Premier Sentence Examples

America takes a premier position in consumption of the raw material.

Now at last, after waiting so long, Signor Sonninos hour had struck, and he became premier for the first time.

Instead of presenting the Go vern- usual programme, the new premier read to the arliament.

Welcome to North London's premier fully irrigated live music festival.

Cavour died in 1861, and the following year Farini succeeded Rattazzi as premier, in which office he endeavoured to carry out Cavour's policy.

On the retirement of Marquis Ito in 1898 he again took office, combining the duties of premier with those of minister of foreign affairs.

On the resignation of Giolitti in March 1905 Tittoni became interim premier for a few days and remained in the Fortis Cabinet as Foreign Minister.

During the prosecution Giolitti abused his position as premier to abstract documents bearing on the case.

He made capital of the Socialist agitation and of the repression to which other statesmen resorted, and gave the agitators to understand that were he premier they would be allowed a free hand.

When Sonnino became premier in February 1906, Giolitti did not openly oppose him, but his followers did, and Sonnino was defeated in May, Giolitti becoming prime minister once more.

Macdonald took the leading part in all these discussions, and he thus naturally became the first premier of the Dominion.

The difficulties of organizing the new Dominion, the questions arising from diverse claims and the various conditions of the country, called for infinite tact and resource on the part of the premier.

From 1878 until his death in 1891 Sir John retained his position as premier of Canada, and his history is practically that of Canada (q.v.).

Bienerth's last act as premier in May 1911 was the appointment of a commission nominated by the Emperor, to draw up a scheme of administrative reform.

One of the Tory premier's first acts was to propose that a royal commission should be appointed to consider the best means for promoting art and science in the kingdom, and he nominated Prince Albert as president.

A Cabinet was formed, with Dr. Kramaf, who during the war had been sentenced to death for treason and afterwards reprieved, as premier, and Dr. Benes as foreign minister.

Campbell-Bannerman became premier at the end of 1905 was generally expected; but his elevation direct to the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade was somewhat of a surprise.

The president of the Board of Trade was the chief success of the ministry, and when Mr Asquith became premier in 1908 and promoted Mr Lloyd George to the chancellorship of the exchequer, the appointment was well received even in the City of London.

Distinct from this officer and independent of him, was the first equerry ("Premier Ecuyer"), who had charge of the horses which the sovereign used personally ("la petite ecurie"), and who attended on him when he rode out.

Before Sir Charles Warren reached Africa, Sir Thomas Upington, the Cape premier, and Sir Gordon Sprigg, the treasurer-general, went to Bechuanaland and arranged a " settlement " which would have left the Boer filibusters in possession, but the imperial government refused to take notice of this " settlement."

He became Minister of Agriculture in the Pelloux Cabinet (1898-9), and in 1905, on the fall of the Giolitti Cabinet, became premier.

An interesting autobiographical sketch of his youth, Tableau du premier dge, composed in 1786, was published in 1888 in the review, La Revolution francaise.

Collections of fruit grown in British Columbia have received premier honours at the competitive exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society in London, where their high quality and fine colour have been greatly appreciated.

The dispute was finally referred to a court of arbitration, on which Sir John Thompson, premier of the Dominion, sat as one of the British arbitrators.

He was the first French-Canadian to occupy the office of premier; and his personal supremacy was shown by his long continuance in power.

David, Laurier et son temps (Montreal, 1905); see also Henri Moreau, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier Ministre du Canada (Paris, 1902); and the collection of Laurier's speeches from 1871 to 1890, compiled by Ulric Barthe (Quebec, 1890).

The maharaja bahadur of Darbhanga, a Rajput, whose ancestor Mahesh Thakor received the Darbhanga raj (which includes large parts of the modern districts of Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, Monghyr, Purnea and Bhagalpur) from the emperor Akbar early in the 16th century, is not only the premier territorial noble of Behar but one of the greatest noblemen of all India.

So by his counsel the queen, while nominally in league with De Retz and the parliamentary Fronde, laboured to form a purely royal party, wearied by civil dissensions, who should act for her and her son's interest alone, under the leadership of Mathieu Mole, the famous premier president of the parlement of Paris.

Canning died on the 8th of August 1827, and was succeeded as premier by Lord Goderich.

In 1853 Brown became premier of "The Short Administration," which was defeated and compelled to resign after an existence of two days.

On the latter occasion he appointed C. C. Moreno, who had come to Honolulu in the interest of a Chinese steamship company, as Premier and minister of foreign affairs.

Lord Londonderry now became president of the council, Lord Lansdowne leader of the House of Lords, and Lord Salisbury, son of the late premier, who as Lord Cranborne had for three years been under-secretary for foreign affairs, was included in the cabinet as lord privy seal.

He preached to crowded congregations, and, when Lord Shelburne acceded to power, not only was he offered the post of private secretary to the premier, but it is said that one of the paragraphs in the king's speech was suggested by him and even inserted in his words.

Giolitti became premier, the Marquis di San Giuliano was selected as undersecretary for agriculture, while in the Pelloux ministry (1899-1900) he held the portfolio of posts and telegraphs.

In the autumn of 1911 the crisis with Turkey broke out, and it is believed that it was he who convinced the premier of the national necessity for the Italian occupation of Libya.

Public opinion was inclined to attribute the declaration of Italian neutrality to the premier rather than to the minister for foreign affairs.

Immediately east of the town is Hamilton palace, the seat of the duke of Hamilton and Brandon, premier peer of Scotland.

But while, during the summer of 1900, Milan was away from Servia taking waters in Carlsbad, and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, and while the premier, Dr Vladan Dyorevich, was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition, King Alexander suddenly announced to the people of Servia his engagement to Mme Draga Mashin, a widow, formerly a lady-in-waiting to Queen Natalie.

From 1872-1883 he was a Liberal member of the Federal House; from 1883-99 minister of education in the legislature of the province of Ontario; and from 1899-1905 premier and treasurer of that province.

At the large and important Premier mine in the Transvaal the Elmore process, used in British Columbia and in Wales for the separation of metallic ores, has been also introduced.

But by far the largest of all the pipes hitherto discovered is the Premier Section Or Kimberley Mine mine in the Transvaal, about 300 m.

In 1906 it was being worked as a shallow open mine; but the description of the Kimberley methods given above is applicable to the washing plant at that time being introduced into the Premier mine upona very large scale.

The Kimberley shales, which are penetrated by the De Beers group of pipes, were, however, certainly not the source of the carbon at the Premier (Transvaal) mine, for at this locality the shales do not exist.

But all previous records were surpassed in 1905 by a magnificent stone more than three times the size of any known diamond, which was found in the yellow ground at the newly discovered Premier mine in the Transvaal.

In January 1840 the Assam Company was formed to take over the early tea garden of the East India Company, and this, the premier company, is still in existence, having produced up to 1907 no less than 117,000,000 lb of tea and paid in dividends X1,360,000 or 730 per cent.

On the 23rd of October 1903 Baron Podevils, the new premier, addressing the Bavarian diet, declared that his government would combat with all its strength any tendency to assure the future of the Empire on any lines other than the federative basis laid down in the imperial constitution.

Under Oliver Mowat, premier from 1873 to 1896, the government, though strongly partisan, was thrifty afid honest.

In May 1895 Count Kalnoky had to retire, owing to a difference with Banffy, the Hungarian premier, arising out of the struggle with Rome.

In 1898 the expulsion of Austrian subjects from Prussia, in connexion with the Anti-Polish policy of the Prussian government, caused a passing irritation, to which Count Thun, the Austrian premier, gave expression.

At the end of 1902 the Hungarian premier, Szell, concluded with the Austrian premier, Kdrber, a new customs and trade alliance comprising a joint Austro-Hungarian tariff as a basis for the negotiation of new commercial treaties with Germany, Italy and other states.

Notwithstanding the concessions, obstruction was continued by the Clericals and the extreme Independents, partly in the hope of compelling the crown to grant the Magyar words of command and partly out of antipathy towards the person of the young calvinist premier.

This concession of form having been made to the Magyars without the knowledge of the Austrian government, Prince Konrad Hohenlohe, the Austrian premier, resigned office; and his successor, Baron Beck, eventually (July 6) withdrew from the table of the Reichsrath the whole Szell-Korber compact, declaring that the only remaining economic ties between the two countries were freedom of trade, the commercial treaties with foreign countries, the joint state bank and the management of excise.

If the Hungarian government wished to regulate its relationship to Austria in a more definite form, added the Austrian premier, it must conclude a new agreement before the end of the year 1907, when the reciprocity arrangement of 1899 would lapse.

The premier, Baron Gautsch, who had previously discountenanced universal suffrage while admitting the desirability of a restricted reform, then changed attitude and permitted an enormous Socialist demonstration, in support of universal suffrage, to take place (November 28) in the Vienna Ringstrasse.

On the same day the premier promised to introduce by February a large measure of franchise reform so framed as to protect racial minorities from being overwhelmed at the polls by majorities of other races.

The premier, Dr von Korber, who had undertaken to overcome obstruc and January 1903 to promote a compromise between Czechs and Germans proved equally futile.

The young khedive was made therefore to understand that he must not make such changes in the administration without a previous agreement with the representative of the protecting power; and a compromise was effected by which Fakhri Pasha retired, and the post of premier was confided once more to Riaz.

In November 1908 Mustafa Fehmi, who had been premier since 1895, resigned, and was succeeded by Boutros Pasha, a Copt of marked ability, who had been for several years foreign minister.

The khedive was practically compelled to form a government in which Arabi was minister of war and Mahmud Sami premier, and Arabi took steps to extend his influence throughout his army.

In 1896 he became premier (president du conseil) and minister for agriculture, offices which he vacated in 1898.

A systematic policy of detraction was pursued by the small section of the Radical party who objected to a peer premier as such, and a great deal of adverse criticism was also aroused by a speech in which the prime minister, taunted for not again bringing forward a Home Rule measure, insisted upon the truism that the conversion of England, the "predominant partner," was a necessary condition of success.

The premier was thought to have shown a restlessness and a rawness at, the touch of censure which did not increase his reputation for reserve power or strength, but this was undoubtedly due in large measure to the recrudescence of the insomnia from which he had suffered in 1891.

The town owes its importance entirely to being the headquarters of the maharaja of Burdwan, the premier nobleman of lower Bengal, whose rent-roll is upwards of £300,000.

This speech marked him out as the strong man of the day in French politics; and when the Sarrien ministry resigned in October, he became premier.

He twice held the post of premier, and was the leader of Japanese conservatism, being a staunch opponent of party cabinets.

Appointed Piedmontese minister of the interior, he resigned office shortly after Cavour's death, but was subsequently chosen to be minister of finance by Farini, whom he succeeded as premier in 1863.

In 1855 he was defeated by Mr (afterwards Sir Charles) Tupper, but was elected by acclamation in the next year in Hants county, and was from 1860 to 1863 premier of Nova Scotia.

Kosala, the modern kingdom of Oudh, appears to have been the premier state of India in 600 B.C. Later the supremacy was reft from it by the kingdom of Magadha, the modern Behar (q.v.).

Early in 1891 he succeeded Crispi as premier and minister of foreign affairs by forming a coalition cabinet with a part of the Left under Nicotera; his administration proved vacillating, but it initiated the economies by which Italian finances were put on a sound basis and also renewed the Triple Alliance.

The crisis consequent upon -the disaster of Adowa (1st March 1896) enabled Rudini to return to power as premier and minister of the interior in a cabinet formed by the veteran Conservative, General Ricotti.

From December 1894 till April 1896 he was premier of Canada, and endeavoured to enforce remedial legislation in the question of the Manitoba schools.

Salandra was called upon to form the new Cabinet, and he was Premier when the World War broke out in Aug.

On the fall of Orlando he succeeded him as premier, but his administration was a weak one, the Socialists and Communists being allowed to commit innumerable acts of criminal violence with absolute immunity.

The new premier succeeded in persuading the Riksdag to pass a bill increasing the period of service with the colours in the army to six years and that in the militia to forty-two days, and as a set-off a remission of 3 o% on the land taxes.

During the Riksdag of the same year, however, the premier, Themptauder, emphatically declared himself against the protectionist party, and while the parties in the Second Chamber were equal in number, the proposed tax on corn was rejected in the First Chamber.

The king retained, however, for a time several members of the ministry, but it was difficult to find a premier who would be able, during the transition from one system to another, to command sufficient authority to control the parties.

The influence of the country representatives was thus re-established in the Second Chamber, but now the demands for the extension of the franchise came more and more to the front, and the premier, Bostrom, at last felt bound to do something to meet these demands.

The selection of a premier was one of the first weighty questions for solution.

It has been stated that the asafu d-daula was a competitor with Hajji Mirza Aghasi for the post of premier in the cabinet of Mahommed Shah, that he was afterwards, in the same reign, exiled for rising in.

He was credited with an intention to grasp in his own hands the royal power; his influence over the army was cited as a cause of danger; and on the night of the 13th of November 1851 he was summoned to the palace and informed that he was no longer premier.

In 1884, having the power in his hands when the Scanlen ministry fell, Hofmeyr had put into office a ministry dependent upon the Bond, and had talked of a possible Dutch rebellion in Cape Colony if the Boer freebooters in Bechuanaland were ejected; in 1890 Rhodes became premier with Hofmeyr's approval and support.

The first proposals for an armed rising came from Rhodes in June, but it was not until November that the Uitlander leaders came to a definite understanding with the Cape premier as to the course to be pursued.

That party soon afterwards had it in its power to bring pressure officially upon President Kruger, for it was a few months after the delivery of the s p eech that Mr Schreiner became premier.

But before the new constitution could be established a change of ministry in Great Britain put the Liberals in office, with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as premier (Dec. 1906).

General Botha became premier, with Mr Smuts as colonial secretary.

Fischer as premier and Generals Hertzog and de Wet as prominent colleagues.

In these circumstances Dr Jameson, as premier of Cape Colony, took the first overt step to reopening the question of federation.

They had met with the determined opposition of Mr Merriman (the Cape premier), of the Orange Free State Boers, and of the Bond, which had lost the counsel of Hofmeyr.

In 1824 he represented Austria as ambassador extraordinary at the coronation of Charles X., and was the premier Austrian commissioner at the London conferences of 1830-1836.

Overthrown by Cairoli in March 1878 on the grist-tax question, he succeeded, in the following December, in defeating Cairoli, became again premier, but on the 3rd of July 1879 was once more overturned by Cairoli.

Elected Italian deputy in 1861, he succeeded Cavour in the premiership. As premier he admitted the Garibaldian volunteers to the regular army, revoked the decree of exile against Mazzini, and attempted reconciliation with the Vatican; but his efforts were rendered ineffectual by the non possumus of the pope.

Calcutta and Bombay have long contested the position of the premier city of India in population and trade; but during the decade 1891-1901 the prevalence of plague in Bombay gave a considerable advantage to Calcutta, which was comparatively free from that disease.

He offered the post of premier to Count Julius Andrassy, but would not himself take any part in the administration.

Dalley, who was acting Premier during the absence through ill-health of Sir Alexander Stuart, made to the British government the offer of a contingent of the armed forces of New South Wales to aid the Imperial troops in the Sudan.

In 1889 the premier, Sir Henry Parkes, gave in his adhesion to the movement for Australasian federation, and New South Wales was represented at the first conference held at Melbourne in the beginning of 1890.

The then Premier, Mr Reid, was rather lukewarm, as he considered that the free-trade policy of New South Wales would be overridden by its protectionist neighbours and its metropolitan position Attitude interfered with.

Over the Foreign Office he asserted and exercised an arbitrary dominion, which the feeble efforts of the premier could not control.

On the 10th of July 1907 the Belgian premier announced that negotiations with the Congo State would be renewed, and on the 28th of November following a treaty was signed for the cession of the Congo State to Belgium.

Depretis, then premier, visited Naples, and in the course of a public speech gave vent to the famous dictum " Bisogna sventrare Napoli "- " Naples must be disembowelled!"

The chief mineral product in Bengal is coal, which disputes with the gold of Mysore for the place of premier importance in the mining industries of India.

Elections for a new chamber took place in February 1888, and the whole of the leaders of the opposition were elected, including Dimitrie Bratianu, the premier's brother, and Lascar Catargiu.

Sturdza again became premier.

After 1180 the premier position was assumed by Ghent, but until access by sea was stopped by the silting up of the Zwyn, which was complete by the year 1490, Bruges was the equal in wealth and power of its neighbour.

He was again premier at the time of the outbreak of the insurrection in Thessaly in January 1878, and supported by Delyanni as minister of foreign affairs he sent an army of 0,000 men to help the insurgents against Turkey.

In 1890 Sir Gordon Sprigg, the premier of the colony, resigned, and a Rhodes government was formed.

Whilst premier of Cape Colony, by means of the customs union and in every other way, Rhodes endeavoured to bring about a friendly measure of at least commercial federation among the states and colonies of South Africa.

He evinced, as premier of the Cape Colony, the same inability to understand the Uitlanders' grievances, the same futile belief in the eventual fairness of President Kruger, as he had shown when giving evidence before the British South Africa Select Committee into the causes of the Jameson Raid.

Sir Gordon Sprigg, four times premier, was associated with the Cape parliament from 1873 to 1904, and was once more elected to that assembly in 1908.

He promoted the Economic Conference in Paris in June 1916, and represented his country on the occasion, with Mr. Hughes, the Australian Premier, and Lord Crewe as his colleagues.

In 1873 the attack on Sir John Macdonald's ministry with regard to the Pacific Railway charter resulted in its defeat, and Mackenzie formed a new government, taking the portfolio of public works and becoming the first liberal premier of Canada.

Gratian drew his materials from the existing collections, and especially from the 5 P. Fournier, " Le Premier Manuel canonique de la reforme du XI e siecle," in Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome, xiv.

In 1882 he entered the local legislature as Liberal member for Halifax, and from 1884 to 1896 was premier and provincial secretary of the province, but in the latter year became finance minister in the Dominion administration of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and was elected to the House of Commons for Shelburne and Queen's county.

Ribot again became premier and minister of finance.

To the Premier's remonstrance that, after the recent verdict of the general election in favour of his policy, the Crown was not entitled to refuse its sanction, Constantine replied that in matters of foreign policy he did not consider himself bound to follow the national will, feeling himself " personally responsible to God alone."

In theory the viceroy, or ban of CroatiaSlavonia is nominated by the crown, and enjoys almost unlimited authority over local affairs; in practice the consent of the crown is purely formal, and the ban is appointed by the Hungarian premier, who can dismiss him at any moment.

The provincial government is subject to the ban, and comprises three ministries - the interior, justice, and religion and education, - for whose working the ban is responsible to the Hungarian premier, and to the national assembly of Croatia-Slavonia (Narodna Skupstina).

As among races much less advanced in civilization than the Vedic Indians, each of the greater powers has his own separate department, however much his worshippers may be inclined to regard him as an absolute premier with undisputed latitude of personal government.

As under the Empire, the Palatium was both royal court and centre of government, with the same bureaucratic hierarchy and the same forms of administration; and the mayor of the palace was premier official of this itinerant court and ambulatory government.

The premier not only approved Sagastas efforts to gather round him as many Liberals and Democrats as possible, but did not even oppose the return of Emilio Castelar and a few Republicans.

By the 24th the cabinet had resigned, and a Conservative government was in office under Seor Maura as premier.

Hicks Beach, they were convinced free-importers on purely economic grounds; and Mr Balfour (q.v.), as premier, managed to hold his colleagues and party together by taking the line that particular opinions on economic subjects should not be made a test of party loyalty.

In the new confederation he became sole responsible minister, with the title Bundes-Kanzler; this position he held till 1890, in addition to his former post of premier minister.

On the 27th of October, however, with the assistance of the Free Principles Party, he succeeded in composing a cabinet, in which he was minister of the interior as well as premier.

Having reconstriicted the Piedmontese army, he took part in the war of 1859 against Austria; and in July of that year succeeded Cavour in the premiership. In 1860 he was sent to Berlin and St Petersburg to arrange for the recognition of the kingdom of Italy, and subsequently he held the offices of governor of Milan and royal lieutenant at Naples, until, in September 1864, he succeeded Minghetti as premier.

He regarded himself, apparently, as premier, and sometimes overstepped the limits of his office in interfering with other departments.

He formed a regency ministry pending the arrival of his majesty, who confirmed his appointment, and for six years Canovas was premier except during the short-lived cabinets of Marshal Jovellar in 1875 and Marshal Campos for a few months in 1879.

He again became premier in 1883, and remained in office until November 1885; but he grew very unpopular, and nearly endangered the monarchy in 1885 by his violent repression of popular and press demonstrations, and of student riots in Madrid and the provinces.

In January 1887 Mercier was sworn in as premier and attorney-general, and from this moment he exercised an extraordinary influence in the province.

My only question would be his tactical acumen in the premier league.

He reckons he is the world's premier all-rounder.

The Premier Flute Choir has been fortunate enough to benefit from expanding the range of instruments to include an alto and bass flute.

The 1920s marked the era in which Lincoln would distinguish itself as the premier American luxury automobile.

A Premier Enclosure Badge entitles the bearer to access all main Restaurants.

The Sid Cooke Premier range is made to 1/12th scale and constructed from top quality birch plywood, MDF and hardwoods.

Our premier quality slave hood laces up at the back, and has a leather blindfold and gag which attach using press studs.

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Lord Stevens will lead the Premier League's inquiry into alleged transfer bungs.

Fourth position overall was filled by Gjedde's Danish compatriot Mads Korneliussen, who spent the season'doubling-up ' from Premier League Newport.

It has never received Government funding yet it continues to be the world's premier training institution for textile conservators.

It is the premier grand cru of English gardens, owned by the same family, the bankers Hoare, from 1715 to 1947.

Combine this with its milder climate and a plethora of excellent beaches and you have the UK's premier surf destination.

Saints also recently gained a special dispensation from the Premier League to approach players on the Channel Islands.

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Martinez, 31, also had a brief flirtation with the Scottish Premier League with Motherwell.

The Dr. Martens Premier league champions have launched their new soccer academy designed to produce players to help the push toward league football.

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Reading last appeared at the Abbey on 2 October 2003 under their former guise of the Racers in a Premier League encounter.

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There are sections covering ice hockey for seniors, women, juniors, youth and premier division.

Premier Tony Blair is now likely to be forced to step in to resolve the impasse.

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Premier artist Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols was also inducted at the recent ceremony.

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Currently languishing at the bottom of the premier league they could do with some cheering up.

Eight London councils now sit in the premier league of social services departments.

Tottenham Hotspur became the first premier league club to ' spin the managerial merry-go-round ' when they sacked Glenn Hoddle on Sunday afternoon.

The former flour mill is now the North's premier art gallery.

A branch of the Imperial War museum, Duxford is Europe's premier aviation museum.

The use of a ROV will return British deep-sea oceanography to the premier rank that it established in the past.

Increasing numbers of so-called low biomass oilseed rapes now rank in the premier gross output division.

Arsenal presented the library with a signed pennant for the wall and the children had the opportunity to lift the Premier League trophy.

The FA Premier League represents the pinnacle of English club football.

Within a few weeks they were attending a film premier together.

The soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was ecstatic and milked all the propaganda he could from the flight.

The Irish premier can't exactly be accused of going out on a limb on this one.

He was photographed whilst accompanying the Italian premier on holiday there.

The prime minister, who arrived here Wednesday night, is the first British premier to visit Indonesia since Margaret Thatcher in 1985.

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Brook Miller showed a pre-production model of the new Kia Sedona Carnival, fresh from its world premier at the Geneva Motor Show.

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For the first of three opening games against Ryman Premier newcomers the Dons took on newly relegated local rivals Carshalton Athletic at Colston Avenue.

The unrivaled reputation of Scotch Premier has been built on a rich heritage of Scottish farmers producing quality beef.

He also reveled in the attention of being at that time, the only foreigner in Scottish football outwith the Premier League.

English is now the premier world language but miraculously its closest neighbor Welsh prospers and inspires revivals in all other Celtic languages.

For many seasons during the Eighties, fans of both clubs enjoyed the local derby rivalry in the Isthmian League Premier Division.

The match comes just four days after Charlton and Arsenal contest the first silverware of the season in the Premier League Cup final.

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Whilst the Club was the eighth largest spender in the Premier League during the summer transfer window, its wage bill remains third lowest.

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The Cabinet remained tight-lipped Thursday about the premier's planned visit.

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He became premier and minister of finance on the 31st of May 1887, with the support of the moderate republican groups, the Radicals holding aloof in support of General Boulanger, who began a violent agitation against the government.

The ministerial council (conseil des ministres) is presided over by the president of the republic; less formal meetings (conseils de cabinet) under the presidency of the premier, or even of some other minister, are also held.

The new parliament decided to adopt the procedure of again sending the premier, Mr Reid, into conference, armed with a series of resolutions affirming its desire to bring about the completion of federal union, but asking the other colonies to agree to the reconsideration of the provisions which were most generally objected to in New South Wales.

At the Imperial Conference in London in 1907 Mr Deakin, the Commonwealth premier, was the leading advocate of colonial preference with a view to imperial commercial union; and though no reciprocal arrangement was favoured by the Liberal cabinet, who temporarily spoke for the United Kingdom, the colonial representatives were all agreed in urging such a policy, and found the Opposition (the Unionist party) in England prepared to adopt it as part of Mr Chamberlain's tariff reform movement.

The unpopularity of the ministry forced Signor Giolitti, the minister of the interior, to resign (June 1903), and he was followed by Admiral Bettolo, whose administration had been violently attacked by the Socialists; in October Signor Zanardelli, the premier, resigned on account of his health, and the king entrusted the formation of the cabinet to Signor Giolitti.

In April 1906 an eruption of Mount Etna caused the destruction of several villages and much loss of life and damage to property; in appointinga committee to distribute the relief funds the premier refused to include any of the deputies of the devastated districts among its members, and when asked by them for the reason of this omission, he replied, with a frankness more characteristic of the man than politic, that he knew they would prove more solicitous in the distribution of relief for their own electors than for the real sufferers.

Charles Greville in his Memoirs says, "In the present cabinet are five or six first-rate men of equal, or nearly equal, pretensions, none of them likely to acknowledge the superiority or defer to the opinions of any other, and every one of these five or six considering himself abler and more important than their premier"; and Sir James Graham wrote, "It is a powerful team, but it will require good driving."

Baron Sonnino held aloof, but Premier Signor Orlando, greeted the congress with enthusiasm, and the first result was a combined propaganda on the Italian front, organized by Allied delegates and members of all the national committees.

The Premier mine is of the same character as the diamond mines at Kimberley (see Diamond), and is considerably larger.

A fresh conference of the powers assembled at Brussels, on the invitation of the Belgian government, on the 7th of June 1898; and although the British delegates were not empowered to consent to a penal clause imposing countervailing duties on bountied sugar, the Belgian premier, who presided, was able to assure them that if Great Britain would agree to such a clause, he could guarantee the accession of the governments of Germany, Austria, Holland and his own.

The queen was opposed to the Disestablishment of the Irish Church (1869) - the question which brought Gladstone to be premier - and though she yielded with good grace, Gladstone was fretful and astonished because she would not pretend to give a hearty assent to the measure.

Shortly afterwards Magyar resentment of an army order issued from the cavalry manoeuvres at Chlopy in Galicia - in which the monarch declared that he would " hold fast to the existing and well-tried organization of the army " and would never " relinquish the rights and privileges guaranteed to its highest war-lord "; and of a provocative utterance of the Austrian premier Korber in the Reichsrath led to the overthrow of the Khuen-Hedervary cabinet (September 30) by an immense majority.

Possibly the name Yahweh (see Jehovah) had already entered Palestine, but it is not prominent, and if, as in the case of certain other deities, the extension of the name and cult went hand-in-hand with political circumstances, these must be sought in the problems of the Hebrew monarchy.3 At an age when there were no great external empires to control Palestine the Hebrew monarchy arose and claimed a premier place amid its neighbours (c. i 000).

He was appointed intendantsecretary of Grenoble in 1758, secretary to the expedition for colonizing Cayenne in 1764, and "premier commis des batiments" and censor-royal for mathematical books in 1765.

Among its members were somelike the lord chancellor Eldon, the duke of Wellington, and the premier, Lord Liverpool, himselfwhose Toryism was of the type crystallized under the influence of the Revolution, adamant against change.

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One of the UK 's premier racecourses is Ascot racecourse.

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Since 1999 we have been the UK 's premier online snowboard, skateboard and wakeboard shop.

The steady trickle of deaths in football has led to mandatory screening for all junior recruits at Premier League clubs.

If they make Fratton Park too swanky there 's going to be something of the passion of Pompey that 's lost in the Premier.

For the Premier season, MacLaren dropped back into a sweeper position to fill the void left by Hoddle 's departure.

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The Cabinet remained tight-lipped Thursday about the premier 's planned visit.

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The Premier Program provides customers with coupons, discounts, and shopping events not available to the general public, or even most Sears cardholders.

Customers are automatically enrolled in the Premier Program when they spend over $600 on a Sears card in a year, but they must continue to spend $600 each year to stay in the program.

The APR on purchases charged to First Premier Gold Cards is currently at 9.9 percent, but the company often runs special offers that allow you to take advantage of 0.0 percent APR for a specific period of time.

You are allowed to include your spouse's income in your application, but First Premier needs to be able to verify that your spouse resides at the same address as you.

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In the premier episode, Miley reveals to Lilly that she is the teen pop star, and shows her a closet filled with fun clothes, accessories and tons and tons of shoes.

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During his 1998-99 season, Beckham's United team won the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League (known as the treble).

At the premier of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2009, mega-star Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with his zipper undone.

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Premier provides an instructional DVD and instructional booklet with each collar purchase to show dog owners how to fit the collar on their pet and use it for training.

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The premier research facility for narcolepsy is the Stanford School of Medicine Center for Narcolepsy, but sleep centers around the world conduct research on this disorder as well.

It was goggles like these that made Bolle's name, and they're still one of the premier manufactures of goggles in the world.

Many mistakenly assume that Chloe is a designer, when in fact it is a premier fashion design house.

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Outside of these premier Disney World attractions, the term "ETicket" has gone on to describe other things as well.

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If you have never tried wines from Oregon, then you are missing some powerful, flavorful wines coming from one of America's premier viticulture and winemaking states.

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He purchased the 12-page newsletter in 1979 and proceeded to turn it into a ubiquitous, prestigious brand and premier publication.

This was actually the first sparkling wine served at the White House and served when President Nixon entertained the Chinese Premier.

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Translated as "first growth", Premier Cru wines are one of the highest classed growth wine in France, second only to Premier Grand Cru.

Premier Grand Cru means "first great growth", these wines are the highest classed growth wines in France.

Napa Valley wineries may grow multiple grape varietals but there's no point to have a winery in California's premier wine area without a signature Cabernet Sauvignon or Bordeaux-style blend (Meritage) wine.

The land surrounding this village produces some of the finest Burgundy in the world at the Premier Cru and Grand Cru level.

Dugat is a premier Burgundy producer and one of the top 10 in the region.

Choose from four different types of memberships, including Premier, Signature Series, International Selections and Aged Cabernet Series (8-12 years).

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Sometimes, the goddess Hestia was included among the premier 12, but usually she wasn't.

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In just a few short years, his incredible eye for detail and amazing ring artistry has made his styles highly desirable, and today Ritani is "America's premier jewelry designer."

The Heart of Eternity was found at the Premier Mine in South Africa, which is the only notable source of blue diamonds in the world.

Only about 0.1% of the diamonds produced by the Premier Mine are blue in color, and most are less than two carats.

After its discovery in the Premier Mine, the Heart of Eternity was cut in a faceted heart shape by the Steinmetz Group.

Linda Goodman, nee Mary Alice, is credited as being the premier force that brought the New Age movement to the masses.

All the movies made from 1983 to 1997 were released under the title of "Disney Premier Movies."

Bhrat Movies is one of the premier Hindi movie sites on the Internet.

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Founded in October of 1976 in Indianapolis by Alan Cohen and David Klapper, Finishline shoe stores have enjoyed phenomenal success by offering premier athletic footwear to men, women and children.

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Soap Central began life as a fan site, but has evolved into a premier soap opera news site run by soap opera fan and news reporter Dan Kroll.

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Cancun is the premier spring break vacation destination in the Gulf of Mexico.

Today, Seiko stands as one of the world's premier watch makers.

The Premier line offers five different models, each coming in a variety of colors and styles.

The newest and most impressive addition to the Premier line is the Kinetic Perpetual, which makes use of Seiko's new kinetic power method.