This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

The squad drew players from England, Scotland and Wales, though English players predominated.

The initial Lions selection consisted of fourteen Irish players, thirteen Welsh, eight English and two Scots in the 37-man squad.

The Australian press dubbed the tactic Bodyline, and claimed it was a deliberate attempt by the English team to intimidate and injure the Australian players.

It was only with the return of the English team and the subsequent use of Bodyline against English players in England by the touring West Indian cricket team in 1933 that demonstrated to the country the dangers it posed.

French and English basses are also sought by players of the highest caliber.

Two French trumpet technique books, authored by Jean-Baptiste Arban, and St. Jacome, were translated into English for use by American players.

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Some English players later expressed fears that a large-scale riot could break out and that the police would not be able to stop the irate home crowd, who were worried that Woodfull or Bradman could be killed, from attacking them.

English actor Joseph Crowell reported that the game was played in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1829, with a deck of 20 cards, and four players betting on which player's hand was the most valuable.

In Australian English, " record player " was the term ; " turntable " was a more technical term ; " gramophone " was restricted to the old mechanical ( i. e., wind-up ) players ; and " phonograph " was used as in British English.

The players and languages featured were Ken Griffey Jr. ( English ), Alex Rodriguez ( Spanish ), Chan Ho Park ( Korean ), Kazuhiro Sasaki ( Japanese ), Graeme Lloyd ( English, with an Australian accent ), Eric Gagne ( French ), Andruw Jones ( Dutch ), John Franco ( Italian ), Ivan Rodriguez ( Spanish ), and Mark McGwire ( English ).

") Grace,, ( 18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915 ) was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time.

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Blatter has often referred to the English Premier League as one of the major problems in football and uses it as an example, due to the influence of foreign players, coaches and owners in the top teams.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

* Unlicensed prize fights and other criminal activities of a sporting nature where the players consent and the audience actively approves of what they see ( in English law, see R v Coney ).

In 1903 – 04, the club built up a promising squad of players, and went on to dominate English football for almost a decade, the team known for their " artistic play, combining team-work and quick, short passing ".

During the summer of 1992 Southampton's manager, Ian Branfoot, became " the most popular manager in English football ", as he took telephone calls from clubs " trying to bargain with players they don't want plus cash ".

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

However, by 1906, the English Court of Appeal had made it clear in the decision of Automatic Self-Cleansing Filter Syndicate Co v Cunningham 2 Ch 34 that the division of powers between the board and the shareholders in general meaning depended on the construction of the articles of association and that, where the powers of management were vested in the board, the general meeting could not interfere with their lawful exercise.

Under English law, successive versions of Table A have reinforced the norm that, unless the directors are acting contrary to the law or the provisions of the Articles, the powers of conducting the management and affairs of the company are vested in them.

* Chief Executive Officer or CEO / Executive Director for the nonprofit sector ( United States ), Chief Executive or Managing director ( United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some other English speaking countries ) – The CEO of a corporation is the highest ranking management officer of a corporation and has final decisions over human, financial, environmental and technical operations of the corporation.

As such its general structure and management is determined by the Wet op het Hoger Onderwijs en Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ( English: Law on Higher Education and Scientific Research ).

" When concluding about the work, he declared, " The elements of this melody are only the common and well-known ones of English versification ; our author is always felicitous in their management, but no where has he blended them in so perfect a combination as in this instance.

The French word mesnagement ( later ménagement ) influenced the development in meaning of the English word management in the 17th and 18th centuries.

English speakers may also use the term " management " or " the management " as a collective word describing the managers of an organization, for example of a corporation.

In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was the first English football club to win the European Cup.

A chief executive officer ( CEO, American English ), managing director ( MD, British English ), executive director ( ED, American English ) for non-profit organizations, or chief executive ( CE, British English ) is the highest-ranking corporate officer ( executive ) or administrator in charge of total management of an organization.

English Heritage, a public body responsible for the management and maintenance of England's significant historical architecture and archaeology, has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England ; the town centre has been designated a Conservation Area of Special Architectural and Historic Interest.

* Internal drainage board, a type of English and Welsh water level management authority

Expenditures for the year included $ 616 million for English television, $ 402 million for French television, $ 126 million for specialty channels, a total of $ 348 million for radio services in both languages, $ 88 million for management and technical costs, and $ 124 million for " amortization of property and equipment.

* In spring 2002, on-air staff in Quebec and Moncton ( again, on both English and French networks ) were locked out by local management, leaving, among other things, NHL playoff games without commentary on French television.

* Students can study applied social science, broadcast media, business and management, community history, computing, education, English literature, environmental biology, human biology, mathematics, media studies and sociology.

English Heritage has a management contract to run Osborne House as an historic tourist attraction.

In late 1953 she proposed that data processing problems should be expressed using English keywords, but Rand management considered the idea unfeasible.

The club's most recent stint in the top division of English football was during the 2006 – 07 season, under Aidy Boothroyd's management.

Historic Scotland, English Heritage, and Cadw, occasionally award grants to support management agreements for monuments, and in some cases can help with major repairs.

It allowed the advancement of francophones towards management roles, until then largely out of their reach – despite the fact that 85 % of the population spoke French and most of them did not understand English, the language of management was English in most medium and large businesses.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Boniface was later to explain to the English that Robert of Burgundy and Guy De St.-Pol were easy enough to do business with ; ;

The English, relying on a prejudiced arbiter and confronted with superior diplomatic skill, were also hampered in their negotiations by the events that were taking place at home.

For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

its waves persisted for a week and were felt as far away as the English coast.

Traders from the English colonies were far more generous, and Indian loyalty turned to them.

These agents were to ascertain the difference between English and French goods, and the prices charged the Indians.

He asked the government for two hundred soldiers, who were to be specifically assigned to arrest English traders and disloyal Indians.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

Four little Japanese waitresses were murdering the English language at the counter -- Yuki Kobayashi happened to be one of them.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

Several later books were original in Europe, and at least one novel has only ever appeared in Italian, no English version yet published.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

The Irish were gay but made trouble in the house ; the English were of all kinds " She proposes this, after the fact, knowing the chosen Charlotte lasts decades.