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Sentence Examples It's another case of the tunnel vision typified by the stramash over the Holyrood Parliament art collection. To listen to the endless vapourings on the broadcast media, you would think there had been an earthquake at Holyrood. The development will be seen as evidence of the wretched luck which has dogged the Holyrood project. And his game of political hokey-cokey between Holyrood and Westminster hasn't helped either. His task will be to resolve potential conflicts between Westminster and Holyrood before they become unresolvable issues. The decision to have a very fancy new building at the Holyrood site was taken by the Labour government. Tuesday Scotland's farmers march on Holyrood to protest against the blows which have beset their profession. I'm fair scunnered about the Holyrood project, and I have the advantage of being fair scunnered before just about anyone else in the country. He will reveal his plans, which prioritise public safety, as part of an announcement on justice reform at Holyrood on Tuesday. This comes as the climax to a positive blizzard of bans, both from Westminster and its pygmy parody at Holyrood. In the meantime, the relevant Justice Committee at Holyrood should embark on an in-depth study of the issues. A bit of parliamentary mayhem might attract the interest of voters who are now entirely indifferent to what goes on at Holyrood. Holyrood has no revising chamber that could temper the extremism of these ideologues. Every public project has its detractors, and the air fills to the sound of axes grinding every time Holyrood is mentioned. Holyrood palace is teeming with life, and the dashed thing about it is that the grouse season hasn't even opened yet. It is believed he also wants to secure powers over broadcasting for Holyrood. It was a mark of the Scottish Executive's desperation to get off the Holyrood hook that the First Minister had to rely on fiscal jiggery-pokery. Holyrood staff such as parliamentary clerks and librarians will also be able to claim for part of the cost of gym, health club and sports club membership. There being no second chamber in Holyrood, why not use Westminster as a kind of House of Lords, where former leaders can harmlessly serve out their twilight days in obscurity? If, as the polls tell us, a Labour-led administration is going to be returned at Holyrood then a burden of responsibility falls on Jack McConnell over the next short period. Show More Sentences The carpers and cringers invariably compare Holyrood with Westminster. And politically, the newfangled and alien method of electing the parliament has ensured that there will always be a built-in anti-Glasgow majority in Holyrood. But the biggest present was a letter on the fax from Jack McConnell conceding her demand for an independent inquiry into the shambles of the Holyrood building. Holyrood Church, fronting High Street was blitzed in the Second World War. Instead of girning about London, the Scots now girn about Holyrood. It also refocuses attention on the film of the Holyrood saga, which is fast becoming as controversial as the new Scottish Parliament building itself. Mind you, some of the old buffers at the New Club have got wind of this and say they have slipped Fraser a few new titbits about Jack's role in the Holyrood business. I've passed girls singing choral roundelays on Holyrood Road. In the seven years that Holyrood has spewed out documents on a tramline that may never be built, other cities have reorganised their public transport infrastructure. After his death, I trawled through all of his speeches I could locate, from his maiden speech at Westminster to the verbatim report of proceedings at Holyrood. The prince is to start visiting Holyrood for blocks of up to five days, just as he has done in his Welsh principality for the past five years, finding that has more impact. Instead of girning about Westminster we girn about Holyrood. The Scottish Parliament is the national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital Edinburgh. The SNP governed as a minority administration at Holyrood following the 2007 Scottish Parliament election. The monarch stays at Holyrood for at least one week each year, and when visiting Scotland on state occasions. They were issued through Rivington's company with the imprint of the Holyrood Press. Located in the Holyrood area of the capital city, Edinburgh, it is frequently referred to by the metonym Holyrood. In March 2006, one of the Holyrood building's roof beams slipped out of its support and was left dangling above the back benches during a debate. Whilst the permanent building at Holyrood was being constructed, a temporary home for the Parliament was found in Edinburgh. Examples of these independent wedges of green belt include Holyrood Park and Corstorphine Hill. Show More Sentences David also continued his predecessor Alexander's patronage of the Augustinians, founding Holyrood Abbey with monks from Merton Priory. The next day King James VIII was proclaimed at the Mercat Cross and a triumphant Charles entered Holyrood palace. Charles held court at Holyrood palace for five weeks amidst great admiration and enthusiasm, but failed to raise a regiment locally. Glasgow is represented in both the Westminster Parliament in London, and the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh. For elections to the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, the city area is divided between three constituencies. These proposals were detailed in a white paper setting out a new Scotland Bill, to become law before the 2015 Holyrood elections. The Holyrood constituencies are also subdivisions of the Highlands and Islands electoral region. After a wedding by proxy in London, the marriage was confirmed in person on 8 August 1503 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh. Over the next two days, a disillusioned Darnley switched sides, and Mary received Moray at Holyrood. James's son Charles I was crowned in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, in 1633 with full Anglican rites. David, believing his life had been spared through divine intervention, founded Holyrood Abbey on the spot. Today, it flies above Holyrood Palace and Balmoral Castle when the Queen is not in residence. The westerly parts of Holyrood, excluding Holyrood Park, are roughly synonymous with the Canongate and Dumbiedykes areas. James' bride, Anne of Denmark was crowned in the church at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. This street is the short approach to Holyrood Palace at the foot of the Canongate. James married Margaret of Denmark in July 1469 at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh. More than once in his later years, De Quincey was forced to seek protection from arrest in the debtors' sanctuary of Holyrood in Edinburgh. While his colleagues went back to work at Holyrood, the cowardly thug did some early-morning DIY dressed in his jammies, goonie and baffies. Sorry, Ross, there may be no argument in the comfortable coffee klatsch of Holyrood but there is in real life. French fashions were conspicuous at her court, as she tried to recreate in the dankness of Holyrood some of the majesty of the Louvre or Fontainebleau. Show More Sentences The pontiff and the Queen will meet on September 16 at Holyrood House in Edinburgh before he travels to Glasgow for an open air mass at Bellahouston Park. On 1 April 2014, the public petition committee at Holyrood heard that The Robert Burns World Federation wished to rename the airport to Robert Burns International Airport. The ceremony began on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle from which hundreds of schoolchildren ran down the Royal Mile, through Holyrood Park to Meadowbank Stadium. On the south side is the Queen's Gallery, used to exhibit items in the Royal collection, in the shell of the former Holyrood Free Church and Duchess of Gordon's School. Neil Carberry, a director at the Confederation of British Industry, told a Holyrood inquiry that the bottom 10 per cent of earners got bigger pay increases than others. In the 2007 elections, the Party lost five seats in Holyrood. Jack McConnell pledged yesterday that a Labour victory in the Holyrood election will pave the way for Government NHS hit squads to take charge of dirty hospitals. He also said that he planned to defeat the SNP in 2016, and that he would use the increased powers being devolved to Holyrood to end poverty and inequality. Others included more autonomy for the Scottish party and the reorganisation of members into branches based on Holyrood constituencies rather than Westminster constituencies. The crown was first worn by James V to the coronation of his second wife, Mary of Guise, as queen consort at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, in the year of its manufacture. The slopes of the hill facing Holyrood are where young girls in Edinburgh traditionally bathe their faces in the dew on May Day to make themselves more beautiful. The highlanders rescue him from his escort and take him to the Jacobite stronghold at Doune Castle, then on to Holyrood Palace, where he meets Bonnie Prince Charlie himself. On 6 May, Mary and Bothwell returned to Edinburgh and on 15 May, at either Holyrood Palace or Holyrood Abbey, they were married according to Protestant rites. On 9 March, a group of the conspirators, accompanied by Darnley, murdered Rizzio in front of the pregnant Mary at a dinner party in Holyrood Palace. Knox's final encounter with Mary was prompted by an incident at Holyrood. Mary summoned Knox to Holyrood after hearing that he had been preaching against her proposed marriage to Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain. When she attended Mass being celebrated in the royal chapel at Holyrood Palace five days later, this prompted a protest in which one of her servants was jostled. On 8 August 1503, the marriage was celebrated in person in Holyrood Abbey. The Holyrood constituencies were created for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, with the names and boundaries of then existing Westminster constituencies. The Old Town runs downhill and terminates at Holyrood Palace. Show More Sentences To the south the view is dominated by Edinburgh Castle, built high on the castle rock, and the long sweep of the Old Town descending towards Holyrood Palace. Following the move to Holyrood in 2004 this building was demolished. Since September 2004, the official home of the Scottish Parliament has been a new Scottish Parliament Building, in the Holyrood area of Edinburgh. Examples from Classical Literature He had a grant of the abbacy of Holyrood in 1539, when only seven years of age. Such pretty maneuvering of horse and foot took place below Holyrood Palace as quite to enrapture a terrier. The formal Holyrood opening ceremony ended with an unscripted public singing of Auld Lang Syne by MSPs and guests, who included Sir Sean Connery. Margaret Ferrier asked how the UK Government would react if the SNP win a majority at Holyrood next year and ask for a new poll. Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, of Oxford University, has suggested Holyrood may refuse to implement UK efforts to unpick EU law from Scots law. I don't recall a forkful from the time I sat down with Margo MacDonald and Jim Sillars during one of her Holyrood campaigns, but it was the best political lunch I've ever had. Find more words! 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