These quotations had formed the basis of media reports claiming that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

Blair's discussion of the history of written discourse is another important contribution to composition theory because this history was previously neglected.

Rammell said: " I will today sign four bilateral agreements with my Libyan counterpart, Abdulatti al-Obidi, which will strengthen our judicial ties, as agreed during Tony Blair's visit to Libya in May last year.

Since 1990 two variants of this song have been heard-adapted for both her successors ; replacing ' Major ' for ' Maggie ' during the tenure of John Major and ' Tony ' for ' Maggie ' since Tony Blair's plan for the Iraq War in 2003.

) Its action takes place in the spring term of 1997 ( during the time of Tony Blair's landslide victory ).

* In 2003, Alastair Campbell ( who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM ) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies. The alleged bug discovery was at a hotel during PM Tony Blair's official visit to New Delhi in 2001.

Obtaining a divorce in Reno required a person to demonstrate that their spouse had committed either adultery or extreme cruelty ; Blair's complaint accused Beebe of the latter, claiming that during the pheasant expedition he had threatened to commit suicide by " throwing himself in the river, shooting himself through the roof of the mouth with a revolver, and by cutting his throat with a razor.

On the other hand, some biographers have suggested that Beebe suffered a nervous breakdown during the expedition, and that he may have contributed his own part to Blair's alienation.

Though Blair's Sermons eventually fell out of favour for lacking doctrinal definiteness —" a bucket of warm water ", as one opinion puts it — they were undoubtedly influential during Blair's lifetime and for several decades after his death.

Other guest roles included the boyfriends of the girls ; Jo's parents, played by Alex Rocco and Claire Malis ; Blair's parents, played by Nicolas Coster and Marj Dusay ( Blair's mother was played by Pam Huntington in one episode during the first season ); Tootie's parents, played by Kim Fields ' real-life mother, actress Chip Fields, and Robert Hooks ; and Natalie's parents, played by Norman Burton and Mitzi Hoag.

At the time, the mainstream U. S. print media did not cover the story ( although the controversy was later, in June 2005, addressed in the British press after it was announced that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's son Euan would work as an unpaid intern for Dreier's committee during the summer of 2005 ).

He was eventually appointed chair of the Commons sub-committee on employment, becoming something of a thorn in the Government's side during Mr Blair's first term.

On 25 April 2005, during the run-up to the 2005 general election, he announced he would be defecting to the Liberal Democrats, ironically the successor party to the SDP, citing the invasion of Iraq of which he has been a long-term critic, university tuition fees and anti-terrorism laws as reasons for his defection and Blair's " scorn for liberal Britain ".

In December 2005, the phrase was used by British United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ) Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) Nigel Farage who said the French President Jacques Chirac was "... no cheese-eating surrender monkey, he ", in an unflattering comparison to Tony Blair during a session of the European Parliament following Blair's brokering of the EU budget deal.

And during Tony Blair's visit end of May 2007, the British group BP signed a natural gas contract for 900 million dollars.

In many ways Blair's house is similar to 10 Downing Street, having even been used as a replica for the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury during the filming of the TV series " The Alan Clark Diaries ".

Blair's camp public persona is regularly mocked in the introduction to the game Sound Charades on BBC Radio 4's comedy show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, normally by double entendre during over-the-top accounts of Blair's skills on Give Us A Clue.

Blair's F6F " Hellcat ", of Fighting Squadron Nine from USS Essex ( CV-9 ), had been shot down during the dawn fighter sweep over Truk.

A diplomatic resolution was reached at the beginning of September 2005 during Tony Blair's visit to China, putting an end to a situation the UK press had dubbed " Bra Wars ".

At a June 28, 2010 rally, protesters called for Blair's resignation, because of orders he gave that led to the detention of nearly demonstrators during the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests.

Under Blair's leadership the party abandoned many policies it had held for decades and embraced many of the measures enacted during Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister, including the Building Societies ( deregulation ) Act of 1986.

Blair's time at St. Cyprian's informed his essay " Such, Such Were the Joys "

Speaking of prime minister Tony Blair's criticism of the mass media at the time he left office, Paxman asserted that often press and broadcasting may be " oppositional " in relation to the government of the day this could only benefit democracy.

By October 2005, her problems with Blair's leadership swelled to a point where she threatened to challenge the Prime Minister as a stalking horse candidate in a leadership contest if he did not stand down within a reasonable amount of time.

Although newspapers at the time reported Blair's accusations uncritically, with headlines such as " Naturalist was cruel ", modern biographers consider it more likely that Blair resorted to hyperbole in order to make a case for divorce.

In announcing his intention to run for the leadership, David Miliband declared that the New Labour era was over, and following the publication of Tony ' Blair's memoirs on 1 September 2010, Ed Miliband said " I think it is time to move on from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson and to move on from the New Labour establishment and that is the candidate that I am at this election who can best turn the page.

After some time, Blair's successor Gordon Brown made her Minister of State for Housing and Planning in 2008.

Despite the declining popularity of published religious teachings at the time, the success of Sermons paralleled Blair's success as a preacher.

Blair's optimistic view that upward mobility could be affected by an understanding of eloquence and refined literature fit perfectly with the mentality of the time.

Blair's leadership role in the Iraq War helped him to sustain a strong relationship with Bush through to the end of his time as prime minister, but it was unpopular within his own party and lowered his public approval ratings.

" In response to the episode, Boris Johnson, at the time a Conservative MP and journalist who had been severely criticised by Toynbee, rejected any association with Toynbee's views, writing that she " incarnates all the nannying, high-taxing, high-spending schoolmarminess of Blair's Britain.

Although the Army focused primarily on infra-red detection systems ( a popular idea at the time ), in 1935 work turned to radar again when one of Blair's recent arrivals, Roger B. Colton, convinced him to send another engineer to investigate the US Navy's CXAM radar project.

By November 1891 William Dickson, at Edison's laboratory, was using Blair's stock for Kinetoscope experiments.

Blair's maternal grandmother lived at Moulmein, so he chose a posting in Burma.

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

According to Anthony King, "" The props in Blair's theatre of celebrity included ... his guitar, his casual clothes ... footballs bounced skilfully off the top of his head ... and carefully choreographed speeches-cum-performances at Labour Party conferences.

The scheme was seen as an early example of what some saw as Tony Blair's often excessive optimism, who stated at the Dome's opening: " In the Dome we have a creation that, I believe, will truly be a beacon to the world ".

After Blair's two-year mission to England at the request of the House of Burgesses, the government granted a charter for the college.

The closest the Conservatives have ever come to losing this seat was at a by-election in November 1997, at the height of Tony Blair's ' honeymoon period ' as Prime Minister, following the resignation of the previous MP Piers Merchant in a sex scandal.

While at university, West was a member of the Socialist Workers Party and later briefly the Socialist Alliance ; West has been a left-wing activist for many years ; he was a critic of Tony Blair's New Labour government.

This was despite Labour's opinion poll showings from late 1992 onwards virtually all suggesting that they would gain a majority at the next election, particularly in the first year or so of Blair's leadership following his appointment in the summer of 1994.

Blair's parents wanted their daughter buried next to Nelson at Forest Lawn Cemetery but Harriet Nelson dismissed the idea.

and Gallop was a groomsman at Blair's 1980 wedding.

One of Tony Blair's first acts as prime minister was to replace the two 15-minute sessions with a single 30-minute session at noon on Wednesdays.

After the 2001 general election Bradshaw entered Tony Blair's government as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

As a minister of the Church of Scotland, and occupant of the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh, Blair's teachings had a great impact in both the spiritual and the secular realms.

Lectures, a compilation of 47 of Blair's lectures given to students at the University of Edinburgh, serves as a practical guide for youth on composition and language ; a guide that makes Blair the first great theorist of written discourse.

* Hugh Blair at MSU-a Website on Hugh Blair's life and philosophy

* Great Scots at Electric Scotland-an Article on Hugh Blair's legacy as a Scottish theorist