Repeating what has become something of a mantra for the English team this last fortnight, she stressed that she thought the English athletes would be better competitors for coming through it.
They grudgingly came round to the idea in 1997 and did not attempt to block the final reading of the human rights bill because they were persuaded it was sensible to repatriate rights; "bring rights home" was the mantra, so that English judges got to make the decisions about our fundamental human rights rather than the mostly foreign judges in the European court of human rights.
Out of silence came an orchestral piece, thundering with drums, as a black screen flashed, in both Chinese and English, one of Mao's mantras: "Imperialism will never abandon its intention to destroy us".
Despite the air of effortless cool that surrounds the Luella label, Bartley herself is a remarkably focused designer, sticking to a self-confessed mantra of 'English cool meets English heritage'.
("Nobody ask him to come to the net," was the common imitation of Lendl's mantra as well as his English).
In one of his first English interviews, Mestre explains the label's mantra of "dark, not black," how the Desire name sprung out the pre-digital age and his laundry list of upcoming vinyl reissues. .
When asked what this year's mantra was, he answered, in accented English, "Global is local.
In Scotland it lives on, because people believe it was sabotaged by the English.Forget the beauty of self-determination: ridding Scotland of the Tories is the mantra of the independence campaign.
These days, whenever a moderate English player is transferred for a staggering sum of money – usually to Liverpool – all protests about the iceberg-sized fee are hushed immediately by the uttering of a simple mantra, "English Premium".
