A Lebanese public opinion poll taken in August 2006 shows that most of the Shia did not believe that Hezbollah should disarm after the 2006 Lebanon war, while the majority of Sunni, Druze and Christians believed that they should.

A poll in August 2006 by ABC News and the Washington Post found that 68 % of the 1, 002 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the civilian casualties in Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 31 % who blamed Israel to some degree.

Another August 2006 poll by CNN showed that 69 % of the 1, 047 Americans polled believed that Hezbollah is unfriendly towards, or an enemy of, the United States.

In a BBC poll in August 1999, Milligan was voted the " funniest person of the last 1000 years ".

Allen's statue stood in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol until, after a statewide poll run by the Ohio Historical Society, the Ohio National Statuary Committee voted August 26, 2010 to replace him with the statute of inventor Thomas A. Edison.

** In a special election for the U. S. Senate, Harris Wofford scores an electoral upset against Dick Thornburgh, who had led him by 44 points in an August opinion poll.

In August 2002, Powell appeared 55th in the List of 100 Greatest Britons of all time ( voted for by the public in a BBC nationwide poll ).

In the August 2006 poll, he again was voted worst manager with 17 % of the vote and 37. 7 % of the NL East vote.

After Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run on August 7, 2007, fashion designer and enterpreneur Marc Ecko purchased the home run ball from the fan who caught it, and ran a poll on his Web site to determine its fate.

On 29 August 2010 the The Sydney Morning Herald published a poll produced by Neilson, asking multiple questions on the future of the monarchy:

An Abacus poll from August 2011 showed that approximately one out of two Canadians would like to see the CBC's funding switched to the PBS / NPR model, while one out of three Canadians want Parliament to sell off or privatize the CBC.

US Ambassador James Foley admitted in a confidential March 22, 2005, cable that an August 2004 poll " showed that Aristide was still the only figure in Haiti with a favorability rating above 50 %.

A poll released on August 23, 2005, commissioned by the Toronto Star, showed that McKenna was the top choice of the public to succeed Prime Minister Paul Martin.

A Zogby poll released on August 15, 2008, indicated that most Republican and Democratic voters wanted Barr to be included in the presidential debates.

Thompson had stated he would drop out of the race if he did not finish either first or second in the Ames straw poll on August 11, 2007.

In August 2008, Vieira was ranked the fifth-greatest Arsenal player of all-time in a fan poll conducted on the club's official website.

A Zogby International poll conducted in August 2004 found that 71 % of American voters believed that “ outsourcing jobs overseas ” hurt the economy while another 62 % believed that the U. S. government should impose some legislative action against companies that transfer domestic jobs overseas, possibly in the form of increased taxes on companies that outsource.

A Gallup poll conducted in August 2004 indicated that 62 % of Austrians would favour a return to the traditional spelling.

It also appeared in a Radio Times poll to find the top 40 greatest TV shows on British television, published in August 2003.

And following the Saturday Night Massacre, as opposed to August of the same year, an Oliver Quayle poll for NBC News showed that a plurality of American citizens now supported impeachment, with 44 % in favor, 43 % opposed, and 13 % undecided, although with a sampling error of 2 to 3 percent.

In August 2011, Robson was voted as the greatest ever Manchester United player from a poll of ex Manchester United Players as part of a new book, 19, released to celebrate their 19th league title win.

On the performance of President Lee Myung-bak and of Grand National Party, 25. 4 percent of the population of South Korea answered " good " and 67. 3 percent " bad " according to a poll by Donga Ilbo conducted in August 2008.

On August 10, 2007, Rep. Tom Tancredo's presidential campaign reportedly was the victim of an e-mail hoax on the eve of the Republican Party straw poll in Ames, Iowa.

This protracted procedural battle did not seem to go well for the Liberals when, in an opinion poll released on June 12, 2006 but conducted largely during the height of the procedural infighting, the Tories took the lead over the Liberals for the first time in any poll since August 2003 with a margin of 45 % to 39 % for Lord's Conservatives.

After an initial release in August 1935, the Commonwealth Department of Health decided to ban future introductions until a study was conducted into the feeding habits of the toad.

It is currently conducted every five years, the last occurrence being on 9 August 2011.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

First person interview conducted with Roy Clark on August 15, 2011.

This agreement was a success, and in August 2001 3, 500 NATO soldiers conducted " Operations Essential Harvest " to retrieve the arms.

In the two-round legislative elections conducted on July 21 and August 3, ADEMA secured over 80 % of the National Assembly seats.

However, in August 1974, Spain formally acknowledged the 1966 United Nations ( UN ) resolution calling for a referendum on the future status of Western Sahara and requested that a plebiscite be conducted under UN supervision.

The first Protestant worship service was conducted on 28 August 1898 by an American military chaplain named Rev.

A year later on July 18, August 4, and August 25, the US Eighth Air Force conducted three additional Peenemünde raids to counter suspected hydrogen peroxide production.

In March 2009, EuroArts released Amor, Vida de Mi Vida, a recording on Blu-ray disc of an August 2007 zarzuela concert by Plácido Domingo and Ana María Martínez, with the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg conducted by Jesús López-Cobos.

* August 8 – As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.

During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945.

In July and August 1882 sixteen performances of the work were given in Bayreuth conducted by Levi and Franz Fischer.

In his work as acting chief of the Special Operations Division, Olson was involved in the development of aerosolized delivery systems ; he had been present at Pont-Saint-Esprit in August, 1951 ; and several months before resigning his position he had witnessed a terminal interrogation conducted in Germany under Project ARTICHOKE.

In a lengthy interview conducted by PBS prior to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997, Max Hastings, editor of the Daily Telegraph between 1986 and 1995, discussed the impact of Andrew Morton's and Jonathan Dimbleby's biographies of, respectively, Diana, Princess of Wales and HRH The Prince of Wales on subsequent news coverage of the Royal Family in the UK.

On August 29 at a news conference, President Nixon stated Dean had conducted a thorough investigation of the matter, when in fact Dean had not conducted any investigation at all.

As demonstrations against his government continued throughout the summer, the special forces loyal to Diệm ’ s brother, Nhu, conducted a brutal August raid of the Xá Lợi pagoda in Saigon.

Underestimating the strength of Allied forces on Guadalcanal, Ichiki's unit conducted a nighttime frontal assault on Marine positions at Alligator Creek ( often called the " Ilu River " on U. S. Marine maps ) on the east side of the Lunga perimeter in the early morning hours of August 21.

The Kangaroo Hoppet is a leg of the Worldloppet cross-country race series which is conducted on the last Saturday of August each year, hosted by Falls Creek in Victoria.

Palestinian militants have conducted drive-by shootings, examples include the Killing of Rabbi Meir Hai, the August 2010 West Bank shooting, the September 2010 West Bank shooting and other incidents during 2010.

Negotiations concerning the agreement, an outgrowth of the Madrid Conference of 1991, were conducted secretly in Oslo, Norway, hosted by the Fafo institute, and completed on 20 August 1993 ; the Accords were subsequently officially signed at a public ceremony in Washington, D. C., on 13 September 1993 in the presence of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and U. S. President Bill Clinton.

It was selected as Finland's top suburb in a survey conducted by the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper and published on 17 August 2003.