(a.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.
(n.) The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irish (Gaelic) is the first official language of Ireland.
(2) They are not just saying, 'This is Gaelic so I should like it.'"
(3) An applicant could seek a declaration that it was contrary to the Belfast agreement.” Sinn Féin wants the act to be a “standalone”, meaning it would only concern the rights of Irish speakers and giving the Gaelic language equality in law with English.
(4) Sinn Féin wants an Irish Language Act to be a “standalone” one, which means that the legislation would only concern the rights of Irish speakers and the issue of putting the Gaelic language on an equal par in law to English.
(5) The census also suggests that recent efforts by successive Scottish governments to invest in Gaelic schools may be saving the language from decline.
(6) We’ve gone to watch Gaelic football and hurling, and to Irish bars.
(7) Coming from a culturally nationalist Scottish background with a Gaelic speaking father, I don’t have any difficulty understanding the appeal of independence, let alone the demands for social justice and democratic accountability that are swelling support for it.
(8) That said, I was recently told that the gaelic for whiskey ( uisce beatha ) means “water of life”, which makes me wonder if I shouldn’t be so quick to judge.
(9) Unfortunately, the DUP maintained their position in relation to blocking equality, delivery of equality for citizens - that was the problem.” The Sinn Féin leader in Northern Ireland was referring in particular to issues such as her party’s demand for an Irish Language Act to give Gaelic the same legal power as English in the region.
(10) He knew some people would think he was taking a risk in making his film in Gaelic.
(11) Gaelic Singer and chief executive Feisean nan Gdheal.
(12) After all, doesn't the Scottish government already part-fund the Gaelic channel, BBC Alba ?
(13) He spoke to them in Gaelic, guided them to the house, then took to his tree.
(14) At the same time he took on the editing, with Robert Crawford, of the massive New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (2000), with its abundance of poems in Gaelic, and a handful of other languages, faced by distinguished English translations.
(15) The Ulster Unionist leader, Mike Nesbitt, condemned the threat to Campbell as well as the DUP MP’s attitude towards Gaelic.
(16) We also decided to put the sketches in Gaelic to give it a proper rural Ireland feel, so Tom Cruise became Thomás Crúise and twerking "ag twearchach".
(17) Funding for the SBS will come from Scotland's share of licence fee income (£320m a year) and BBC commercial arm BBC Worldwide's profits (£13m), plus £12m annually provided by the Scottish government for Gaelic broadcasting.
(18) The music policy – The Proclaimers' 500 Miles, followed by Van Morrison's Brown-Eyed Girl, followed by The Proclaimers' 500 Miles – has stayed unchanged for years now, as has its dress code: check shirts for boys, Gaelic football jerseys for girls.
(19) Though their genepool has been modified to some extent by immigrant genes, it is suggested that the Orcadians represent the remains of a relict population, in the same way as, but different from, those of the Gaelic fringe.
(20) At Glasgow's Thistle Hotel on Friday night a 22-piece Gaelic choir sang Highland Cathedral.
Galloway
Definition:
(n.) A small horse of a breed raised at Galloway, Scotland; -- called also garran, and garron.
Example Sentences:
(1) On a turnout of 50.78%, Labour's shellshocked candidate Imran Hussain was crushed by a 36.59% swing from Labour to Respect that saw Galloway take the seat with a majority of 10,140.
(2) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
(3) The Labour party, still smarting from its defeat to George Galloway in the Bradford West byelection earlier this year, took no chances in its bid to keep hold of Rotherham following the resignation of Denis MacShane.
(4) Galloway accused Shah of lying about how old she was when she claimed to have been “emotionally blackmailed” into marrying a cousin in Pakistan.
(5) We reported that George Galloway MP had called for a boycott of 'Israel's shops'.
(6) My MP, Chuka Umunna, said he would try to help but George Galloway – who Assad had personally invited to Damascus – told me that Umunna stopped a delegation of MPs going to Syria because it was too dangerous .
(7) George Galloway and moral repugnance in the same sentence: whoever would have thought it?
(8) She had heard Galloway had thrown his hat in the ring and wanted to hear what he was all about.
(9) "This was a blatant and outrageous attempt to suborn a member of parliament," said Mr Galloway.
(10) "His driver was built like a bodyguard, had a mouthful of gold teeth and when I asked where he was from he answered, enigmatically, 'From up north'," said Mr Galloway.
(11) Green assures me this is less of a problem than it looks: seats held by Galloway’s Respect party will soon be up for grabs, and Labour expects to win them back.
(12) 96:1064-1071; Robbins, A. R., C. Oliver, J. L. Bateman, S. S. Krag, C. J. Galloway, and I. Mellman.
(13) Galloway told the meeting: "I cannot and will not apologise for what I said.
(14) Asked about the meeting, Miliband told BBC Radio 5 Live on Friday: "I think George Galloway's views are awful.
(15) Within half an hour, George Galloway – the native of Dundee, MP for Bradford West, a former Labour MP for inner Glasgow, and figurehead of the Respect party – is sitting in Wetherspoon's, devouring fish and chips and granting about a dozen requests for photographs.
(16) Politicians described as "Islamist backed" include Salma Yaqoob, who stood for the Respect party in Birmingham, and the former MP George Galloway.
(17) The paper said it had carried out "wholly legitimate inquiries" into the activities of a number of individuals, including Mr Galloway, in relation to the loans-for-honours and party funding scandal and would publish the results of its investigation at the weekend.
(18) The demonstrations were not illegal and Galloway said nothing on-air that would encourage racial hatred or violence, TalkSport added.
(19) The media regulator received a number of complaints relating to five of Galloway's live shows broadcast between November 2008 and January this year.
(20) Remember George Galloway in Bradford West and a triumph most unexpected, because there were no polls to hang easy punditry on.