(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(3) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
(4) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(5) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(6) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
(7) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(8) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(9) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(10) Ian Read, Pfizer's Scottish-born chief executive, said the tax structure would protect AstraZeneca's revenues from the 38% rate of corporation tax in the US.
(11) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(12) The Scottish National party will campaign confidently for independence, not just as an end in itself but as the means by which the people of Scotland can best fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations; by which the Scottish economy can grow more strongly and sustainably; and by which Scotland can take its rightful place as a responsible member of the world community.
(13) Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, has described the pain of battling the virus inside a hospital isolation unit.
(14) The Scottish Government strongly believes the site has a positive future and we will continue to work with the UK Government and all other parties concerned to find a solution that supports the workers affected and the wider Scottish economy.
(15) My colleague Sean Farrell reported last night that the Scottish government had been looking for a buyer for the site .
(16) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
(17) The Scottish Affairs select committee that is investigating the blacklisting has uncovered documents showing that the police unit monitoring political activists met the blacklisting agency in 2008 to discuss sharing information.
(18) Scottish voters could be offered even greater freedoms on taxation and social policy after Labour said it would consider "radical" new powers under devolution.
(19) Nowadays, many of the core welfare state functions have been devolved to the Scottish parliament.
(20) The only Spanish voice heard in Catalonia is that of the Madrid government, which seems oblivious to the implications of the groundswell of pro-independence sentiment, much as at Westminster politicians missed the shift in Scottish opinion until just before the referendum.
Strathspey
Definition:
(n.) A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 2005, he has been Liberal Democrat MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
(2) Part of Gordon in north-east Scotland includes distilleries in the world-famous whisky-producing region of Speyside, as does the fringe of Alexander’s seat of Inverness, Nairn Badenoch and Strathspey.
(3) Party officials remain extremely worried about Danny Alexander’s chances of holding his Highlands seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey against the SNP challenger and Highlands council leader Drew Hendry.
(4) Even their ability to defend their “fortress seats” is in doubt as Clegg faces a strong challenge from Labour in Sheffield Hallam and Danny Alexander tries to head off the SNP in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.
(5) Oakeshott said a further poll on voting intentions in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, the Scottish constituency of Danny Alexander, the senior Lib Dem Treasury minister, would be on the ICM website later on Wednesday.
(6) Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Danny Alexander is safe on paper, but after five years as George Osborne’s deputy, he might just provide 2015’s “Portillo moment”.
(7) Amid such dire poll ratings, party strategists acknowledge that Danny Alexander , the chief secretary to the Treasury, is in deep trouble in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey while Clegg trails Labour by three points in his Sheffield Hallam seat, according to a poll by Lord Ashcroft.
(8) One of the safest Lib Dem seats last time was Danny Alexander’s huge highland turf of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, but Ashcroft’s data suggests that the chief secretary to the Treasury is not merely on course to lose, but to go down by a humiliating margin of 29 points, as the SNP surge to 50% of the vote.
(9) • Danny Alexander, chief secretary to the Treasury Alexander faces a tough fight to retain his Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey seat.
(10) Alexander, who is MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, told the House of Lords economic committee an independent Scotland would have a similar level of debt to the rest of the UK.
(11) I know that was some time ago but the support and potential is there, and I can’t see any reason why we can’t recreate a ‘Portillo moment’.” DANNY ALEXANDER The chief secretary to the treasury, another high-profile Lib Dem, is also under pressure to hold his Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey seat.
(12) His deputy, Danny Alexander , is under intense pressure from the SNP in his seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey, which includes distilleries on the fringe of prime whisky production territories on Speyside.
(13) Alexander, who faces an uphill battle to retain his Commons seat of Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, said: “In March 2012, when the economy was still in the very early stages of recovery, we wanted to do a very big increase in the personal allowance to put a lot of money back into folk’s pockets.