less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.

Through the World Bank and other instrumentalities, as well as through individual action by every nation in position to help, we must squarely face this titanic challenge.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

As to our action, let us align ourselves with the purpose expressed by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.

Rousseau's primitivism, the anti-Newtonian mythology of Blake, Coleridge's organic metaphysics, Victor Hugo's image of the poets as the Magi, and Shelley's `` unacknowledged legislators '' are related elements in the rear-guard action fought by the romantics against the new scientific rationalism.

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

But as he discovers shortly, on returning among intellectuals obsessed by le culte du moi, his experience of action had also taught him a more positive lesson.

More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.

The Secretary General must have, subject to the constitutional direction of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the power to act, to propose action and to organize action without being hobbled by advisers and assistants acting on someone else's instructions.

In each city quick public reaction and fast action by the city government halted the threats of more serious incidents.

On the one hand, the Public Health Service declared as recently as October 26 that present radiation levels resulting from the Soviet shots `` do not warrant undue public concern '' or any action to limit the intake of radioactive substances by individuals or large population groups anywhere in the Aj.

Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.

It commemorates the 185th anniversary of Rhode Island's Independence when, upon May 4, 1776, the General Assembly, by its action, established the first free republic in the New World.

The Secretary shall make reports to the President and the Congress at the beginning of each regular session of the action taken or instituted by him under the provisions of this Act and of prospective action during the ensuing year.

Using Edgerton's method, the fast-closing action is obtained from the blackening of a window by exploding a series of parallel lead wires.

Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, pays or offers to pay, or promises to pay, or receives on account of services rendered or to be rendered in connection with any such claim, compensation which, when added to any amount previously paid on account of such services, will exceed the amount of fees so determined by the Commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both, and if any such payment shall have been made or granted, the Commission shall take such action as may be necessary to recover the same, and, in addition thereto, any such person shall forfeit all rights under this Title.

Marx was supportive of such activity, and having recently received a substantial inheritance from his father of either 6000 or 5000 francs, allegedly used a third of it to arm Belgian workers who were planning revolutionary action.

They saw action in their proper role during 1940 – 1941, most notably in the capture of the Belgian army fortress at the Battle of Fort Eben-Emael and the Battle for The Hague in May 1940, and during the Battle of Crete in May 1941.

Belgium: The total Includes 35, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds Official Belgian government figures for military losses in Europe were 26, 338 killed, died of wounds or accidents and 14, 029 died of disease or missing.

The other major powers of EuropeAustria and Prussiatook a much dimmer view of Belgian independence but they were disinclined to take any action, being preoccupied with the November Uprising in Poland.

The Belgian Commission investigating Lumumba's assassination concluded that ( 1 ) Belgium wanted Lumumba arrested, ( 2 ) Belgium was not particularly concerned with Lumumba's physical well being, and ( 3 ) although informed of the danger to Lumumba's life, Belgium did not take any action to avert his death, but the report also specifically denied that Belgium ordered Lumumba's assassination.

A 2000 cover version of " Johnny " by Belgian musical group Vaya Con Dios that credited Paul prompted another action by the Romanian Musical Performing and Mechanical Rights Society.

Carlucci ’ s lawyers threatened Peck and distribution company Zeitgeist Films with legal action if the name of the former US official was not bleeped out of a scene that shows American Ambassador Clare Timberlake and Carlucci, along with Belgian and Congolese officials, plotting Lumumba ’ s assassination.

He served as an infantry officer, saw heavy action in France and Belgium, and received the Belgian Croix de Guerre.

During the day, the Dutch Air Force loses about half its aircraft and the Belgian Air Force about a quarter of its planes, a combined total of more than 100 planes ; France loses four of its 879 combat-ready planes destroyed on the ground and 30 damaged, while the Royal Air Force loses six planes destroyed and 12 put out of action out of 384 deployed in France.

The Belgian crisis had been settled, so far as the two powers were concerned, before Broglie took office, but the concerted military and naval action for the coercion of the Dutch, which led to the French occupation of Antwerp, was carried out under his auspices.

After the capitulation of the Belgian Army in 1940, he issued a manifesto to POB's members, welcoming the German occupation as a field of neutralist action during the war: " For the working classes and for socialism, this collapse of a decrepit world, far from being a disaster, is a deliverance.

* HMS Duncan, launched in 1901, was a battleship of the Duncan class which saw action against German installations on the Belgian coast in World War I and was sold in 1920.

* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM ( 42nd Field Artillery Battalion cited ; DA GO 43, 1950 )

* Cited in the Order Of The Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes ( 424th Infantry cited per DA GO 43, 1950 ).

* Cited in the Order Of The Day of the Belgian Army for action at St Vith ( 424th Infantry cited per DA GO 43, 1950 ).

* Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for the action at ST. VITH ( 16th Armored Field Artillery Battalion cited ; DA GO 43, 1950 )

In this film, the action is set in Antwerp and Beck is played by famous Belgian actor Jan Decleir.

Eighth-placed Nigel Mansell was the centre of action in the early going and he quickly got past Martini's Minardi and set off after Boutsen, but his overtaking attempt on the Belgian was less successful as he touched Boutsen's Williams at the seafront chicane and had to limp back to the pits for a new front wing.

* In immediate response, both the Belgian government and BNP Paribas announced they would be taking further action.

In response, it was rumoured ( in De Morgen ) that new action by the Belgian government would lead to a demotion of the credit rating of the Belgian state ( now AA +).

Acting on behalf of shareholders, the Dutch FortisEffect has started its court action against the Dutch and Belgian governments, Fortis and Fortis Bank Nederland, with a trial date hopefully in May.

JCVD is a 2008 Belgian crime comedy-drama film directed by French Tunisian director Mabrouk El Mechri, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a semi fictionalized version of himself, a down and out action star whose family and career are crumbling around him as he is caught in the middle of a post office heist in his hometown of Brussels, Belgium.

These newly deployed giant howitzers had easily taken several large Belgian forts out of action in August 1914.

It succeeded the Military Action and Intelligence Service ( Service d ' action et de renseignements militaires, SARM ), and according to Belgian official sources in 2002, falls under the authority, ' at least officially ', of the Congolese Armed Forces ( Forces armées congolaises, FAC ), now succeeded by the FARDC.