In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.

It implies that the British Prime Minister is Tony Blair.

Red top tabloids are so named due to their tendency, in British and Commonwealth usage, to have their mastheads printed in red ink ; the term compact was coined to avoid the connotation of the word tabloid, which implies a red top tabloid, and has lent its name to tabloid journalism, which is journalism after the fashion of red top reporters.

A British court once stated that the technical character test implies a " restatement of the problem in more imprecise terminology ".

In British English, highway is primarily a legal term, and normal usage implies roads, while legal usage covers any route or path with a public right of access, incuding footpaths etc.

Bede implies that in the time of Augustine of Canterbury, British churches used a baptismal rite that was in some way at variance with the Roman practice.

Robin Richardson, an original member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at a 2009 symposium on " Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination ", said that " the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant " on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a " severe mental illness " affecting " only a tiny minority of people "; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied " defensive and defiant " and absolves the user of " the responsibility of trying to understand them " or trying to change their views ; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts ; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict ; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically ; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, " an ethno-religious identity within European countries ", rather than hostility to Islam.

Another scene from the episode suggests that he worked for an established British banking firm before someone ( the episode implies it was someone connected with the bank ) enrolled him to a top secret government job.

As its name implies, the Jersey was bred on the British Channel Island of Jersey.

East Florida was established by the British colonial government in 1763 ; as its name implies it consisted of the eastern part of the region of Florida, with West Florida comprising the western parts.

It is the earliest known reference to cheese being eaten cooked in the British Isles but whether it implies a recipe like Welsh rarebit is a matter of speculation.

In addition, " the evidence for artifact trade between the British and the English " implies significant interaction and " just minimal interaction would surely have involved a high risk of plague transmission ".

The inclusion of a number of British Movement poets, as well as others, implies some kind of search for matching figures amongst the Americans.

As its name implies, the Guernsey was bred on the British Channel Island of Guernsey.

In the TV, Joker implies Donnie's fate is even worse than Yomiko thought, sparking her temporary insanity during which she destroyed the British Library.

The prominent British orientalist Bernard Lewis argues that in the Qur ' an and the ahadith jihad implies warfare in the large majority of cases.

* In one scene, shown in the British version only, Charles is seen to cast a piece of paper into a fire, in a context that heavily implies it was a marriage contract between himself and Lucy Walter, mother of his favorite, and ill-fated, natural son, James, Duke of Monmouth.

National associations of trade unions, such as British Trade Union Congress may also be considered a labour council, though the term often implies a primarily local organisation.

Honest trusteeship implies direct British Rule with a view to ultimate self-government ...".

The song also pokes fun at her performance in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, in which as Charlene Mitchell, later Robinson she was best known at the time, and implies that she was lucky to have been chosen over other soap stars, namely Paul Henry who was Benny Hawkins in the British drama Crossroads.

The model of the nation state implies that its population constitutes a nation, united by a common descent, a common language and many forms of shared culture.

The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune-telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation.

The Serbian cuisine, just like Serbian culture, implies not only regional elements connected to Serbia, but other parts of former Yugoslavia as well.

In Western and secular culture, religious education implies a type of education which largely separate from academia, and which ( generally ) regards religious belief as a fundamental tenet and operating modality, as well as a prerequisite condition of attendance.

Despite the general perception that American culture is characterized more by diversity than by homogeneity, the American ideology of cultural homogeneity implies an American mindset that because Eurocentric cultures are superior to others, people with different cultures should conform to the dominant monocultural canon and norms.

In the Amarna letters, mention is made of the contemporaneous king of Jerusalem was named Abdi-Heba, which is a theophoric name invoking a Hurrian goddess named Hebat ; unless a different ethnic group occupied Jerusalem in this period, this implies that the Jebusites were Hurrians themselves, were heavily influenced by Hurrian culture, or were dominated by a Hurrian maryannu class.

Number 88 symbolizes fortune and good luck in Chinese culture, since the word 8 sounds similar to the word Fā ( 发, which implies 发财, or wealth, in Mandarin ).

The Arabic word used for literature is " adab ", which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.

Set in Peking ( today Beijing ) as its name implies, and in the then present, surprisingly the work does not allude to the war with Japan at all, but chronicles the history of a well-heeled family that is incapable of surviving and adapting to social changes which are destroying the traditional world and culture in which they live.

The term implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet-based video game culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated ( e. g., " You just got pwned!

This implies that the patient ’ s oocytes should be fertilized in vitro and the embryos kept in culture until the diagnosis is established.

Lifestyle is a media culture term derived from that of style in art .< ref > Bernstein, J. M. Introduction, in Adorno Culture industry p. 35 quotation: Usually, but not always, it implies an affinity or identification within some matching subculture ( examples include hippies, yuppies, goths and punks ).

Like many academics in the humanities during the Cold War, Ward refrained from direct opposition to American foreign policy for most of his career, although his work, much of which is included in his career retrospective Red, White, and Blue: Men, Books, and Ideas in American Culture, implies a dialectical approach to understanding culture that would influence the New Left and other expressly radical critics.

In this case, Strauss ' use of cuit implies what culture and society do to the raw and make it ' done ' or ' cooked '.

In popular culture, it is typically made of paper and often marked with a D or the word " dunce ", and given to schoolchildren to wear as punishment by public humiliation for misbehavior and, as the name implies, stupidity.

Reviewer Eric Hanson writes, " Their selfishness and brutality, he implies, are simply an extreme manifestation of what consumer culture encourages in everyone.

As the name implies, the Tumulus culture is distinguished by the practice of burying the dead beneath kurgan burial mounds ( tumuli ).

Living from hunting wild animals implies being primitive, and being without cattle implies being very poor in the pastoralist Maa culture.

The German dramatist Heiner Müller, who along with Caryl Churchill and Pina Bausch has been identified as having produced a fusion or critical dialogue between Artaudian and Brechtian performance in their work ( which is one characteristic of the postmodern in theatre ), argues that we have yet to feel or to appreciate fully Artaud's contribution to theatrical culture ; his ideas are, Müller implies, ' untimely ' ( in Nietzsche's sense ):

The term is contrasted with popular culture or mass culture and also with folk culture, but by no means implies hostility to these.

As the neighborhood's name implies, higher learning is a major part of the culture of University Circle, with over 13, 000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students attending the areas various institutions.