Deputy Prime Minister Bill English said that 350 military personnel had been deployed to help with search and rescue efforts.
First conceived by Dr Douglas Engelbart and aided by Bill English -- who would later design the first "ball mouse" -- at the Stanford Research Institute in 1965, the mouse was first used commercially by Xerox in their "Star Workstation" computer made in 1981.
The draft bill would make English official to whatever extent (not much, today) federal law might require that throughout the United States.
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Precedent can be found in the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
The English-Leach bill would effectively ban the importation of antiquities from Iraq.
Earlier, lawmakers had debated and rejected an amendment to the bill that would have designated English as the "official language" of the United States, seen as a likely setback to chances for Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico to become the 51st state.
The proposals stem from the 2009 UK Marine Bill and cover seas abutting the English coast and waters around Wales more than 12 miles from the coast.
Instead of such a "double lock", the commission floated the idea of a "double count", where the proportion of English MPs supporting a Bill would be published alongside the overall result.
Kalani English of Maui to introduce the bill after someone photographed him with his girlfriend at his home in December.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, whose presidential campaign is rooted in his strong opposition to immigration reform, said the bill would be the first step toward abandoning English as a national language and becoming "a bilingual nation, " which he opposes.
By setting a uniform target for the size of seats across Britain, the government's bill would also remove the current quirk that English constituencies tend to contain more voters than seats in Scotland, Northern Ireland and especially Wales (which could lose up to ten MPs).
Bill Buckley is one of the very best writers of English prose we have in America, or anywhere else the English language holds sway.
One month later, Welsh assembly Presiding Officer Rosemary Butler presided over "a historic day in the history of devolution and of Wales" as a Bill was passed to ensure equal treatment of Welsh and English.
The House bill calls upon schools to certify their students are proficient in English after they have logged at least three years in U.S. classrooms.
"Both college and minor league baseball fans are hoping that we will soon be able to celebrate (the bill's) approval and hear the three best words in the English language 'let's play ball, " said WVU athletic director Oliver Luck.
Chairman of English Nature Baroness Young of Old Scone, herself a Labour peer, said the bill "must not become a battleground for wider matters of town versus country, or simply spoiling tactics which jeopardise the bill's passage and risk sinking the first decent wildlife legislation for 20 years".
But groups like the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) say the bill's proposed targets for housing would undermine the special status long afforded to 13% of English soil.
The Financial Times reports that Bill Gates, the head of Microsoft, has joined forces with Bloomsbury Publishing to produce the first international English dictionary.
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