Colonists who supported the British in opposing the Revolution are usually referred to as " Loyalists " or " Tories ".

Roman control of Britain finally ended in the early part of the 5th century ; the date usually given as marking the end of Roman Britain is 410, when the Emperor Honorius sent letters to the British, urging them to look to their own defence.

They are usually considered closest in form to British broadside ballads and in terms of style are largely indistinguishable, however, they demonstrate a particular concern with occupations, journalistic style and often lack the ribaldry of British broadside ballads.

This sudden influx of men led to a shortage of RIC uniforms, and the new recruits were issued with khaki army uniforms ( usually only trousers ) and dark green RIC or blue British police surplus tunics, caps and belts.

However, since 29 December 1920, the British government had sanctioned " official reprisals " in Ireland — usually meaning burning property of IRA men and their suspected sympathisers.

The differences are usually referred to as UK / US or British / American.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

Diego Garcia is the largest and only inhabited island in the British Indian Ocean Territory, an Overseas territory of the United Kingdom, and, usually abbreviated as " BIOT ".

It came to mean usually cereals in general in the British Isles in the nineteen century eg. Corn laws, but maize in North America, and now just maize also in the British Isles.

Spanish authors from 1840 have usually favoured theory ( b ) while British ones have supported ( c ).

English as an additional language ( EAL ) is usually based on the standards of either American English or British English as well as incorporating foreign terms.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

Outside the British honours system it is usually considered improper to address a knighted person as ' Sir ' or ' Dame '.

* Merchant marine, a collective term for all of the merchant ships, shipping companies, and merchant mariners, usually of a particular country ; also known in British usage as the Merchant Navy

The Canadian Army, and subsequently the British Army also, used expedients such as the Kangaroo APC, usually for specific operations rather than to create permanent mechanized infantry formations.

Because there were usually few British regulars garrisoned in North America, colonial militia served a vital role in local conflicts, particularly in the French and Indian Wars.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

Commercial growers usually address this problem by piling additional soil around the base of the plant as it grows (" hilling ", or in British English " earthing up ").

Early on in the history of British television, agreements with the actors ' union Equity and other trade bodies limited the number of times a single program could be broadcast, usually only twice, and these showings were limited to within a set time period such as five years.

These were usually lightly armoured vehicles with open-topped hull, US M7 Priest, British Sexton ( 25 pdr ) and German Wespe and Hummel being typical examples.

The longest available version is the DVD published by the British Film Institute ( BFI ), containing a short scene usually deleted from other prints, in which, during the first wedding, one of the masters quotes a Gottfried Benn poem.

In the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, and United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as well as in all branches of the British Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces, Canadian Forces, Turkish Armed Forces, Swedish Armed Forces, Norwegian Armed Forces, and Hellenic Armed Forces, Russian and all former Soviet republic forces, hand salutes are only given when a cover ( protection for the head, usually a hat ) is worn.

Since FINA refused to rescind recognition of the ASA as the British governing body for all aquatic sports including diving, this meant that the elite divers had to belong to ASA-affiliated clubs to be eligible for selection to international competition.

Approximately 71 % of the population is White ( British: 49. 0 %, Irish: 2. 0 %, and Other White: 19. 0 %), 16 % are of any Asian ethnicity, 7 % Black, 6 % Mixed, and 4 % belong to other racial groups.

The policy of the American and perhaps even that of the earlier British Government was to favor Native, Spanish or French names and not to reuse names that belong to the British Isles.

The United States is effectively guaranteed control of any land it is able to gain possession of in North America, besides the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon which France had retained possession of after the Seven Years War, and of the Islands of Bermuda due to King Louis XVI of France, renouncing " for ever the possession of the Islands of Bermudas as well as of any part of the continent of North america which before the treaty of Paris in 1763. or in virtue of that Treaty, were acknowledged to belong to the Crown of Great Britain, or to the United States heretofore called British Colonies, or which are at this Time or have lately been under the Power of The King and Crown of Great Britain.

The French-speaking population of Madawaska were " Brayons " — nominally British subjects — who ( at least rhetorically ) considered themselves to belong to the unofficial " République du Madawaska ", and thus professed allegiance to neither Americans nor British.

Some of his paintings, sketches and drawings belong to various collections including The British Museum, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, The National Portrait Gallery, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, The Royal Collection and The Victoria and Albert Museum.

British Armed Forces bands, whatever service they belong, would have the following instrument formation formats depending on service affiliation:

The Irish court tombs, British long barrows, and German Steinkisten belong to this group.

Their first album covered subjects such as the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), euthanasia, as well as their views on the social habits of the British people, especially the younger generation to which they belong.

On first arriving in Mbanta, the missionaries expect to find a king ( p. 138 ), and, discovering no functionaries to work with, the British set up their own hierarchical system which delegates power from the queen of England through district commissioners to native court messengers — foreigners who do not belong to the village government at all ( p. 160 ).

Blake denied being a traitor, insisting that he had never felt British: " To betray, you first have to belong.

* December-Prominent French Canadians petition the King to restore their ancient laws and accord them the rights of British subjects, reminding him that five-sixths of the seigniories belong to Frenchmen.

There are many important historical and Architectural buildings / structures which belong to the British and post-independence period viz.

The Crime Investigation Department ( CID ) is the branch of all Territorial police forces within the British Police and many other Commonwealth police forces, to which plain clothes detectives belong.

Wire FM is a British Independent Local Radio station that serves the Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn areas of Cheshire ( the latter two towns belong to the area known as Halton ), with strong commitment to local news and information.

" In the summer of 1823 a British Tomb or Druidical Monument was discovered in the parish of Aylesford on the Warren Farm belong to Geo.

As of 2007, there are about 150 serving regular chaplains ( commonly known as " padres ") in the British Army ; these can belong to one of several Christian churches, or to the Jewish faith, although currently all chaplains are Christian.

* Criminal Investigation Department, the branch of British Police force to which plain clothes detectives belong

In the British Army the mortars belong to the client regiments, so both the mortar battery and the MFC wear infantry cap-badges.

Kenneth Jackson concludes that the majority of the changes that transformed British into Primitive Welsh belong to the period from the middle of the 5th to the end of the 6th century.

However, a person must belong to the ICAEW, ICAS or ICAI to hold themselves out as a chartered accountant in the UK ( although there are other chartered bodies of British qualified accountants ).

Paine sees the British political and military maneuvers in America as " impious ; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.