• Individual leagues are also heavily sponsored, with Heineken being one of the biggest supporter of the Champions League, and Barclays being included in the official name of the English league, called the Barclays Premier League.

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  • Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru, the Welsh title of the National Assembly, was originally displayed alongside its English name on the front of the Assembly building.

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  • Ten million was a whole lot of money in 1919 and when it attracted attention, Ponzi soon found himself with a five-year jail term and the dubious honor of adding his name to the English language for a type of fraud he hadn't even invented.

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  • He joked that he had read in the press that the English translation of his name was "embittered" - making him suited to be the last prime minister of a political era.

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  • Whitehall Palace - to replace the earlier complex of the same name - was the dream of Inigo Jones, the first English architect to design in the Classical style.

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  • Emma's aid-worker friends, who smiled away her defiance and flamboyant clothes in the name of English eccentricity, were becoming increasingly concerned that she had crossed the line between idealism and partisanship.

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  • Most of the non-English speaking world is literally locked out of the domain name system by reason of limitations in language.

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  • The genius of PressTV is its generic name, slick production values and the American-accented English of its hosts, which leads the casual viewer to believe they are just another American cable outlet.

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  • Wilkinson, who has 70 caps and 1, 032 international points to his name, joins the exodus of English players who have left the Premiership to join the cash-rich French league which includes Riki Flutey, James Haskell, Tom Palmer and Iain Balshaw.

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  • Up until the eighteenth century, the lovely English name for trombone was sackbut, a word of Old French or possibly Spanish derivation.

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  • Like many of my former students, he had chosen his English name for mysterious reasons, and now he taught in one of the poorest parts of Sichuan.

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  • Unfortunately, the Czechs have been unable to agree on a one-word informal name for their country, whether in Czech or English, since the peaceful demise of Czechoslovakia 11 years ago (the other half became Slovakia, which works fine so long as it is not confused with Slovenia).

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  • And now that English football's most decorated player has etched his name even more firmly into the annals of his club's history he has surely ensured that his achievements will prove unsurpassable.

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  • As the sort of people who are on a first-name basis with librarians, historians and English professors, historians are thrilled to hold a new book, to crack the binding and break it in like a new pair of shoes.

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  • He is the leader of a gang of "droogs" - the name given to his friends in the book's language Nadsat - a mix of Russian and English slang.

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  • Please accept my appreciation, and peace be upon you. (Applause.)HIS MAJESTY KING ABDULLAH: (As translated.) In the name of God most merciful, most compassionate, President Obama, peace be upon you.(In English.) For decades, a Palestinian-Israeli settlement has eluded us.

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