Until 1918, the British prime minister's powers had been theoretically quite limited and, as a member of the cabinet, the office-holder was regarded strictly as primus inter pares.

At the 1926 Imperial Conference, King then went on to use Byng and his refusal to follow his prime minister's advice as the impetus for widespread constitutional change throughout the British Commonwealth.

According to the historian Vernon Bogdanor, this was the last time a British monarch vetoed a prime minister's appointment of a cabinet minister.

In the West Wing season 6 episode " The Wake Up Call ", President Bartlet refers to the British prime minister's press conference as " getting all Hans & Franz " about the alleged shooting down of a British airplane by Iran.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

With the announcement of the 2013 schedule and home nation tours to other countries in non-Lions Tour years, it looks extremely unlikely that the British and Irish Lions will have the opportunity to tour Argentina before the 2017 tour of New Zealand.

* 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children said they had escaped their home when a tall Sasquatch approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

The British Museum is home to one of the world's finest numismatic collections, comprising about a million objects.

The phrase " national home " was intentionally used instead of " state " because of opposition to the Zionist program within the British Cabinet.

A growing number of real estate companies cater to mainly British expatriates, followed by German, Dutch, Scandinavian and other European nationalities wishing to own a home in Crete.

Curry powder is a spice mixture of widely varying composition developed by the British during the days of the Raj as a means of approximating the taste of Indian cuisine at home.

Therefore, The Cottagers have had 12 grounds overall ( including a temporary stay at Loftus Road ), meaning that only their former ' landlords ' and rivals QPR have had more home grounds ( 14 ) in British football.

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

In terms of the British perspective, " It was necessary for the Nazi régime and / or the German Generals to surrender unconditionally in order to bring home to the German people that they had lost the War of themselves ; so that their defeat should not be attributed to a ' stab in the back '.

In the early 1980s, the British home computer market was booming.

Thereafter the Imperial German Navy ceased any serious attempts to engage the British fleet and remained at home as a ' fleet in being '.

British forces used airpower to shock the Afghans, and the King's home was directly attacked in what is the first case of aerial bombardment in Afghanistan's history.

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

However, although it was lightly guarded, Volunteer and Citizen Army forces under Seán Connolly failed to take Dublin Castle, the centre of British rule in Ireland, shooting dead a police sentry and overpowering the soldiers in the guardroom, but failing to press home the attack.

By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

Additionally Britain's use of radar and the advantages of fighting above Britain's home territory allowed the RAF to deny Germany air superiority, saving the British Isles from German invasion and dealing the Axis their first major defeat of the Second World War.

At least one home computer, the British Jupiter ACE, had Forth in its ROM-resident operating system.

Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the home world of the Doctor and the Time Lords.

At the same time, the audience for theatre was growing because of the rapidly expanding British population ; improvement in education and the standard of living, especially of the middle class ; improving public transportation ; and installation of street lighting, which made travel home from the theatre safer.

It stated that the British Government " view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ".

From the 1920s until the late 1980s, the town of Borehamwood was home to one of the major British film studio complexes, including the MGM-British Studios.

The unified Jewish resistance movement broke up in July 1946, after Etzel bombed the British Military Headquarters in the King David Hotel killing 92 people.

On 26 June 1944, it was bombed by the British Royal Air Force which mistakenly believed it had been overrun by German forces and was being used to amass stores and ammunitions.

* 1939 – World War II: a Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed.

* July 11 – July 12 – The steamship Amalthea, housing 80 British strikebreakers while in Malmö harbour, Sweden, is bombed by Anton Nilson ; 1 is killed, 20 injured.

The dam, built in 1914, was bombed and destroyed by British aircraft in May 1943, causing massive destruction and approximately 70 deaths downstream, but was rebuilt within four months.

Diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and Finland were severed on 1 August 1941, after the British bombed German forces in the Finnish village and port of Petsamo.

Despite the prisoner status of its workers, American and British planes bombed the factory near the end of the war.

During World War II, Insterburg was heavily bombed by the British Royal Air Force on July 27, 1944.

The city was twice severely bombed by British forces, on 16 and 23 August 1943, before being liberated by the Americans in 1944.

On 18 February 1944, British airplanes bombed the prison in Amiens as part of Operation Jericho.

HJ Aldington, a director of the Bristol Aeroplane Company affiliated AFN ( BMW's pre-war concessionaire in the UK ), used his British Army connections to visit the bombed BMW factory in Munich several times post-war.

When the U. S. entered the war after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and the U. S. was at war with both Japan and Germany, a " Europe first " a modified version of his plan was adopted by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

In 1945, towards the end of World War II, Jena was heavily bombed by the American and British Allies.

In one of the lesser known incidents of the war, starting in July 1940, Italian aircraft bombed cities in the British Mandate of Palestine.

In mid-October, the Italians also bombed American-operated oil refineries in the British Protectorate of Bahrain.

* 27 June-a group of RAF Vickers Wellingtons bombed the units of 4th County of London Yeomanry, British 7th Armoured Division and the British 3rd Hussars during a two-hour raid near Mersa Matruh, Egypt, killing over 359 troops and wounding 560.

* During the 2nd Battle of El Alamein, RAF fighters bombed British troops during a four hour raid, causing 56 casualties.

* 28 January 1944, a train carrying 800 Allied Prisoners of War was bombed when it crossed a bridge on the Ponte Paglia in Allerona, Italy, killing approximately 400 British, U. S. and South African prisoners.

* 6 June 1944, RAF fighters bombed and strafed the HQ entourage of 3rd Parachute Brigade ( British 6th Airborne Division ) near Pegasus Bridge after mistaking them for a German column.

The Durand Line triggered a long-running controversy between the governments of Afghanistan and British India, especially after the outbreak of the Third Anglo-Afghan War when Afghanistan's capital ( Kabul ) and its eastern city of Jalalabad were bombed by the No. 31 and 114 squadrons of the British Royal Air Force in May 1919.

During four days, from July 23 to 26, the British bombed the fort, using artillery positioned where Captain Hébécourt and his men were retrenched.

The Obersalzberg was bombed by hundreds of British Lancaster bombers, including aircraft from No. 617 Squadron RAF (" The Dam Busters "), on 25 April 1945, twelve days before the surrender of German forces on 7 May.