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On 4 June 2004, BAE Systems outbid General Dynamics for Alvis Vickers, the UK's main manufacturer of armoured vehicles.
The Duke of Cumberland arrived in Edinburgh on 30 January to take over command of the government army from General Hawley.
On the night of April 18, 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord, Massachusetts.
General Carleton escaped to Quebec City and began preparing that city for an attack.
To defend the city, General Washington spread his forces along the shores of New York's harbor, concentrated on Long Island and Manhattan.
The first of the 1777 campaigns was an expedition from Quebec led by General John Burgoyne.
General Nathanael Greene, who replaced General Gates, evaded contact with Cornwallis while seeking reinforcements.
In February, General Washington dispatched General Lafayette to counter Arnold, later also sending General Anthony Wayne.
At the 1983 General Election, the Alliance won over a quarter of the vote, but only 23 of the 650 seats it contested.
The General Election of 1906 also represented a shift to the left by the Liberal Party.
Possibly the first such union was the General Union of Trades, also known as the Philanthropic Society, founded in 1818 in Manchester.
On the recommendation of the Carlton Club, Disraeli was adopted as a Tory parliamentary candidate at the ensuing General Election.
General Yudenich, the Russian commander from 1915 to 1916, drove the Turks out of most of the southern Caucasus with a string of victories.
In December, French was replaced by General Douglas Haig as commander of the British forces.
By August, General Haig had concluded that a breakthrough was unlikely and instead, switched tactics to a series of small unit actions.
General Ferdinand Foch was appointed commander of all Allied forces in France.
In the 1918 General Election the Irish Parliamentary Party suffered a crushing defeat, only a handful of MP's surviving.
The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin.
On 2 May General Helmuth Weidling unconditionally surrendered Berlin to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
Part of Poland was immediately incorporated into the Reich, and the General Government was established in occupied central Poland.
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On 3 May 1945, the third US Army of General Patton entered Pilsen from the south west.
The General Staff blocked the entry of Douhet's theory into doctrine, fearing revenge strikes against German civilians and cities.
In December 1934, Chief of the Luftwaffe General Staff Walther Wever sought to mould the Luftwaffe's battle doctrine into a strategic plan.
General der Flieger Hellmuth Felmy, commander of Luftflotte 2 in 1939, was charged with devising a plan for an air war over the British Isles.
General Felmy had already expressed a desire to build a naval air arm to support Kriegsmarine operations in the Atlantic and British waters.
In June, General Arnold suggested the Navy assume responsibility for ASW operations.
This greatly expanded reinforcement included the soon to be renowned Ariete Armoured division under General Ettore Baldassarre.
General Auchinleck, although he had checked Rommel's advance at the First Battle of El Alamein, was replaced by General Harold Alexander.
He had been tasked by General George Marshall with providing detailed reports on the military situation in Africa.
The new commander of Fifteenth Army, Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi was keen to mount an offensive against India.
Soon some twelve Chinese divisions of 175,000 men, under General Wei Lihuang, were attacking the Japanese 56th Division.
In Arakan, Indian XV Corps under Lieutenant General Philip Christison renewed the advance on the Mayu peninsula.
The most important was the replacement of General Kawabe at Burma Area Army by Hyotaro Kimura.
Chiang ordered the American General Daniel Isom Sultan, commanding NCAC, to halt his advance at Lashio, which was captured on 7 March.
General Bernard Montgomery was named as commander of the 21st Army Group, which comprised all of the land forces involved in the invasion.
In January 1947, Truman appointed retired General George Marshall as Secretary of State.
According to the General Medical Council, many doctors experience low morale which can put patients at risk.
The appointment in 1848 of Lord Dalhousie as Governor General of the East India Company set the stage for changes essential to a modern state.
General Hugh Stockwell and Admiral Barjot were appointed as Chief of Staff.
On 11 August 1956 General Keightley was appointed commander of Musketeer with the French Admiral Barjot as his deputy commander.
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Despite this, General Sir Charles Keightley, the commander of the invasion force, believed that air power alone was sufficient to defeat Egypt.
The IDF chief of staff General Moshe Dayan, first planned to block the vital Mitla Pass.
The Egyptian commander at Port Said, General Salahedin Moguy then proposed a truce.
Under the Treaty of Lisbon, the Court of First Instance has been renamed the General Court.
Initial permission to move supplies through the region was given on 20 January 2009, after a visit to the region by General David Petraeus.
Defense Department and the Inspector General for Reconstruction in Afghanistan.
Later that month, Hage met with General Habbush and Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.
General Tommy Franks assumed control of Iraq as the supreme commander of the coalition occupation forces.
Primary Health Care in Dundee is supplied by a number of General Practices.
The three parts of the territory share the same Attorney General, and the same Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.
The Financial Secretary and Attorney General of the territory are appointed ex officio similar appointments in the Falkland Islands' Government.
Although the Governor General can refuse to assent a bill or reserve the bill for the Queen at this stage, this power has never been exercised.
Between 1979 and 1993, the Synod had similar powers, but limited to the extension to the Isle of Man of measures of the General Synod.
In the 1997 British General Election, Gerry Adams regained his Belfast West seat.
The party went on to win three seats in the Seanad election which followed their success at the General Election.
Under that act, the executive was to be headed by a governor appointed by the Secretary of State, who could consult the Governor General.
In 2013 633 Northumberland patients crossed into Scotland for treatment at the Borders General Hospital.
The Act created a new post of Counsel General for Wales, the principal source of legal advice to the Welsh Government.
The Act permits a maximum of 12 Welsh Ministers, which includes Deputy Welsh Ministers, but excludes the First Minister and the Counsel General.
After his party entered into coalition with Plaid Cymru, Jones was reappointed as Counsel General for Wales and Leader of the House.
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The Lord Justice General is the most senior judge of the High Court of Justiciary.
The Lord Justice General will sit as a chairperson in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
The current Secretary General is Lamberto Zannier of Italy, who took over from Marc Perrin de Brichambaut of France.
The six largest states are also granted an Advocates General in the Court of Justice.
The Surgeon General, represents the Defence Medical Services on the Defence Staff, and is the clinical head of that service.
Despite this, Baldwin's choice of the Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip provoked widespread astonishment.
The command in chief of the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor General as the Queen's representative.
However, the operational command is delegated in the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
He also oversees such agencies as the General Staff and the General Logistics Department.
Thus, the General is elected by the Federal Assembly to give him the same democratic legitimacy as the Federal Council.
The General Treaty reserved foreign affairs and defence to the United Kingdom but allowed internal autonomy.
The Rambouillet talks began on 6 February 1999, with NATO Secretary General Javier Solana negotiating with both sides.
It was based upon the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps headquarters commanded by then Lieutenant General Mike Jackson of the British Army.
The commander of the operation was Air Marshal Brian Burridge, with Major General Peter Wall acting as his Chief of Staff.
The British 1st Armoured Division was commanded by Major General Robin Brims.
Major General Andrew Stewart took over from General Lamb as commander of British forces.
By July 2004 the British area saw its fifth commander when Major General Bill Rollo took over.
Since 1621, the Dutch West India Company had operated as a monopoly in New Netherland, on authority granted by the Dutch States General.
In 1904, the steamship General Slocum caught fire in the East River, killing 1,021 people on board.
The gearboxes are made by Italian supplier Avio Aero, owned by General Electric.
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General rules of contract law apply in full, although it is difficult to hold agencies liable for breach of contract.
For the UK General Election of 2015, research was undertaken to analyse the commitment of the UK's political parties in addressing poverty.
By 1911 General Electric began selling incandescent light bulbs with ductile tungsten wire.
When this was exposed in 1953, General Electric and other leading American manufacturers were banned from limiting the life.
Before 1 April 2006, all regulatory powers rested with the Director General of Water Services.
On 1 April 2006, the Director General was replaced by the Water Services Regulation Authority.
Registers were to be produced in duplicate, and one was to be sent to the Office of the Scottish Registrar General in Edinburgh.
Initially, the General Register Office had been located in General Register House.
Some other notable true de facto leaders have been Deng Xiaoping of the People's Republic of China and General Manuel Noriega of Panama.
Their motions came after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suggested the idea while addressing the UN General Assembly that year.
A General Court, made up of the governor and the Council, was the highest court in the colony at the time.
At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The supreme body is the annual General Assembly, which meets each May in Edinburgh.
In 1919, the General Assembly created a Church and Nation Committee, which in 2005 became the Church and Society Council.
However, members of the clergy, are further bound by the Ordinal and by the authority of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland.
The Medical Act 1858 established the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom as a statutory body.
His father had worked in Hailey since 1883 as registrar of the General Land Office.
It was reported that Hockney's partner drove Elliott to Scarborough General Hospital where he later died.
General art books dated 2105 will be as brutal about editing the late 20th century as they are about almost all other centuries.
A greater success followed in the form of the Roman General Gaius Marcius Coriolanus in Coriolanus.
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This led to resignations of senior management members at the time including the then Director General, Greg Dyke.
News UK's main competitor is DMG Media, which is in turn owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.
From 1746, Hume served for three years as secretary to General James St Clair, who was envoy to the courts of Turin and Vienna.
The putsch was spearheaded by Major General Mohamed Siad Barre, who at the time commanded the army.
Foreign investment also included multinationals including General Motors and Dole Fruit.
The putsch was quickly suppressed by forces commanded by Chief of General Staff Mahamoud Mohamed, a veteran Somali military official.
The bridge was opened by two of the soldiers, a daughter of General Gavin made a speech and familymembers of WWII soldiers were present.
The decline of Aachen culminated in 1794, when the French, led by General Charles Dumouriez, occupied Aachen.
The States General, the confederal government, were seated in The Hague and consisted of representatives from each of the seven provinces.
The cabinet is responsible to the bicameral parliament, the States General, which also has legislative powers.
Finland took part in trade liberalization in the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The Legion Legate was the equivalent of full Brigadier with the Imperial Legate holding the rank of General.
Through the summer the number was built up to around 1,500 under the command of General Carl Gustav Fleischer.
He used his powers to call the General Assembly where he wished, limiting the ability of more radical clergy to attend.
When the General Assembly convened in June 1564, an argument broke out between Knox and Maitland over the authority of the civil government.
Under Cromwell's Commonwealth, Scotland was forced into a temporary union with England and the General Assembly of the Kirk lost all civil power.
By the middle of the month they had agreed that the Company would be managed by a Court of Directors and a Council General.
The Council General was only convened as and when there were matters to discuss, and therefore meetings were not held at regular intervals.
This met vigorous opposition and he was forced to concede that the General Assembly should continue to run the church.
The General Synod makes canon law, administers finance and monitors the work of the boards and committees of the Church.
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Most decisions are arrived at by a simple majority of members of the General Synod voting together.
Accounts like those of McLeod and General David Stewart of Garth brought widespread condemnation.
The message merely stated that General Grey would arrive that evening from Windsor.
At national level, the General Assembly stands at the top of this structure.
The General Assembly usually meets for a week of intensive deliberation once a year in May.
The General assembly appoints 'corresponding members' who may speak and propose motions but may not vote.
The General Assembly can and does pass legislation governing the affairs of the Church.
The General Assembly acts as a Court, and in matters spiritual cannot be appealed to any higher court.
In 1834 he became leader of the evangelical section of the Scottish Church in the General Assembly.
In 1834, however, the Evangelical party attained a majority in the General Assembly for the first time in a century.
The Chancellor is the titular head of the University and President of the General Council.
As well as these bodies there is a General Council made up of the university graduates that is involved in the running of the University.
The General Council is a standing advisory body of all the graduates, academics and former academics of the university.
Members are appointed by the General Council, Academic Senate and Fife Council.
In August 1906 Haig was appointed Director of Military Training on the General Staff at the War Office.
There were also enquiries by a War Office Committee and by General Smuts on behalf of the War Cabinet.
It is possible that Derby was covering Haig's back, advising him to ask for Herbert Lawrence as the new CGS, not General Butler.
The Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff holds the more junior rank of air marshal, and is promoted to air chief marshal on retirement.
This proposal was contained in the Conservative manifesto for the 1987 General Election.
For the 1983 General Election Livingston gained its own constituency at Westminster.
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The current Member of Parliament for Livingston is Hannah Bardell of the SNP who won the seat in the 2015 General Election.
In practice, much of this authority is delegated to the Church's General Synod.
Members meet annually at a General Assembly to discuss ISO's strategic objectives.
The Attorney General applied for an order for contempt of court against the New Statesman.
The offices of a General Manager of one of the few national banks is not the place to exeleutherostomise.
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The practice and usage have been recognised in a variety of instances by the Governors General of Louisiana.
General elections are called by the monarch when the prime minister so advises.
General law common to a country as a whole, as opposed to special law that has only local application.
Steel, General Electric, Standard Oil and Bayer AG joined the railroad and ship companies on the world's stock markets.
In 1854, General Barter, C.B., was a subaltern in the 75th Regiment, and was doing duty at the hill station of Murree in the Punjaub.
Decisions from the General Court can be appealed to the Court of Justice but only on a point of law.
Hoblins, goblins, Sprites and woblings, Demons white or black, He puts to flight with his sword of might, This valiant General Jack.
The UN General Assembly was expected to hold the line again today against seating Red China.
While conservatives hold the reins at the SBC, moderates have retained control of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.
To assume a greater appearance of legality, it was ratified by the Estates General later that year.
The General Synod of the Church of England is the legislative body for the church and comprises bishops, other clergy and laity.
On 14 July 2014, the General Synod approved the ordination of women as bishops.
By 2010, the General Synod voted in favour of extending pensions and other employee rights to clergy in civil unions.
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Another assembly is the Convocation of the English Clergy, which is older than the General Synod and its predecessor the Church Assembly.
By the 1969 Synodical Government Measure almost all of the Convocations' functions were transferred to the General Synod.
Founded in 1619, the Virginia General Assembly is still in existence as the oldest legislature in the Western Hemisphere.
The Code of Virginia is the statutory law, and consists of the codified legislation of the General Assembly.
General Sir John Clavering, The Honourable Sir George Monson, Sir Richard Barwell, and Sir Philip Francis.
Lastly, on 15 June 1795, the General Goddard played a large role in the capture of seven Dutch East Indiamen off St Helena.
Napoleon III appointed a new commander, General Forey, one of the victors of Solferino, and sent 23,000 fresh soldiers.
James's bishops forced his Five Articles of Perth through a General Assembly the following year, but the rulings were widely resisted.
Into this atmosphere General George Monck, Governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland.
General Edmond Ludlow, still loyal to the Rump Parliament was also excepted.
John Bradshaw acted as President of the Court, and the prosecution was led by the Solicitor General, John Cook.
It was into this atmosphere that General George Monck marched south with his army from Scotland.
By the time of the Battle of Marston Moor in July 1644, Cromwell had risen to the rank of Lieutenant General of horse in Manchester's army.
To lay foundations for a new beginning, envoys of the States General appeared in November 1660 with the Dutch Gift.
Booth held Cheshire until the end of August when he was defeated by General Lambert.
He dismissed judges who disagreed with him on this matter as well as the Solicitor General Heneage Finch.
The States General allowed the core regiments of the Dutch field army to participate under command of Marshall Schomberg.
On 9 December 1688 he had already asked the States General to send a delegation of three to negotiate the conditions.
The General Letter Office in Threadneedle Street burned down early on Monday morning, through which post passed for the entire country.
He dismissed judges who disagreed with him on this matter, as well as the Solicitor General Heneage Finch.
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William refused but obtained a special mandate from the States General to appoint all delegates in the States of these provinces anew.
Mr. Karzai and General Musharraf are expected to meet this week at a jirga, an assembly of leaders from their nations.
The Declaration was directly influenced by Thomas Jefferson working with General Lafayette, who introduced it.
General Bonaparte and his expedition eluded pursuit by the Royal Navy and landed at Alexandria on 1 July.
General Bonaparte's forces of 25,000 roughly equalled those of the Mamluks' Egyptian cavalry.
General Melas had a numerical advantage, fielding about 30,000 Austrian soldiers while Napoleon commanded 24,000 French troops.
The Ulm Maneuver completely surprised General Mack, who belatedly understood that his army had been cut off.
With Portugal secured, Wellesley advanced into Spain to unite with General Cuesta's forces.
Amongst historians writing in the 20th century, the term General Strike was increasingly used.
When civil war broke out in Spain, Hitler and Mussolini lent military support to the Nationalist rebels, led by General Francisco Franco.
From 1943 to 1945, the US led and coordinated the Western Allies' war effort in Europe under the leadership of General Dwight Eisenhower.
Instead of returning home, he rejoined General Buller's army on its march to relieve the British at the Siege of Ladysmith and take Pretoria.
Wever argued that the Luftwaffe General Staff should not be solely educated in tactical and operational matters.
In 1960, the UN General Assembly voted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
The Commonwealth of Nations is represented in the United Nations General Assembly by the secretariat as an observer.
In the General Election of 1979 she defeated James Callaghan's Labour government following the Winter of Discontent.
He was a member of the Board of General Officers established in 1717 to investigate the abuse of pay.
The General Secretary represents the party on behalf of the other members of the Labour Party in any legal matters or actions.
However, the party experienced a large drop in its support at the 1979 General election, followed by a further drop at the 1983 election.
The SNP and Plaid Cymru were involved in joint campaigning during the 2005 General Election campaign.
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Data for these polls are generally gathered at the same time as the data for General Election polling.
In the 2015 General Election, Carswell kept his seat in Clacton but Reckless lost Rochester to the Conservative Kelly Tolhurst.
The following day, General James Wilkinson accepted possession of New Orleans for the United States.
National Blood Service for the area is off the A6102 in the north of Sheffield, at the west end of the Northern General Hospital.
However, no further action was taken after the intervention of the 1931 General Election.
Some volunteers might opt to stay on in Zambia by other means, but the General election had left a sour taste in my mouth and I was ready to go.
The Governor General and the council would have complete legislative powers.
General Norton Schwartz has said that the software is the biggest factor that might delay the USAF's initial operational capability.
He received a medal from the Royal Society for his memoir of 1844, On A General Method of Analysis.
From 1992 to 1995 he served as President of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.
His deep work on General Relativity has been a major factor in our understanding of black holes.
In the run up to the 2017 General Election, Dawkins once again endorsed the Liberal Democrats and urged voters to join the party.
Boulton also helped build the General Dispensary, where outpatient treatment could be obtained.
General Motors purchased a majority stake in 1925 and changed its name to the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company.
In June 1996 a second London bus operation, London General was acquired from the management team that had purchased it when privatised.
The Medical Practices Committee was established to regulate General practitioners.
In 1848, a General Board of Health was created with the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests as its President.
Ekkehard von Kuenssberg was the founder and president of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Democracy was stalled by the martial law that had been enforced by President Iskander Mirza, who was replaced by army chief, General Ayub Khan.
A resolution passed in 1948, the UN's General Assembly asked Pakistan to remove most of its troops as a plebiscite would then be held.
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Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman took over the presidency in 1977 when Justice Sayem resigned.
Bangladesh's next major ruler was Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
Bangladeshi diplomat Humayun Rashid Choudhury served as President of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Northbrook Hall Public Library was established in Dacca in 1882 in honour of Lord Northbrook, the Governor General.
The following is the very beginning of the General Prologue from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte's General Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Italy, imprisoning Pope Pius VI, who died in captivity.
Executive power is in the hands of the President of that commission, assisted by the General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary.
A number of other Baptist churches sprang up, and they became known as the General Baptists.
In Great Britain, Quakers keep a separate record of the union and notify the General Register Office.
It is democratically controlled through General Meetings and referendums, and is run by elected student officers.
The Decreet was for Sallary, and it was offered to be proven, that Rue was by warrand from General Monk, excluded from Collection that year.
Chaucer describes a Plowman in the General Prologue of his tales, but never gives him his own tale.
After studying the works of John XXII and previous papal statements, Ockham agreed with the Minister General.
With this appointment, a new Minister General will need to be selected by the Franciscans and then approved by Pope Francis.
It is an international organization with its own Minister General based in Rome.
In 1957, she made a state visit to the United States, where she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on behalf of the Commonwealth.
Bacon was subsequently a part of the legal team headed by the Attorney General Sir Edward Coke at Essex's treason trial.
For example, when Einstein developed the Special and General Theories of Relativity, he did not in any way refute or discount Newton's Principia.
Arthur Eddington's observations made during a 1919 solar eclipse supported General Relativity rather than Newtonian gravitation.
To inspire his soldiers, General George Washington had The American Crisis, first Crisis pamphlet, read aloud to them.
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He is remembered liturgically on 13 June by the Episcopal Church, with a provisional feast day as adopted at the 2009 General Convention.
He described his impressions in a travelogue, American Notes for General Circulation.
My most earnest hope is that the Labour Party will win a clear majority in the next General Election.
David Webster was appointed General Administrator, and Sadler's Wells Ballet was invited to become the resident ballet company.
In the same year Olivier portrayed the Mahdi, opposite Heston as General Gordon, in the film Khartoum.
Congress elects the President of FIFA, its General Secretary, and the other members of the FIFA Council on the year following the FIFA World Cup.
In 2009, the UN General Assembly granted the IOC Permanent Observer status.
This decision enables the IOC to be directly involved in the UN Agenda and to attend UN General Assembly meetings where it can take the floor.
General admission to the grounds gives access to the outer courts and is possible without queuing overnight.
General Tian Ji's strategem for a horse race remains perhaps the best known story about horse racing in that period.
A corporate logo was unveiled at the 2015 Annual General Meeting, incorporating Renault, Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors.
He was a supporter of the Conservative Party for the 1983 General Election.
In April 2017 O'Sullivan endorsed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the upcoming UK General election.
The Queen of Canada has delegated her prerogative to grant armorial bearings to the Governor General of Canada.
Adolf Hitler and Mussolini continued to aid General Francisco Franco's Nationalists, while the Soviet Union helped the Spanish Republic.
Profits of bookmakers are subject to General Betting Duty in the United Kingdom.
It also carries out tasks as directed by the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and other UN bodies.
The General Assembly approves the regular budget and determines the assessment for each member.
In 1976, the General Assembly established the Joint Inspection Unit to seek out inefficiencies within the UN system.
General categories of state institutions include administrative bureaucracies, legal systems, and military or religious organizations.
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Delegates of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles could participate in sessions of the First and Second Chamber of the States General.
The people are represented by the States General of the Netherlands, which consists of a House of Representatives and a Senate.
The legislature of the Kingdom consists of the States General of the Netherlands and the Government.
By convention if a government loses the confidence of the House of Commons it must either resign or a General Election is held.
The General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland on the Royal Mile was chosen to host the Parliament.
This building was vacated twice to allow for the meeting of the Church's General Assembly.
In addition to the General Assembly Hall, the Parliament also used buildings rented from the City of Edinburgh Council.
The Church of Scotland Offices are in Edinburgh, as is the Assembly Hall where the annual General Assembly is held.
Since September 2011, the incumbent Lieutenant Governor has been General Sir John McColl.
The first veto by the US came in 1970, blocking General Assembly action in Southern Rhodesia.
The Council of Europe holds observer status with the United Nations and is regularly represented in the UN General Assembly.
The General Agreement on Privileges and Immunities of the Council of Europe grants the organisation certain privileges and immunities.
However, the Foot and Mouth crisis did delay the UK General Elections, the first time since the Second World War any event postponed an election.
The Jacobite army of under six thousand men had set out and an army under General George Wade assembled at Newcastle.
They then defeated the forces of General Henry Hawley at the Battle of Falkirk Muir.
To his master, the Kings Majesty or General, that fures or leads the war.
Three Bangladeshis have since served as its Secretary General.
The Attorney General Sir Edward Coke told the court that each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground.
General Compton gave the manuscript to William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire and it was purchased by the British Library from the Duke's descendants.
The General Assembly authorized the Council to take up the matter.
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The 42nd Bombardment Wing would carpet-bomb defenses facing Seventh Army. XII Tactical Air Command, of which Brigadier General Glenn O. Barcus had recently become chief.
As had Wilfrid Lawson and it is pleasant to record that, after The Devil's General, he was once again considered castworthy and went on to play several other roles.
Liveried chaprasis were bringing in wreaths to be placed on Mattoo's body, from the Governor General, Prime Minister, cabinet ministers, heads of industrial houses.
In the General Prologue, some thirty pilgrims are introduced.
The OSCE considers itself a regional organization in the sense of Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter and is an observer in the United Nations General Assembly.
The land now owned by the Government is too small for extended order drills and maneuvers and General Wood was very desirous of securing more room.
We discharge them also of all Farmings of Benefices, and Church Lands, or Goods, of which they were spoiled by those who Commanded under their General.
The movie opens with a group of medieval pilgrims journeying through the Kentish countryside as a narrator speaks the opening lines of the General Prologue.
It is generally believed that these charges were levied The Franciscan Minister General, Michael of Cesena, had been summoned to Avignon, to answer charges of heresy.
On 18 October 2007, BBC Director General Mark Thompson announced a controversial plan to make major cuts and reduce the size of the BBC as an organisation.
This chapter introduced General Statutes to govern the order and devolved power from the Minister General to the Ministers Provincial sitting in chapter.
Similarly, it has granted the power to make regulations to Ministers of the Crown, and the power to enact religious legislation to the General Synod of the Church of England.
The Chief of the Defence Staff is the professional head of the armed forces and is an appointment that can be held by an Admiral, Air Chief Marshal or General.
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the sovereign and highest court of the Church of Scotland, and is thus the Church's governing body.
He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England.
Perth was formerly headquarters of insurance firm General Accident.
When the office of Attorney General fell vacant in 1594, Lord Essex's influence was not enough to secure the position for Bacon and it was given to Sir Edward Coke.
Likewise, Bacon failed to secure the lesser office of Solicitor General in 1595, the Queen pointedly snubbing him by appointing Sir Thomas Fleming instead.
When their leadership changed becoming more hostile to Rome, Roman General Quintus Petillius Cerialis led the Ninth Legion north from Lincoln across the Humber.
The General said that his troops were now in control of the situation.

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