Sentence examples for of a devolved from inspiring English sources

In 1997 the then-Labour government offered Scots a vote on the creation of a devolved Scottish Parliament.

That move may lead to the restoration of a devolved government in Belfast by the end of March.

(In his last complete collection, "Plato's Atlantis," McQueen envisaged the females of a devolved human species slithering chicly back into the sea in scaly iridescent minidresses).

It also confirms that tenancy rights are the right of the UK citizen but moveable at the behest of a devolved government – and perhaps, in time, councils.

After all, 20 years ago I would never have conceived of a devolved Scotland led by an SNP government in Holyrood.

"Someone has to do it and the ideal would be that you chose the discrete broadcaster of a devolved nation at the fulcrum of the issue," Woodward said.

Northern Ireland is remembered – because the advent of a fully devolved Stormont also signalled the end of a long period of routine, deadly violence.

Her apology came as Tony Blair warned Sinn Féin that it would be locked out of a Northern Ireland devolved government unless the IRA gave up crime and violence.

Maureen Brainard-Barnes, whose mother was a motel maid and a casino slot attendant, found herself pregnant at 16; she was a high school dropout and romantic drifter whose dreams of becoming a songwriter devolved into life as an escort.

Meanwhile, many of its current and former members lament that the 120-member institute, a part of New York University, has devolved into a weekly lunch club for a coterie of mostly aging professors, nothing like the hot intellectual forum it once was.

A quixotic exercise in self-branding, during which the then-Labour government thought to unite the country by coming up with what it called a British "statement of values," devolved into near-farce a few years ago when the public greeted it with ridicule rather than enthusiasm.