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	Special relationship
		The Special Relationship is the name given to the close Anglo-American military, political and trading alliances that have been evident throughout most of the 20th century and continue into the present century.
		This means a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States.
		Other times when the special relationship has flourished are during the periods in office of Harold Macmillan and John F. Kennedy and of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
	www.phrases.org.uk /meanings/special-relationship.html (734 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Special relationship
		The special relationship is the phrase used to characterize the warm political, diplomatic, historical, and cultural relations between the United States and Commonwealth of Nations nations.
		Two great architects of the special relationship on a practical level were Field Marshal Sir John Dill and General George Marshall whose excellent personal relations and senior positions (Roosevelt was especially close to Marshall) oiled the wheels of the alliance considerably.
		While the relationship between the two countries may have been strained by Reagan's neutrality in the initial phases of the Falklands War this was more than countered by the US Defense Secretary, Casper Weinberger, who approved shipments of the latest weapons to the massing British taskforce.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Special-relationship (6120 words)

	What is special about God's relationship with man?
		This is the last part of our answer concerning the details of God's creation of man. It touches something that is truly beyond man's experiences, imaginations and dreams (1 Cor.
		The city itself is the bride and the redeeming God on the throne is the husband.
		These two scenes show us that God's special relationship with man is the mystery of the universe.
	www.churchinlondon.org /relationship.html (504 words)

	Special Obligations
		Special obligations are obligations owed to some subset of persons, in contrast to natural duties that are owed to all persons simply qua persons.
		At this point, the voluntarist is faced with a choice: either reject her initial commitment to voluntarism regarding special obligations or reject the commonsense claim about the extensive range of special obligations that we have.
		Sandel advocates (v), the claim that certain roles that we find ourselves in, understood as involving special obligations, are ‘constitutive commitments.’ The person is not free to make all of her own commitments, because the self cannot be understood separately from certain commitments, such as those arising from family or political community.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/special-obligations (7767 words)

	special relationship - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about special relationship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Belief that ties of common language, culture, and shared aims of the defence of democratic principles should sustain a political relationship between the USA and the UK, and that the same would not apply to relationships between the USA and other European states.
		Close cooperation in the sharing of nuclear-weapons technology has usually been cited as evidence of this bond, whereas the belated entry of the USA into both world wars in support of the UK has been interpreted as proof of its limitations in the light of political realities.
		Despite the special relationship, differences of opinion have occurred, largely reflecting the role of the USA as a superpower with concomitant global views compared to that of Britain as an increasingly European-oriented state.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /special%20relationship (184 words)

	BBC News \| TALKING POINT \| UK/US: A special relationship?
		The special relationship between the UK and the US has nothing to do with our being their lap dogs, and indeed we are nothing of the sort.
		The special relationship between Great Britain and the United States certainly does exist and, without doubt, is worth cultivating as it is beneficial to both countries.
		We should give the so called "special relationship" the "benefit of the doubt"; we are a shadow of our former selves, but we do serve the purpose of being USA's biggest "aircraft carrier" (strategically valuable for Europe and the Middle East), and we do help each other out when the chips are really down.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/1185891.stm (5515 words)

	Special relationship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The relationship is supposedly based on cultural and historical ties but is usually evoked in times of difficulty for eitherparty.
		President Woodrow Wilson and Prime Minister DavidLloyd George had enjoyed nothing that could be described as a special relationship and were collaborating barely a hundredyears on from the two countries being at war.
		In terms of the special relationship Blairpulled off something of a coup in managing to keep on such good terms with both Presidents Clinton and Bush but the consequencesin terms of international relations generally have been poor and Blair has failed to demonstrate the benefits to Britain of hiscooperation.
	www.therfcc.org /special-relationship-177571.html (593 words)

	No Special Relationship with Israel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term "special relationship" derives from Jews having ensconced themselves in high positions in broadcasting, politics and finance, so that their regard for their kinsmen abroad is given a higher priority than the natural affection of Americans for their own countrymen.
		Under the "special relationship," Jews can plunder our treasury, direct our foreign policy, spy on us, steal our secrets, squander our aid, embroil us in wars and, then, thumb their noses at us.
		The "special relationship" of the Zionist lobby to certain, cultivated "rightist" individuals enables the Jews to erect and, then, tear down, their so-called opposition, at will.
	www.nationalist.org /freetip/2002/israel.html (428 words)

	liibulletin: Pelaez v. Seide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The municipality is not liable for the outcome of its employees’ negligent discretionary acts absent a finding of a special relationship between the municipality and the plaintiff.
		The Appellate Division in both cases reasoned that a special relationship must exist between the plaintiff and the governmental entity in order for a duty to arise in a tort case, and there was no special relationship present here.
		The only exception is when a special relationship exists between the plaintiff and the government agency.
	www.law.cornell.edu /nyctap/comments/i04_0029.htm (552 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| The special relationship has become a national delusion
		Downing Street is celebrating the special relationship at the very moment in history when we should be questioning whether it is not a national delusion.
		To query the wisdom of a special relationship with George Bush is not to doubt that Britain must have a hard-headed, working relationship with whoever is in the White House.
		Clinging to an outdated special relationship is to stay in denial of that uncomfortable truth.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /columnist/story/0,9321,1349509,00.html (1137 words)

	Nathan M. Macek: Britain, the United States, and the ‘Special Relationship’ during the Eden and Macmillan ...
		In particular, the ‘special relationship’ between the United States and Britain during the Premiership of Anthony Eden, from 1955 to 1957, differed greatly from that of the administration of Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963.
		It is apparent, however, that the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States during the Eden and Kennedy administrations is one of subordinate to superior.
		The ‘special relationship’ would fade in the mid-1960s under Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson and Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson, with disagreement between Britain and the US over British withdrawal from East Suez, and a lack of British involvement in Vietnam.
	www.msu.edu /user/maceknat/resource/mc390ir.htm (2724 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| Spotlight on 'Special Relationship'
		The relationship wavered over the Suez crisis but was hugely strengthened in both the Falklands and Gulf wars.
		And now, in the wake of the New York and Washington atrocities, that relationship, and the benefits it brings to both sides, is once again to be tested in conflict.
		The fact that he is also one of the most experienced and electorally successful Western leaders is likely to add to that authority and earn him a special place on the world stage during this crisis.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1536000/1536021.stm (710 words)

	Ageless Love - 'special relationship'
		The 'worth' of the 'special relationship' must be viewed from some perspective.
		Right now the "special relationship" has to placed in the context of "you're either with us or against us." The British government, for the most part, supports the current administration's foreign policy, so the President acknowledges the "special relationship.", and so does the American public.
		If you want my opinion, the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S is as one-sided as that between the U.S and Israel.
	www.agelesslove.com /boards/showthread.php?t=14127 (818 words)

	Special Relationship Close up @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Special Relationship Close up @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts)
		The United States has close relations with many friendly allied countries, among them Canada and Israel and others.
		This economic strength, together with Britain's influence as one of the "big three" in the European Union, has altered the relative US/UK balance somewhat.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Special_relationship (2313 words)

	Definition of Special relationship
		Built on the principle of interdependence, most commentators have until relatively recently, construed the special relationship as a "one-way street", namely that Britain relied heavily on the United States to promote its affairs further in international relations.
		This was certainly true from the perspective of post-second World War Britain until the resurgence of the British economy, post Margaret Thatcher's radical economic and social reforms.
		President Woodrow Wilson and Prime Minister David Lloyd George had enjoyed nothing that could be described as a special relationship and were collaborating barely a hundred years on from the two countries being at war.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Special_relationship (1990 words)

	BBC News \| E-CYCLOPEDIA \| Special relationship: End of the affair?
		Blair frequently referred to special relationship with ex-president Clinton: "Bill Clinton became a close friend of mine." As Blair gears up for meeting with new president George W Bush, there is speculation over whether the special relationship will survive their greater ideological distance.
		It has been said that this special relationship was special mainly in that only one side knew it existed.
		Reader Naomi Cheesman adds: Special relationship is also a term I've heard with reference to a homosexual relationship, used by people who can't quite bring themselves to say "partner" or "lover".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/1186166.stm (387 words)

	The special relationship: Blair and Bush
		But there is some evidence to suggest that his support for this war may go back rather further in time and is linked to his relationships with neo-conservative consultant and influence peddler Irwin Stelzer and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
		It was a complex relationship that had been evolving for three years.
		The key to understanding it is the more complicated set of relationships between Blair, Murdoch, and the American who had become so influential on both of them, Irwin Stelzer.
	www.sideshow.connectfree.co.uk /blairtheory.htm (869 words)

	Special relationship between GP and patient must be preserved (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Special relationship between GP and patient must be preserved
		The special relationship between a patient and a GP must be preserved in any future developments in primary care, and is highlighted in an editorial by Dr Mayur Lakhani, Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), to be published in the December issue of the BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE (BJGP).
		Dr Lakhani's editorial discusses the views of patients who attended a public consultation event organised by the RCGP where they stated that the special relationship between a patient and a GP must be retained in any future developments.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=34134&nfid=rssfeeds (624 words)

	ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES: CAN THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP SURVIVE THE NEW STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT?
		The institutions and relationships that had been developed in the previous two decades were subjected to new challenges and requirements, and the responses were and are still unclear.
		Given the intensity of the relationship with the United States and degree of dependence, Israeli policymakers and analysts have carefully monitored and studied the implications of perceived changes in the American role, especially in the Middle East.
		To the degree that the relationship is, in fact, highly asymmetric, and that Israel is dependent on unilateral American interests, and on the support for Israel in the U.S. domestic political framework, the prospects for the future would appear be uncertain, at best.
	meria.idc.ac.il /journal/1998/issue4/jv2n4a7.html (9939 words)

	Special relationship Liens - Agrégation d'anglais
		A short lecture summarizing the special relationship, dealing with such notions as Churchill’s Majestic Circles, Decolonization, The Special Relationship and the Cold War, The Berlin Blockade, Common denominators (language, culture and shared heritage), The Bermuda Agreement, the Vietnam War, the Falklands war of 1982, American invasion of Grenada, Nuclear weapons, Europe.
		Written by a British special relationship supporter, who points at the common political and cultural sources, and mentions the particular economic, intelligence and military bonds, setting up the "Anglosphere" against but also as a "saviour" of the rest of the world.
		However, it is a state that has had difficulties in deciding whether it is "at the heart of Europe" or is part of a "special relationship" with the US.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /faycal.titah/liens.htm (1564 words)

	Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum
		Roosevelt did not know it at the time, but his initiative would mark the beginning of one of the most extraordinary relationships in political history, a relationship marked by an intimate correspondence unparalleled among national leaders, a relationship which, in due course, would lead to the establishment of a military alliance unique among sovereign states.
		FDR wrote to Churchill because he was looking for information about the War, and because he wished to establish contact with a British leader who appeared to be a likely candidate for Prime Minister, in the event that the current Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, should resign or be forced from office.
		Furthermore, as the years passed and victory in Europe appeared more and more certain, Roosevelt began to cultivate a bilateral relationship with Stalin that wounded Churchill's pride and signaled the emergence of a bipolar postwar world, dominated not by the British Empire, but rather by the two new Super-Powers.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /anglo.html (745 words)

	Palestinian-Americans In Israel - What 'Special Relationship'?
		She is president and founder of Partners for Peace, a Washington, D.C.-based NGO whose mission is to educate the public about the issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with particular emphasis on developing productive relationships with the professional media.
		The special relationship offers the United States the opportunity to have enormous influence on the state of Israel.
		Yet rather than using this special relationship in a constructive way, U.S. policy has become "Israel, right or wrong." Even when the lives of American citizens are at stake the U.S. does not intervene effectively to safeguard them.
	www.rense.com /general29/plsam.htm (4355 words)

	agreg anglais 2003 Special Relationship USA-GB
		Eisenhower saw the British relationship as one relationship among many and ignored the special status it had begun to acquire during the mid-to-late 1940's.
		The Kennedy-Macmillan days of the transatlantic partnership revived a relationship between the leaders of the two countries which was underpinned by a degree of personal friendship such had not existed since Roosevelt and Churchill forged the original bond.
		considering the special commitment that they still have in various parts of the world and which, basically, distinguishes them from the continentals, we see that the policy of the latter, as soon as they have one, would undoubtedly concur, in certain cases, with the policy of the former.
	perso.mediaserv.net /sharad/agreg/sperel.html (7687 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Revealed: the special relationship behind America's Middle East policy
		It is a sign of the sensitivity surrounding the relationship that the few friends willing even to acknowledge it last week did not want to be named.
		Asked about their relationship, Mr Perle, a close political and intellectual soulmate of Mr Wolfowitz, said: 'You should ask her and Mr Wolfowitz about that.
		Any relationship they may have is a personal and private matter.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/01/wolf01.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/08/01/ixworld.html (1524 words)

	A 'NEW MARSHALL PLAN'; 'SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP' RELAUNCHED - USIA: Foreign Media Reaction Report - 30 May 1997
		A 'NEW MARSHALL PLAN'; 'SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP' RELAUNCHED President Clinton's stay in The Netherlands and Britain on a tour designed to highlight his vision of the U.S. commitment to Europe received leading story coverage throughout that continent and elsewhere.
		London's Independent Television News judged that the two leaders "established a remarkable rapport, giving the Anglo-American relationship a new momentum." This survey is based on 38 reports from 11 countries, May 20-30.
		It would therefore be good if the theme, 'former East bloc,' were raised during the visit to The Hague." BRITAIN: "Two Leaders At Ease With Common Goals" BBC TV said (5/29): "The two youngest leaders in their nations' history agreed today that a new era demands new ideas....
	www.fas.org /man/nato/news/1997/97053001_rmr.htm (3116 words)

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