Sentence examples for reference to british from inspiring English sources

This one is worthy of mention simply for its somewhat surprising reference to British history.

This article was amended on Sunday 29 March to remove a reference to British Influence as a thinktank.

Unfortunately his off-the-cuff comment included an injudicious reference to British director Steve McQueen's harrowing 12 Years a Slave, a rival for Oscars contention in March.

If what he really meant was that his officials had persuaded their counterparts in the US to redact any reference to British complicity from the Senate report, the case of Moazzam Begg shows that they had comprehensively failed.

Meanwhile, in 1883 Kruger again visited England and, after protracted negotiations, concluded a new convention in London on Feb. 27, 1884, which rectified the western border and removed any reference to British suzerainty over the Transvaal.

So long as that remains a given, it seems to me even better to have a British bill, worded in muscular English prose, with explicit reference to British history and traditions, wrapping in the Union Jack what will in practice be essentially the same rights.

Because they record the activities of the US military, the logs hold few references to British handling of detainees.

A beautiful butterfly jump into classic Weirness here with its mix of references to British dandies, goth-inflected punks and uptown ladies who lunch.

Among references to British complicity believed to have been redacted are passages relating to Diego Garcia, triggering speculation that Britain had lobbied the US Senate committee's members to delete all references to it.

Moving away from the Day-Glo Pop colors of New Labour that Darbyshire's earlier work made references to, the architecture here is pared down and Conservative, with references to British heritage.

The vitriol has a xenophobic edge: witness the venomous references to "British Petroleum", a name BP dropped in 1998 (just as well that it dispensed with the name Anglo-Iranian Oil Company even longer ago).