It comes just weeks after communications regulator Ofcom said the future of English language TV broadcasting in Wales looked bleak.
In the knowledge of that, do we still think it is worth placing the future of English cricket under threat?
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The Welsh affairs committee has been gathering about the future of English language broadcasting in Wales, and interviewed leading figures at the BBC, ITV and S4C.
"There's no doubt that Courtney is the future of English rugby, " said Newman, who played 120 times for Saints before spending nine years as team manager.
"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.
The group argues the issue is particularly acute because of the critical importance of achieving a C grade in GCSE English for future educational and professional opportunities.
International rugby league is vital to the future health of an English game which has shrunk back, at an alarming rate, into a perceived northern ghetto in recent years.
However, according to Montague, that situation might change in the near future, with a massive English institution firmly on Qatar's radar.
"Considering we're such a young team, I think our average age is 23, I think we showed that hopefully the future is looking good for English rugby, " he said.
We expect him to play a significant role in English cricket in the future.
University College London researchers' study of 10, 000 English people also suggested future disability and poor health could be predicted by the state of a person's mind.
Bigger budgets means improved film quality and and in the future, the company hopes to produce films in English as well as Arabic.
No surprise, then, that immigrant parents overwhelmingly support English immersion for their children, recognizing that mastering English is critical for their kids' future achievement.
Later on, as a political hack in London, Wordsworth did ally himself with English Jacobins such as Wollstonecraft's future husband William Godwin, but his approach to politics was hardly dictated by dispassionate Godwinian rationalism.
For a start, they need to make sure that their movement, started by five English-speaking countries, does not in future look as Anglo-Saxon in character as it does right now.
Although outsiders are sometimes enthusiastic about their children learning Gaelic, language campaigners admit that many locals have long thought that it is English that matters most for their bairns' future.
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Their parents likely had no inkling that their future female offspring would be sitting at a computer taking an English-language standardized test in hopes of embarking on a career in business.
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The big question: can the world economy in its current condition sustain the advancement of English as a language of international business in the foreseeable future?
Some readers will be willing to make that trade-off, especially if Irex is able to add specialized stores in the future that offer, say, a large selection of non-English-language books.
It remains to be seen whether United, or indeed any other many English club, comes under Qatari ownership in the near future but, with a World Cup and possible Olympic Games both on the horizon, the tiny gulf state is only going to grow in sporting stature and importance over the next decade.
"The club's progress to the top of the English and European game means that they are set to remain a top 10 Money League club for the foreseeable future, and will look to push on ahead of the two English clubs immediately above them in the Money League, Arsenal and Chelsea, for a top five ranking, " said Houlihan.
English Heritage is currently considering a number of options for the future of the statue which includes fully repairing it or replacing it with a replica.
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Other moves, such as allowing English councils to retain business rate revenues and borrow money against future income generated from capital investment projects, represented "quite a dramatic loosening of the leash" of central government, he insisted.
City boss Roberto Mancini's contract runs until 2017, though there has been speculation surrounding the Italian's future following the appointment of former Barcelona vice president Ferran Soriano as the English champions' chief executive, who took up his new role in September, and the arrival of former Barcelona technical director Txiki Begiristain as director of football at the Etihad Stadium in October.
Sir Geoffrey Rowland was speaking about the future of the nearly 1, 000-year-old relationship with the English Crown.
An English entrepreneur, living on the Portuguese island of Madeira, said "the future looks very, very bleak and panic is in the air".
Our computers link us with family and friends, help us plan future travels, and are our source of entertainment in places where movies and television in English are elusive.
The search feature is only in English to start, but the company is planning on additional language support in the future.
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Alf Ramsey saw the shape of the future as far back as 1950 when a football team from the United States beat England, to English fans' disgust and American astonishment.
Some English judges have been worrying privately about the potential for abuse, and foreign litigants in future may face tougher scrutiny, particularly in actions against publishers with little presence in Britain.
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