(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’?
Weir
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Wear
Example Sentences:
(1) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
(2) The truth is, though, that Weir does not seem to favour one race over any other.
(3) Conflicting guidelines for excisions about the alar base led us to develop calibrated alar base excision, a modification of Weir's approach.
(4) With a 10th of Weir's workforce based in the rest of Britain, the EU's pension rules would mean the firm would need to pay off the company pension scheme's £60m deficit far more quickly or break the UK scheme up; both would mean extra costs.
(5) But then Weir has won the London Marathon six times and beat Hug by a single second in the 2012 race.
(6) Others may argue, as former US Olympic skater Johnny Weir has, that what they define as “politics” shouldn’t enter into the equation of whether a country is fit to host the Games.
(7) As Fiona Weir, chief executive of single parents charity Gingerbread, said today: "We fear that many parents will be pressured by their ex and by the new charges to stay out of the new system, and instead will enter into a private arrangement that offers no guarantee of regular, reliable income for their children."
(8) Weir, who had been regarded as a candidate to replace former boss Eric Daniels, and Kane are potentially entitled to around £1.7m and £1.6m each.
(9) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
(10) A similar spirit was invested in several stand-out movie roles: as an unconventional but inspirational English teacher in Peter Weir's Dead Poet's Society (1989); a homeless hobo and sort of holy fool in The Fisher King (1991), directed by Terry Gilliam; and a good-humoured therapist, for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997).
(11) Today the Environment Agency estimates that 70% of London's 600km river network is concreted, covered over, interrupted by weirs or otherwise modified.
(12) Fiona Weir, chief executive, said: "A family having a second child could be over £1,200 worse off this year.
(13) The covariance of inbred relatives from a population in linkage and identity equilibrium in the presence of dominance and epistasis is formulated using a similar procedure to that which B. S. Weir and C. C. Cockerham used to derive a general expression for the genotypic variance.
(14) Analysts at UBS said Weir was "one of the most attractively positioned mining equipment businesses" with a strong after sales market and improving outlook for orders in 2014.
(15) You know,' says Weir, 'it all gets very annoying, being misunderstood.'
(16) The weir consists of longitudinal external (small) and internal (large) ribs containing cross-striated microfilaments and connected by a membrane.
(17) Philip Landau is an employment lawyer at Landau Zeffertt Weir
(18) Amy Weir, the chair of the board, said she believed there should be a debate on the pros and cons of mandatory reporting under which those responsible for the care of children should be obliged to pass on concerns about abuse to the police or other authorities.
(19) Although finding himself in general agreement with Weir, Murray disagrees with the latter's acceptance of very limited active euthanasia, and believes that more attention could have been paid to the social contexts of moral beliefs and to the political aspects of the debate over newborn care.
(20) The weir consists of interdigitating ribs all of which form one circle, i.e.