Random House's The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997, co-edited by Rushdie, states unequivocally (and, for some, controversially) that writing in English far surpasses that in India's other languages.
In any event, these apologists insist that the programming in English is objective and fair, claiming that Colin Powell says it is the only network he watches.
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He does not accept the former minister's view that lessons in English schools are "content-lite".
Nonetheless, Congress should slash the corporate tax rate to a permanent level resembling that in Phil English's plan.
The final version of Ithkuil, which Quijada published in 2011, has twenty-two grammatical categories for verbs, compared with the six tense, aspect, person, number, mood, and voice that exist in English.
But the change of name comes at a sensitive time in Karnataka, where the government recently went a step further and threatened with closure more than 2, 000 private schools that taught in English, not Kannada, the local language.
And here is tea in that English mythorama, showing that the world is in order and that there will always be an England.
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But Glenn Smith, principal of Honiton Community College in Devon, told the BBC that teachers in his English department used "stringent" measures to ensure they were marking these assessments fairly and consistently.
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"I'm not convinced that if we had a second team playing in the Welsh League, that our future in the English pyramid system would be secured, " Ridsdale added.
Dr Arun Bal, head of the Association for Consumers Action on Safety and Health in Mumbai, alleges that subjects are often asked to sign consent forms in English and that women are pressured into signing by their families.
Logically, the main language of the EU ought to be English, a fact admitted by a growing number of corporations in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden that hold board meetings in English for purely practical reasons.
What that means in simple English is getting unions, suppliers and dealers to work more closely together to respond to demand shifts.
He said the contract was "quite clear", stating "in plain English" that "in the event Mr Stewart didn't perform, he would simply return the money".
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Specific marks are being allocated for good spelling, punctuation and grammar - a change that affects exams in English literature, geography, history and religious studies taken since January this year.
But it is clear from talking to Bordeaux striker David Bellion ahead of Wednesday's crunch Champions League match with Chelsea that his time in English football was the making of him.
He probably won't forgive me for saying that a pass in English is not guaranteed as he has managed to spell the amateur bit of amateur jockey wrong in his account profile.
Kael studied philosophy at Berkeley she worried that a degree in English would commit her, as a woman, to a future as a schoolteacher and spent much of her free time hanging out with avant-garde poets.
Mr Cameron reiterated his belief that the riots that erupted in several English cities last month were straightforward criminality - rather than any form of protest - but he said it was not just a criminal underclass who were responsible for them.
He joked that he had read in the press that the English translation of his name was "embittered" - making him suited to be the last prime minister of a political era.
Perhaps, too, there is something about the English language itself that makes fantasy so popular in English-speaking countries.
In 1996, English teachers in Guangdong complained that Li's methods were encouraging students to ignore their regular English studies.
Butt told India's NDTV in the wake of his side's win that "there is loud and clear talk in bookie circles that some English players were paid enormous amounts of money to lose".
Somehow it has become conventional wisdom in the English-speaking world that in the last two decades Japan has gone through something similar to the gut-wrenching economic problems suffered by the United States in the 1930s.
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"You can say things in our language that you can't say in English, " she said.
In French-speaking Quebec, many complain that English-speaking puritans in Ottawa are dictating what is good for them.
"I was so nervous this week - there was a lot of talk in the English media that they had one big game in them and I was dreading it would be against us, " he said.
By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
Noting that the US is on course to reach its debt ceiling next month, after which the "austerity time-bomb" will begin ticking again, Germany's Der Spiegel in English says that "we are... witnessing a superpower losing its way in a maze of details, propelled forward by grandstanding politicians".
The season opens Sept. 23 with conductor Valery Gergiev leading "Eugene Onegin, " in a Deborah Warner production that opened at the English National Opera in November 2011.
Credo finds that students in poverty and English language learners fare better in charters.
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