Sentence examples for of british knowledge from inspiring English sources

In this century, building on the wealth of British knowledge and culture, we want to offer another gift: the Ideas Service.

Aamer's claims of British knowledge of his torture, and that of al-Libi, make a proper, open inquiry into Britain's role, and into how much ministers knew about it, all the more urgent.

The road to the High Court opened up in May this year, when Binyam's lawyers at the legal action charity Reprieve, who represent over 30 Guantánamo prisoners, teamed up with solicitors at Leigh Day & Co. to sue the British government, seeking the release of information relating to British knowledge of Binyam's rendition and torture, in preparation for his impending trial at Guantánamo.

The revelations will fuel the row surrounding official British knowledge of the use of torture to obtain intelligence from suspected insurgents and terrorists.

Seventy-five yeago ago, the undercover American mission involved exchanging the United States' expertise in cracking Japan's secret communications system, named Purple, with British knowledge of the German Enigma system.

Letterman gave him a pretty esoteric quiz of British general knowledge.

"Foliard offers an exhaustive account of British cartographic knowledge of the region before border incisions were made during and immediately after the First World War.

But the exhibition too quickly drops the idea of chronicling the evolution of British self-knowledge and instead focuses on a series of isolated examples.

The WCRF's latest snapshot of levels of British people's knowledge about possible carcinogens also reveals that 51% do not know that processed meat increases cancer risk.

Working knowledge of British and American history, ditto politics, smattering of geography, a grasp of English Literature that might be compared to Sam Weller's knowledge of London (which Dickens describes as "extensive" but also "peculiar"), an ability to just about hold a conversation in pidgin French if the vis-à-vis speaks very slowly, but beyond that, well, nothing.

Nobody would disagree that children should have a good knowledge of British history.