Upon independence from Britain the country was to be divided to create Pakistan, a Muslim nation.
He famously mocked the idea of American exceptionalism, deriding her as indistinct from Britain or Greece.
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There is, however, another way of drawing the poison from Britain's relations with Europe.
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For Indian producers, the appeal of casting someone from Britain also lies in the economics.
"It has been suggested by 2025, they may be gone from Britain altogether, " she said.
In the 1990s Saatchi started to sell his American collection and buy contemporary work from Britain.
Mr Nadir said the culture of the region's unofficial markets was different from Britain's.
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Aid will be more targeted: over 100 countries currently receive bilateral assistance from Britain.
Our modern naval traditions come from Britain and were honed during the War of 1812.
ZANU-PF, the party that has ruled the country since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.
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On the no-fly zone, the big push seems to be coming from Britain and France.
Now I better understand why our forefathers risked their lives to separate themselves from Britain.
When the news came through from Britain, the country did not come to a standstill.
Two centuries ago, sailing ships from Britain, France and America ruthlessly hunted whales among the islands.
He had to import a football and boots from Britain as there were none in Brazil.
Technically, euro-zone rescue plans could be crafted to avoid transfers of sovereignty from Britain.
One possibility would be to appoint joint chiefs of police from Britain and Ireland.
Molecular gastronomy has inspired chefs from Britain's Heston Blumenthal to Chicago's Grant Achatz and Denmark's Rene Redzepi.
Partly as a result of pressure from Britain, nine of Antigua's offshore banks have been closed down.
His lawyer, Baltasar Garzon, called earlier for him to be given safe passage to Ecuador from Britain.
To fill the gap, experts in innovative fund-raising from Britain are much in demand on the continent.
The conflict dates back to 1947, when the Indian subcontinent was partitioned on gaining independence from Britain.
This anti-industrialization theme reaches back to Gandhi's push for political as well as economic independence from Britain.
Miss Werner fled from Britain when Klaus Fuchs was arrested in 1950, and settled in East Berlin.
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And then secondly that any ceasefire in the area is eventually policed by monitors from Britain and elsewhere.
Others speculate that tax advantages for a Swede arising from Britain's nondomicile rule may have gilded Linkenholt's lily.
Two other eligible cardinals have already said they are not coming, one from Britain and another from Indonesia.
Customs is armed with an intellectual-property law that was strengthened just three days before the handover from Britain.
As well as Djokovic and Nadal, the No. 2 seed Andy Murray, from Britain, is in action on Wednesday.
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