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Responsibility now rested with a well-meaning, but basically uninterested President and an unimaginative, relatively inexperienced, reportedly anti-British acting secretary, Herbert Hoover, Jr.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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A few dozen supporters of an anti-British pressure group Eirigi — Gaelic for "rise" — scuffled with police on Dublin's major thoroughfare several hundred yards meters from the Garden of Remembrance.
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But anti-British sentiment, whose roots traced back to the Revolutionary War, ran deep in the United States and a broad array of isolationists argued fiercely against America being sucked into another foreign war to save Europe from itself.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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A day after the Iranian government expelled the British ambassador, anti-British demonstrators broke into the British Embassy compound in Tehran Tuesday as a row between the two countries escalated markedly.
Europe Pressures Iran After Embassy Raid Alistair MacDonald 2011
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It's odd to me that some of the government officials are so open with their anti-British sentiments.
Boing Boing 2009
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But anti-British sentiment, whose roots traced back to the Revolutionary War, ran deep in the United States and a broad array of isolationists argued fiercely against America being sucked into another foreign war to save Europe from itself.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Sure, tourism offices go to extremes to get people's attention--remember the anti-British rant New Orleans went on this spring?
WATCH: The Most Over-The-Top Tourism Ad Ever? Kate Auletta 2011
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It can be leftwing and anti-British or American on imperialist grounds or it can be rightwing, rooted in religion or cultural objections, nostalgia for an idyllic rural past, for example.
Roshonara Choudhry: a sad and misguided case Michael White 2010
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Sure, tourism offices go to extremes to get people's attention--remember the anti-British rant New Orleans went on this spring?
WATCH: The Most Over-The-Top Tourism Ad Ever? Kate Auletta 2011
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One of the best things about comparative studies of French and American Republicanism is how much they point to the fact that anti-British sentiment in the US ran extraordinarily high until the massive agitprop campaign that preceded World War One.
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