How To Use Chequer In A Sentence
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer appears to have carried the Cabinet in his opposition to such a step.
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He perceived they were entering the great theatre of his first appearance, the great theatre he had last seen as a chequer-work of glare and blackness in his flight from the red police.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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His personal life has been chequered.
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If this were not so, everything would look flat, and then one could distinguish nothing save only a chequerwork of colours.
Albert Durer
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He has on the back of his stone a shield with nine rows of chequers; over the top of the shield is a mascle between two keys fesswise, bits inwards and downwards.
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In short, this Budget, which did not correspond with the magniloquent speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, could not stand.
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Baroness Thatcher survived by taking 20-minute catnaps - a 'zizz', she called it - in the day and catching up on sleep at weekends at Chequers.
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Moreover the chancellor of the exchequer saw before him an inevitable addition of ten millions of pounds sterling to his budget, the only avowable reason for which was the rectification of the Canadian frontier.
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer will take the floor for his Budget speech at 3.00 p.m.
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My chequer tolled me sew. posted by Heo at 6:27 AM
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In recent years, a substantial proportion of grants have remained unspent and recouped by the Exchequer.
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His club said that it would take disciplinary action against the player, who already has a chequered record.
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That, we respectfully submit, relates directly to a depredation upon the exchequer of the Commonwealth.
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The civilian employer with a member of the royal family on its payroll has a chequered safety record.
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Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer.
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Indeed, its early post-war history was chequered.
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For surely to eat and drink one's fill from day to day and give oneself no grief at all, this is the king of gods for your wise man, but lawgivers go hang, chequering, as they do, the life of man!
The Cyclops
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The current situation deprives the exchequer of income and gives overseas companies a trading advantage over UK firms that pay their taxes in full.
Times, Sunday Times
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This comfort surely is owing to me; for if life is no worse than chequer-work, I must now have a little white to come, having seen nothing but black, all unchequered dismal black, for a great, great while.
Clarissa Harlowe
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As he went into hiding last night details of his chequered past emerged.
The Sun
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Indeed he will be first up against the wall next time he comes to Buckinghamshire and finds the barricades up round chequers.
Correcting Adam Boulton
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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Nor was "chequered" confined to square divisions, as it usually is now, but included spots of any size or shape.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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And perhaps it may be remarked here, since we commonly say of a man in difficulties that he is "exchequered" or in "chancery," that so we probably intend to express the same, when we say a man is _hanapered_, or _hampered_.
Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
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His involvement in rescuing struggling lenders comes in spite of his chequered record during the credit crunch.
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Ricardo reasoned that if ‘Government delayed receiving the tax for one year… it would, perhaps, be obliged to issue an Exchequer bill bearing interest, and it would pay as much for interest as the consumer would save in price.’
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Lucien was living from hand to mouth, spending his money as fast as he made it, like many another journalist; nor did he give so much as a thought to those periodically recurrent days of reckoning which chequer the life of the bohemian in Paris so sadly.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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After half an hour of the heaviest cannonade ever known, Wellington's faithful troops were threatened by an avalanche of cavalry, and promptly fell into the "chequer" disposition previously arranged for the most exposed division, that of Alten.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
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The young prince showed, among other virtues, a disposition to frugality, which, had he lived, would soon have retrieved these losses; but as his health was declining very fast, the present emptiness of the exchequer was a sensible obstacle to the execution of those projects which the ambition of Northumberland had founded on the prospect of
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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Even at this distance the flopping flatness of his cap, the bright brown leather at the top of his calves, and the chequering of his stockings were perceptible.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
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The 'stupa' being constructed near Noida flyway with a crowd of statues will cost the exchequer Rs 203 crore and there was a budgetary allocation of Rs 294 crore for other parks and statues, the Mayawati government has reportedly told the Supreme Court on 21st August 2009.
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Here we marvelled at more of the chequered history of our host country involving the Byzantines, the Romans, and the Ottomans as well as the Bulgarians.
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The teams face hefty repair bills by the time the chequered flag flies.
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The party was effectively using the national exchequer for its own political purposes.
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The Teller of the Exchequer acted as the state cashier.
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Graham McLaren has edited the play into a 105-minute chamber drama, played out on a murky stage chequered with shafts of pale light.
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As a hotel, though, it has a chequered history.
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Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation.
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The exact origins of the use of the chequered flag to end races are lost in history.
Times, Sunday Times
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Across Stirling you can see a chequerboard of more-or-less regular fields on the low ground, a landscape that is a recent creation.
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To me, that's a chequered cloth spread on a grassy meadow, carefully arranged to avoid the cowpats and covered with fly-ridden curled-up sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer.
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And as the human life is properly said to be chequerwork, no doubt but a person of her prudence will make the best of it, and set off so much good against so much bad, in order to strike as just a balance as possible.
Clarissa Harlowe
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They were huge and brittle-looking, creating a chequerboard effect against the endless white of the sand.
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By 2005 the ensuing renewed prosperity could be apparent, with more cash coming into the exchequer to spend.
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He who doubts the influence of the individual upon the fate of a country and upon his times through long passages of history may explain the difference between France of 1609, with a martial king aided by great statesmen at its head, with an exchequer overflowing with revenue hoarded for a great cause -- and that cause an attempt at least to pacificate
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Summer: in the south west of France for the May half term; at the uplifting madness that was the Secret Garden Festival please note my boyfriend's chequer board haircut which seemed like an inspired idea after a few cocktails; driving up the M11 and being dazzled by the fields of rapeseed coming into bloom; in Cumbria for our summer holidays, bird spotting with the binoculars.
Where I was 2008
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This seems to have been because the bark of the tree consists of square patches like a chequers board.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to announce tax cuts in this year's budget.
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Alan had led a very chequered past and had been to prison lots of times.
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And it would be nice to spend my hard-earned cash on a company that actually pays taxes into the British exchequer.
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Umunna argued that the sum paid directly in corporation tax to the exchequer is the best reflection of a bank's contribution to the country.
The Guardian World News
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the minister in charge of finance in Britain.
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In the first place, he is superannuated in his spiritual functions, and, being so, has to do something less harassing and laborious than spiritualizing Ethiopians to supply the domestic exchequer; anglice, to find beef and potatoes for a beloved wife and four little boys.
Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery
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The modern game dates from the 15th century, when the board of squares became chequered and the pieces gained their present form.
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He quickly baulked at the cost to the exchequer.
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From 1780 to 1834 he held the lucrative sinecure of teller of the Exchequer.
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A bottle of Jacob's Creek wine costs €8.95 in Bray, Co Wicklow, and €7.90 in Belfast, a difference of €1.05, with €3.60 going to the Irish Exchequer and €2.94 going to the British Exchequer.
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The conspirators were supported by the French, and even though the raid on the Exchequer failed, considerable quantities of forged coinage were smuggled into England and put into circulation to disrupt the financial system.
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This contrasts so markedly with the niggardly travel concessions in this city and the miserable potential offer for the possible future by the miserly Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the minister in charge of finance in Britain.
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Side steps and bars can be made from chromium-plated stainless steel, aluminum chequer plates, or rubber, and they can be purchased from online as well as offline sources.
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The Two Pearls of Wisdom – Alison Goodman: My diary says It was sort of like… Prince and the Pauper meets chinese chequers meets The Grinch who stole Christmas.
October Short Book Reviews
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For, it was not the monotonous days unchequered by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high, or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that had wrung such tears from Nell.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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People who are resident in Britain and domiciled here pay tax to the British exchequer on their worldwide income and gains.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chancellor of the exchequer calls the prime minister a liar.
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The Exchequer already takes 32 per tonne of landfill waste.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a bid to raise revenue for the exchequer, from the sale of State owned properties the Government has initiated studies to identify potential saleable assets around the country.
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The civilian employer with a member of the royal family on its payroll has a chequered safety record.
Times, Sunday Times
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In response the government need only point to the huge gain that has accrued to the exchequer from lowering corporation and capital taxes.
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Fresh and fizzing with a dehumanised, holographic energy, eclectic collaborations chequer the album.
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Additional rewards followed, including the renewal of his exchequer auditorship
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Over the chancel arch is a fresco chequer pattern, probably C12.
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However, the Government remains unaware of the cost to the exchequer of an additional 33 tax schemes.
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As we have explained more fully in a previous book*, we inherit this system of historical pigeonholes from Christendom; that arbitrary chequerwork of hundred-year blocks was imposed upon the entire Mediterranean and Atlantic literatures for two thousand years, and it still distorts the views of history of all but the alertest minds.
The Shape of Things to Come
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This is both a reflection of the importance attached to marketing as a driver of growth and a strong endorsement of the performance of the two agencies in delivering value for this Exchequer investment.
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It was smooth and there were blue lines all over it, set into a chequered pattern.
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This is also another name for the tree, and comes from the way in which its bark flakes off, leaving a chequered pattern on the trunk.
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The pavement, which is level with the ground, is composed of slabs of fine and various coloured marbles, mostly, however, white, disposed chequerwise.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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On the other side lies the lake, which presents to the eye but a smooth sheet of water, on which there is neither wave nor ripple, and unchequered by a single island.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
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It has beautiful drooping bells, with a chequered pattern of purples and pinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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But," in the words of De Quincey, "no man can be truly _great_, without at least chequering his life with solitude.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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I have, as a great modern said, seen too many ghosts to believe in them, so betook myself seriously to my repose, lulled by the wind rustling among the lime-trees, the branches of which chequered the moonlight which fell on the floor through the diamonded casement, when, behold, a darker shadow interposed itself, and I beheld visibly on the floor of the apartment —
The Fortunes of Nigel
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At this moment the daylight, that was stintingly diffused through the small, heavily-leaded window-panes, tinted the assembly with capricious tones and powerful contrasts from the chequered light and shade.
The Exiles
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The argument most often put forward against tax relief for childcare is that it would be extremely costly to the Exchequer.
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The last emotion of her soul here was joy to be henceforth unchequered and eternal.
The History of Pendennis
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Not hard to find, he is called Tony Blair and is currently enjoying a weekend at our expense at chequers
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Unsurprising, you might argue, given the chequered history of pop singers in the theatre.
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The painting's history has been chequered. There are nearly a hundred well-documented copies and versions of the work.
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In Britain the Chancellor of the Exchequer deals with taxes and government spending.
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In March 1990 she called a gaggle of historians to Chequers to discuss the German character, or rather the likely ambitions and governing style of a united nation.
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The term stagflation is generally attributed to United Kingdom Chancellor of the Exchequer, Iain MacLeod in a speech to parliament in 1965.www. carlostmock.com
The Sad State of Our Republic
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The worry now is that a bursting property bubble might do damage to China's lenders, ruin local exchequers and cast a pall over its economy—and the countries which sell to it.
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Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its tiled walls, brass fittings and chequered floor give it period charm.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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The current situation deprives the exchequer of income and gives overseas companies a trading advantage over UK firms that pay their taxes in full.
Times, Sunday Times
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Independent financial advisers have their own chequered past but they would be a safer option.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the world of the chequered whiptail lizard, there is no room for male chauvinism.
Times, Sunday Times
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A master stroke-it will solve the pension problems, boost the economy and the exchequer in one fell blow.
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We had a very chequered family life.
Times, Sunday Times
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My mental ruminations, notwithstanding my assumed confidence, were not always of an unchequered nature.
Rob Roy
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It has led a chequered life, but is now restored to its full Palladian glory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Foot-and-mouth cost the Exchequer £229,299 up to April 20.
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At chequers (draughts), computers have a program that cannot lose, and, at best, can be tied.
Times, Sunday Times
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The modern game dates from the 15th century, when the board of squares became chequered and the pieces gained their present form.
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People who are resident in Britain and domiciled here pay tax to the British exchequer on their worldwide income and gains.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to announce tax cuts in this year's budget.
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The Exchequer will not be the only beneficiaries.
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It is an art form with a chequered history that arouses strong emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's a chequered cloth spread on a grassy meadow, carefully arranged to avoid the cowpats.
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The Heath commonage has had a chequered legal history with local animal owners obtaining grazing rights to the lands owned by the State.
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The corporation has had a chequered history since then.
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As Prime Minister he accepted the resignation of his Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958 rather than agree to modest public expenditure cuts.
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Having used the sprawling downs for a variety of purposes including grazing their buffaloes over the years, some of the Toda youth are now in the process of adding a new chapter to their chequered history.
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Soames had been her mainstay throughout thirty-four years chequered by Montague Dartie, had continued her mainstay in the thirteen unchequered years since.
Swan Song
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The money for the two aircraft will come from central exchequer funds.
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The Chancellor of Exchequer will present his budget to Parliament tomorrow.
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The king possessed the chancery, and then the exchequer too: they were becoming busier and busier.
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Schumacher took the chequered flag to win his fourth Grand Prix of the season.
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Boig the skipper, is in the harbor and Grief learns from his trader Ieremia of a banknote reading "The First Royal Bank of Fitu-Iva will pay to bearer on demand one pound sterling," the note signed "Chancellor of the Exchequer" Fulualea — a Fijian name meaning "feathers of the sun.
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
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Should a Chancellor of the Exchequer always be candid about economic prospects?
Times, Sunday Times
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The painting's history has been chequered. There are nearly a hundred well-documented copies and versions of the work.
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There will be no further exchequer funding, and the agency is now depending on rental income.
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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As Lord Grenville's office of auditor of the exchequer was thought incompatible with that of first lord of the treasury, and as his lordship was unwilling to resign that lucrative office, a bill was subsequently brought into parliament empowering him to name a responsible trustee for holding auditorship so long as he should continue premier.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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Next to taxes, what they seem to abhor the most is a spell chequer.
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His picture of rural life is more mellow than melodramatic; and his tale reaches a happy end, unchequered by anything more sensational than a mild outbreak of scandal from the local wag-tongues.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917
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The Exchequer already takes 32 per tonne of landfill waste.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looks European with its patterned chequered floor tiles and light coloured natural wood tables and chairs, with brightly coloured place mats.
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But there are some superstitious folks who might be put off buying a dream home because it has a chequered past.
The Sun
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In terms of the long and chequered history of policing in the North, the extension of his term by the Policing Board is of little consequence.
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It was relentlessly pro-royal with all critical faculties repressed, despite the rather chequered history of the two main protagonists.
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There were ironic cheers when the chequered flag was waved without a single car on the track.
The Sun
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It was a beautiful room, with its chequerboard tiled floor and delicately stencilled creamy walls.
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This resulted in a considerable loss to the exchequer.
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It has a gorgeous marble chequerboard floor, varnished walls which ape the patina of age, weathered-looking mirrors, soft but stylish chrome lighting, candles, flowers and retro jazz playing in the background.
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Other countries have auctioned the radio spectrum and vast inflows have accrued to national exchequers.
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This resulted in a considerable loss to the exchequer.
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However, this increase must be placed in the context of a steep rise in the cost to the Exchequer of disease eradication measures in recent years.
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If the prediction is correct, then Britain will undershoot the 2% to 2.5% growth predicted by Chancellor of the Exchequer in April.
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This monument, called domesday-book, the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by any nation, is still preserved in the exchequer; and though only some extracts of it have hitherto been published, it serves to illustrate to us, in many particulars, the ancient state of
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
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In a few days the vessel went down the Thames from Deptford, and Ledyard thought it the happiest moment of his life; but such is the uncertainty of human expectations, while he was indulging in day-dreams of the fame and honour which awaited him, he was once more doomed to suffer the agonies of a disappointment to his hopes, the more severe, as being so near their consummation -- the vessel was seized by a custom-house officer, brought back, and exchequered.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828
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The modern game dates from the 15th century, when the board of squares became chequered and the pieces gained their present form.
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This is a New York institution, complete with supercilious staff, wobbly tables covered with red and white chequered tablecloths and walls lined with faded photos of prize fighters.
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Well, whatever anyone says I am going to miss the comprehensive spending review because, in the end, it turned out to be so fun, going round the big table at Chequers with everyone shouting out ideas for the last billion of cuts, absolutely hilarious, and anyone who hesitated or mentioned bankers had to do a forfeit, which is why poor Cleggsy had to stay and clean the swimming pool.
The Guardian World News
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And as costs mount up and up, seemingly to be fixed on the public exchequer, there is no hint of concern from the government.
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I took the drinks to the table, laid them down on the chequered surface with a forced smile, and returned to my stool.
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The British exchequer raised stg £22 billion from the sale of third generation licences to several phone companies.
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The former chancellor of the exchequer looms into the room, clutching his camera.
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Now with the chequered flag in sight they have put the foot on the pedal.
The Sun
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Across Stirling you can see a chequerboard of more-or-less regular fields on the low ground, a landscape that is a recent creation.
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The first was the Court of Exchequer, which emerged from the tax department of the Curia as the arena for the settlement of revenue disputes although this jurisdiction was widened by various methods.
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Counterfeiting and piracy cheats consumers, retailers, manufacturers and the Exchequer, and often funds criminal activity.
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Others still have the mottled brown back of their summer plumage, while the juvenile birds are a chequered grey above.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alternate diagonals have been indented by a punch to make the classic chequerboard pattern.
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I doubt Brown could have done much better with financial crisis (what he did during his decade-long tenure as chancellor of the exchequer is another question); economists, such as
FP Passport
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These were laid in rows upon the "chequered" cloth which covered the table.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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In 1641, Anne's Royalist father, Edward, became an unofficial advisor to King Charles I and, by the time of the Civil War, he had joined the King's Council as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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The order was given from a 'side room at chequers'.
Belgrano Captain: We Did Pose a Threat to Task Force
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It is an art form with a chequered history that arouses strong emotions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pardew said: I have had a kind of chequered career with that club.
Evening Standard - Home
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The translucent and shining waters of the calm sea covered fragments of old Roman villas, which were interlaced by sea-weed, and received diamond tints from the chequering of the sun-beams; the blue and pellucid element was such as Galatea might have skimmed in her car of mother of pearl; or Cleopatra, more fitly than the
The Last Man
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The position differs where the security given by the debtor comprises marketable (viz. negotiable) securities, such as bearer bonds, share warrants, scrip, or exchequer bills.
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The closing passage of one of them has always seemed to me to be a masterpiece of grim brutality: "Oliver's nob was exchequered, and he fell by heavy right - handed blows on his ears and temple.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
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The circuit returns were then sent to the Exchequer in Winchester where they were summarized, edited and compiled into Great Domesday Book.
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I shall ensure, however, that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer is made aware of his comments.
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He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
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I have learned that the governors, your predecessors, have often interfered in the affairs pertaining to the administration of my exchequer, which is entrusted to its officials; and that, contrary to the orders given them, they have not allowed the said officials suitable freedom in the exercise of their offices.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 11 of 55 1599-1602 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
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As for that chequered past, which had been so much a part of his baggage, he appears to have packed up and moved on.
Times, Sunday Times
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It claims that it would attract top international and US acts to Ireland for concerts, further decreasing the exchequer's financial exposure.
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He didn't elaborate, but his remarks may be interpreted as tacit support for Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's backing of a plan to ring-fence banks' retail operations from riskier investment banking activities.
BOE's King Sees Banks Key to Recovery
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He had found it hard to abandon his own chequerboard image of the human game in favour of the grey mists of multiple motivation.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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For all that, it was a dismal phase in the chequered history of postwar Britain.
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Every year, the exchequer loses this amount to the adulterated petro trade which sells spurious petrol and diesel.
Outlook India
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is expected to announce tax cuts in this year's budget.
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It has already been noticed that his Lordship held the lucrative office of Teller of the Exchequer for sixty years.
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He begins to question not only her eligibility for the award but his own chequered war career.
Times, Sunday Times
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She took no notice of the evening sun chequering the turf, nor was she sensible of the pure incense exhaling at this hour from tree and plant; she only heard the wicket opening at one end, and knew Robert was approaching.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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A leading adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was due in Bradford today to talk to trade unionists.
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With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation.
The Last Man
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A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.
Barnaby Rudge
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His personal life has been chequered.
Times, Sunday Times
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His first impression was of greyness: the capital was fighting to live down a sad and chequered inheritance.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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We had a very chequered family life.
Times, Sunday Times
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AH! what in this lower sphere can be unchequered, when even a correspondence with the most lovely of her sex, brings alarm with its felicity?
Camilla
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Its tiled walls, brass fittings and chequered floor give it period charm.
Times, Sunday Times
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The exact origins of the use of the chequered flag to end races are lost in history.
Times, Sunday Times
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Be all steal exchequer or steal civilian curtilage?
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And it would be nice to spend my hard-earned cash on a company that actually pays taxes into the British exchequer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arthur Balfour unexpectedly rewarded him by appointing him Chancellor of the Exchequer, a higher office than he had ever received under the Liberals or the Lloyd George coalition.
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What you might call a chequered career," he commented.
Rat Race
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer says that economic recovery is just around the corner.
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As for that chequered past, which had been so much a part of his baggage, he appears to have packed up and moved on.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it came to the chequered flag, the blond bombshell tagged with the pop star's name because of his good looks exploded with relief.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are back rather in the chequered circumstances of the seventies, in which there was no clear pattern of domestic political alignments in the group.
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The maintenance of the royal guard and of the vast national police of the hermandad, the incessant military operations of the late campaign, together with the equipment of a navy, not merely for war, but for maritime discovery, were so many copious drains of the exchequer.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
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The thread that couches down the braid may be quite invisible, or, on the other hand, it may be made use of to further decorate the braid by being placed visibly across it, perhaps forming a chequering or other simple pattern, as shown in fig. 91.
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
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Mr Ahern said the end-of-year returns which showed an Exchequer surplus had confounded economists who predicted sizeable deficits.
