The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.

Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

Since the Bishop of London refused to ordain ministers in the British American colonies, this constituted an emergency, and as a result, on 2 September 1784, Rev.

This department had been created by the museum to address objects in the collection that had begun to rapidly deteriorate as a result of being stored in the London Underground tunnels during the First World War.

The first map to delineate the island under its present name, Diego Garcia, is the World Map of Edward Wright ( London 1599 ), possibly as a result of misreading Dio ( or simply " D .") as Diego, and Gratia as Garcia.

The London Traffic Act 1924 was a result of the Commission.

Starting in the mid-1960s, and partly as a result of the success of such UK musicians as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, London became a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the Swinging London subculture which made Carnaby Street a household name of youth fashion around the world.

As the political influence of London grew, the Chancery version of the language developed into a written standard across Great Britain, further progressing in the modern period as Scotland became united with England as a result of the Acts of Union of 1707.

Blackburn lost 2 – 1, but still won the title since Manchester United failed to get a result in London.

Also as a result of the pact, Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.

They hope that the negotiations in London will result in speedy agreement being reached for this purpose, and they regard it as a matter of great importance that the trial of these major criminals should begin at the earliest possible date.

Suffering from headaches, perhaps the result of overwork, Gosse and his family began to spend more time away from London on the Devon coast.

As a result, the English system of common law developed in parallel to Roman-based civil law, with its practitioners being trained at the Inns of Court in London rather than receiving degrees in Canon or Civil Law at the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge.

As a result of this decision in London, no action was taken in Canberra or Perth.

As a result, the Double Cross deception also caused retargetting from London, not just inaccurate aiming.

Perhaps as a result of this disinformation, the Germans never corrected their aim, with the end result that most bombs landed in the South London suburbs or the Kent countryside, doing far less damage than they otherwise would have done.

In autumn 1985, riots broke out in London and Birmingham, and Powell repeated his belief that civil war would be the result of immigration and called for massive repatriation.

Research suggests the use of English speech characteristics is likely to be a result of the influence of London and South East England accents featuring heavily on television.

As a result of the single's success, Blur became pop stars and were accepted into a clique of bands who frequented The Syndrome club in London dubbed " The Scene That Celebrates Itself ".

During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 ( the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of one on the 13th ), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough.

* Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 1959 ) – A British television serial in which a crashed spacecraft is discovered in London, which reveals that humanity on Earth is the result of experiments by a Martian civilisation, now long dead.

As a result of the Transport Act 1968, both Wallasey and Birkenhead Corporations merged under the single control of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive ( MPTE ) on 1 December 1969.

Passenger numbers have increased over the years and as a result the station's small ticket hall area is often severely congested, especially at the weekends due to the numerous hotels in the area.

As a result, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation ( Amtrak ) was founded in 1971 to take over America's passenger rail system.

Passenger numbers however dropped sharply in 1961 as the result of a fare increase, and so in 1962 a new reduced timetable was enacted, which lost more passengers, and saw the withdrawal of a special schoolchildren's service.

CWS traces its history to the early 20th century with the decline and / or extinction of several species of migratory birds in eastern North America as a result of hunting, including the Passenger Pigeon.

In the late 60s a large development program prepared by the Department of Transport as a result of the UNDP Transport Survey of Papua New Guinea was endorsed by the PNG House of Assesmbly, the Australian Parliament and multilateral agences, and implementation continued through later decades.

In 2009 the operator Denby Transport designed and built a 25. 25 metre long B-Train ( or B-Double ) semi-trailer truck called the Denby Eco-Link to show the benefits of such a vehicle, which were a reduction in road accidents and result in less road deaths, a reduction in emissions due to the one tractor unit still being used and no further highway investment being required.

The nationalisation of the canal system in 1948 did not result in the towpaths becoming public rights of way, and subsequent legislation, such as the Transport Act of 1968, which defined the government's obligations to the maintenance of the inland waterways for which it was now responsible, did not include any commitment to maintain towpaths for use by anyone.

As a result of 18 months of studies and discussions, SC16 adopted a layered architecture comprising seven layers ( Physical, Data Link, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, and Application ).

The British Waterways Board was initially established as a result of the Transport Act 1962 and took control of the inland waterways assets of the British Transport Commission in 1963.

On 26 October that year, as a result of the 1985 Transport Act, bus services were deregulated and restrictions which prevented regular bus services through the Mersey Tunnels were abolished.

As a result the German Ministry for Transport established a ferry connection to East Prussia (" Sea Service East Prussia " or Seedienst Ostpreußen ) in 1922, independent of the transit through Poland.

Accessibility Planning was introduced as a result of the report " Making the Connections: Final Report on Transport and Social Exclusion ".

Rails along this section were removed in 1979 as the result of a grant of abandonment from the Canadian Transport Commission. In 1977 the CP abandoned part of the Osoyoos Subdivision from Okanagan Falls to Osoyoos.

Following the debate, Gray published a dossier on a number of significant changes in the Air Transport Fleet which should, according to Gray, result in the decision to close RAF Lyneham being reversed.

This was a result of extreme pressure from the Department for Transport ( as proxy for the taxpayer ) to reduce avoidable costs when the line was originally electrified between 1985 and 1990.

Three years earlier, as junior Transport Minister in November 2002, he had spearheaded the Government's anti-drink driving campaign, warning that ' some drivers still choose to ignore our drink driving laws, and as a result innocent lives are destroyed '.

On 1 April 1988, Air Botswana was absorbed by the Botswana government as a parastatal corporation under the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communications as a result of the Air Botswana Act ( 1988 ), and became the nation's flag carrier.

As a result of the 1985 Transport Act, bus services across Great Britain were deregulated.

As a result GMITA was abolished, replaced by the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee ( TfGMC ) which ultimately reports to the Combined Authority.

This result is also known as the Transport Theorem in analytical dynamics, and is also sometimes referred to as the Basic Kinematic Equation.

Minor traffic management changes were planned to reduce this by 5 % in the worst-affected areas, but an overall 40 % reduction was targeted, partly by introducing a low emission zone to restrict heavy goods vehicles, partly through improved vehicle standards, and the rest through Edinburgh's ' Integrated Transport Initiative ', with journeys moving to public transport as a result of congestion charging.

Shareholders were not available for comment in order to answer questions about when or if the airline may commence operations again, but according to the Zambian Minister of Communications and Transport, Dora Siliya, 41 passengers had been stranded in Johannesburg as a direct result of the airline suspension of operations.

Likewise, in the late part of 2003 up to the present, the concreting of the Bagong Silang-Capalonga Road has started and existence of the Airconditioned Van Transport is now available as a result.

The current incarnation of the ASU was formed in 1993 as a result of a three way amalgamation between the Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees Union ( MEU ), the Federated Clerks ' Union ( FCU ) and the Australian Municipal, Transport, Energy, Water, Ports, Community & Information Services Union ( Which was also known as the ASU at the time ).