(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Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.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.
Valentine
Definition:
(n.) A sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day.
(n.) A letter containing professions of love, or a missive of a sentimental, comic, or burlesque character, sent on St. Valentine's Day.
Example Sentences:
(1) A lysogenic conversion by a group A phage to production of Panton-Valentine leucocidin and by a group F phage to staphylokinase production could be demonstrated.
(2) A modified form of the model of Valentine and Allison (Biochim.
(3) "I think on a college application you shouldn't even be able to print what your ethnicity is," Kaitlin Valentine, a biology major.
(4) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(5) Iain Valentine, the zoo's director of giant pandas, said: "The annual panda breeding season is imminent and the next 24 hours are critical.
(6) The structure determined here for Amb a V is topologically similar to the structure determined previously for the homologous allergenic protein Amb t V [Metzler, W. J., Valentine, K., Roebber, M., Friedrichs, M. S., Marsh, D., & Mueller, L. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 5117-5127]; however, significant differences exist in the packing of side chains in the hydrophobic core of the molecules.
(7) The role of antagonistic muscles is clearly showed by Bouvier in 1851 on the level of the metacarpo-phalangeal joints and by Valentin and Tubiana in 1962 on the level of the proximal interphalangeal joints.
(8) The single most depressing thing one could say about a baseball franchise, of course, would be that they hired Bobby Valentine as their new manager, which is just what the Red Sox said after the worst September collapse in their history.
(9) It was Valentine's Day the other day and I had enough in to buy flowers for the missus.
(10) Those being scrutinised include Diack’s son, Papa Massata Diack, who resigned as a marketing executive after being accused of involvement in corruption aimed at covering up doping scandals in Russia, and Valentin Balakhnichev, a former IAAF treasurer who left his post as president of the Russian athletics federation after similar allegations were made against him.
(11) Is it all down to pitcher-whisperer Farrell or a return to norm after a wasted years Valentining?
(12) For those who argue that we should not judge the values of the past by those of the present,” Cornwell told the Guardian, “one could, and should, object that it’s important to learn the lessons of history.” To Native Americans like Valentin Lopez, the chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band based in Sacramento, those lessons are not complicated.
(13) joined with AME to send 3,000 roses to federal politicians on Valentines Day and hosted a dinner for three same-sex couples with then prime minister Julia Gillard, hoping to persuade her to change her stance.
(14) Valentin Brylev, 65, a Ukrainian Cossack, said that Donetsk is not divided.
(15) It's a Valentine's Day present – perfect for our new place.
(16) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.
(17) On Valentine's day ( V-Day ) Together for Girls hosted a Twitter chat asking for innovative tactics that can end violence against women and children.
(18) In a move that will be seen as part of a Russian attempt to limit the damage, its National Olympic Committee asked former Russian track federation president Valentin Balakhnichev to resign from its executive board.
(19) There is going to be a huge call on ensuring that those who do business in Sierra Leone pay their fair share of taxes so that Sierra Leone stands a chance of rebuilding its systems,” said Valentin.
(20) On Valentine’s Day, the Twitter account of Kellyanne Conway, one of the president’s most prominent surrogates, shared a tweet from a self-described “white identity” “nationalist” account attacking liberals, noting: “Love you back!” Conway later said that she had not been the one to share the tweet.