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British

British meaning

The residents or inhabitants of Great Britain. | The citizens or inhabitants of the United Kingdom. | The earlier inhabitants of southern Britain, prior to the Anglo-Saxon invasion and subsequent migrations.

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She's nominated for British breakthrough act, British artist video of the year, British album of the year, British single, and British female solo artist.

As part of cost-cutting measures across the British Foreign Service, the British Government closed the British High Commission in Nuku alofa in March 2006, transferring representation of British interests to the High Commissioner in Fiji.

He was wildly jealous of the British, wanting to be British, wanting to be better at being British than the British were, while at the same time hating them and resenting them because he never could be fully accepted by them.sfn Langer et al.

Female goatling, British Saanen Toggenberg, British Toggenberg and British Alpine – 1 and 2, James Creighton.

But British governments could not cede them to Argentina without appearing to abandon a group of British citizens who wanted to remain under British rule.

Diners can choose from a farm-to-table menu championing British cheese makers and British charcuterie makers from across the British Isles.

Cayman is a territory founded and created by the British, with British values and British type institutions.

Since then, coal consumption has fallen 10 quadrillion British thermal units and petroleum, 2 quadrillion British thermal units, and this has more than offset the 7 quadrillion British thermal units rise in natural gas consumption.

Although the area remained under British or British-allied Indians' control until the end of the war, the British, at American insistence and with higher priorities, dropped the demands.

Although the Simla Manifesto stated that British troops would be withdrawn as soon as Shuja was installed in Kabul, Shuja's rule depended entirely on British arms to suppress rebellion and on British funds to buy the support of tribal chiefs.

As the British burned the Royal Savage to the east, the Americans successfully rowed past the British lines. citation However, upon realization of the Americans escape the following morning, the British set out after the fleeing continental vessels.

British and allies In 1784, a British lieutenant compiled a detailed list of 205 British officers killed in action during the war, including deaths in Europe, the Caribbean, and the East Indies.

British authority was fully restored in July 1971 and in 1980 Anguilla was finally allowed to secede from Saint Kitts and Nevis and become a separate British Crown colony (now a British overseas territory ).

British Columbia evolved from British possessions that were established in what is now British Columbia by 1871.

British–Irish Council main Another body established under the Good Friday Agreement, the British–Irish Council, is made up of all of the states and territories of the British Isles.

British North America Act, 1952 This was the first of the British North America Acts to be enacted by the Canadian Parliament (rather than by the British Parliament).

But you do not defend the British Army by defending the indefensible." citation He acknowledged that all those who died were unarmed when they were killed by British soldiers, and that a British soldier had fired the first shot at civilians.

By humiliating the British, it attempted to focus global attention on Palestine, hoping that any British overreaction would be widely reported, and thus result in more political pressure against the British.

Due to the growing British demand for Indian tea and the Chinese Emperor's lack of interest in British commodities other than silver, British traders resorted to trade in opium as a high-value commodity for which China was not self-sufficient.

During the experiment of 1968-1971, when the British Isles did not revert to Greenwich Mean Time during the winter, the all-year British Summer Time was called British Standard Time (BST).