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Tessa South African. How to say shire in sign language? Shire Chief Executive Flemming Ornskov : We believe the proposed combination of Shire and Baxalta would be strategically and financially attractive for both of our companies, accelerating our respective growth ambitions and creating the leading global biotech company in rare diseases, it is our strong preference to immediately enter into a negotiated transaction to explore the full potential of the proposed combination and finalize the terms of an agreement.
Credit Suisse analysts : With Shire being an Irish tax domiciled company, we are not clear to what extent these rules may be important. Mark Enyedy : We are extremely pleased that Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court's ruling that the patents are valid, which further confirms that Shire has strong patents protecting Vyvanse.
Popularity rank by frequency of use shire Select another language:. Please enter your email address: Subscribe. Discuss these shire definitions with the community: 0 Comments. Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. In Anglo-Saxon times, when the shires were first created, what is now Southampton was known among other names as Hamtun, and the county was named accordingly; occasional attempts since to rebrand the county as Southamptonshire have failed miserably.
There are three other shires where the origin of the first bit of the name is, at least to modern eyes, a bit mysterious. For reasons that seem to have been lost in time, the two words evolved in different directions — the latter into Shropshire, the former into Shrewsbury. So the answer was right in front of me all along. Incidentally, the name evolved in a third direction, too, into Salop — an alternative name for both county and town. Okay, 23 down, 16 to go.
This is easy. The ancient kingdoms Then there are those whose names relate to which Germanic tribe settled them in about the 6th century, and to its location relative to all the other places those same settlers went.
The easy ones are Essex , Middlesex and Sussex: the eastern, middle and southern areas settled by the Saxons. Middlesex, incidentally, never seems to have been a kingdom in its own right, but was for many years a part of Essex.
The counties as of Image: Wikimedia Commons. Why is there no county of Wessex, you may ask? There was a Kingdom of Wessex, which covered a substantial chunk of south central Britain. Kent , too, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom a Jute one, to be specific , but its name actually goes back even further.
In Australia, the ABS divides each state or territory into statistical areas. At first instance each state is categorised into 2 — the Greater Capital City Statistical Area representing the Capital city and its urban metro and then the Rest of State representing everything else.
I always took that as the first level of geographical division not government division. Although I still get confused as to whether places that are called cities like Bendigo are actual cities. Your email address will not be published. To top. English Examples. Sign up for free and get access to exclusive content:. Free word lists and quizzes from Cambridge. Tools to create your own word lists and quizzes.
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