Quotes about britain
britain dependent depends major raising success
Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
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I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States. Sebastian Faulks
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. P. J. O'Rourke
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Which means that waiting lists will get longer in the public system, and this is not just hypothetical. The idea was tried by Margaret Thatcher in Britain back in the '80s and early '90s. It was a disaster.
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We'll wait for Britain to put their new proposals on the table before answering. But I think it's a sign of goodwill in the negotiations. It's also proof that the talks have not broken down.
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Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits. Robert Kiyosaki
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We are delighted to be named as the Preferred Supplier of Ferry Services to The Ryder Cup 2006 which promises to be one of the greatest sporting occasions that Ireland has ever witnessed. Out extensive route network and choice of craft between Britain and Ireland has helped us secure this prestigious contract. Michael McGrath
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We hope that we shall be able to prepare the meeting of the leaders better than Britain in 2005.
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The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world. David Miliband
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Bridget: Daniel, what you just did is actually illegal in several countries. Daniel Cleaver: That is one of the reasons that I'm so happy to be living in Britain today.
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Our deal puts Scotland and therefore Britain at the heart of the global microelectronics industry. David Brown
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People feel they know me because of my Little Britain characters - But I'm not a Little Britain character. No one knows what I'm really like. David Walliams
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People had already settled the islands in the Mediterranean and around Great Britain long before the first pharaoh built the pyramids in Egypt. Thor Heyerdahl
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The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied. Martin Jacques
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The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry. Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history. Rabih Alameddine
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(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.
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Royal watchers in Britain are set on scandal.
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Sadly, since last year's first memorial service, 14 police officers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland have lost their lives serving the public good, Jan Berry
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. Noam Chomsky
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Personally, I deplore the fact that Britain refused to pay a fair and reasonable share of the cost of enlargement. Jacques Chirac
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This indicates continued economic growth for the city of New Britain and proves that we are on the right track in expanding our tax base. Our efforts to encourage new businesses to move to our city and existing businesses to expand are paying off.
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It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done. Romola Garai
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And one of the challenges, of course, is to convince people that Muslims would like to be free, that there's other people other than people in Britain and America that would like to be free in the world. George W. Bush
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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set. Jerry Weintraub
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Britain is currently number six in the league of outbound visitor's destination.
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Britain is a state of mind. Well, at least in Idaho.
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Britain is an important market, and One2One is one of the opportunities there.
britain cannot change cooperation depend european politics power security wealth
Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it. Charles Kennedy
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Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget. Robert Kagan
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Britain has made clear repeatedly to Chinese leaders that it would be wrong and damaging to scrap this council and replace it, Chris Patten
britain champions harm learned local selling
Britain has learned that there is no harm is selling your local champions to foreigners.
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Britain has come on tenfold, but to be selfish about it we're all Scottish at the moment. It's about us. We'll go back to the British thing in a bit, but for the moment we've got to take all the praise and all the success for Scotland until we go back to competing for Britain because we don't get to compete for Scotland very often. We want to make the most of it, so I'm not having any of the limelight taken away by Britain at the moment, to be honest.