Example sentences of "state for scotland " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CONVICTED mass murderer has , for the second time , bloodied the nose , metaphorically speaking , of Malcolm Rifkind , the Secretary of State for Scotland , by successfully pursuing a claim for damages . |
| 2 | Malcolm Rifkind , Secretary of State for Scotland , described the move as a modernising exercise . |
| 3 | The White Paper on changes to the Scottish legal profession published yesterday by Malcolm Rifkind , the Secretary of State for Scotland , says that once trained , Scottish solicitors should have unrestricted rights of audience in the higher courts , with the standard of performance achieved in training as the sole test . |
| 4 | The commissioner with responsibility for regional development , Bruce Millan , met Peter Lilley , the trade and industry secretary , Ian Lang , the secretary of state for Scotland , and David Hunt , the secretary of state for Wales on April 25th , partly in order to try to persuade them to sort things out . |
| 5 | Secretary of State for Scotland on his way to make a personal visit … |
| 6 | The procedures for interception According to the official version of events , interceptions were made before 1985 only on the authority of a warrant issued by the Home Secretary , the Secretary of State for Scotland , the Foreign Secretary , or the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , with each warrant naming only one person and one number . |
| 7 | Partnerships were not created in Scotland ; instead , in 1976 , the Secretary of State for Scotland announced that a planned new town at Stonehouse would be abandoned , and that staff and resources were to be directed towards a major regenerative project based in east Glasgow . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State for Scotland , operating in effect as a regional political chief , is in an ideal position to co-ordinate and innovate public policy . |
| 9 | At this point , the Shetland Bird Club , the Nature Conservancy Council , and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds requested the Secretary of State for Scotland to issue an Article 4 direction over the keeping of mink in Shetland . |
| 10 | Three of the first Lord Glenconner 's sisters married Lords , another married Henry Asquith the Prime Minister , and the youngest , Katherine , the widow of Walter Elliot , a Secretary of State for Scotland , is still on the front bench of the House of Lords in her own right as the Life Peeress , Baroness Elliot of Harwood . |
| 11 | He was content to leave matters there to his Secretary of State for Scotland , Sir John Dalrymple , Master [ later Earl ] of Stair , who offered a pardon to all those chiefs who would swear allegiance to the new king by New Year 's Day , 1692 . |
| 12 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 13 | After selection by a local Children 's Panel Advisory Committee , new members are confirmed by the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 14 | Although financed by the local authority , the appointment of the Reporter must be approved by the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 15 | A member of the Panel for twelve years , Mrs Laughton had written in November 1990 to the Secretary of State for Scotland , expressing her concerns about the deterioration of the system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 16 | The presbytery also instructed their clerk to write to the Prime Minister , John Major , the Secretary of State for Scotland , Ian Lang , the local Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , and the Member of the European Parliament , Winnie Ewing , asking for the law concerning child abuse to be reviewed as a matter of urgency . |
| 17 | The Scottish National Party Euro-MP for the Highlands and Islands , Winnie Ewing , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland , detailing some of the correspondence she had received from worried parents . |
| 18 | Time and time again petitions , requests for a free pardon , Bills of Criminal Letters were lodged with the Lord Advocate or the Secretary of State for Scotland ; time and time again they were rejected . |
| 19 | Three weeks later his long ordeal came to an end when the new Secretary of State for Scotland , Bruce Millan , announced to the House of Commons that he had decided to exercise the Royal Prerogative of Mercy , i.e. recommend to the Queen the granting of a free Pardon . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State for Scotland decided who should go to the party , but it appears that you had to be rich , a local landowner or preferably both to receive an invitation . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State 's authority on this matter has been accepted , not out of docility or in the belief that the Secretary of State for Scotland is infallible in curriculum matters : it has been accepted because it is very obviously based on a clear national consensus . |
| 22 | This appointment was rejected by the secretary of state for Scotland . |
| 23 | SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND 'S HOUSE . |
| 24 | In the second paper , the Secretary of State for Scotland ( Arthur Woodburn ) argued that it was the duty of the Government to give a lead : |
| 25 | On the other hand , THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SCOTLAND urged that the experience of countries like Norway and Sweden did not justify the conclusion that the death penalty could safely be abolished in this country , where conditions were different . |
| 26 | It was originally a tower house called Lethington , property of the Maitland family who produced many influential royal advisers including Mary 's ‘ Secretary Lethington ’ and her son 's Chancellor ; and the Earl of Lauderdale who became dictatorial Secretary of State for Scotland under Charles II . |
| 27 | Brown v. Secretary of State for Scotland ( Case 197/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 3205 , E.C.J. |
| 28 | According to the court 's case law ( see , in the context of the free movement of workers , Levin v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 53/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 1035 , 1058 , para. 17 ; Kempf v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 139/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 1741 , 1750 , para. 10 ; Brown v. Secretary of State for Scotland ( Case 197/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 3205 , 3244 , para. 21 and Bettray v. Staatssecretaris van Justitie ( Case 344/87 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 1621 , 1645 , para. 13 ; and , on a general level , for the definition of ‘ economic activities ’ within the meaning of article 2 of the E.E.C . |
| 29 | Alongside were the inevitable Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales , but the meeting could not start because , alas , ‘ Hamlet ’ was missing . |
| 30 | It would be expected to advise the Secretary of State for Scotland who would still be in the UK Cabinet and responsible to the UK House of Commons , a situation which would be intolerable to its members , resented by Scots MPs and bound to lead to conflict . |