To test for a possible boost, they examined three different groups (English monolinguals, active English-Gaelic bilinguals who spoke Gaelic at home, and passive English-Gaelic bilinguals who no longer used Gaelic regularly).
In our research, for example, we found proxies for extremism included family trips to Pakistan, not being able to speak English, and active extended families.
The compiler (or compilers) was not an antiquarian: this collection of songs was intended for practical use, and represents the generation of English composers active between 1630 and1660.
1551 1619) was an English painter active in the later part of Elizabeth I's reign and for most of the reign of James I. In 1604, he was appointed picture maker to the heir to the throne, Prince Henry; and in 1607, serjeant-painter to King James I – a post he shared with John De Critz.
Her mother, descended from Scottish and English forebears, was active in society and philanthropic circles.
English Friends were active in the campaign to end the slave trade, and American Friends, urged on by John Woolman and others, voluntarily emancipated all their own slaves between 1758 and 1800.
Although many of the inhabitants of the county supported the Stuart cause during the English Civil Wars, active backing for the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745 was limited.
English remains an active second language, with its use allowed for some official purposes under the National Language Act of 1967.
The BNP's core membership has been swallowed up by the more active English Defence League (the EDL, duh), who soon followed suit by collapsing in on themselves after their leader, Tommy Robinson, was hit with a comical amount of criminal charges in a very short space of time.
