Hirst

/ hɜːst /

noun

1. Damien. born 1965, British artist, noted esp for his works featuring dead animals preserved in tanks of formaldehyde, and for his 2007 sculpture, For the Love of God , a human skull encrusted with flawless diamonds

Example Sentences

Ipswich missed the chance to take the lead when George Hirst's penalty was saved by Sol Brynn and the home team took the lead deep into first-half stoppage time when Cedric Kipre scored an own goal.

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They had a chance to take the lead when Callum Brittain's shirt-tug on Leif Davis won the visitors a 42nd-minute penalty but Brynn dived to his right to tip Hirst's spot-kick around the post.

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In response, according to Stephen Hirst’s 2006 book, “I Am the Grand Canyon,” the Havasupai wrote a letter to the Sierra Club in 1973: “ ‘Public ownership’ of land does not place the power of decision in the hands of some theoretical ‘people’; ‘public ownership’ means in practice control by bureaucracy under the heavy influence of whatever federal administration happens to be in office.”

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It centred around the case of John Hirst, a man convicted of manslaughter, who argued the UK's blanket ban on prisoners voting in any circumstances was a breach of human rights.

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Disputes between UK courts and Strasbourg can be worked through too - what happened following the John Hirst case is testament to this.

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