Sentence examples for term weekend from inspiring English sources

In "Downton Abbey", a drama about the British upper classes of the early 20th century, one aloof aristocrat has never heard of the term "weekend": for her, every day is filled with leisure.

Keep in mind this is a country where the term weekend warrior refers to men in the 90s who punched the clock on Friday afternoon then hopped on a paramilitary APC bound for the freefire rape markets of Bosnia.

Among them are the volatility index (up), the 10-year Treasury yield (up to 2.44 percent) and even the lowly calendar to remind them that in the near term, the weekend is nearly upon us and next week, the Federal Reserve is scheduled to meet.

In his row with the junior doctors over the terms of weekend working, Jeremy Hunt has repeatedly claimed that the NHS's failings at the weekend cost 11,000 lives annually.

The Académie is frequently ridiculed for its attempts to come up with French alternatives to popular and widely used English terms, including weekend (fin de semaine), email (courriel) and sub-prime (prêt hypotécaire à risque).

In sporting terms, the weekend was most notable for Mo Farah's second gold medal – this time in the men's 5000m – and Usain Bolt and his Jamaican mates smashing the world record for the men's 4 x 100m relay.

Previous studies, across a range of countries, have identified higher mortality in patients admitted on weekends (compared with weekdays) across a range of medical conditions a phenomenon termed the "weekend effect". 1 2 3 4 5 6 This calls into question the idea that quality of care is equal irrespective of when someone presents at hospital.

Online travel agency sunshine.co.uk revealed an 88% increase in the number of family holiday bookings (classed as two adults and one or more child between the ages of five and 16) during school term time the weekend after the ruling, compared with the previous weekend.

Many are discussing the results (loose term) of the weekend's G-20 countries meeting to discuss a backdrop for a "New Bretton Woods" environment.

The legal process was stressful but the magistrate ruled in our favour and we now have a court order guaranteeing us one day each half term and a weekend in each of the school holidays.

But those smallish films that could be helped (An Education, Precious, The Last Station) each received relatively large upswings at least in terms of pure weekend-to-weekend percentage changes.