Devolving more power to the English regions, for example, might help, except that the English are not conspicuously keen.
Historians have paid relatively little attention to this burst of English power.
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"Without a huge global event like the Olympics next year, we need to keep on finding smart new ways to share our soft power assets: English, our education system, our vibrant arts scene and our entrepreneurial spirit, " he said.
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The stock of English soccer power Manchester United has outperformed the market in 2013 with a gain of 19%.
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In a region with shocking levels of unemployment and lots of young people, knowledge of English means the power to get a better job, or perhaps to emigrate.
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Premier Goh recounted two more incidents: In 1995, Tang reportedly said political power in Singapore was concentrated among the English-educated, Christian elite, marginalizing the Chinese-educated.
Durham's power and influence then grew as successive English kings gave the Bishop of Durham princely status, so he could raise taxes and armies to fight off periodic Scottish invasions.
On the coast of Normandy overlooking the English Channel, sits the nuclear power plant at Flamanville.
More broadly, the English should welcome a decentralisation of power that may help to invigorate peripheral parts of Britain.
Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, a new tribute album, turns a cross-section of contemporary artists Cat Power and Michael Stipe among them loose on English-language versions of some of his best-known songs.
The 1970s marked the climax of Britain's postwar decline, in which "the English disease" overweening trade-union power was undermining the economy by strikes and inflationary wage settlements.
Filipino officers speak English, know and admire America, once the colonial power, and can bond with their comrades over beer and karaoke.
With a reduced Scottish power base, he will have to win support in Labour's English heartlands, particularly in the north of England.
They remained outside the great social networks of English life, those exclusive clubs that conferred inherited privilege and power and determined your prejudices, associates, and affiliations.
Couldn't it be argued that the extra water would have a positive, rather than adverse effect on English water supplies and therefore the Secretary of State's power might not be exercisable?
The prose, having gone from Uighur to German to English, is not graceful but neither does it distract from the power of Ms Kadeer's story from child refugee, poor housewife, wealthy tycoon and high official to political prisoner and exiled campaigner.
The Welsh education minister Labour's Leighton Andrews had already raised concerns with Ofqual about the English GCSE before the grades were formally received by schools and had the power to intervene.
Recommendations included giving the council more power to control the number of off-licences selling alcohol, and the provision of English language courses.
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