Rachel from north London recalls a hilarious conversation with Sir Ian Blair. |
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They feel betrayed and are as angry with Bush and Blair as those who always opposed the war. |
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When Blair had finally begun to comprehend how to go around maneuvering a horse she was exhilarated. |
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The even more pivotal figure Tony Blair will have to wrestle with is himself. |
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Unable to resist his charm and devastating smile, Blair nodded mutely in response. |
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Both Hack and Blair say they are skeptical of amnesty programs and don't use them to fight piracy and cable theft efforts. |
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Tony Blair has formally opened a training academy for teachers known as the Sandhurst for teachers. |
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Gold Coaster Roma Blair has come a long way from her days as a prisoner of war interned by the Japanese. |
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Mr Blair also said he was not alarmed yesterday when protesters jeered him during his speech. |
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Alison flurried about the room putting away her essentials and then turned to Blair and finally heaved out a breath of air. |
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But with power-dressing currently as popular as Tony Blair at the Ledbury hunt ball, its imminent revival seems certain. |
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Just a few miles off the highway, Blair is a distinguished prep school with a picturesque campus that rivals most colleges. |
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Cardinal Renato Martino heaped praise on British Prime Minister Blair for his role in promoting African debt relief. |
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Picture my surprise when I read the suggestion that he could have been a health adviser to the Blair government. |
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If we believe Gordon's account, as relayed through Robert Peston, Blair ratted on a promise to go by November of last year. |
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After one particularly long submersion, Blair spotted a log stretched out across the river just within reach of his outstretched hands. |
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Above all, Blair had always tempered any enthusiasm for Europe with a strong military Atlanticism, rejecting any idea of a European army. |
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The last essay, by Blair Ruble, deals with the problems attendant on the creation of new civic or national symbols. |
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As he stepped back outside, Blair was there, laying a hand on the body to steady Jim's balance during the short walk to the shallow grave. |
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On the men's side, Adrian Blair had a fifth-place finish in the first heat of the 60m dash with a time of 7.25 seconds. |
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A short train journey to the north, Blair Atholl and Atholl Castle are well worth a visit. |
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When Mr Blair made his comments back in April I said I thought he was being a shade over-optimistic. |
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It was a moving and impassioned speech, with a few barbs which Blair had to simply stand there and take. |
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But with Tony Blair and Michael Howard now representing their respective parties, he is suddenly very junior to both of his rivals. |
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Thursday's elections have proved how far removed from reality the perceptions of the Blair leadership really are. |
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He also acknowledges a colourful supporting cast of influences, from Ally McLeod to Lionel Blair. |
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Mr Blair was first ambushed by dripping Evening Press chief reporter Mike Laycock during his visit to flood-hit York. |
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Whether the Blair government's new law withstands judicial scrutiny remains to be seen. |
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I found Tim Blair, Roger Simon, and Ed Driscoll bunched around a small table near the restrooms. |
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And Mr Blair said ID cards would help against illegal immigration and working. |
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A Wright victory will lead Labour to conclude that Blair is safe to lead the party into the general election. |
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If Blair were to lose a euro referendum, he might well be finished as Prime Minister. |
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The Blair government meanwhile is desperate to regain the high ground on its decision to go to war. |
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The government's plans to regenerate the area were announced in March last year by Tony Blair and John Prescott. |
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At 4.15 am on Friday, Tony Blair became the first man ever to lead Labour to a third term. |
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Nor does sympathy for what Americans are going through make us capitalist lackeys, stooges of Bush and Blair, or enemies of the Arab world. |
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Indeed, Blair came to power based on an explicit repudiation of its old reformist programme. |
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He had dropped off a pair of sweats and a zip front sweatshirt for Blair to come home in. |
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In the period since Tony Blair took office in May 1997, anatomies of Britain have been tumbling from the presses in dizzying profusion. |
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If this was a covert air war, both Bush and Blair may face searching questions. |
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In March, Blair asked him to talk the unions out of a damaging strike ahead of the election. |
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Tony Blair has had no such confrontation, largely because his government accedes to almost every demand from big business and its janissaries. |
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Some politicians can be very stand-offish but Mr Blair was very nice and pleasant. |
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Tony Blair was warned six years ago that religious fanaticism would become a serious threat to UK security, it has been revealed. |
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Mr Blair is preparing for a whistle-stop tour of Berlin, Paris, Washington, New York and Brussels. |
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Everybody needs a summer holiday, but which once ageless pop star opened his Barbados home to the Blair family in August? |
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Suddenly concerned he opened the door quickly and rushed inside, startling Blair who was hopping from the desk to the couch. |
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Would he consider becoming personal economic adviser to Tony Blair, then newly elected as leader of the Labour party? |
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Paul Walker put the home side ahead in the 56th minute and it was all over bar the shouting when Paul Blair grabbed a third. |
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The Blair grouping believes in liberalisation, in free competition and is opening up to the rest of the world. |
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Asked about the Chancellor's future, Mr Blair praised Mr Brown but stopped short of anointing him. |
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It's ten years since Tony Blair was anointed leader of the British Labour Party. |
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An itty-bitty Howard and Blair and a supposedly statesman-like Kennedy looking like he's carved into Mount Rushmore. |
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For Blair that may mean fewer flights of shuttle diplomacy and more time chiselling away at the coalface of the public services. |
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Mr Blair was speaking at the Elysee Palace in Paris after breakfast talks with President Jacques Chirac, as part of his hectic shuttle diplomacy. |
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Holiday destination to none other than the Blair family, Sharm el Sheikh is also know as the Red Sea riviera. |
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Once dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, Blair found Jim standing on deck, coffee in hand, looking out over the water. |
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Ask a civil servant whether Tony Blair ever squares up to George Bush and a weak smile crosses the mouth and the head shakes sadly. |
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Tony Blair refuses to accept responsibility for taking us to war on a pack of lies. |
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In a hawkish, emotional speech to the Romanian parliament, Tony Blair said Milosevic was the real target of the war. |
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Of course Blair can't just conjure up a new Blitz spirit to suit his newfound focus on homeland security. |
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The man widely dubbed the New Blair faced the original Blair yesterday at Westminster's weekly feast and ceremonial. |
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In his professions, he claimed the Blair Witch had placed a hex on him, forcing him to commit the murders. |
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Tony Blair was assiduous in recruiting intellectual heavyweights to his cause to put some philosophical weight on the party's old skeleton. |
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Mike Blair, smooth, polished and lightning fast was the heir apparent, only to see his inheritance snatched away by his younger rival. |
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That is where the problems start, with Tony Blair trying to find an illusory third way between two irreconcilable opinions. |
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At Montgomery Blair High School, Francis was academically ineligible as a freshman, and then a third string varsity bench warmer as a sophomore. |
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The findings will be a serious setback for Blair and Jack McConnell as they battle to persuade activists to campaign in the coming election. |
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His only job is as a superannuated marriage guidance counsellor to Blair and Brown. |
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Britain is being forced to choose between America and Europe, and Blair is positively itching to take the test. |
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Veteran hoofer Lionel Blair was surrounded by dancing stars on stage in Bromley to kick off the theatre's new programme. |
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They shared a devious look before launching themselves on Blair with fluffy pillows, bowling her to the ground. |
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Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke of his distress and the Prince of Wales wrote personal letters of condolence to both families. |
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I must have been knocked out cold because I didn't even hear Anna talking to Blair when he came by. |
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The white-collared kingfisher is easily spotted in the jetty area of Port Blair. |
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Mr Blair extended his sympathies to the families of those who had died in the two huge suicide bombings, many of whom are likely to be British. |
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Despite his old Labour sympathies, Stewart has been a consistent supporter of Blair. |
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Tony Blair arrived for prime minister's questions looking quite unflustered. |
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For a Tony Blair tormented by the unquiet ghosts of the conflict, this threatens to be a war without end. |
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These sound pretty feeble reasons for Tony Blair to flunk the great test of his leadership. |
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For all the eloquent speeches that Blair has made, the reform agenda can hardly be said to have gathered pace. |
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The election results and the general disarray showed that Blair continues to be very vulnerable. |
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The least interesting aspect of this article is where it tautologically notes that Blair is disavowing such a connection. |
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A few weeks of the Blair, Bush, and Campbell vision of an enervate media might change their minds. |
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To his critics, Tony Blair has been cast as a stooge to President Bush's vision for a new American global hegemony that brooks no opposition. |
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They reached the truck and Blair climbed in, stuffing his bag on the floor while Jim set the case in the back and secured it with a bungee cord. |
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Prime Minister Tony Blair and his colleagues took Gilligan's report as a serious smear on their reputations. |
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Tony Blair promised to be tough on the causes of crime but two of the main drivers of crime are alcohol and drugs. |
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Jim volunteered to do the dishes, giving Blair more time to drudge through the rest of the test papers. |
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When the guitarist strummed his final note, he looked up and locked gazes with Blair. |
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Labour has reached its current position of dominance precisely because of the centrist policies people like Blair and Brown espouse. |
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If that was what Blair thought, then this was, of course, a disastrous miscalculation. |
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She was set to race against Joe Blair, who would get a weight break of 10 pounds, but the filly was left at the post. |
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Tony Blair urged fellow EU leaders yesterday not to yield in future confrontations with anti-capitalists who disrupted their Gothenburg summit. |
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As soon as Jim was out of the shower, Blair went in, letting the hot water revive tired muscles. |
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Wednesday Tony Blair is shown who's boss by the ladies of the Women's Institute at their annual conference in London. |
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Yet Blair felt unfulfilled, partly because Kelly tended to infantilise her. |
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He has made himself a lightning conductor, deflecting the attention away from Blair. |
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Centrist rightism is not much different from centrist leftism, as we see from the kinship between Blair and the Aznar government in Madrid. |
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How can people like Tony Blair be blind to this massive risk of apocalyptic destruction and loss of freedom? |
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In his Christmas message to the armed services, Mr Blair apologised for the continuing uncertainty over military action. |
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Jim moved out of sight and Blair forced his eyes open wide, trying to take deeper breaths to clear the fog. |
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He sat down and Blair pulled his chair closer, setting his coffee cup on the edge of the desk. |
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The defeat of Blair was in no way a conclusive victory for the Conservative party. |
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The committee's unprecedented trawl through the secret world of British intelligence makes devastating reading for Blair. |
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Piper and Blair found a bench to sit down at while rubbed my leg which had fallen asleep on the ride up. |
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Three cups of coffee and two aspirins later Blair was starting to sound like her normal self again. |
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Tony Blair is coyly vacillating on the issue of standing for European Council president. |
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Schoolgirls in blue pinafores and white blouses met Blair, singing songs they had learnt in English. |
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They were at the waiting helicopter now and Jim opened the back door, urging Blair inside, then he turned back to Simon. |
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But while he furiously resists significant concessions to their demands, even Blair is showing signs of compromise. |
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Mr McGuinness is, like Mr Blair, a skilful, broad-brush populist with Mandela dreams. |
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Like other European leaders, he broadly supports Mr Blair on Africa and climate change. |
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In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has reportedly been warned of a big increase in heroin smuggling by his inter-agency drugs action team. |
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The picture has been variously described as a cross between Badlands, The Blair Witch Project and Deliverance. |
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By sharp contrast, the main contenders in the Labour leadership race have slunk away from the Blair memoir and its prescriptions. |
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The case brings into sharp relief some of the constitutional concepts we've been studying, as does the Blair government's re-enactment of detention-without-trial legislation. |
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A few blocks away, dignitaries, including Tony Blair, held court in the upscale Serena Hotel. |
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Last month they met Tony Blair at Downing Street, who pledged to boost the size of the registries, commit funds and organise a publicity campaign. |
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Peter Hain is the foreign office minister given instructions from Prime Minister Tony Blair to bang the drum a bit, even if it involves him going slightly off-message. |
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Less controversial was the invasion of Afghanistan, but Blair stoutly defends it from criticism. |
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And when Blair Witch came out, me and my brothers shot a spoof of it where we get lost in our own house. |
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The site shills an assortment of tweeny, vaguely Blair Waldorfy dresses, sweaters and coats. |
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Today, however, it is clear that Mr Blair is a busted flush. |
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A no vote in France would also put pressure on Mr Blair to find acceptable minimalist reforms or see the EU evolve into a diffuse multi-speed bloc. |
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As a God-botherer, a foreigner and a non-lefty who had fallen for Blair during his Christian-socialist phase, I most definitely lay outside their fold. |
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has aligned Britain with the US invasion plans, while attempting to mediate an agreement with the rest of the European Union. |
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But Mr Blair said he was confident the Government could get the ID cards legislation on the statute book and that it had public support despite concerns about civil liberties. |
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For one thing, Blair and Brown were classic knock-down, drag-out political rivals. |
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Mr Blair met Gen Musharraf midway through a whirlwind round of shuttle diplomacy which had seen him meet Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow the previous evening. |
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If Mr Blair has unambiguous evidence, now is the time to share it. |
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Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser. |
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While Jacques Chirac hugged the other leaders present at the gathering, to British Prime Minister Tony Blair he reportedly managed only a ceremonious handshake. |
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He does not radiate the same enjoyment in scoring off Tony Blair as he did when his main targets were the Crown and Conservatism, both social and political. |
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You Michael, have impersonated, or played may be a better word, Mozart, ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, Caligula. |
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Again the Australian referee courted controversy when he seemed to indicate a Scottish penalty advantage but gave none when Blair was duly scragged by the green jerseys. |
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He had to put up his truck against the bail bond, but there was just no way he was going to let them keep Blair in jail while he found the killer. |
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It makes no sense for Mr Blair to turn his back on Europe and become a junior, and probably increasingly uninfluential, ally of the US as it remakes the world. |
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Had all Conservative MPs obeyed the party three-line whip against the government, victory may have been narrow enough to call into question the premiership of Tony Blair. |
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The country currently helmed by Mr. Tony Blair is the United Kingdom. |
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The Afghan press corps stampede Blair as he emerges from the plane. |
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Jim drove them to the waterfront and parked in the charter's private lot, securing the truck for what he had explained to Blair could be a two or three day wait. |
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Tony Blair was also heading for America by Concorde yesterday, having chartered a supersonic aircraft to take him to Washington DC for talks and dinner with President Bush. |
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Of course, Blair chose Chuck but Chuck first rejected her and then, we think, he was all into it. |
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I mean, they sell nice olives and everything and Tony Blair shops there, but surely tatler would have loved to have her on board. |
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Ally and Blair are off to Scotland for Christmas and Hogmanay with Blair's family so today is the last day that the we can all get together for a meal. |
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Its prestige waxed and waned as Thatcherism died and the Blair era arrived. |
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Addressing congress during its debate on Iraq, Chris Bryant MP was particularly anxious to brown-nose Blair for his supposed successes in this regard. |
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Downing Street hopes it will concentrate minds among the rebels, to instil in them the reality that inflicting defeat now would mean the end of Blair, not just this policy. |
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His decade-long struggle to replace Blair as prime minister was never an open political contest, but a conniving, cowardly and petty bid for personal power. |
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I also noted that the interviewer baldly misstated various facts, apparently to get a rise out of Blair, as well as taking a really insulting tone. |
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Baratang Island, which is about 100 km by road from Port Blair, will be promoted more for its mud volcanoes and limestone caves and less for its beaches. |
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It is alleged that at least four businessmen, and possibly more, who made unpublicised loans to the Labour Party were subsequently nominated for peerages by Tony Blair. |
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown accused Michael Howard of leading an unreformed party that remained as divided now as it was in Margaret Thatcher's heyday. |
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He says that Blair tried to persuade him the Middle East and the whole world were under threat from Iraq's supposed long-range weapons carrying dirty warheads. |
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Now, however, sources say that Blair estimates he can use a threat of action against IRA illegal business activity to bludgeon the organisation into disbanding. |
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In stark contrast with the sunny personality of his predecessor, Tony Blair, Brown's demeanor is dour, recessive and technocratic. |
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As Tony Blair fired the starting pistol today, months after the runners hared off down the campaign trail, the public met the news with a weary shrug of resignation. |
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Months of speculation were about to end today as Prime Minister Tony Blair was expected to fire the starting pistol on the General Election campaign. |
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At the Northwood military headquarters near London, two people dressed up as a pantomime horse with a mask of Bush on the head and Blair at the rear. |
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Mr Hoon and Tony Blair are set upon signing up to President Bush's missile defence system, even though the technology is unproven and the costs fantastic. |
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The British Prime Minister Tony Blair says they have shamed their country. |
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I happen to think that the Labour opponents of Blair are profoundly wrong. |
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And it is true that since Blair was in power the pub culture has taken a beating. |
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Both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair bestrode their nation for periods in excess of two U.S. presidential terms. |
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In July 2011, she texted Blair that she had a police interview the following day. |
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On a walkabout in Brent East, he accused Mr Blair of insulting the intelligence of electors by warning that voting Lib Dem would produce a Tory government. |
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In a session headlined by cherie Blair, founder of the cherie Blair Foundation of Women, handheld technology was forefront. |
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And civil cases by cherie Blair and two others accusing News Corp. employees of doing just that are heading for court in New York. |
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Mr Blair finally discovered that he was no longer Britain's Eva Peron when he was jeered and heckled by, of all people, members of the Women's Institute. |
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Mr Blair laid the foundation stone more than two years ago when building work started and returned yesterday to see the completed stadium in east Manchester. |
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Plus an unpleasant whiff of effluent as in the previous week's remorseless attacks on Cherie Blair, not for anything she's said or done but for the way she looks. |
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It is funny to see that the rats at various British intelligence agencies are already trying to avoid the blame for the lies told to the British people by Blair. |
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Not long before Monsoon Wedding was released, the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a White Paper, or statement of policy, on immigration and citizenship. |
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The Orwell we encounter at the beginning of this book is Eric Blair, the Old Etonian drop-out and insecure drifter, more or less on his beam ends. |
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I've been voting for him ever since he came on the scene and I've been a Labour Party member all my life, but I've ripped my card up and posted it back to Mr Blair. |
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Despite resistance at grass roots level, Blair rose within the Labour Party and by the end of the 1980s he was viewed as a future leader of the party. |
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Or discover where Mrs Blair likes to hide when she plays sardines? |
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The first is to prevent Scottish MPs from voting on issues that don't affect Scotland, but Blair needs his tartan army and so that is unlikely to happen. |
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He was accorded, literally, the red-carpet treatment by the Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, culminating in an audience with the Queen at Windsor Castle. |
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A petition in 2007 to make Saint David's Day a bank holiday was rejected by the office of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
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Channel 4 was considered for privatisation by the governments of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. |
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Sheen's breakthrough role was as British politician Tony Blair in 2003's The Deal. |
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In May 1997, the Labour government of Tony Blair was elected with a promise of creating devolved institutions in Scotland. |
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Labourites wanted a Blair Mark II, keeping all the good bits and adding some more. |
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How Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi gave the brutal dictator a makeover. |
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English Regional Development Agencies were set up in 1998 under the Government of Tony Blair to foster economic growth around England. |
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Devolution continued to be part of the platform of the Labour Party which, in May 1997, took power under Tony Blair. |
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There had been talK that Tony Blair would taKe on this role but the EU opted for a decidedly unpresidential president. |
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Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said the register could be one tool in the fight against cross-Channel organised crime. |
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Bragg's friends include the former Labour Party leaders Tony Blair, Neil Kinnock and Michael Foot, and former deputy leader Roy Hattersley. |
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David Cameron and Tony Blair have created life peerages at the highest rate, at 41 and 36 peerages per year respectively. |
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Thousands of jobs would be safeguarded or created if Tony Blair gave the go-ahead for the MK 45 superguns. |
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He now runs a consultancy business and has set up various foundations in his own name, including the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. |
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Maggie Thatcher was a screeching peacock, and John Major a dreary peahen, while Tony Blair was a viper in Labour's bosom. |
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Opener CIAM15, with MC Topcat taking on Bush and Blair, packs a percussive punch and upcoming single Kwangchow is jaunty pop incarnate. |
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Of course, it is quite clear why Tony Blair wants to talk about reinvigorating government and in particular, local government. |
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Blair has an older brother, Sir William Blair, a High Court judge, and a younger sister, Sarah. |
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Aged five, this marked the beginning of a long association Blair was to have with Durham. |
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Leaving Fettes College at the age of eighteen, Blair next spent a year in London attempting to find fame as a rock music promoter. |
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Docudrama in early cinema, reality television, and The Blair Witch Project are some topics explored. |
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Steven Runciman, who was at Eton with Blair, noted that he and his contemporaries appreciated Huxley's linguistic flair. |
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I FOUND John Burton's hagiography of Tony Blair very interesting but also a little sad. |
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But Blair has said publicly that he does not want a peerage. |
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With a general election due, Blair had not been selected as a candidate anywhere. |
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Cyril Connolly followed Blair to Eton, but because they were in separate years, they did not associate with each other. |
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As is customary for the holder of that office, Blair was appointed a Privy Councillor. |
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In his first six years in office, Blair ordered British troops into combat five times, more than any other prime minister in British history. |
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Playwright Harold Pinter and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused Blair of war crimes. |
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Edinburgh is the birthplace of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair who attended the city's Fettes College. |
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As the casualties of the Iraq War mounted, Blair was accused of misleading Parliament, and his popularity dropped dramatically. |
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The island chain has four airstrips, but only the main airport in Port Blair can handle a large commercial jet. |
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The Financial Times on the other hand has argued that Blair is not conservative, but instead a populist. |
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The alliance between Bush and Blair seriously damaged Blair's standing in the eyes of Britons angry at American influence. |
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are the Arthur Daleys of British politics, according to the Conservative leader. |
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In 2006 Blair was criticised for his failure to immediately call for a ceasefire in the 2006 Lebanon War. |
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A Conservative member of Parliament crossed the aisle this weekend to join the resurgent Labor Party of Tony Blair. |
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In 2006, a number of MPs attempted to revive the custom, having signed a motion for the impeachment of Tony Blair, but this was unsuccessful. |
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General Charles Guthrie, the Chief of the Defence Staff, revealed in 2007 that he and Blair had discussed the invasion of Zimbabwe. |
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The Blair government, whilst leaving services free at point of use, encouraged outsourcing of medical services and support to the private sector. |
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Cameron's relative youth and inexperience before becoming leader have invited satirical comparison with Tony Blair. |
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During the 2010 election campaign Blair publicly endorsed Gordon Brown's leadership, praising the way he had handled the financial crisis. |
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On 16 September 2003 the prime minister, Tony Blair, opened the first section of High Speed 1, from Folkestone to north Kent. |
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Bush had preliminary talks with Blair to ask him to take up the envoy role. |
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The Labour Party, led by Tony Blair, returned to power in May 1997 after 18 years in opposition. |
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In a statement made in response to Tutu's comments, Blair defended his actions. |
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In December 2016 Blair created the Tony Blair Institute to promote global outlooks by governments and organisations. |
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His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. |
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While at St Cyprian's, Blair wrote two poems that were published in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard. |
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But inclusion on the Eton scholarship roll did not guarantee a place, and none was immediately available for Blair. |
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In January, Blair took up the place at Wellington, where he spent the Spring term. |
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In April 1932 Blair became a teacher at The Hawthorns High School, a school for boys in Hayes, West London. |
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At the end of the summer term in 1932, Blair returned to Southwold, where his parents had used a legacy to buy their own home. |
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Meanwhile, Blair started work on the novel A Clergyman's Daughter, drawing upon his life as a teacher and on life in Southwold. |
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The Westropes and Kimche were members of the Independent Labour Party, although at this time Blair was not seriously politically active. |
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Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died. |
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On 27 November 2006, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a partial apology for Britain's role in the African slavery trade. |
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In Cape Breton Island, Laurentia is represented by the Blair River Inlier at the northern end of the island. |
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Ethical socialism has been publicly supported by British Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, and Tony Blair. |
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Orwell's son, Richard Horatio Blair, was brought up by Orwell's sister Avril. |
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In the aftermath of the war, he lent support to the attempt of Adam Price, a Plaid Cymru MP, to impeach Tony Blair over the Iraq issue. |
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Former British Prime Minster Tony Blair also acknowledged the leading role which McGuinness had in ensuring the Agreement would be enforced. |
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Both the Cook and Blair approaches are rooted in different Labour Party foreign policy traditions. |
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Following that speech, Blair embarked on two months of diplomacy rallying international support for military action. |
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Mr Blair outlined how his government viewed a change in the calculous of risk posed by Saddam Hussein, following the World Trade Center attacks. |
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While Blair was at Oxford, his mother Hazel died of cancer, which greatly affected him. |
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The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, approved the ORLT, which was led by Brigadier David Richards, Chief of Joint Force Operations. |
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Bush and Blair stand condemned by their own publics and face imminent political extinction. |
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In the first year of the Blair government, the Lords passed back Government bills 38 times. |
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Here Blair found an opportunity to implement one of Labour's campaign promises, reforming the Lords. |
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In Northern Ireland, Blair was involved in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement. |
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On 13 September 2010, Blair was awarded the Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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Success in Sierra Leone encouraged the Blair government to continue its support to Africa, particularly with regard to resolving conflicts. |
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Margaret Thatcher and Mr Blair have scrumpled up and scorched the notion the Cabinet is a meeting of equals. |
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John Major was just a jumped-up committee man and Tony Blair a carpet bagger. |
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Mr Blair has achieved much in power though he was catastrophically wrong on Iraq, with disastrous consequences. |
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They included the unfounded reports of Wendi having an affair with Blair, who has been married to wife Cherie for 33 years. |
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Cyril Connolly provides an account of Blair as a child in Enemies of Promise. |
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Later Blair was expelled from the crammer at Southwold for sending a dead rat as a birthday present to the town surveyor. |
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The Commission is chaired by The Rt Hon Alan Milburn, the former Secretary of State for Health in the Labour administration of Tony Blair. |
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British foreign secretary Jack Straw prepared a three-page memo to Blair. |
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Also paying their respects at the service was Tony Blair another warmonger and hypocrite. |
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Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday defended moves to toughen up Britain's anti-terrorism regime. |
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Allegations of hacking have also been brought up in relation to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the Royal Family. |
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On 13 March 2008 Michael Russell announced that the National Park would be extended to take in Blair Atholl and Spittal of Glenshee. |
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Examples are William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and Tony Blair. |
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Everything went pear-shaped when Tony Blair thought we could turn European overnight, when he introduced 24-hour drinking. |
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Either way, the arithmetic means Blair would not be able to pursue his reform agenda. |
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Tony Blair, defending FPTP, argued that other systems give small parties the balance of power, and influence disproportionate to their votes. |
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AsTony Blair overturned that decision within days, I have a hunch that the Prime Minister has done a secret deal with the Romanian government. |
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This isn't, asTony Blair would have us believe, about making it easier for couples to juggle work and family. |
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A group of Labour backbenchers close to Tony Blair are heading for Crewe, where a by-election takes place on Thursday. |
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Larry is considered an improvement on that lardy guy they put in charge when Tony Blair went on his holidays. |
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A dozen premiers, from Churchill via Wilson and Thatcher through Blair, Brown and Cameron, valued their weekly chinwags with her. |
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And Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are in a stushie over who has the biggest manifesto. |
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What condemnation and indignance Mr Blair and his cabinet would have shown if these had been perpetrated by other nations. |
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This still remains in effect, although Tony Blair later agreed to significantly reduce the size of the rebate. |
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The 11th duke, although resident in South Africa, visited Blair Atholl almost every year to inspect the regiment's annual parade until his death. |
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The band was formed in 1973 with brothers Calum and Rory Macdonald and their friend Blair Douglas. |
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Buddicom and Blair lost touch shortly after he went to Burma, and she became unsympathetic towards him. |
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Tenders are invited for Providing And Fixing Of Pvc Coated Tensile Fabric Shed For Sound And Light Show At Ross Island, Port Blair. |
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For example, Blair pairs a front-zip marled knit sweater to a classic pair of stretch Bengaline pants in matching sage. |
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Founding member Blair Douglas joined the band onstage, playing accordion on several numbers. |
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Hugh Blair, who was a firm believer in the authenticity of the poems, raised a subscription to allow Macpherson to pursue his Gaelic researches. |
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We only have 100 of the top-price option, with a photo opportunity with Blair. |
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Tony Blair and William Hague have become as dependant on the push polls and the spin doctors as the democratic President. |
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Leo Blair, the father of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, was a resident of the town. |
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However, the oath was officially made public by the Blair Government in a written parliamentary answer in 1998, as follows. |
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Sheen came to international attention in 2006 for his portrayal of Tony Blair in The Queen. |
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Who now is going to take any notice of Tony Blair as he gallivants around the world like a retiring President. |
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When Blair resigned as Prime Minister, Robert Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write The Ghost. |
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Both John Major and Tony Blair have given peerages and knighthoods to useless deadbeats. |
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Nevertheless, Blair and others spoke highly of his brilliant command of language. |
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In July 2011, Rowling parted company with her agent, Christopher Little, moving to a new agency founded by one of his staff, Neil Blair. |
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The novel was filmed as The Ghost Writer with Pierce Brosnan portraying the Blair character, Adam Lang. |
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On 23 February 2012, his agency, the Blair Partnership, announced on its website that Rowling was set to publish a new book targeted at adults. |
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Rowling's agent, Neil Blair acted as producer, through his independent production company and with Rick Senat serving as executive producer. |
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To this heavy-weight question, Tony Blair answered surf-board, Michael Howard said he had no idea, and Charles Kennedy answered Speedos. |
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Meanwhile, Mr. Blair began, as anxious people will do, to overcalculate the lapse of time. |
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Their subsequent election victory in 1997 under Tony Blair finally heralded the demise of the traditional House of Lords. |
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