Sentence examples for English dominance from inspiring English sources

Andrew Lang, in 1900, wrote that "with Alexander [I], Celtic domination ends; with David, Norman and English dominance is established".

All three of Owen Farrell's successful shots at goal came directly or indirectly from English dominance at the scrum.

Another choice is the school's dual-language program, which fosters bilingual learning among students who are split roughly 50-50, according to Spanish or English dominance.

Ditto, presumably, for the continuing Canadian dominance of ice hockey, the Japanese dominance of sumo wrestling, the English dominance of... um... darts.

But Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, football's governing body, cites English dominance of the Champions League as proof of the need to restrict how many foreigners a team may field.

Adam Price, the former Plaid MP who made headlines a decade ago when he tried to impeach Tony Blair over the Iraqi conflict, called for the Welsh people to cast off the shackles of 600 years of English dominance.

The oddness of the English political dominance was that there was no consistent attempt at a thoroughgoing Anglicisation.

With her bastardized English, her dominance over black men and her exaggeratedly, cartoonishly black attributes, the mammy figure was created to reinforce the idea that black people cannot mesh with white America.

It is rare for the English-language dominance of the musical-comedy genre to be breached by other countries, as France did with Irma la Douce (1956) or pre-Nazi Germany did with Die Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera, 1928) and Im weissen Rossl (1930; White Horse Inn); but in most European countries except Britain the line between musical and operetta (see below) is less distinctly marked.

Its two main objectives were the ouster of European competitors Portuguese, English, and Spanish and dominance of local trade, previously in native hands.

English football's dominance of the Champions League and the exciting climax to the Premiership title race helped swell profits and insulate it from the credit crunch, although its biggest-spending punters vanished in the last few weeks.