Cyprus was a British protectorate.

There are some differences between British English and American English.

The Trans Caspian forces continued to attack the Bolsheviks to the north.

But the naira s introduction quickly put an end to parity with the British pound.

In 2001 he was awarded the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal.

The first run on a bank occurred against the British mortgage lender Northern Rock.

Cecil John Rhodes was a British businessman and politician in South Africa.

Previously the actress was married to British musician Chris Martin lead singer of the group Coldplay.

Yet when the Icelandic banks failed, the British and Dutch authorities had to bail out local depositors.

He is a Bangladeshi British filmmaker who is working on a documentary about Rohingya women refugees.

As a British Citizen myself it almost seems madness that anyone could renounce their citizenship!

The miners' strike was the biggest confrontation between the unions and the Thatcher government.

The association of rum with the Royal Navy began in 1655, when the British fleet captured the island of Jamaica.

History The existence of a continuous stream of particles flowing outward from the Sun was first suggested by British astronomer Richard C. Carrington.

Together with the Scandinavian and British constituencies, there are thus eight EU representatives on the IMF s executive board.

Attempts by the US to exert extra territorial jurisdiction including the attempt to ban British businessmen from visiting Cuba, incite European resentment.

South Australia became a self governing colony in 1856 with the ratification of a new constitution by the British parliament.

Koestler himself, born in Budapest but a proud British citizen, remained a Hungarian football nationalist all his life.

Continental European students who used to come to Britain now join their British colleagues in casting their eyes across the Atlantic.

A foreign nanny may allow a British doctor to return to work, where hard working foreign nurses and cleaners enhance her productivity.

To a country that had struggled for decades against British imperialism, however, neither capitalism nor openness to foreign investors seemed a prudent course.

Thus, the credit crunch is becoming a youth crunch, as highlighted by a recent survey carried out by the British Council in several European countries.

Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on the British Virgin IslandsA AC.109 2006 12. and other relevant information,

Taking note of the working paper prepared by the Secretariat on the British Virgin IslandsA AC.109 2007 3. and other relevant information,

Shifting to a four day week has been endorsed by the Trades Union Congress as a way for workers to take advantage of the changing economy.

If so, did I inadvertently, during our meeting with the British academic, give away state secrets?

The state of Tennessee is geographically, culturally, economically, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee.

Perhaps, though, Saddam was too eager to sell oil concessions to French, Russian, and Italian companies rather than British and US companies.

But the Anglo American love in quickly soured when the FDIC chairman was asked to give the same assurances of confidence in the British authorities.

Like Tony Blair, Thatcher has long been a British product with more appeal in export markets than at home.

But it turned out that the rate of economic growth owed less to Hindu culture than to imported British Fabian (and other) socialist economic planning.

Ten year yields on British government bonds were at historic lows long before Cameron took office.

In 1916 the administration of the BWTP ended and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony was established, which existed from 1916 to 1974.

That unhappy episode has cost British banks 37 billion so far, with more to come most likely another 5 billion or so.

It was just by chance that the journalist did not attend that dinner at the British Embassy in Dushanbe, and, what is more, he subsequently met John Heathershaw.

The ransomware was briefly contained with the discovery of a kill switch by a British researcher, but on May 14 a new version was released.

Most academic economics rely on concepts laid down at the beginning of the twentieth century by the British economist Alfred Marshall, who said that nature does not make leaps.

In winter in the south it is not uncommon for the temperatures to reach , but they can also reach the low teens during the day.

The recovery of this far flung British dependency, whose citizens were resolutely committed to remaining British subjects after the Argentine invasion, was a daring military act.

I was in India primarily as part of my current role as Chairman of a review for the British prime minister on anti microbial resistance (AMR).

British Tommies have to learn to speak French, and French legionnaires will have to learn English and the limits on the spirit of cooperation will no doubt be found at the entrance to every army, navy, and air force canteen.

Indeed, Hong Kong enjoys many freedoms that the rest of China lacks, including a judiciary system that is guided by British common law and independent from the executive branch.

In 1922, Egypt, which had been declared a British protectorate at the outbreak of the First World War, was granted formal independence, though it continued to be a British client state until 1954.

The British directly ruled over the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947 when the region was commonly known as British India or the Indian Empire.

The first blow was the partition of Bengal in 1905, announced by the British colonial rulers, which separated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas.