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  • Fillon, whose wife is Welsh, is seen as one of the most pro-British French politicians and he will promise: "There are no taboos or obstacles to strengthening Franco-British integration".

    French PM François Fillon to urge Cameron to help bolster the euro 2011

  • Condescending comments above from pro-British slaves.

    Nat TV promises to "ensure choice". O'Neill 2009

  • He had worked hard cultivating Tito to form a pro-British alliance with King Peter and Šubašić.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • At the same time, the Irish Republican and nationalist community often found itself repressed by the state, living under suspicion and abused into second class citizen status; pro-British militants killed many people just because they were Catholics.

    Gareth Higgins: How Religious People Must Help Prevent Political Violence Gareth Higgins 2011

  • The pro-British monarchy was toppled by the 1958 revolution in Iraq, radicals took power in Damascus, a senior Saudi prince attempted a palace coup and fled to Cairo when it failed, armed struggles erupted in Yemen and Oman, and there was much talk of an Arab nation with three concurrent capitals.

    This is an Arab 1848. But US hegemony is only dented | Tariq Ali 2011

  • More senior aides were brought in, such as Edward “Ned” Buxton (a World War comrade) to be an assistant director and organize a unit to interview foreigners arriving in the United States with useful intelligence, David K. E. Bruce (a courtly Virginia lawyer and world traveler) to head the intelligence collection operation, and William Whitney (a pro-British American lawyer) to set up an office for the new agency in London.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Laws had made contact with a Yugoslav living near where we were working and whom they discovered to be strongly pro-British.

    Walter (Bill) Gossner 2010

  • This camp appeared to me to offer fair chances of escape through Yugoslavia and a small group was formed to discuss tentative plans to get in touch with Yugoslavians who were known to be pro-British.

    Walter (Bill) Gossner 2010

  • The trouble started shortly before midnight after police removed flags of pro-British paramilitary groups flying ahead of the July 12 peak of the "marching season," a time of annual parades by Protestants that often trigger Catholic protests.

    Police Injured in Northern Ireland Riots 2011

  • At the same time, the Irish Republican and nationalist community often found itself repressed by the state, living under suspicion and abused into second class citizen status; pro-British militants killed many people just because they were Catholics.

    Gareth Higgins: How Religious People Must Help Prevent Political Violence Gareth Higgins 2011

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