• He looks, for example, to England's historically smallish, nuclear families for an explanation of the country's early adoption of markets and the rule of law.

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  • Both the prime minister and the two other parties agree on the concept of a royal charter, a formal document used to establish and lay out the terms of an organisation, for example the Bank of England or the BBC, that cannot be changed without government approval.

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  • The Bank of England, for example, has bought the equivalent of one year's entire fiscal deficit.

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  • In North West England, for example, very few protection orders have been issued by the courts.

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  • In England, for example, burdensome inspection is being reduced and the Audit Commission abolished.

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  • Unlike the Bank of England, for example, the ECB gets to write its own definition of price stability.

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  • Two prisons in England, for example, show inmates a gangster-themed film from MyndPlay that teaches them to stay calm during threatening situations.

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  • If anything, Germany is treading less far down this path than some other countries in Britain, for example, the Bank of England will call the shots through a powerful new Financial Policy Committee, which has already started work.

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  • The first is that although the Welsh language flourishes (arguably because Welsh-medium schools offer a way for richer parents to enjoy academic selection), the region remains close to England, sharing, for example, the English press. (The Scots have their own newspapers.) And plenty of English newcomers are learning Welsh, drawn by those same good schools.

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  • The England team, for example, is made up of a generation who were inspired by the Italia 90 displays of Paul Gascoigne and company.

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  • For example, when the Bank of England began to tighten slightly its oversight of Moscow Narodny Bank in London after 1986, the USSR simply moved at least a portion of its more risque banking activities to Eurobank in Paris and East-West United Bank in Luxembourg where regulatory officials were more laissez-faire.

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  • For example, when the Bank of England began to tighten slightly its oversight of Moscow Narodny Bank in London after 1986, the USSR simply moved at least a portion of its more risque banking activities to Eurobank in Paris and East-West United Bank in Luxembourg -- where regulatory officials were more laissez-faire.

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  • The rate in England and Wales, for example, was 1.43 per 100, 000 from 2005 to 2007.

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  • For example, Ladbrokes International in London, England, creates Oscar odds by watching the results of other popular awards like the Golden Globes, then figuring the best bets.

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  • In the northern England city of Gateshead, for example, a De La Rue PLC plant prints bank notes on behalf of several euro-zone countries, according to people familiar with the matter.

    WSJ: Banks Prep for Life After Euro

  • India possibly didn't realise they were up against a team whose batsmen were in peak and insatiable form - England batsmen had scored, for example, six double centuries in the past 14 months alone, compared to eight in the previous 21 years.

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  • Van Etten fired executives, imposed tight controls and cut the number of chapters from 110 to 79 by, for example, merging six units in his native New England into one.

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  • In England's Premier League, for example, at the end of each season when competition points have been accrued, the three bottom-ranked teams will be relegated (demoted) to the level below (in England's case the second-tier Championship).

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  • For example, although demand for higher education has fallen in England, the actual entry rates for young people are close to trend.

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  • England does not have regions that are comparable to, for example, Germany (Bavaria) or Italy (Tuscany).

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  • The reason is that as and when the UK government, for example, is perceived to have borrowed too much, the Bank of England can buy some of its debt and turn it into money.

    BBC: The eurozone's borrowing costs may stay lethally high

  • Strangely, though, they had nicknames that evoked either the Broadway characters of Damon Runyon or, more bizarrely, the upper classes of Wodehousian England: Bongbong, Teddyboy, Ting Ting and Ballsy, for example.

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  • Last year, for example, Waldemar Schmidt, the company's boss, encouraged managers in northern England to stop competing on wage costs, even if it meant that the company would lose some bids.

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  • For example, until one brave woman sued the British government in Strasbourg, rape victims in England were subject to lengthy cross-examination in person by men who were alleged to have violated them.

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  • It was, for example, able to record the wandering of a wren from Cumbria in the north of England to Devon in the south a distance of 400km (250 miles), and an astonishing hop for a bird so small.

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  • England still retains the same inheritance traditions so evident in Pride and Prejudice, for example.

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  • For example, trading standards officers have been working with fish and chip shops in north-east England to get them to use salt shakers with fewer holes.

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  • Ritz-Carlton's use of cobalt-blue glasses in its hotel dining rooms can be traced back to Boston in the 1920s, for example, where window glass that had been imported from Europe and turned blue in the New England air was a symbol of wealth.

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  • No particular shame is felt, for example, over the famous goal Mr Maradona scored with his hand, unseen by the referee, to put England out of the 1986 World Cup which Argentina went on to win.

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  • In Britain, for example, Goodwin's niche brands besides NatWest and RBS range from Coutts (bankers to the Queen of England) to Tesco Personal Finance (a bank that's a joint venture with the supermarket chain) to DirectLine (insurance sales over the telephone).

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