The Gross group had been formed for the express purpose of advising the Secretary General.

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The GNU General Public License has been described as a copyright hack because it cleverly uses the copyright laws for a purpose the lawmakers did not foresee.

** 16 32-bit General purpose registers ( R0-R15 )

In November 2004, a United Nations Secretary General report described terrorism as any act " intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act ".

The main purpose of the quadrennial Congress is to examine proposals to amend the Acts of the UPU, including the UPU Constitution, General Regulations, Convention and Postal Payment Services Agreement.

Major General John A. McClernand was authorized to raise an army in his home state of Illinois for the purpose of taking Vicksburg ; Grant was very frustrated at the lack of direction he was receiving to move forward from his station in Memphis, and more aggravated to learn of this apparent effort to brush him aside.

In December 2009, the UN General Assembly amended the UNU Charter to make it a requirement for UNU to “ grant and confer master ’ s degrees and doctorates, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions under conditions laid down for that purpose in the statutes by the Council .”

General purpose analog voltmeters may have an accuracy of a few percent of full scale, and are used with voltages from a fraction of a volt to several thousand volts.

General purpose operands were specified using a 5-bit field.

:; General purpose use: Prepackaged software is very often expected to be executed on a variety of machines and CPUs that may share the same instruction set, but have different timing, cache or memory characteristics.

The Prussian army was unique in Europe for having the only General Staff in existence, whose sole purpose was to direct operational movement, organise logistics and communications and develop the overall war strategy.

A covered jurisdiction that seeks to obtain Section 5 Preclearance, either from the United States Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, must demonstrate that a proposed voting change does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of discriminating based on race or color.

General Ambrose Burnside ( a former Rhode Island gunsmith ) lamented of his Civil War recruits: " Out of ten soldiers who are perfect in drill and the manual of arms, only one knows the purpose of the sights on his gun or can hit the broad side of a barn.

Then it is used as: General Strike of a city, i. e., " General Strike in Florence ", or a General Strike in a whole country or province, for the purpose of gaining political rights, i. e., the right to vote ; as in Belgium, or Sweden.

" The Governor General had formed a strong bond with his prime minister, even if it may have been built more on political admiration than personal friendship ; while Mackenzie King appreciated his " sterling rectitude and disinterested purpose ," despite being wary of Buchan's vices ( such as his penchant for titles ),

The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held February 4 – 11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.

At the time of its creation, Carter County was attached to Ripley County for the purpose of representation in the General Assembly.

President Hinckley first read the Proclamation on September 23, 1995, at the General Relief Society Meeting, stating that the purpose was to " warn and forewarn " the world to the danger of deviating from its standards.

Serling returned from the successful mission in Leyte with two wounds ( including one to his kneecap ), but neither kept him from combat when General Douglas MacArthur used the paratroopers for their typical purpose on February 3, 1945.

The first Director General of UNESCO ( Sir Julian Huxley ), wishing to give UNESCO a more scientific base, sponsored a congress to establish a new environmental institution to help serve this purpose.

Although the European Court of Justice's Advocate General subsequently said that the bloc's plan to tighten rules on the sale of vitamins and food supplements should be scrapped, he was eventually overruled by the European Court, which decided that the measures in question were necessary and appropriate for the purpose of protecting public health.

The main function of the General Conference is to serve as a forum for debate on current issues and policies.

This function of the General Conference is almost identical to the General Assembly of the United Nations.

The absence of a strategic bomber force for the Luftwaffe, following General Wever's accidental death in 1936 and the end of the Ural bomber program he fostered before the invasion of Poland, would not be addressed again until the authorization of the Bomber B design competition in July 1939, which sought to replace the medium bomber force with which the Luftwaffe was to begin the war, with more advanced, twin-engined high speed bomber aircraft fitted with pairs of relatively " high-power " engines of 1, 500 kW ( 2, 000 hp ) output levels and upwards each, that would also be able to function as shorter range heavy bombers.

The United Nations University is the sole UN entity authorized by the UN General Assembly to grant degrees as well as function as a think tank for the United Nations system.

* General or routine chemistry-commonly ordered blood chemistries ( e. g., liver and kidney function tests ).

General anesthesia is often administered without tracheal intubation in selected cases where the procedure is brief in duration, or procedures where the depth of anesthesia is not sufficient to cause significant compromise in ventilatory function.

Carl Friedrich Gauss in his 1827 Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curvas ( General investigations of curved surfaces ) considered a surface parametrically, with the Cartesian coordinates x, y, and z of points on the surface depending on two auxiliary variables u and v. Thus a parametric surface is ( in today's terms ) a vector valued function

" The theory of utility above referred to, namely, that the degree of utility of a commodity is some continuous mathematical function of the quantity of the commodity available, together with the implied doctrine that economics is essentially a mathematical science, took more definite form in a paper on " A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy ", written for the British Association in 1862.

McEwen, the Executive Board asked the General Assembly to be allowed to continue to function until new leadership had been elected and they agreed.

Although setting the state budget is a legislative function in many states, Kentucky governors are required by statute to present a proposed biennial budget to the General Assembly for approval shortly after the beginning of its even-year sessions.

However, after the war this function ceased to exist thus it is expected that in case of formal participation in war by Poland, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces will be appointed Supreme Commander.

" The General Assembly authorised the different regions to adapt the Manual to fit specific cultural contexts and would function as a " regional Manual policy handbook.

The first successful mechanical support of left ventricular function was performed in July 3, 1952 by Forest Dewey Dodrill using a machine, the Dodrill-GMR co-developed with General Motors.

The Connecticut YMCA Youth and Government Program is designed to introduce youths in grades 9-12 to the organization and function of the Connecticut General Assembly via participation in a mock legislative session.

As the ONS previously incorporated the OPCS, the Director was also the Registrar General for England and Wales, although the recent changes saw the transfer of this function away from the ONS.

In July 2001 Air Foyle HeavyLift became the worldwide General Sales Agent of the Antonov Design Bureau of Kiev, a function previously held from July 1989 by Air Foyle, one of the two 50 % shareholders in Air Foyle Heavylift.

The former, not to be confused with ' New Keynesian and the many offsprings and various syntheses of ' The General Theory ', take the fact that a commodity-commodity economy is substantially altered in content once it becomes a commodity-money-commodity economy, or once money becomes not only a facilitator of exchange as is its only function in marginalist theory but a store of value and means of payment as well.

After the exercise, General Holland Smith assigned the APDs and rubber boat function to the 1st Battalion 5th Marines.

The first, in 1971, was coup d ' état attempt allegedly supported by Libya, organized by General Madbouh and Colonel Ababou and carried out by cadets during a function at the King's summer palace in Rabat during his forty-second birthday party.

However, as elsewhere in English North America, English political institutions were re-created in the colonies, and the Maryland General Assembly fulfilled much the same function as the House of Commons of England.

General Electric Developed a control system for PCC cars that mirrored the Westinghouse scheme in function, although not in simplicity or maintainability.

However, as elsewhere in English North America, English political institutions were re-created in the colonies, and the Maryland General Assembly fulfilled much the same function as the House of Commons of England.

It did not function as the controlling headquarters for all Allied air forces, with the strategic forces of RAF Bomber Command and the US Eighth Air Force being retained by their national command authorities until pressure from U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower resulted in them being placed directly under SHAEF instead of AEAF.