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French and German architects extrapolated the British emphasis on expressing the nature of materials into a movement with overarching ambitions.

British emphasis on the bomber, rather than the fighter plane, he argues, "represented a technological way of warfare" that accepted the killing of the enemy by machines.

In this respect, while the British emphasis on Elgar, Holst and Delius was a bit hit-and-miss, the focus on Dvorak to mark the centenary of his death was much more convincing.

The Daily News was a little indignant about the whole thing and irked by British emphasis on the prerogatives of royalty in a land which decided 150 years ago it wanted no part of royalty.

The military historian Correlli Barnett has argued that "in objective truth the Great War in no way inflicted crippling economic damage on Britain" but that the war only "crippled the British psychologically" (emphasis in original).

Unlike the Greeks, the British placed tremendous emphasis on team play and sportsmanship.

At emergency all-party talks convened today to keep the faltering accord alive, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness protested the emphasis British and Irish officials were putting on disarmament.

This looks more like a market rate than a market failure.Mr Cameron should have focused on the weakest part of British pay: its emphasis on short-term performance.

Although the museum also offers examples of French, German and British pianos, the emphasis on American ones highlights the fact that the piano was the first American product to supersede its European counterparts, Mr. Detrich says.

By 1970, the Texas collection had developed an emphasis on British modernism.

British multiculturalism, with its emphasis on differences, may make things harder for this kind of post-racial politician.