Shirley Williams
Shirley Williams
Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, PCis a British politician and academic who represents the Liberal Democrats. Originally a Labour Member of Parliamentand Cabinet Minister, she was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Partyin 1981...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 July 1930
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.The reports indicated that the problem is so severe that there had to be demolition of construction in some instances where the cement was used.
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We just take everything one day at a time. We're happy to have them here. A lot of people don't have any family or friends at all.
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We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.
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I was pushing the baccalaureate back in the days when I was education secretary. It always takes everybody forever in education. We were saying that A-levels were too narrow back then as well.
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It feels like you've lost someone in your family real close to you, and they're never coming back.
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There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
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The government's response that it cannot control electricity and fuel prices as the Jamaica Public Service is privately owned and that the government has no control over oil prices is as irresponsible as it is delinquent.
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The Government cannot move on until it admits to this 'the greatest diplomatic blunder since Suez' and learns lessons from it. One of those lessons is how weak Britain's influence has been over the American administration.
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The ones that we could not transfer students from was junior high and high schools,
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I think it is really terrifying that we are narrowing down to a mechanistic assessment of children by how many pass exams... if standards meant improving right across the board, character, originality, interests, then I wouldn't mind so much. But it doesn't. It always boils down to the same thing, how will we pass exams.
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It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.
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The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
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The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.
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If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.