Sentence examples for In privy from inspiring English sources

We have also discovered that a royal charter, far from safeguarding the BBC's independence, opens the way for British governments, like medieval kings, to have their way in privy council, to meddle with and fundamentally to change one of our most important institutions with no accountability to parliament whatsoever.

In 1616 an act in Privy council commanded every parish to establish a school.

In 1616 an act in Privy council commanded every parish to establish a school "where convenient means may be had".

In 1616 an act in Privy council commanded every parish to establish a school "where convenient means may be had", and when the Parliament of Scotland ratified this with the Education Act of 1633, a tax on local landowners was introduced to provide the necessary endowments.

One collector bragged that he had found guns, a set of brass knuckles, a pistol, glass eyes, a slave collar and a dog collar in privies.

He gave up the treasurership and his seat in the privy council in June.

S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, the leader of the splinter Federal Party (FP or Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi), contested the Ceylon Citizenship Act, which denied citizenship to Tamils of recent Indian origin, before the Supreme Court, and then in the Privy council in England, but failed to overturn it.

At age 18 or 19 he obtained a clerkship in the privy seal office in London, which he retained intermittently for about 35 years.

"We [the inmates] always had faith in the privy council because the justice in Trinidad and Tobago is very poor," he says.

Or, to put it another way, do they fit together at all?" So asks the narrator of this sweeping story moments before its hero, the famed TV producer Jonas Wergeland, comes face to face with a polar bear in an outdoor privy in the middle of Greenland.

In the end it was determined that MacDonald would be sworn in as a Privy Councillor and then invited to form a government.