Keble

American

[kee-buhl] / ˈki bəl /

noun

John, 1792–1866, English clergyman and poet.

Keble British

/ ˈkiːbəl /

noun

John. 1792–1866, English clergyman. His sermon on national apostasy (1833) is considered to have inspired the Oxford Movement

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"It's a surprisingly difficult question to answer because he's a really flexible manager," said football tactics writer Alex Keble.

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Dawn Burke, principal at Thomas Keble School in Eastcombe, Gloucestershire - one of the schools to have recently hosted a workshop - said coercive control was something she did not feel "we had explicitly taught before".

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Currently, this task falls to Keble College doctoral student David Crowhurst.

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At Oxford, several individual colleges offer support, including Keble, Magdalen and Merton.

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Keble, his first choice college at Oxford, invited him for an interview, only to turn him down "pretty much there and then".

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