Sentence examples for shire from inspiring English sources
noun
Former administrative area of Britain; a county.
- Yorkshire is the largest shire in England.
Today is Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher's hour in the sun – as shire England chooses new councils, they clamber out of their scholarly cupboard and hold broadcasters' hands, explaining to the nation what to make of a muddling mosaic of local votes, staged in a different places each year.
The local shire council was told of the event less than 90 minutes before it occurred.
"[They]need to tell their shire councils to get their act together and do what forward-thinking authorities are already doing by investing in new technologies like LED lights to save money on electricity bills and keep residents safe".
"Everything here since the intervention and the taking over of the shire, people have just been put away in these communities like here and are virtually being forgotten about," he said.
Oxley shire hall, 10 minutes out of Wangaratta, Victoria, is like many country town halls.
When further Department of Environment 'winners and losers' figures came in showing there would be 7.5m losers or 44% of the population, including significant numbers in low-spending English shire counties, even Ken Baker was prepared to consider alternatives.
"The conditions women are having to survive are so grotesque that they obviously can't bear it any more," the Christmas Island shire president, Gordon Thomson, said.
So they convene meetings in Acme-shire about nurseries, or traffic noise, or policing priorities, because these are things that fall under the heading "policy".
The lowest overnight temperature was –5.6C at Tulloch Bridge (Inverness-shire), on the morning of 1 May.
As I crack my finger joints and prepare for this, the most digital of any election, my advice to politicians is: tweet about the real; tweet about the giant issues; and tweet about what the whole world is talking about, not the party hacks of Acme-shire.
Andy Wightman, a land reform researcher, says that 90% of Inverness-shire is in the hands of 138 owners; 90% of Sutherland is controlled by 58 owners.
