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  • proper noun A male given name, anglicized from Alasdair, the Scottish Gaelic form of Alexander.

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Examples

  • Iain this surely must mean that Allistair himself posts here?

    Alastair Campbell is a Liar, Says Howard 2007

  • A lovely piece of work by the Walking with Dinosaurs model makers Crawley Creatures, it was designed to solicit - successfuly, as it happens - a Waterstone's distribution deal for Unearthly History, a self-published fantasy thriller by Oxford author Allistair Mitchell.

    Archive 2004-03-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • A lovely piece of work by the Walking with Dinosaurs model makers Crawley Creatures, it was designed to solicit - successfuly, as it happens - a Waterstone's distribution deal for Unearthly History, a self-published fantasy thriller by Oxford author Allistair Mitchell.

    Baby dragon explained Ray Girvan 2004

  • Allistair 2-2; COOK, Charlie 1-1; MEZZO, Ross 1-0; KRAUSE, Greg 1-1; COGELL,

    Arena Football League II - Rochester vs. Mohegan 2003

  • : 35 MHG - SEBASTIEN, Allistair 48 yd interception return (HEYL, Geoff kick failed),, ROC 0 - MHG 19 04

    Arena Football League II - Rochester vs. Mohegan 2003

  • Another protester, Allistair du Plessis, said most of the people who did not get their grants were crippled or paralysed, or both.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Three men convicted of murdering Allistair and Glen Weakley during violence which errupted after the 1993 assassination of SA

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The delay was due to him still being extremely busy with the investigation into another case - that of the April 1993 murder of the Weakley brothers, Glenn and Allistair, on the Transkei coast, and which was "dragging on" - Nel said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • In a statement from Kimberley, regional co-ordinator Allistair

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The trial is a sequel to the killing of Glen Weakly, 48, and his attorney brother Allistair, 43, who were fatally wounded in an ambush near Sinangwana near Port St John's in April 1993.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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