Many British publications have gradually done away with the use of periods in abbreviations.

British Virgin Islands government publications had traditionally continued to commence with " The Territory of the Virgin Islands ", and passports simply refer to the " Virgin Islands ", and all laws begin with the words " Virgin Islands ".

The photographs were shown by the American media, but British media were reluctant to republish them – royal aides suggested that Clarence House may contact the Press Complaints Commission ( PCC ) if the pictures are used by British publications.

The two books were printed separately to avoid a British law requiring copies of all publications with text to be deposited in Crown libraries, a huge financial burden for the self-published Audubon.

He used the term " General British " parallel " General American " in his 1970s publications of A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of American and British English.

In recent years, the album has received acclaim from music publications: In 2006, Classic Rock ranked it number 28 in " The 100 Greatest British Rock Albums Ever ", and in 2007, Mojo ranked it No. 88 in " The 100 Records That Changed the World ".

Jones was the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis and became its leading exponent in the English-speaking world where, as President of both the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association in the 1920s and 1930s, he exercised a formative influence in the establishment of its organisations, institutions and publications.

The Spectator is one of the few British publications that still ignores or dismisses most examples of popular culture, in the way that ( for example ) The Daily Telegraph did under Bill Deedes, or The Times did under William Haley.

During World War II, American and British publications confused over the use of the plural " commandos " for that type of British military units gave rise to the modern common habit of using " a commando " to mean one member of such a unit, or one man engaged on a raiding-type operation.

In Britain Siebe Gorman ( who held the rights to the tradename " Aqualung ") made no serious attempt to control use of the word, and " aqualung " remained a common public generic word for that sort of apparatus-including in the British Sub-Aqua Club's official publications – for many years.

This continued in the 19th century, with publications like Punch in the British Empire and Le Père Duchesne in France, poking fun at the military establishment.

Soviet-born British psychologist Konstantin Vasily Petrides (" K. V. Petrides ") proposed a conceptual distinction between the ability based model and a trait based model of EI and has been developing the latter over many years in numerous scientific publications.

The report's recommendations attracted considerable public debate, including a famous exchange of views in publications by Lord Devlin, a leading British judge, whose ideas and publications argued against the report's philosophical basis, and H. L. A.

For some 280 years the British Army achieved considerable success without having any formal ' Military Doctrine ', although a huge number of publications dealing with tactics, operations and administration had been produced.

However, the British Army had formal publications for a long time, and these amounted to its doctrine.

Wendy Fonarow, an anthropology professor and author of the book Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Culture, asserts that this change occurred because at the turn of the century American bands began to be influenced by British indie music and the Internet, which made British music publications and online music websites such as Pitchfork Media immediately available to readers.

In British publications up to the mid-1970s, especially scientific and mathematical texts, the decimal point was commonly typeset as a middle dot.

His publications include: The British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia, ( 1869 ) and Asshur and the Land of Nimrod ( 1897 ).

This case led to the recognition under British law ( and later introduction into Irish law as the " defence of fair and reasonable publication ") of the so-called Reynolds defence of qualified privilege for publishers against whom libel actions regarding defamatory comments made in media publications are being taken.

The British police use mail gloves for dealing with knife-armed aggressors.

The Afghan leader did not follow up this triumph by retaking Peshawar, however, but instead contacted Lord Auckland, the new British governor general in British India, for help in dealing with the Sikhs.

Additionally Britain's use of radar and the advantages of fighting above Britain's home territory allowed the RAF to deny Germany air superiority, saving the British Isles from German invasion and dealing the Axis their first major defeat of the Second World War.

* 1965 April – The British Government published a White Paper dealing with the question of Gibraltar and the Treaty of Utrecht.

Throughout Amānullāh's reign, Soviet-Afghan relations fluctuated according Afghanistan's value to the Soviet leadership at a given time ; Afghanistan was either viewed as a tool for dealing with Soviet Muslim minorities or for threatening the British.

Located in the Greater Victoria area the University's legal centre provides free legal assistance to the disadvantaged as well as dealing with important environmental cases in British Columbia.

Among his short stories, some of the most memorable are those dealing with the lives of Western, mostly British, colonists in the Far East.

Other works dealing with the Persian Empire or the Biblical story of Esther have also referenced Xerxes, such as the video game Assassin's Creed II and the film One Night with the King, in which Ahasuerus ( Xerxes ) was portrayed by British actor Luke Goss.

The traders and British government agents dealing with the Southern tribes in general and the Cherokee in particular were nearly all of Scottish extraction, especially from the Highlands, though a few were Scots-Irish, English, French, even German ( see Scottish Indian trade ).

When dealing with direct speech, British placement depends on whether or not the quoted statement is complete or a fragment.

At the time of these events this also was a private company dealing in national debt, and the crash of its rival consolidated its position as banker to the British government.

The settlers had a difficult time dealing with raids from Indians and the fighting between the French and the British.

* Richard Cavendish ( occult writer ) ( born 1930 ), British writer on topics dealing with the occult

The Partition of India came about in the aftermath of World War II, when both Great Britain and British India were dealing with the economic stresses caused by the war and its demobilisation.

He published ( 1867 – 1875 ) a useful work entitled Figures of Characteristic British Fossils, with Descriptive Remarks, of which only the first volume, dealing with palaeozoic species, was issued.

The British Armed Forces have become experts in bomb disposal after many years of dealing with bombs planted by the IRA.

Another history of England by Walsingham dealing with the period between 1272 and 1393 is in manuscript in the British Museum.

Both the Soviets and the British played the circumstances to their advantage: the Soviets getting aid in dealing with Uzbek rebellion in 1930 and 1931, while the British aided Afghanistan in creating a 40, 000 man professional army.

At this point, the Belizean and British governments, frustrated at dealing with the military-dominated regimes in Guatemala, agreed on a new strategy that would take the case for self-determination to various international forums.

Matters which still fall within the Royal Prerogative, and hence are regulated by ( Prerogative ) Orders in Council, include dealing with servants of the Crown, such as the standing orders for civil servants, appointing heads of Crown corporations, governance of British Overseas Territories, making appointments in the Church of England and dealing with international relations.

In August 1922, the British government presented a memorandum to the League of Nations stating that Transjordan would be excluded from all the provisions dealing with Jewish settlement, and this memorandum was approved by the League on 12 August.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

Here the Pennsylvania militia skirmished with the British, but soon fled.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

However, an initial perusal and comparison of some of the famous passages with the same parts of other versions seems to speak well of the efforts of the British Biblical scholars.

Both won a pretty fair-sized war with a modest assist from British strategy.

I have heard people talk with contempt about the British regulars, but that only proves that a lot of people talk about things of which they are deplorably ignorant.

But by week's end the Laotian cry of invasion was read as an exaggeration ( see foreign news ), and the U.S. was agreeing with its cautious British and French allies that a neutralist -- rather than a pro-Western -- government might be best for Laos.

Starting half an hour behind Player in company with British Open Champion Kel Nagle, Palmer birdied the 2nd, the 9th, the 13th and the 16th -- four birdies, one bogey and 13 pars for a 69.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

administrative organization and delicate diplomatic relations with Top Brass -- British, American and Chinese ; ;

Under the influence of several younger scholars, a new approach came to predominate among British anthropologists, concerned with analyzing how societies held together in the present ( synchronic analysis, rather than diachronic or historical analysis ), and emphasizing long-term ( one to several years ) immersion fieldwork.

British social anthropology had an expansive moment in the Interwar period, with key contributions coming from the Polish-British Bronisław Malinowski and Meyer Fortes

This was particularly the case with Radcliffe-Brown, who spread his agenda for " Social Anthropology " by teaching at universities across the British Commonwealth.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

In countries of the British Commonwealth, social anthropology has often been institutionally separate from physical anthropology and primatology, which may be connected with departments of biology or zoology ; and from archaeology, which may be connected with departments of Classics, Egyptology, and the like.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.