The General Social Survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and the Saguaro Seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University are examples of national community development in the United States.

* Penrose, Roger: " Singularities and time-asymmetry ", Chapter 12 in General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey ( Hawking and Israel, editors ), ( 1979 ), see especially section 12. 3. 2, pp. 617 – 629 ( ISBN 0-521-22285-0 )

" In February 1962, three years after the 1959 " US Special Survey Team ", a Fort Bragg top-level U. S. Special Warfare team headed by Special Warfare Center commander General William P. Yarborough, visited Colombia for a second survey.

: Luyten, W. J., Proper Motion Survey with the forty-eight inch Schmidt Telescope, University of Minnesota, 1941 ( General Catalogue of the Bruce Proper-Motion Survey )

* General Social Survey ( GSS )

* German General Social Survey ( ALLBUS )

The General Survey Act of 1824, allowed a survey that established the western border of Arkansas Territory well inside the present state of Oklahoma, where the Choctaw and Cherokee tribes had previously begun to settle.

For example, in the late 1780s, a team from the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, originally under General William Roy began the Principal Triangulation of Britain using the specially built Ramsden theodolite.

Innes-Wilson, a Royal Engineers officer who joined the Survey of India which mapped the subcontinent, was the first Surveyor General of Pakistan.

In 1784 General William Roy set out the baseline of what would become the Ordnance Survey across Hounslow Heath, passing through Feltham.

A cannon in Roy Grove marks the Hampton end of the baseline measured in 1784 by General William Roy at the start of the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain, i. e. Ordnance Survey maps.

This measurement, which earned the General the Copley medal of the Royal Society, was the origin of all subsequent surveys of the United Kingdom, and still forms the basis of the Ordnance Survey maps today.

The gorge was named in honour of Sir Archibald Geikie, the Director General of Geological Survey for Great Britain and Ireland when it was given its European name in 1883.

In 1824 the United States Congress passed the General Survey Act, intended to create and maintain military roads through what was then the west of the country.

In the 1989 General Social Survey, U. S. respondents were asked to rate the social status of people of " Wisian " background, a fictional national heritage.

* Berthold, Peter ( 2001 ) Bird Migration: A General Survey.

The Higher Education General Information Survey ( HEGIS ) counts nonvocational degrees under the category " Arts and Sciences or General Programs "; vocational degrees are counted under six headings:

* Williams, E. E., The Chantries of William Canynges in St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, with a Survey of Chantries in General and some Events in the Lives of the Canynges Family, 1950

** General Social Survey

Cunningham's A Few General Remarks on the Vegetation of Certain Coasts of Terra Australis, will be found in King's Narrative of a Survey, etc.

* The History of the TUC ( Trades Union Congress ) 1868-1968: A pictorial Survey of a Social Revolution — Illustrated with Contemporary Prints, Documents and Photographs edited by Lionel Birch ; published in large paperback by Hamlyn / General Council of Trade Union Congress in 1968 with a foreword by George Woodcock

* General Survey ( Tibet )

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

The Attorney General of the United States, in considering the power of the Secretary to issue similar regulations under the Wagner-Peyser Act relating to the interstate recruitment of farm workers, has rendered an opinion sustaining his authority.

There is however a single General Administrative Law Act (" Algemene wet bestuursrecht " or Awb ) that applies both to the making of administrative decisions and the judicial review of these decisions in courts.

Ghana through the Banking ( Amendment ) Act 2007 has include the awarding of General Banking license to qualified Banks and this allows Offshore Banks to operate in the country.

After prolonged years of struggle, in 1834 the Evangelicals gained control of the General Assembly and passed the Veto Act, which allowed congregations to reject unwanted " intrusive " presentations to livings by patrons.

Suspension of the writ in Canadian history occurred famously during the October Crisis, during which the War Measures Act was invoked by the Governor General of Canada on the constitutional advice of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who had received a request from the Quebec Cabinet.

Following the 1869 finalisation of UK telegraph nationalisation into a General Post Office monopoly, the Isle of Man Telegraph Company was nationalised in 1870 under the Telegraph Act 1870 ( an Act of Parliament ) at a cost to the British Government of £ 16, 106 ( paid in 1872 following arbitration proceedings over the value ).

On 1 January 1912 the National Telephone Company was nationalised and merged into the General Post Office by the Telephone Transfer Act 1911.

While Attorney General, Ashcroft consistently denied that the FBI or any other law enforcement agency had used the Patriot Act to obtain library circulation records or those of retail sales.

One month following its conclusion, a similar agreement, General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, was concluded in Geneva, which obliged its signatory parties to establish conciliation commissions in any case of dispute.

However, following the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ) at the WTO, the 1988 Telecommunications Act was replaced with by the Telecommunications Act of 1998 which provided the legal framework to enable the emergence of a free and democratised telecommunications market on the island.

* Measure of the Church of England is a law passed by the General Synod and the UK Parliament equivalent of an Act

Mining in the United States became prevalent in the 19th century, and the General Mining Act of 1872 was passed to encourage mining of federal lands.

* 1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Third, it was argued that the terms of the Butler Act violated the Tennessee State Constitution, which provided that " It shall be the duty of the General Assembly in all future periods of this government, to cherish literature and science.

From the section entitled, “ General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion ” comes the following quintessential simple sabotage advice: Act stupid.

The First Minister, the Ministers ( but not junior ministers ), the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General are the Members of the ' Scottish Executive ', as set out in the Scotland Act 1998.

Yale traces its beginnings to " An Act for Liberty to Erect a Collegiate School ", passed by the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut on October 9, 1701, in an effort to create an institution to train ministers and lay leadership for Connecticut.

* February 8 – The Dawes Act, or the General Allotment Act, is enacted.

The Intelligence Services Act 2001 converted ASIS into a statutory body, headed by the Director General.

Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended.