Christen.
Others talked about the "breaching of the quadruple bottom" (set, apparently, in end-June, mid-July, end-July and mid-September).There was also the usual scramble to christen these historic times.
So in America's most Spanish-speaking state it is impossible to christen a boy José.Still, America and Britain have the most tolerant naming laws: what can be spelled with standard letters (however eccentrically) is allowed.
Disappointed parents included those wishing to christen their offspring with numbers (89), letters (J, I, T) and punctuation marks.Few decisions are more personal than the naming of offspring.
Mr. Jay suggested that the Party should re-christen itself Labour and Reform".
Christen David, a United spokeswoman, said in an e-mail that hidden-city ticketing is "tantamount to switching price tags to obtain a lower price on goods sold at department stores".
Bob Christen, the foundation's director of financial services for the poor, says that it sees the grants as a major step to "help broaden the microfinance business model to include savings".It will take more than good intentions and a recognition that the poor want places to deposit the money they squirrel away to make microsavings work.
It's pretty dramatic," says Bob Christen, head of the "Financial Services for the Poor" initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Making it easier, quicker and cheaper to transfer money has enormous social and economic benefits.
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (b. January 15 , 1812 Christiania [now Oslo, Norway] d. January 5, 1885, Kristiania [now Oslo], Norway) and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (b. April 22 , 1813 Hole [now in Norway] d. March 27 , 1882 Kristiansand, Norway) published Norske folkeeventyr (Norwegian Folktales), which is a landmark in Norwegian literature and influenced the Norwegian language.
