Devolving more power to the English regions, for example, might help, except that the English are not conspicuously keen.

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The policy required Filipino-American employees to speak in English except when speaking to a patient with other language needs or during break time.

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It was a wonderful and strange little Christmas party, with us speaking no Dutch and the nuns speaking no English, except for the tiny bit Mother Superior knew.

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As for renewing the English language, except for Shakespeare, it has tended to do that by itself, and usually on the streets.

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All the rest are katakana (except one that is all hiragana and another English), visual and esthetic evidence that these are new companies, generally in service and new technology sectors.

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"I talk Spanish at home, except with my brothers, with them I speak English, " says Adriana, a teenager at Bell High School in East Los Angeles, California.

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By 1995 English rates of violent crime were already far higher than America's for every major violent crime except murder and rape.

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