Layard
Americannoun
noun
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Children's wellbeing expert Lord Layard urged the Commons education committee to push for a national rollout before the end of this Parliament.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2022
But the recovery numbers have given Dr. Clark and Dr. Layard enough ammunition to argue for, and receive, funding from three governments in a row.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
By 2012, more than a million people had received free therapy as a result of the initiative Layard helped push through, working with the Oxford psychologist David Clark.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2016
This has been especially true in the UK since the economist Richard Layard, a vigorous CBT evangelist, became Tony Blair’s “happiness czar”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2016
When the crisis came it was much easier and safer for him to yield to them than to follow the counsels of Sir A. H. Layard, or to abdicate in favour of Khaireddin Pacha.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
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