All police horses suitable for re-homing go to the International League for the Protection of Horses.
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Recent test results for 15-year-olds showing Wales had slipped down an international league table were "unaccaptable".
International league tables do not give the whole picture of England's schools, a professor of education says.
And British universities are the only European ones near the top of the two main international league tables.
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Idleness is a threat, however, in an era of performance targets, highly publicised literacy drives and international league tables.
Sir Michael also said he wanted to challenge schools to do better because the UK was falling behind comparable nations in international league tables.
Even so, this will still leave Britain in the bottom half of the international league table, with two million or more children in poverty.
Yet for all the official talk at home about ever-improving exam results, Britain is beginning to slide down the international league table of educational attainment.
That might sound far-fetched, yet China, once the world's technological leader, provides a sobering lesson on how economies can slide down the international league table.
In mathematics, England was 10th in the latest international league tables.
Despite its vast population, it is 38th in the international league table of countries sending students to the UK, below much smaller countries such as Kuwait and Jordan.
And as long as nobody was cruel enough to point to international league tables such as the PISA tests, showing British results stagnating while other countries soared ahead, all was well.
However the CBI's claim that the UK has slipped down international league tables is misleading and statistically inaccurate as made clear by the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority and other reports.
International league tables are prompting some change.
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But even to my trend-defying, label-resistant outlook, the most stunning aspect of less than 20 minutes of runway confections was its potential to catapult the best of Scottish textile manufacturing and artisan craftsmanship into a big, opulent international league, far away from the land of austerity.
Among the organizations with full or partial bans of composite bats: Little League International, Babe Ruth League, the National Federation of High School Associations, and the NCAA. In most cases, if a bat meets certain standards basically, not having any more pop than a wood or aluminum bat it will be allowed.
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The International Fight League, for example, consists of 12 mixed martial arts teams.
The weakest schools are concentrated in our poorest towns and cities, and we are plummeting down the international education league tables.
Iestyn Harris, making his return to international rugby league, marked his return with a penalty from in front of the posts and a 20-12 lead to Great Britain.
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Indian Railways scores badly in most international productivity league tables.
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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.
According to one of those advisers, with the exception of America, nearly all the countries that are around or above Britain in the international competitiveness league tables (the Scandinavians, Canada, Singapore, the Netherlands) combine exactly the kind of economic dynamism with the extensive and relatively efficient public sectors that New Labour wants.
Italy briefly led as former Australian rugby league international Craig Gower kicked a penalty.
The former Sydney Roosters coach still remains the subject of a Rugby League International Federation investigation.
The GMB union said the UK had fallen 20 places behind in an international gender pay league.
Rugby League International Federation announced in Singapore on Tuesday that the UK would be the tournament's hosts.
La Leche League International, a breast-feeding advocacy organization, said losing the nursing mothers' provision would set back its cause.
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And manager Gary Johnson is delighted to have signed a player with recent experience of playing international and Champions League football.
Matthews has been tipped as a future Wales international and Premier League star after his impressive start to his Cardiff career.
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The 30-year-old former New Zealand rugby league international has agreed a two-year deal with the Exiles, which will begin at the start of next season.
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