Quotes About UK

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

We have concluded that the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo is so phenomenally written, following the interlinking lives and stories of women of colour navigating life mainly in the U.K. It's so beautiful, perceptive and insightful, giving us so much to think about and changing the way we see the world and the experiences of others.

The U.K.'s climate change act was passed by a majority of 463 votes to three. That is really quite extraordinary. The will of parliament has rarely been expressed so strongly and unambiguously.

Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop and non-wage benefits to shrivel, creating worse inequality than statistics reveal.

Over in the UK and in Wales, it's nice to turn on the TV and see 'Baywatch.'

At the end of the day, I am going for all the belts, so I am going to have to go through all of them. And I would live to fight the U.K. guys - even in the U.K.

I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.

Brexit will be good for the U.K.

Look at what the divisiveness of Brexit has done to the U.K.

A lot of the 'leave' campaign was centered around a thinly veiled xenophobia, just 'control our own borders.' It's not a good look. I don't think it represents Britain; I don't think it represents the U.K. all too well. It breaks my heart for my generation in Britain who are going to suffer.

The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.

By creating a perception that the U.K. places a higher premium on striking commercial deals than it does on promoting and protecting human rights, our reputation in the world suffers.

The Single Market and Customs Union is not a true 'free' market. It is designed to suit the E.U. insiders, not the U.K.

I've had the pleasure of working in the U.K. a few times before. I've shot a few movies there before. One of them was Neil Simon's 'London Suite,' which was based on his play. I also shot a film in Dublin, a little film with Bernadette Peters, called 'Bobbie's Girl.'

I think my style is perfectly suited to the way the game is played in the U.K.

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.

He was one of those Americans who formed their impressions of life in the United Kingdom by watching reruns of Masterpiece Theater.

in 2015 Ernst & Young professional services in the United Kingdom removed degree classification from its hiring criteria, citing a lack of evidence that university success correlated with job performance.

In 1987 De Jonghe founded the company Biobest, which remains today one of the largest commercial producers of bumblebees. In 1988 they produced enough bumblebees to pollinate just forty hectares of tomatoes. By the following year they were exporting to Holland, France and the UK. Others wanted in on the action; the Dutch company Koppert Biological Systems began rearing bumblebees in 1988, followed by Bunting Brinkman Bees, also Dutch, in 1989.

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