• Ms Lagarde, a perfect English speaker, has never expressed a desire to run for president.

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  • The scammer claims to be a native-born American citizen, but uses poor grammar indicative of a non-native English speaker.

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  • As a fluent English speaker in a country where that is decidedly not the norm, I was dreading a boring lesson.

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  • In both cases, the two words are nearly indistinguishable to an English speaker, but yield starkly different patterns when run through a spectrograph.

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  • In particular, Kuroda is a fluent English speaker and, after eight years at the helm of the Manila-based ADB, may be seen as a more effective ambassador for policies that have already caused friction among Japan's trading partners.

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  • The appointment of Egemen Bagis, a sharp young English-speaker, as Turkey's first cabinet-rank EU negotiator suggests that Mr Erdogan may make a fresh effort to put the EU talks back on track.

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  • The fluent English-speaker has spent the last eight years helping British and American troops speak to their Afghan allies, risking his life on patrol in Helmand, and working side by side with British soldiers.

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  • Pansieri, a fluent speaker of English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese, in addition to her native Italian, holds doctorate degrees in philosophy from Milan University and in Chinese language and literature from Venice University.

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  • An English, Mandarin and Cantonese speaker, Ng says a certain finesse is required in dealing with Chinese management teams, which culturally and linguistically tend toward innuendo instead of direct talk.

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  • But he warned that there could be "huge technical difficulties in identifying what counted as an English law" and the Commons Speaker, whose job it would be to decide, could be drawn into political controversy.

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  • Lord Elis-Thomas' comment was made in a public meeting after some members of the audience booed a speaker who addressed the meeting in English.

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  • Mary, a charming and gently-spoken woman who speaks English with the soft lilt of the native Gaelic-speaker - has a photograph of them all in Edinburgh: some haven't seen one another since.

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  • Although he is a Welsh speaker and his wife Lisa has learned the language, Mr Jones said their children learned English first because that was the language at home.

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