Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word SCOBIE
SCOBIE
Definitions of SCOBIE
- A Scottish Gaelic surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using SCOBIE in a Sentence
- Scobie is passed over for promotion to commissioner, which upsets Louise both for her personal ambition and her hope that the local British community will begin to accept her.
- He tried to normalise the highly polarised situation between the EAM and non-EAM forces, collaborating mainly with Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Scobie, who was, after the Caserta agreement, responsible for all the Allied forces.
- The mention of "kings of Tyrus" suggests to Scobie and Ricks that the Book of Ezekiel is alluded to.
- The force commander, Lt-Gen Ronald Scobie, urgently requested reinforcements, including 35 additional Shermans to re-equip 46th RTR as a complete armoured regiment.
- Thus, despite the order of Scobie, but also of the commander of ELAS, Stefanos Sarafis, to keep the guerrilla forces on the outskirts of the city and wait for the landing of the British, the leaders of the DGM, Markos Vafiadis and Evripizidis ignored the agreement.
- These dinners have been emceed by Toddish McWong, and have featured vivid Seattle talent from the local Chinese and Scottish communities including in 2008: author Lensey Namioka, North West Junior Pipe Band, David Leong’s Martial Arts & Lion Dance School, Washington Chinese Youth Orchestra, Red McWilliams "America's Celt", Susan Burk teamed Cape Breton fiddling with Highland bagpiper Don Scobie, and percussionist Ben Rudd.
- Nevertheless, many colourful characters abound: the narrator's mistress, the tubercular Greek dancer Melissa; the French consular official Georges Pombal, with whom the narrator shares lodgings; the idealised-but-feared Doppelgänger novelist Pursewarden; the Greek broker Capodistria; and the cross-dressing bimbashi Scobie.
- In 1968, with much political clout Loblack, along with Edward Scobie, Anthony Moise, Mary Eugenia Charles, and several others founded the Dominica Freedom Party, and were known as Freedomites.
- Price booked the British-based Australian rider Scobie Breasley to ride the American challenger, a move that attracted the approval of experts including Eddie Arcaro who stated that an American jockey would be "buried riding low on that Longchamp track".
- Fullback Alf Dancey, Wingers Philip Carver, Dean Whitehead, Centres Laurie Foley (Captain) and Colin Wright Five Eight Les Jackson, Half Back Neil John Nisbet, Lock Neil Scobie, Second row Michael Johnston and Michael Fitzpatrick, Props Billy Curtis Allen (Nugget) Schiller, Hooker Danny Byrnes.
- To avoid touching the vault's alarmed floor, they shoot a cable into the opposite wall and use it like a Tyrolean traverse, Straker holding the line taut while Scobie, suspended from a harness, loads the gold into a sack.
- Meghan and Harry's former communications secretary Jason Knauf—who had previously denied co-authoring the letter with Meghan—gave a statement to the court of appeal, mentioning that Meghan gave him briefing points to share with Finding Freedoms authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand and that Prince Harry welcomed the suggestion that they should conceal their involvement, while they both discussed the book "on a routine basis".
- TWO WORLDS COLLIDE: Cultural Convergence in Aboriginal and White Australia Art was presented at Artspace in 1985, curated by Tim Johnson and with works by David Apden, Richard Goodwin, Tim Johnson, Banduk Marika, Charlie Marshall, Peter Myers, Daisy Leura Nakamarra, Entalura Nangala, Trevor Nickolls, Andrew Saunders, Narpula Scobie Napurrula, Terry Shewring, Jim Simon, Brendon Stewart, Imants Tillers, Mick Numeri Tjapaltjari, Turkey Tolson Tjupurulla, Cathleen Whiskey, William Sandy, and Maxie Tjampitjinpa.
- 140–158 in The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women, Sara Alpern, Joyce Antler, Elizabeth Perry Israels, and Ingrid Winther Scobie, eds.
- In 1981, Scobie co-founded, with Erik Gustavson, in Oslo, the film company Fri Media Gruppe (Free Media Group), which produced a long series of shorts and commercial films.
- According to historian Donny Gluckstein, Scobie sought to delay the German withdrawal in order to prevent ELAS from establishing control of the country.
- In particular, the opening scene where Scobie Malone arrests Jacko (Charles Tingwell) is Rod's work.
- In Balthazar (1958), the second novel in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Scobie, a gay Binbashi, tells the protagonist Darley that when he cross-dresses he wears a Dolly Varden hat.
- Among his fellow students there included Ronald Scobie, Philip Whitcombe, Francis Tuker, Roland Le Fanu, Frank Messervy, William Morgan, Raymond Briggs, Gordon Grimsdale, Ralph Deedes, Alan Pigott, John Swayne, Brocas Burrows, Douglas McConnel, Leonard Hawes, Eric Harrison, William Oxley and Langley Browning, all of whom would become general officers.
- He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1925 to 1926, where his fellow students included Ronald Scobie, Frank Messervy, Raymond Briggs, Eric Harrison, Henry Willcox, Francis Tuker, John Swayne and Ralph Deedes.
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