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  1. The Ford Focus 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine changes the economics of family motoring, delivering exceptional fuel economy from a petrol engine. It's a time machine which takes you back to the days of lower fuel costs, without compromising power or driveability
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Western Morning News 3 weeks ago
  2. In 2011, India made the third greatest number of record applications to Guinness World Records - behind only US and United Kingdom. Applications from India have grown nearly 400 per cent in the past five years and number of actual record holders have grown over 250 per cent in the same period
    SOURCE: Spice Zee 2 weeks ago
  3. We want to remind the British that we won our independence from them before and we will do it again
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Press TV 3 weeks ago
  4. Other leading journalists mentioned - including the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, ABC's Brian Ross, and Britain's Robert Fisk - have a similar reputation. Since North American media refused to carry full text message from al-Qaida, it is not surprising that its media-savvy PR chiefs reached out to us.
    SOURCE: PR Newswire 2 weeks ago
  5. Spitfires are beautiful aeroplanes and should not be rotting away in a foreign land ... They saved our neck in the Battle of Britain and they should be preserved.
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: AirportBusiness.com 1 month ago
  6. On concluding my research, I discovered that Kitt’s cockpit and scanner light were designed by aviation experts in the United Kingdom, the front nose was manufactured for Universal Studios in Canada and the electronics were developed in Fort Loradace, Miami
    SOURCE: The Orange County Register 2 weeks ago
  7. Arsenal usually recognize him, even in his move to milan, but milan have just before his possession achieved an agreement, I do not know whenever they will let people.
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Silicon India 1 month ago
  8. This is a plot by people who want to abolish nation states and create a United States of Europe ... The whole thing is barmy. These people are determined to achieve their final objective. The only hope for Britain is to leave the EU and become an independent nation.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  9. We go home, but a lot of times we take the job home with us if we’ve taken a call that pulls on our heart strings
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Dothan Eagle 1 month ago
  10. I think Professor Hall made the comment at the panel that it is common in the United Kingdom for surgeons to have gone through all of their undergraduate and medical studies without utilizing animal testing, and then only at the post-graduate level do they finally begin to practice on live humans. And m...
    SOURCE: The Oberlin Review 2 weeks ago
  11. When people have an emergency their tone changes, you have to be able to get control of the call
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Dothan Eagle 1 month ago
  12. One of the interesting metaphors he uses is this malignant tree. He wants to focus on the trunk of the tree. He believes the United States is the trunk of the tree, whereas all the other branches are kind of like the apostate Muslim regimes that he considers to be apostates, and NATO or Britain ... And ...
    SOURCE: Voice of America 3 weeks ago
  13. He’s a good kid, he’s a good linebacker, he has a good nose for the football and I’m sure he’ll represent us well
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: New Britain Herald 1 month ago
  14. We've had some pretty good offers from Felix Sturm, to go over and fight for the WBA and IBF unification in September. There is also another offer through Ricky Hatton's camp that (Britain's) Martin Murray wants me to go over there and fight and we're considering it.
    SOURCE: Bad Left Hook 3 weeks ago
  15. There was dancing on tables and bottles and glasses kicked off tables. Males and females were exposing themselves in generally drunken, loutish behavior. There were many complaints
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: United Press International 1 month ago
  16. Censorship mattered more than the content of the Pistols. If you're going to be celebrating what is great about Britain, the honesty of the Sex Pistols is one of those things. If you censor the words of any one song, you're killing the honesty and I couldn't tolerate that. From my point of view we said ...
    SOURCE: Billboard 3 weeks ago
  17. Shame on those who in the name of partisan interests didn't have the courage to vote it
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: The Telegraph 2 months ago
  18. And he is compromising his position by once again backing George Osborne's economic plan, even though we now know it has comprehensively failed and pushed Britain back into recession.
    SOURCE: Morning Star Online 3 weeks ago
  19. It’s (transportation) a monumental problem ... Congestion in the state is some of the worst in the country. The problem is people with their own suspect agendas sitting around pontificating about what everything costs; meanwhile, the cars and trucks that are moving goods and people to and from businesse...
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: New Britain Herald 2 months ago
  20. Yesterday 113 containers of wastes had to be re-exported because the wastes carried B3 substances. They were exported from ports in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Britain
    SOURCE: eco-business.com 3 weeks ago

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  3. LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 24: Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (R) gestures for the media to leave as he speaks with Libyan Prime Minister, Abdurrahim el-Keib inside 10 Downing Street on May 24, 2012 in London, England.
  4. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, speaks with Libya's Prime Minister, Abdurrahim el-Keib inside 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, May 24, 2012.
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state that lies to the northwest of Continental Europe with Ireland to the west. It occupies the majority of the British Isles and its territory and population are primarily situated on the island of... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. The Ford Focus 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine changes the economics of family motoring, delivering exceptional fuel economy from a petrol engine. It's a time machine which takes you back to the days of lower fuel costs, without compromising power or driveability
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Western Morning News 3 weeks ago
  2. In 2011, India made the third greatest number of record applications to Guinness World Records - behind only US and United Kingdom. Applications from India have grown nearly 400 per cent in the past five years and number of actual record holders have grown over 250 per cent in the same period
    SOURCE: Spice Zee 2 weeks ago
  3. We want to remind the British that we won our independence from them before and we will do it again
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Press TV 3 weeks ago
  4. Other leading journalists mentioned - including the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, ABC's Brian Ross, and Britain's Robert Fisk - have a similar reputation. Since North American media refused to carry full text message from al-Qaida, it is not surprising that its media-savvy PR chiefs reached out to us.
    SOURCE: PR Newswire 2 weeks ago
  5. Spitfires are beautiful aeroplanes and should not be rotting away in a foreign land ... They saved our neck in the Battle of Britain and they should be preserved.
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: AirportBusiness.com 1 month ago
  6. On concluding my research, I discovered that Kitt’s cockpit and scanner light were designed by aviation experts in the United Kingdom, the front nose was manufactured for Universal Studios in Canada and the electronics were developed in Fort Loradace, Miami
    SOURCE: The Orange County Register 2 weeks ago
  7. Arsenal usually recognize him, even in his move to milan, but milan have just before his possession achieved an agreement, I do not know whenever they will let people.
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Silicon India 1 month ago
  8. This is a plot by people who want to abolish nation states and create a United States of Europe ... The whole thing is barmy. These people are determined to achieve their final objective. The only hope for Britain is to leave the EU and become an independent nation.
    SOURCE: Rantburg 2 weeks ago
  9. We go home, but a lot of times we take the job home with us if we’ve taken a call that pulls on our heart strings
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Dothan Eagle 1 month ago
  10. I think Professor Hall made the comment at the panel that it is common in the United Kingdom for surgeons to have gone through all of their undergraduate and medical studies without utilizing animal testing, and then only at the post-graduate level do they finally begin to practice on live humans. And m...
    SOURCE: The Oberlin Review 2 weeks ago
  11. When people have an emergency their tone changes, you have to be able to get control of the call
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Dothan Eagle 1 month ago
  12. One of the interesting metaphors he uses is this malignant tree. He wants to focus on the trunk of the tree. He believes the United States is the trunk of the tree, whereas all the other branches are kind of like the apostate Muslim regimes that he considers to be apostates, and NATO or Britain ... And ...
    SOURCE: Voice of America 3 weeks ago
  13. He’s a good kid, he’s a good linebacker, he has a good nose for the football and I’m sure he’ll represent us well
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: New Britain Herald 1 month ago
  14. We've had some pretty good offers from Felix Sturm, to go over and fight for the WBA and IBF unification in September. There is also another offer through Ricky Hatton's camp that (Britain's) Martin Murray wants me to go over there and fight and we're considering it.
    SOURCE: Bad Left Hook 3 weeks ago
  15. There was dancing on tables and bottles and glasses kicked off tables. Males and females were exposing themselves in generally drunken, loutish behavior. There were many complaints
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: United Press International 1 month ago
  16. Censorship mattered more than the content of the Pistols. If you're going to be celebrating what is great about Britain, the honesty of the Sex Pistols is one of those things. If you censor the words of any one song, you're killing the honesty and I couldn't tolerate that. From my point of view we said ...
    SOURCE: Billboard 3 weeks ago
  17. Shame on those who in the name of partisan interests didn't have the courage to vote it
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: The Telegraph 2 months ago
  18. And he is compromising his position by once again backing George Osborne's economic plan, even though we now know it has comprehensively failed and pushed Britain back into recession.
    SOURCE: Morning Star Online 3 weeks ago
  19. It’s (transportation) a monumental problem ... Congestion in the state is some of the worst in the country. The problem is people with their own suspect agendas sitting around pontificating about what everything costs; meanwhile, the cars and trucks that are moving goods and people to and from businesse...
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: New Britain Herald 2 months ago
  20. Yesterday 113 containers of wastes had to be re-exported because the wastes carried B3 substances. They were exported from ports in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Britain
    SOURCE: eco-business.com 3 weeks ago
  21. Ibori ... lived a life of luxury after he embezzled what the (police) estimate to be US$250 million (S$313 million) of Nigerian public funds - equal to US$38 from every person living in the state at the time of his crimes
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: Today Online 2 months ago
  22. I would also like to know if you find any evidence that News Corp. officials were aware that News International employees were intercepting telephone messages and making large cash payments to police officers and other public officials in the United Kingdom
    SOURCE: United Press International 3 weeks ago
  23. We have to prove without a doubt that if this device is used by a mother, the volume of milk consumed does not change
    – United Kingdom SOURCE: AllAfrica.com 2 months ago
  24. Bailing out the banks came too late to prevent the financial crisis from spilling over into the world economy. The realisation of the true state of the banking system led to a collapse of confidence around the world and a deep global recession. Over 25 million jobs disappeared worldwide. And unemploymen...
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago
  25. This, in turn, is helping strengthen Britain's connectivity into the rapidly growing economies of the world, such as China. Air China's decision to expand this route from Gatwick sends a strong message that Gatwick is competing.
    SOURCE: The Telegraph 3 weeks ago

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