Sentence examples for johnston from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A Scottish habitational surname from a place in Dumfriesshire, meaning "John's town".
Johnston, who saw the crash site from outside the police cordon soon after first light on Saturday, explained: "I have heard one of the main suspicions was that the main transmission gearbox might have shattered.
Johnston is at least profitable, earning £30.8m operating profit before exceptionals, but the company is desperate to pay down its £330m debt load by £40m a year.
Johnston continued: "Gearboxes are probably the most key part of the helicopter because that is where the engine power gets transferred up to the rotors, so that's what would be driving the rotors around".
Cult musicians such as Sidebottom, Beefheart and Johnston are guarded by their fans like endangered species in a nature reserve.
Although a reversal of fortunes could occur, not least because Johnston Press's newspaper portfolio remains profitable, it is going to take some time to restore the City's confidence.
Johnston is the fourth largest regional newspaper publisher by circulation with some 200 titles, including The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post.
Sue Johnston, the acclaimed actor who formerly starred in the Liverpool soap opera Brookside, a long-term supporter of the Hillsborough families, read lyrics from the Beatles song In My Life to a rapt reception.
"The commission took a political decision disguised as a legal one," Mark Johnston, a senior adviser to the European Policy Centre, told the Guardian.
An aviation consultant, Struan Johnston, of Caledonian Aviation, told the Guardian that Russell's testimony was consistent with the helicopter's gearbox transmission system breaking up.
There is also Ian Johnston and Gary Gardiner's touching Dancer (Sat & Sun), a piece that makes everyone want to tap their feet.
