Примери за christen

• We christened the first week of the survey ' the blitz ', during which we stormed through the sites obtaining preliminary information on the status of all the cases in the sample.

• I have christened this scheme "life-link"or"life-line" if, for no other reason than that one must have a name for it.

• I was christened in those days "the baby elephant", the one who had a lot of guts and go but not much skill!

• As a matter of fact, the cradle and christening robe are bought for the first child, and generally used for all subsequent children.

• I was not a little pleased to see the form of words by which the assembly is now being christened.

• We have come now, however, to the christening stage; we have to give the scheme a name.

• She celebrated by christening it with red ribbon—note that it was red and not blue.

• They have been a wedding, a christening or a meeting of friends—a celebration.

• I had a sister who was christened there.

• Perhaps that is not the proper word to use, because normally when we are christened we are unconscious of the occasion.

• When a christening ceremony comes along, parents have to pay a tax on the little hat that the child wears.

• They first christened it a prestige programme.

• I christened him our "pathfinder".

• I particularly relished for its phraseology, if not for its accuracy, the comment of one of my friends who said that the series should have been re-christened.

• Actually, a baby can have an identity card as soon as its birth has been registered, and its birth can be registered before it has been christened.