What's the difference between keir and kier?

Keir


Definition:

  • (n.) See Kier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So the newspapers will be delighted with director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer's announcement that the Lib Dem cabinet minister has been charged over the allegation – apparently made in a moment of anger by his former wife, the economist Vicky Pryce – that he had asked someone to take his speeding points on his behalf when the then-MEP allegedly drove home too fast from Stansted airport in 2003.
  • (2) The submission recorded that this claim had been "strongly contradicted" by the head of the CPS, Keir Starmer QC.
  • (3) In a wide-ranging speech on Monday, Labour’s Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer will warn that the Brexit process is in danger of being hijacked by Tory hardliners who sense a “once in a generation chance” for Britain to extricate itself from employment rights, environmental protections and investment in public services.
  • (4) The statements were taken during Operation Iden, one of the two investigations that came to a close this week with Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, ruling that it had gathered insufficient evidence to press charges.
  • (5) The role of the CPS in this area is untested, and Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, told the Leveson inquiry in February that he intended to issue guidance to clarify the issue.
  • (6) Keir Starmer, former director of public prosecutions who now advises Labour on justice policy, added to calls for Wright to go.
  • (7) He has also beefed up the party’s response to the referendum result by appointing former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer as shadow Brexit secretary.
  • (8) In chronological order the four shortlisted contenders are: Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP (1892), the nearest thing it has to a founder; Clement Attlee, presiding mastermind of the postwar welfare state; Aneurin Bevan, charismatic architect of Labour's best-loved, most enduring institution, the NHS; and Barbara Castle, the woman prime minister Labour never had.
  • (9) In the latter scenario, we’d have the sensible, careful Keir Starmer managing Brexit while the government implemented a whole series of policies that actually benefited ordinary people: infrastructure investment; a humane welfare system and adequate funding for schools, social care and the NHS; a crackdown on slum landlords; better regulation of rental properties; a million new homes built over the next five years; tax cuts for small businesses that enable them to compete against unfairly advantaged offshore firms; renationalisation of our railways , so UK commuters aren’t forced to fork out five times the amount paid for equivalent journeys in mainland Europe.
  • (10) You would not find Keir customarily in wing collar and stripy trousers."
  • (11) The former director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, led a widespread public consultation which in 2010 determined that people could still be prosecuted for helping another die, but that six mitigating factors would count against such action .
  • (12) That is why it is essential that a successor is appointed who is committed to building on Keir's approach and values."
  • (13) Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, said at the weekend that prosecutors would come to a decision on whether any officers or members of the public should be charged "as soon as we can".
  • (14) Keir Starmer, the DPP, made clear that he would, in the first instance, set out in detail the factors taken into account in favour of, or against, prosecution.
  • (15) The files were considered by the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, who had to decide whether there was a realistic chance of securing a conviction and what charges he should bring.
  • (16) Just as well, perhaps, they did not realise that Starmer was named by his solidly Labour-supporting parents in the heart of commuter-belt Surrey after that founding socialist hero Keir Hardie.
  • (17) Keir Starmer , the former director of public prosecutions, said the report was a significant milestone for the campaign to end FGM.
  • (18) But we live in interesting times when a Conservative prime minister pilots gay marriage through parliament and the birthplace of the founder of the Labour party, Keir Hardie , is in such turmoil.
  • (19) Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, would privately confide to friends that the decision over whether to prosecute Harwood would keep him awake at night as he tried to reconcile those contradicting medical opinions.
  • (20) Keir Starmer, the shadow brexit minister, said: “Guy Verhofstadt asks, ‘what is the purpose of this general election’?

Kier


Definition:

  • (n.) A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kier and Machar have presided over a conflict that has displaced more than two million people.
  • (2) Sweet taste receptor models that have been published are mainly based on the original Shallenberger and Acree model of the glucophores AH-B with contributions from Kier (AH-B-X).
  • (3) Two graph theoretical approaches (the distance method of Wiener and the connectivity index method of Randic, Kier, and Hall) and an approach utilizing ad hoc molecular descriptors were employed.
  • (4) We are not talking about current spending that the chancellor will decide on come the budget.” More boasts about HS2's benefits – but costs keep going off the rails Read more Carillion’s joint venture with French construction company Eiffage and UK firm Kier has won two contracts worth £1.4bn to design and build the North Portal Chiltern tunnels to Brackley and the Brackley to Long Itchington Wood Green tunnel South Portal.
  • (5) The companies – Balfour Beatty , Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and Vinci – said: "The scheme is intended to make it as simple as possible for any worker with a legitimate claim to access compensation."
  • (6) Correlations between Hansch's hydrophobic parameter (pi) and Kier and Hall's topological index (1 chi) allowed pi to be substituted by 1 chi in the structure-activity correlations of the carcinogenicity data of the nitrosamines studied.
  • (7) When people applied for work on building sites, senior employees at Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Kier, Costain, McAlpine and more than 30 other companies would fax their names to the Consulting Association, where Kerr would check his files to see if they matched.
  • (8) The activity of these renin inhibitors was found to be significantly correlated with Kier's first-order valence molecular connectivity index (1 chi v) and with the molecular weight (MW) of the molecules.
  • (9) Formerly Group chief executive Officer Kier Group plc.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When people applied for work on building sites, employees at Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Kier, Costain, McAlpine and more than 30 other companies would fax their names to the Consulting Association, where Kerr would check his files to see if they matched.
  • (11) Satisfactory regression models for solubility were obtained with both the Randic-Kier-Hall approach and the ad hoc descriptors approach.
  • (12) The director of public prosecutions, Kier Starmer QC, issued a statement on Savile's offending.

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