Sentences with phrase «british culture of people»

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Unlike most British people of that age, he had travelled to the U.S. often, had many American friends, and understood the country's culture and politics.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

She argues this reserved British culture means unspoken truths are rarely aired and people are «scared» to connect with each other, leading to a highly pregnable sense of harmony as demonstrated by the 2011 riots.

On average, each person in Britain eats three potatoes every day — but they are so entrenched in the fabric of British food culture that I worry we don't give them enough applause.

British politics needs him, now more than ever Culture of Cameroon - history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs, family Bo - Co

Shane Meadows» low - key masterpiece «This is England» managed to remind the world that British skinhead culture began as a celebration of music and black culture, rather than of racism and punching people at soccer games.

Produced by the British Council and supported by HSBC, the «Year of the Sheep» education pack introduces pupils to the differences and similarities between the lives of people in China and the UK while aiming to help children learn more about Chinese language and culture.

Commenting on the pack, Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of the British Council, said: «It is designed to support young people's education about the world and to help them gain an understanding of other countries and cultures in preparation for life as global citizens.

Use the rich collection of the British Museum to explore key themes about Arab people and culture: achievement, art, conflict, diversity, gender and global interaction.

Imran Khan, chief executive of the British Science Association, said: «As a society, we need more and more young people who are curious about, and comfortable with, science — not least to ensure that we have a competitive economy and vibrant culture — so we hope that this report encourages more young people, teachers, schools, and parents to explore science and technology through the CREST Awards.

It is an intriguing history and leads on to unit 7 which revisits the reasons for abandonment and contrasts the culture of Aboriginal people and European settlers to provide reasons for the survival of Aboriginal groups in an environment where a British settlement failed.

Nicola Scott grew up in Sydney, Australia, on a robust diet of British and American pop culture where her fetish for people with amazing abilities and crazy cosmic contexts germinated.

Mandalay, the British colonial capital in Upper Burma, is now the market town of the Shan and Kachin people as well as a centre of Burmese culture and Buddhist learning.

After leaving the British - controlled island of St. Vincent, the Garifuna people moved en masse to Belize in the 19th century to become one of Belize's most iconic cultures.

That has led Daniel Zeichner, a member of the British Parliament from Cambridge, to pose two questions asking what Secretary of State for digital, culture, media, and sport Karen Bradley will do to protect people from loot boxes.

The artist has been particularly concerned with the diverse nature of British culture — its people, icons, folklore, history and politics.

By treading the sacred soil of Stonehenge in a frenzy of jumps, or acknowledging popular culture by mentioning music fans or British people gathered in Buckingham on the day of the death - announcement of Princess Diana, the idea is to foster the birth of the creative power of a crowd.

2006 Jake & Dinos Chapman and John Currin — etchings from the Collection of Magasin 3, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, SE Unholy Truths at Initial Access New Art from the Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK PLAY, Bearspace, London, UK Peculiar Culture: The Contemporary Baroque, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, CA Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990 - 2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN Works from the Frank Cohen Collection, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK With the Artists: New Paintings by Jake, Paul, George and Dinos, RS&A, London, UK The François Pinault Collection — A Post-Pop Selection, Palazzo Grazzi, Venice, IT Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK Eretica, Museum Sant» Anna, Palermo, IT People, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli (MADRE), Naples, IT Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averrof - Tositsas Foundation, Athens, GR Into Me / Out of Me, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US; travelling to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK INFINITE PAINTING: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro D'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, IT

In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the «100 most powerful people in British culture».

While the national average is 47 %, the number of people managers across the country that identified negative workplace culture as the top issue varies with 58 % in Alberta, 49 % in British Columbia, the territories and Ontario, 48 % in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 47 % in the Atlantic and 36 % in Quebec.

Abbotsford is the fifth - largest municipality in British Columbia, serving as the home to more than 140,000 people, a diverse local economy, and a rich culture of arts and heritage.

«Our investigators looked for coordinated activity tied to Russia which pertained to the EU referendum, in the form of ads delivered to people in the UK in the run - up to the vote,» the representative of the British branch of the company, Simon Milner said in a letter to Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee in the House of Commons.

Aboriginal people's peculiar use of English is part of what has kept culture going throughout British settlement and occupation.