Their label's name is supposed to be a nod to both first-growth wines and to hip-hop, a genre whose musicians refer to their ensembles as crews.
Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said the first minister gave "the nod" for the first Sun on Sunday to name October 18, 2014 date for the independence referendum.
Prior to the nominations it had been suggested that Skyfall might become the first James Bond film to win a best picture nod.
Doak Barnett was an American who seemed to have a touch of Scottish stubbornness: his unusual middle name, which he used as his first name, was a nod to his Scottish ancestry.
The concept can be traced to Japanese capsule hotels, first developed around 1980, and appeal to travellers looking to nod off or work in private without having to pay for a traditional hotel room or leave the airport.
In a nod to the game's popularity in South Korea, Blizzard first announced plans for StarCraft II at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Seoul in May 2007.
In the first Gulf war, the U.S. was able to win the UN's nod.
In a nod towards old Labour, the first thing New Labour did in power was to abolish the Tories' assisted-places scheme, which enabled brighter pupils from poorer backgrounds to take up state-funded places at the top public schools.
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Balkhy's first design was a bag called "Daddy I want a Birkin, " an ironic nod to Saudi's love of shopping for luxury goods, such as the expensive Hermes Birkin bag.
Jones got above Foster to nod home Andy Reid's cross, but as Sunderland looked to gain their first Old Trafford win since 1968, former United winger Kieran Richardson was then sent off.
On his first album, his first original song is Song to Woody, which is built on the melody of a Woody Guthrie song, so the nod there is apparent.
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