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Spinney
Definition:
(n.) Same as Spinny.
Example Sentences:
(1) You had to let it crash over you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Miles’s life was torture’ … Lu Spinney at home.
(2) The Royal Deeside water is shipped from Aberdeenshire to branches of Spinneys in Dubai, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi.
(3) Now we celebrate Miles.” • Beyond the High Blue Air by Lu Spinney is published on 5 May by Atlantic Books, £14.99.
(4) I knew, undoubtedly, he was aware and I saw the mixture of anguish, anger and pain on his face.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A young Miles, Lu Spinney’s son.
(5) Fifty years from now, keeping people imprisoned by medical care against their wishes will be considered as misjudged as incarcerating patients in Bedlam,” says Lu Spinney.
(6) These recordings now form the soundtrack of a documentary film, Notes on Blindness by Pete Middleton and James Spinney, recently released alongside a cutting-edge virtual reality project that immerses you in a world without sight.
(7) Formerly Headteacher, Wren Spinney Special School Kettering.
(8) But John’s description of what the sound of rain could tell you about your surroundings took my breath away.” Peter Middleton and James Spinney’s short film, Notes on Blindness, based on Hull’s audio diaries, was commissioned by the New York Times and premiered at the 2014 Sundance film festival.
Swinney
Definition:
(n.) See Sweeny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swinney admitted in that confidential memo that the "ageing profile of our population" and Scotland's reliance on volatile oil revenues could mean serious cost pressures on an independent state's spending.
(2) "I don't think it will come as any surprise to anyone that the government is looking for alternative options and there certainly will be other players around the globe interested in this particular plant," Swinney told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme.
(3) Salmond and his finance secretary, John Swinney, have pushed for Scotland to be given control over corporation tax, excise duties and greater borrowing powers in the new bill, but those measures were rejected as ill thought out and clumsy by the UK government and Labour.
(4) With Scottish ministers fighting for Holyrood to be given far greater tax powers from the UK government, including over income tax, Swinney said that was a sign of the Scottish National party’s approach to a fairer taxation system in Scotland .
(5) Speaking after the Welsh first minister, Carwyn Jones, said he would oppose a sterling pact, Swinney said: "Clearly the people of Scotland will be given the proposition that sterling should be the currency of an independent Scotland and the UK government has signed up to respect the outcome of the referendum.
(6) Updated at 2.27pm BST 1.58pm BST John Swinney: We're in a better place Interviewed on BBC News 24, Scotland finance minister John Swinney says Grangemouth is in " a much better place than yesterday... but we've not crossed the line yet".
(7) But John Swinney, the Scottish government's finance secretary, argued that Carney had provided a "serious and sensible analysis" of how a currency union could work and had recognised that a deal was a political decision between the Westminster and Holyrood governments.
(8) Swinney said the growth statistics were Scotland's best since the summer of 2010, adding that manufacturing exports grew by 0.2% late last year.
(9) In particular, we show that the specific example--a study by D. Swinney, E. Zurif, and J. Nicol (1989, Journal of Cognitive Neurosciences, 1, 25-37)--given by these authors as a demonstration of the usefulness of syndrome-based research to inform theories of normal language processing does not in fact serve this purpose.
(10) Finance minister John Swinney told Good Morning Scotland he still hoped for a breakthrough at "this very, very, very late stage in the process", saying: Everybody is agreed that this plant has a strong future with the necessary investment and that is why the Scottish Government is wiling to be a player in that.
(11) In his speech to the Scottish National party's annual conference, Swinney said a series of recent economic figures had shown his devolved government had proved it could build a dynamic, successful economy which outstripped the UK's performance.
(12) Mr Swinney said his rates represented “a Scottish approach to taxation”, and announced he was applying the principles of Adam Smith.
(13) John Swinney: 'I think we will make a better job of running the country ourselves rather than having decisions made by the UK government.'
(14) Updated at 4.16pm BST 3.56pm BST Statement at Grangemouth Heads-up -- the two senior politicians at Grangemouth, Alistair Carmichael and John Swinney are giving a statement to the media now, after their meeting with Ineos management.
(15) Swinney said a Guardian special report on the high level of foreign and UK control over significant parts of the Scottish economy had established that Scotland needed new tax, economic and borrowing powers to keep its wealth within the country and to boost domestic industry.
(16) Shelter quickly welcomed the £20m fund but Scottish Labour's finance spokesman, Iain Gray, who last week said his party would devote £50m to tackling the bedroom tax, accused Swinney of offering only limited and short-term support.
(17) The inquiry comes after Scottish finance secretary John Swinney complained that advice given to George Osborne from top Treasury civil servant Sir Nicholas Macpherson about a potential currency union had crossed the line of civil service impartiality.
(18) But these measures could not prevent someone buying dangerous knives online, Swinney said.
(19) The Treasury deal, struck after months of brinksmanship between the two governments which initially saw the gap between the two sides narrow to £300m, is widely seen as a victory for John Swinney, the Scottish finance secretary.
(20) Stefan Morkis (@C_SMorkis) Finance Minister John Swinneys has arrived at Grangemouth.