Sentence examples for kirk from inspiring English sources

FOR people whose knowledge of Scottish religion is based on half-remembered history lessons, the "high kirk" of Scottish Presbyterianism, Saint Giles's Cathedral in Edinburgh, seems like an improbable place for an act of reconciliation.

For one thing, the church has been struggling to manage some bitter divisions in its own ranks, both over independence and broader ethical issues.While the kirk as an institution adopted a neutral stance on independence, there were some passionately pro-separation voices within the church, and (rather more quietly) some strongly pro-Union sentiment.

There is no scope for plots in which two copies of Kirk roam the universe until they meet in a dreadful epiphany: in quantum teleportation, the original copy of Kirk is destroyed by the very process of being entangled with the transporter.

There's an episode called Kobayashi Maru where the young Kirk and Spock are the only Star Fleet cadets to get out safely [from a training exercise].

The season comes down to one simple question: who killed 15-year-old Carly Kirk and why?

Was it DCC Mike Dryden, a man described by a disgusted Fleming "as an old perv", who was photographed having sexual relations with Kirk?

Nominees for most promising newcomer in a British film are Justin Kerrigan, writer and director of Human Traffic, Ayub Khan Bin, writer of East is East, Kirk Jones, writer and director of Waking Ned, and Lynne Ramsay, writer and director of Ratcatcher.

I wrote a book about it, My Year Off, and ever since have been invited to counsel some well-known stroke sufferers, from the avant-garde theatre director Max Stafford-Clark, to the Tory grandee Douglas Hurd, and the film star Kirk Douglas.

Then an infirm Kirk Gibson hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run against lock-down closer Dennis Eckersley in Game 1, and Tommy Lasorda's underdogs took the series in five games.

Reading's soft underbelly had been exposed and Kirk Broadfoot almost headed a third from a Ben Pringle free-kick.

This was in September, a Champions League night against Rangers, a seemingly innocuous challenge from Kirk Broadfoot and then those ghastly moments when Valencia's team-mates went over to see their stricken colleague then, one by one, turned away, covering their faces, and it became apparent to everyone inside the stadium this was an injury that could break a footballer's career.