In doing so, the bank again parts company with its peers, represented by the British Bankers' Association (BBA), which has opposed the electrification.

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For supporters of U.K. membership, which includes the overwhelming majority of British-based businesses as represented by the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors and TheCityUK, the omens do not look good.

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Elsewhere in the acting categories, the British are represented by Dame Helen Mirren who is up for her leading role in Hitchcock as the film director's wife, muse and editor, Alma Reville.

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They were represented during the hour-long hearing by a total of nine British lawyers, whose pleas to prevent the publication of the men's identities was rejected by Mr Gray.

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The ignominious defeat of Jemini (pictured above), the singing duo that represented Britain in the Eurovision contest, enraged the Europhobic British press, which reacted by stepping up its campaign against the new constitution.

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The police are not the only institution in British society in which black and brown people are under-represented, or by which they are unfairly treated.

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