How To Use Western isles In A Sentence
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A Western Isles man has been appointed detective inspector for Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland.
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Our ideas about past life on the Western Isles have been coloured by these contemporary experiences.
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To this opinion Dr. Beattie has given his suffrage, in that following elegant passage: -- 'A pibroch is a species of tune, peculiar, I think, to the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland.
The Lady of the Lake
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He was a keen promoter and supporter of the Gaelic language and thoroughly enjoyed visiting the Western Isles to improve his command of the language.
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A spokesman for Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar, the Council for the Western Isles, said the film had been a great boost for the economy.
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There are 17,725 crofts and more than 33,000 people living in crofting households concentrated on the western seaboard of the Highland mainland, the Western Isles, Shetland, Skye and the Inner Hebrides.
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Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident.
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Importantly, the backdrop was the sublime other-worldly, essentially Gaelic landscape of the Western Isles, whose vastness he would later capture not only on canvas but in a series of extraordinary photographs.
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The Western Isles Hospital opened in 1992, is served by 13 consultants and has facilities for general surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and anaesthetics.
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Our ideas about past life on the Western Isles have been coloured by these contemporary experiences.
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The Western Isles Hospital opened in 1992, is served by 13 consultants and has facilities for general surgery, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and anaesthetics.
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Today many Western Isles villages are derelict as a result of war losses, including hamlets where some of my relations who made the supreme sacrifice were reared.
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As already noted, tourism in the Western Isles is hampered by the high cost of transport from the mainland.
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He cross-cuts their story with the tale of ‘boarded-out’ orphans sent to the Western Isles.
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A third of the working population in the Western Isles were employed by the local authority.
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Eventually it fizzled out in most of Europe and the US, but the tradition has been kept alive in the Western Isles, as it has in the rural areas of the Deep South.
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The semi-official status would mean that public authorities in Gaelic-speaking areas, such as the Western Isles, would be expected to be able to provide all their services in Gaelic.
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A team of scientists investigating ruins atop a remote sea stack in the Western Isles this summer have been using a Troylean sling to get to the remains of a medieval castle.
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Two of the Western Isles were so battered by ferocious storms this January that the Atlantic Ocean has encroached more than ever.
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The inhabitants of the Western Isles are still campaigning to have them returned.
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Hedgehog hunters are to be offered an increased bounty of £20 per head to catch the spiky animals in advance of a government-backed cull on the Western Isles.
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By our standards the parts of the Western Isles that we were able to visit are not a particularly depressed area.
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Today there are over 100 teleworkers on the Western Isles who ‘can work as many hours as they want’.
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Councillor Currie said the seed of his idea grew out of envy of the grand infrastructure in the Western Isles ‘where they've had causeways and bridges and they are all linked up’.
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Whales are spotted regularly off such places as the Western Isles and southern Ireland, where whale-watching boat charters have found a growing niche.
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In addition, says the Club, nets laid inshore among the Western Isles would, if lost, almost certainly fail to reach the open sea, becoming caught instead within the islands on other reefs, wrecks or rocky shores.
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Ten years ago, officials from the Western Isles Council were sweating, hoping, praying, that the BCCI would somehow be refloated; that they would go back to work on Monday with their finances restored.