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Britain's and claims
By the end of August, relations improved again as the countries had redrawn the Hungarian and Romanian borders, settled some Bulgarian claims and Stalin was again convinced that Germany would face a long war in the west with Britain's improvement in its air battle with Germany and the execution of an agreement between the United States and Britain regarding destroyers and bases.
Gower also claims Britain's Best Beach, Three Cliffs Bay.
Opposition claims of electoral fraud were upheld by a team of international observers headed by Britain's Lord Avebury.
This position of Gulliver's reflects the decision of the Tory government of to withdraw from the War of the Spanish Succession, despite the opposition of Britain's allies, on the grounds that the important objects of the war had been met, and that the larger claims which Whig members of Parliament claimed on behalf of Britain were excessive.
The organisation's goal was to promote Britain's claims to Antarctica, and secondarily to support scientific research.
The Stamford Mercury claims to have been published since 1695, and to be " Britain's oldest newspaper ".
It claims that the traditional counties are an important part of Britain's cultural heritage and as such should be preserved and promoted.
The ABC claims that the traditional counties are an important part of Britain's cultural heritage and as such should be preserved and promoted.
Britain's claims were intensely disputed by a confederation of Indians during Pontiac's Rebellion, which induced major concessions to still sovereign Indian nations ; and by the Iroquois Confederacy, whose six member nations — Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cuyoga, Seneca and Tuscorora — never conceded sovereignty to either Britain or, later, The United States.
American claims to Michigan were frustrated by Britain's refusal to evacuate the forts at Detroit, Mackinac and elsewhere.
The island lays claims to many " most northerly " UK titles: the tiny settlement of Skaw in the north-east of the island is the northernmost settlement in the UK ; Haroldswick is the site of Britain's most northerly church ; the Muckle Flugga lighthouse, just off the far north of Unst, was opened in 1858 and is the most northerly lighthouse in the UK, situated close to Out Stack, the most northerly rock in the UK.
In similar fashion, Britain's most northerly maritime claims are also based on these islands, having great effect on its fishing and oil industries.
In 2006 Britain's then head of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller said of Al-Qaeda that it " has developed an ideology which claims that Islam is under attack, and needs to be defended ".
In a controversial article published by the Center for Research on Globalisation, Wayne Madsen claims to have obtained a leaked DGSE report which states that " the CIA and Britain's MI6 maintained effective control of an important Al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan as late as 1995, fully two years after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Colchester claims to be Britain's oldest recorded town.
Vladimir explains that Britain's lax attitude to anarchism endangers his own country, and he reasons that an attack on ' science ', which he claims is the current vogue amongst the public, will provide the necessary outrage for suppression.
These claims would become a key point in Britain's position during the Nootka Crisis.
This was done to counter the claims of manifest destiny made by the United States of America, for the defense of Britain's holdings.
After Armstrong and Hensley were killed, the British government and media responded by turning Bigley's fate into Britain's major political issue during this period, leading to subsequent claims that the government had become a hostage to the situation, as President Jimmy Carter had arguably done during the 444-day Iran hostage crisis in 1979-81.
The outcome in Britain's favour contributed to the stabilisation of colonial claims and the eventual end of the ' Scramble for Africa '.
The conflicting claims to the island were settled in Britain's favour in 1867.

Britain's and region
The British insisted Abdur Rahman accept sovereignty over this remote region where unruly Kyrgyz held sway, he had no choice but to accept Britain's compromise.
Britain's interest in the region declined since the end of the British slave trade in 1807.
The British influence in the region of Afghanistan and Pakistan was most prominent during the late 19th century and early portion of the 20th century, when the British sought to reestablish efforts at colonization in the East India Company during Britain's imperial century.
Chamberlain believed that West Africa had great economic potential, and shared Salisbury's suspicions of the French, who were Britain's principal rival in the region.
Lunenburg County in the Southside region was established on May 1, 1746 in Great Britain's Virginia Colony from Brunswick County.
British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, officially stated Britain's support of strong pan-Arab ties in a bid to ease anti-British sentiments in the region.
Retford's Kings Park received national recognition in 2007 when it won the prestigious Britain's Best Park competition in the Midlands region.
For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but Britain's interest in the region declined with the end of the British slave trade in 1807.
While in India, the Dalai Lama became a close friend of Charles Alfred Bell, a British diplomatic officer stationed in Sikkim and a critic of Great Britain's policies in the region.
Nasser's growing influence in the Non-Aligned Movement and the recent failure of the Baghdad Pact aided such a goal by reducing Britain's dominance over the region.
The Treaty of As Sib was, de facto, a partition agreement between Muscat and Oman, serving Britain's interest in preserving its power through the office of the sultan without dispatching British troops to the region.

Britain's and were
-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.
In Europe, the major source for tin was Great Britain's deposits of ore in Cornwall, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The comics were also distributed in some of Britain's colonies or former colonies.
Other pre-war processes in Britain were inadequate to meet the increased demand in World War I, and a shortage of cordite would have severely hampered Britain's war effort.
Development schemes were implemented to help solve Britain's desperate post-war balance of payments crisis and raise African living standards.
Although these writings were considered too radical at the time for Britain's new rulers, they later came to be cited by Whigs, radicals and supporters of the American Revolution.
Britain's only cuirassiers were the Household Cavalry, but Dragoon Guards regiments were classed as heavy cavalry.
1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).
In Great Britain's Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force these aircraft were referred to as " scouts " into the early 1920s.
There were many other interactive exhibits, a cafe, a shop and one of Britain's fastest cybercafés ( a one gigabit pipe and a theoretical maximum speed per iMac of 100 Mbit ).
Many of Britain's major cities, such as London ( Londinium ), Manchester ( Mamucium ) and York ( Eburacum ), were founded by the Romans.
His activities were moderated only by Joseph Stalin's fears that he was secretly on Britain's side.
The Tory government was dividing the country and proving highly controversial as its monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation were contributing to a significant rise in unemployment which had helped plunge Britain's economy into recession earlier in 1980.
During Britain's participation in the Seven Years War, for example, the powers of government were divided equally between the Duke of Newcastle and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, leading to them both alternatively being described as Prime Minister.
Ringwood Brewery founder, Peter Austin, is thought to be an influence on Britain's craft brewery rebirth in much the same way that Fritz Maytag of San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company and Pierre Celis of Belgium's Hoegaarden Brewery were to their countries.
Kruger won another presidential election in 1898, but the following year British forces were gathering on the borders of the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and fearing Britain's imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the Second Boer War.
The first capture of a Naval Enigma machine and associated cipher keys from a U-boat were made on May 9, 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell.
The V bombers were to carry the GAM-87 Skybolt, an air-launched ballistic missile, to update their strike potential as new innovations in the Cold War made their early style of operation less viable ; however Skybolt was cancelled by the US and the Royal Navy became Britain's main provider of the nuclear deterrent, using UGM-27 Polaris intercontinental ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines in the 1970s.
Spain was concerned that Britain's victories over France had left them too powerful, and were a threat in the long term to Spain's own empire.
On the retreat they were intercepted at the Battle of the Thames ( October 5, 1813 ) and destroyed in a major American victory that killed Tecumseh and broke the power of Britain's Indian allies.
His title reflected the centrality of Britain's perspective on migration in the colonies at the time, especially since most new arrivals in Upper Canada were from the United Kingdom.
Many Boers who were dissatisfied with aspects of the British administration, in particular with Britain's abolition of slavery on 1 December 1834, elected to migrate away from British rule in what became known as the Great Trek.
Suede were the first of the new crop of guitar-orientated bands to be embraced by the UK music media as Britain's answer to Seattle's grunge sound.
Despite several references listing different combinations of Picti, Scotti, Hiberni, Attecotti and Saxons together as later Roman Britain's archetypal enemies, it is worth noting that ' Scotti ' and ' Hiberni ' are never listed together, perhaps suggesting that they were then, as they were later, alternative names for the Irish or confederations of the Irish.

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