The difficulty with kirks, however, was that there was almost always someone, apart from unsuccessful candidates for the post of minister, who was unhappy.
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Moreover, thekirksessions which implemented this system in the parishes left excellent records.
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Scots did have a choice of courts to go to (quite apart fromkirksessions).
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In other cases both members of a north/south pair of words belong to general usage but with some semantic distinction:kirk/church, skirl/shrill.
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There thekirk, omnipresent and quasi-omnipotent, ran effective parish schools, inspired an excellent university system and was in fact the depository, and largely the creator, of the national identity.
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Hospitals, schools, post offices and kirks are essential to maintain our communities.
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I need hardly say that except the kirks, and one exception, there was nothing outside the dull monotony of a practically deserted hotel.
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They were frequently located outside churches or kirks for the use of parishioners attending services, etc.
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The kirk's south transept is reserved for royal use.
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All were summoned before thekirksession to give account of their sins.
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There are now more than 100 such ministers and not a single thunderbolt has hit anykirkin those 25 years.
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In this building we have thekirkdownstairs.
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He was both a special constable and an elder of thekirk.
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They might be asked by an elder of thekirkor some other individual.
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At one time, the parish church or thekirksession was responsible for the appointment of the teacher and the control of the school.
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