He taught French for a year at Eton, where Eric Blair ( later to become George Orwell ) and Stephen Runciman were among his pupils, but was remembered as an incompetent and hopeless teacher who couldn ’ t keep discipline.

The government, headed by Tony Blair, however, blocked all attempts to revise the succession laws, claiming it would raise too many constitutional issues and it was unnecessary at the time.

This word was first used by Robert Blair ( d. 1828 ), professor of practical astronomy at Edinburgh University, to characterize a superior achromatism, and, subsequently, by many writers to denote freedom from spherical aberration.

In 2004 there was a limited-run revival at the Royal National Theatre starring Desmond Barrit as Pseudolus, Philip Quast as Miles Gloriosus, Hamish McColl as Hysterium and Isla Blair as Domina ( who had previously played Philia in the 1963 production ).

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

The announcement was made along with US President Bill Clinton, and U. K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.

In 1992 John Smith made him Shadow Social Security Secretary and three years later Dewar was made a Chief Whip for the Labour Party by Tony Blair,

Edinburgh is the home town of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, who was born in the city and attended Fettes College ; Robin Harper the co-convener of the Scottish Green Party ; and John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the United States Declaration of Independence, and later president of Princeton University.

Eastman Kodak made celluloid film commercially available in 1889 ; Thomas Henry Blair, in 1891, was its first competitor.

When the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project was released, the extensive marketing campaign claimed it to be a real documentary, compiled from footage discovered abandoned in a forest.

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in India.

His great-grandfather Charles Blair was a wealthy country gentleman in Dorset who married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland, and had income as an absentee landlord of slave plantations in Jamaica.

His grandfather, Thomas Richard Arthur Blair, was a clergyman.

His mother, Ida Mabel Blair ( née Limouzin ), grew up in Moulmein, Burma, where her French father was involved in speculative ventures.

Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in the summer of 1907, they did not see the husband and father Richard Blair until 1912.

But an Eton scholarship did not guarantee a place, and none was immediately available for Blair.

Stephen Runciman, who was at Eton with Blair, noted that he and his contemporaries appreciated Huxley's linguistic flair.

His father had retired to Southwold, Suffolk by this time ; Blair was enrolled at a crammer there called Craighurst, and brushed up on his classics, English and History.

In the spring he stayed briefly in Bramley, Leeds, with his sister Marjorie and her husband Humphrey Dakin, who was as unappreciative of Blair as when they knew each other as children.

Leaving for the MGM studio were Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson ( he briefly worked at Screen Gems for a year under Tashlin's supervision before going to MGM ), Preston Blair, Ed Love, Walter Clinton, and Grant Simmons.

During the government of Tony Blair, she briefly served as Minister for Women.

Over the years, the tune changed a number of times – totalling four pieces, the third debuting in 1993 and the fourth in 1997 – but the final edition in 1998 finished with the original ( each of the others having been heard briefly as imitations of the prime ministers who'd been in office when they were introduced – Blair, Major, Thatcher and Wilson – insisted on using the ' correct ' theme ).

Blair graduated Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas and briefly attended Prairie View A & M University.

After Blair learned that the shooting of de Menezes had been a case of mistaken identity, he briefly considered resigning.

Mary Blair worked briefly on art for Dumbo, an early version of Lady and the Tramp, and a second version of Fantasia which was not released until the late 1990s.

At first Blair taught without remuneration, but the popularity of his course led to the institution of a class in Rhetoric at the university and a paid professorship for Blair.

He taught at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, where he was chairman of the communications division.

From 2008-2011 Volf taught a course on “ Faith and Globalization ” with ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, an interdisciplinary course for students from all parts of Yale University.

Ferro taught himself animation from a book by Preston Blair.

Peter Hyman, former speechwriter to ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as former Head of Communications at 10 Downing Street, taught Politics and History at the school during the 2006-2007 school year.

La britpop selon Pulp, de Thatcher à Blair ( Autour du Livre, 2009 )-a French essay about the connections between Pulp and English popular culture of its time

The incorporators were John B. Smith, Henderson Gaylord, Peter Shupp, Draper Smith, Josiah M. Eno, Daniel Gardiner, A. R. Matthews, William Jenkins, George P. Richards, S. M. Davenport, Edward Griffith, Lewis Boughton, A. F. Shupp, John J. Shonk, James McAlarney, J. P. Davenport, Eli Bittenbender, David McDonald, C. A. Kuschke, Andrew F. Levi, Querin Krothe, David Madden, John Dodson, Darius Gardiner, John Cobley, William L. Lance, Jr., J. E. Smith, R. N. Smith, John Dennis, David Levi, W. W. Lance, William W. Dietrick, James Hutchison, George Brown, Oliver Davenport, Samuel French, A. Gabriel, Theodore Renshaw, Edward G. Jones, J. L. Nesbitt, J. W. Weston, J. H. Waters, John E. Halleck, E. R. Wolfe, F. E. Spry, C. F. Derby, Anthony Duffy, D. Brown, A. G. Rickard, Thomas P. Macfarlane, William L. Lance, Lewis Gorham, John Jessop, A. S. Davenport, A. Hutchison, Brice S. Blair, John S. Geddis and C. H. Wilson, M. D.

Among the world leaders who have visited Leinster House to address joint sessions of the Oireachtas are US Presidents John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Australian Prime Ministers Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard and French President François Mitterrand.

On Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi ( 1718 ) by Guillaume Delisle and on A Map of North America ( 1768 ) by John Blair, the St. Croix River — more specifically what was then known as the east branch of the St. Croix River ( known today as the Namekagon River )— is shown as the Ouasisacadeba, a French representation of the Dakota name for the St. Croix River.

After 9 / 11, she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

Blair also faced lobbying from the French President and Prime Minister, the German Chancellor, and the Spanish Prime Minister.

At the final European Council meeting on the treaty in Lisbon, on 19 November 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy set off public speculation on candidates by naming Tony Blair, Felipe González and Jean-Claude Juncker, and praising the three as worthy candidates with Blair in particular being a long time front runner for the post.

* Amin Maalouf, The Gardens of Light Jardins de Lumière, translated from French by Dorothy S. Blair, 242 p. ( Interlink Publishing Group, New York, 2007 ).

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.

In January 2007 Kathryn Blair, the daughter of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, completed an intensive French language and culture course at France's Sorbonne University.

She has been the recipient of several important awards, including the Blair Award, presented by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982, the Skowhegan Medal for Installation ( 1994 ), the Berlin Prize Fellowship ( 2000 ), and a diploma of Chevalier from the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government ( 2002 ).

Set at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, A Year in the Merde is about the cultural differences between the British and the French, which are somewhat heightened by the war, especially by the opposing views on the invasion held by Blair and Chirac respectively.

Some of the early international tributes to Reagan included those of Queen Elizabeth II, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, former Soviet Union Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, and French President Jacques Chirac.

It consisted of the townships of Watt, Cardwell, Humphrey, Conger, Stephenson, Brunel, Franklin, Sinclair, Chaffey, Bethune, Perry, Proud foot, Foley, Cowper, McDougall, Parry Sound Village and Island, Fergusson, Carling, Burpee, Shawanaga and settlements on the lake shore to the mouth of French River, Christie, Monteith, McKellar, Hagerman, Spence, Croft, McKenzie, Ferrie, Wilson, Mills, McConkey, Hardy, Chapman, Strong, Magnetawan, Joly, Lount, Machar, Laurier, Ryerson, Armour, McMurrich, Stisted, Pringle, Gurd, Himsworth, Nipissing, Burton, Gibson, Harrison, Wallbridge, Patterson, Blair, Mowat, and Brown, and

On the island, Blair discovers the terrible truth: the inhabitants on the island are actually a centuries old, colony of savage French pirates.

The UK after eight years of Blair Thirty British, US, French and Canadian scholars assess Blair's policies and style after two terms, in May 2005.

Since Missing, Shea has starred in many films, including Armyan Bernstein's Windy City ( opposite Kate Capshaw for which he won a " Best Actor " award at the Montreal Film Festival in 1984 ); Stealing Home with Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster and Blair Brown ; the French thriller Lune de Miel with Nathalie Baye ( also known as Honeymoon, shot in both French and English ); Uri Barbash's epic Unsettled Land ( also known as Ha-Holmeim, Israel, 1987 ) with Kelly McGillis ; Alan Alda's comedy A New Life with Alan Alda and Ann-Margret ; Jim Goddard's The Impossible Spy with Eli Wallach, also shot in Israel (" Best Actor " Golden Panda Award in China ); the futuristic Freejack ( 1992 ) with Rene Russo ; and the comedy Honey, I Blew Up the Kid with Rick Moranis.

French Presidents since De Gaulle have generally pursued fairly close relations with British leaders, including Jacques Chirac working with Tony Blair even during the Iraq War.