The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization. From LearnThat.org. [George Marshall, Source: Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff, US Army, September 1, 1945]
His wife is British. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
TONY BLAIR, British PRIME MINISTER: I give my thanks to you, the British people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2007] Reference
PHILIP REAY-SMITH, British POOL REPORTER (voice-over): This is the British front line. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 31, 2003] Reference
TONY BLAIR, British PRIME MINISTER: The British forces that remain in Iraq will have the following tasks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference
CHRIS VERNON, British ARMY SPOKESMAN: I'm talking particularly about the Basra province and the British area of operations. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 3, 2003] Reference
We are acting the same way as the British did years ago trying to force the world to act and do as they ;British wanted them to do. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
GORDON BROWN, British PRIME MINISTER: I want to announce awarded by Her Majesty the Queen, on behalf of the British people, an honorary knighthood for Sir Edward Kennedy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2009] Reference
GEOFFREY HOON, British DEFENCE SECRETARY: I'm grateful for the condolences you express, and in return I have expressed mine to Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of the British government. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003] Reference
MUDIE'S British BIRDS, or History of the Feathered Tribes of the British. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
While the term British rule is super-loaded, if what he meant was "a united Ireland or nothing" that too didn't come about. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
Note: I do agree that the name British Petroleum is significant. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
So with that lead, they called the British consulate in Chicago. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2006] Reference
One side became known as the British, the other as the French faction. From Wordnik.com. [XII. The beginning of Democratic Rule. 1801-1821.] Reference
British Petroleum (BP) was formerly known as British Anglo-Iranian Oil. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: I Can Demagogue About Iran Because Public Is Ignorant] Reference
If you started this thread and specifically used the phrase British rule, i did not. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference
I've been influenced by all kinds of literature in English-British, American, Irish. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
This was compounded by the emergence of what became known as the British budget problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
Can you call the British prime minister a liar when he is speaking in the House of Commons?. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
In 1769 he brought out a small volume entitled British Essays in favour of the Brave Corsicans. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
An old fault line is set to reopen in British politics: how to finance hard-pressed universities. From Wordnik.com. [University fees are going to rise. They have to be fair to the poor] Reference
Equality and Human Rights Commission highlights discrimination and disadvantage in British society. From Wordnik.com. [Equality report slams divided Britain] Reference
Because there were six characters, three men and three women, it was sometimes described as a British version of. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentleman's Domain] Reference
"Folkish Observer" sounds weird in English, but might be closer - it's the kind of title British Nazis might use. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Seth Aaron designed some ridiculous cartoon face grid sequence that he referred to as a British take on pop punk. From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
• Labour's "contact creator" database is the most effective voter database in British politics, Alexander said. From Wordnik.com. [Labour conference live – Sunday 26 September] Reference
This is a commitment that markets, in setting the cost of long-term British debt, have rightly taken very seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Britain's Economy Will Pull Through] Reference
As they displayed their scorn for what many of them call the British prime minister's tacit support for Israeli actions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009] Reference
In 1782, a Revolutionary War skirmish near the mouth of Taylor's Creek began a short-term British occupation of Beaufort. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference
In 10 years of working in British TV doing fairly controversial programmes, not once has an advertiser told me what to do. From Wordnik.com. [Food personality 2010: Jamie Oliver] Reference
As they displayed their scorn for what many of them called the British prime minister's tacit support for Israeli actions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009] Reference
He said it was hard to tell the Americans and British from the Germans, and they all looked alike: very young and very dead. From Wordnik.com. [Patton: A Genius for War] Reference
The son of Caribbean migrants, Sewell claims that institutionalised racism in British schools is not failing black children. From Wordnik.com. [It's our class, not our colour, that screws us up] Reference
He was a long-term British penetration agent who, for many years, had given the Soviet intelligence service tidbits of information. From Wordnik.com. [Final Resting Place of The Pen] Reference
So is my commitment to the Labour party – the greatest reforming force in British life in the past, and I hope so again in the future. From Wordnik.com. [David Miliband's farewell note] Reference
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