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It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out of a dispute in France.

It is unacceptable that out of the most developed countries, Britain was one of the last to order anti-viral agents and publish an emergency preparedness plan.

It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

Eight million people carry organ donor cards in Britain and they need to have full confidence that they will be treated with dignity and respect at all times.

The bonds between India and Britain are as strong as ever. Over 700,000 British citizens visit India ever year.

The biggest attraction in Britain is Britain - the whole package. Our heritage is not just a collection of ornaments scattered across the country, it is Britain itself and makes us gloriously distinguishable from any other country.

The Awful Truth. We actually left the country and went to Great Britain and got Channel Four over there to produce and finance this show.

It's been the premier resort in Britain if not Europe for many years,

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Is this how we now must live? ... Britain will not be beaten.

It used to be Britain and Ireland but more and more it is Australia and New Zealand. I think a lot of it has to do with the exchange rate, the pound is high and even the Euro is high, the Australian dollar is much better.

It will be the biggest fight of the year in Britain and certainly one of the most highly anticipated fights on the world scene in recent years - and it will take place in the UK.

They bear full responsibility for blocking it and I am sure the Muslim communities right across Britain will take very careful note of that.

They will make Britain a place where we cannot do clinically relevant research,

I want to spell out to the people of Britain why our forces are bravely risking their lives destroying Saddam's threat to humanity. Our objective is to achieve by military action the disarmament Saddam will not allow the UN inspectors to carry out on the ground.

It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.

The Jordanian security apparatus provides the required protection to foreign embassies without any threat and in the event of a threat, steps up protection. Britain took this decision. Jordan believes that the threat does not warrant closure of the British Embassy.

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.

In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here.

India has accepted our proposal to hold exercises next year, this time in Russia and in a broader format that involves several other countries, including NATO members the United States , Britain and France,

In Britain the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable.

If Mr Blair is concerned with securing a lasting and memorable legacy for Britain then I can think of no better way than to allow a smooth and rapid succession for Mr Brown.

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

In the early 1980s when the British government decided to purchase the Trident nuclear weapons system, Britain faced a perceived threat from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

In scholarly circles, it has long been unfashionable to demonize Judas and Catholics in Britain are likely to welcome Judas's rehabilitation.

In pure technique terms, Britain is now one the best nations. It's been a rough ride but things taste better through adversity. It's a nice feeling for me, great for the coaches and the kids who have done the job. It certainly answers the critics - and it's only going to get better.

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Clearly Britain cannot be an objective mediator on the Cyprus problem. Britain no longer has the required credibility.

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

He?s very athletic for a big man. Jack (Cochran, former New Britain and current New London coach) loves him. He?s very good.

Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.

I love filming in Britain.

My goal is to have a Firm Britain.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.

I can announce today that I am inviting leading Palestinians to come to Britain in January to a conference along with members of the quartet and other countries from the region closely involved in supporting the reform efforts. It will discuss progress on reform and look at how the international community can help.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

I am not worth purchasing, but such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.

I don't want to live in a Britain where we ban overseas companies but you can't expect Britain to go on and watch other countries change the rules when they want to.

I¹m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: "Hey ­ I know you! You're That Guy.

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

Britain's such a twisted, weird little place.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

Europe is my continent, not my country

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

These important grant funds will help ensure safe, lead-free homes for New Britain families,

The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.

The gold in the Bank of England is gold held on behalf of the Tripartite Commission -- that is the United States, Britain and France,

THE earliest inhabitants of Britain are supposed to have been a branch of that great family known in history by the designation of Celts.

The forefathers of the United States were children of religious bigotry and persecution, and, as a result, fled Britain to create a new approach to life and government. They valued intellect and education. In fact, they outlined the principles of the United States' democracy to establish intellectual freedom from the Church.

The French government will not face a Tony Blair moment because the police have enjoyed steadily increasing powers in France for the last few decades. What Blair tried in Britain or Bush did in the U.S. with the Patriot Act were major shifts in the legal landscape.

What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain.

The disastrous decision to invade Iraq has made Britain a more dangerous place,

America's definition of open skies is that we can come in and do what we like, we want access via Britain to the rest of the EU -- you can't have access to the U.S. internal market.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

I am the last of Britain's stately homos.

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The relationship between Britain and the US is fantastically important when confronting terrorism.

Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

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.

Today the university combines many elements - great lectures, study groups, students in the lab - and the lecture piece should be broken off. The very best lectures from India or the U.S. or Britain will be available in streaming video, so students can consume that wherever they want and don't have to go do that all together in one place.

Thoughtless, dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting, you would soon find out

I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities,

Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.

I have the money and they won't get their hands on it.

When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels.

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.