In the narrower sense environmental activists that align themselves with Earth First or Road Protestors would commonly be labelled activists, whilst a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off or built on would fit the broader application, due to their using similar means to similarly conservative ends.

Most of the mechanical clocks are now sold as antiquities as many factories were shut down after First World War and after Second World War.

Church Building-Formerly the meeting place of the Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Church congregation, the buff colored brick building was sold to Geneva College when that congregation merged with the nearby First Reformed Presbyterian Church in the early 21st century.

First published in 1859, it sold 10, 000 copies within the first week.

First, owner Ewing Kauffman sold 49 % of his interest to Memphis developer Avron Fogelman.

First formulated by Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1879 as surgical antiseptic, it was given to dentists for oral care in 1895 and it was the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States, in 1914.

In the First World War, the Welsh Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, unveiled a statue to him in Cardiff City Hall and a postcard showing Owain at the Battle of Mynydd Hyddgen was sold to raise money for wounded Welsh soldiers.

However, as Ferrary was an Austrian citizen, the collection was broken up and sold by the French government after the First World War, as war reparations.

The Antrobus family sold the site after their last heir was killed serving in France during the First World War.

First sold in Canada, it was such a commercial success it became available year round and, apart from the duration of the Second World War, has been produced ever since.

Traditionally Native American and First Nations tribes sold captives from warfare as slaves to other tribes and to European traders.

Earlier, Pharaon was revealed to have been the puppet owner of National Bank of Georgia, a bank formerly owned by Lance before being sold back to First American ( it had previously been an FGB subsidiary before Lance bought it ).

First, in 1992, the Mets sold the franchise to a group led by Tampa businessman Ken Young.

* Rihanna: First woman of the Caribbean to ever sell out the Garden, she performed a sold out show for her Last Girl on Earth Tour, promoting Rated R – the most critically acclaimed album of her career.

First dubbed MPP, these machines were later called SPP and Exemplar and sold under the SPP-1600 moniker.

First, the manuscript was “ sent to the rubricator, who added ( in red or other colors ) the titles, headlines, the initials of chapters and sections, the notes and so on ; and then – if the book was to be illustrated – it was sent to the illuminator .” In the case of manuscripts that were sold commercially, the writing would “ undoubtedly have been discussed initially between the patron and the scribe ( or the scribe ’ s agent ,) but by the time that the written gathering were sent off to the illuminator there was no longer any scope for innovation .”

Eventually, the mills were dismantled and sold for scrap during the First World War.

First, the business was sold to an ownership group from Texas.

It, however, was sold in December 2005 to First Financial Bankcards ( stock symbol FFIN ) based in Abilene and became part of a six branch bank consisting of institutions in Bridgeport, Boyd, Decatur, Keller, and Trophy Club.

First built on the North Shore in Crystal Bay by Robert Sherman in 1926, the Calneva cabin became the property of Norman Henry Biltz and was sold to Bill Graham and Jim McKay in 1929.

The models were manufactured in limited quantities and sold at better-stocked retail stores as " Premiere Collectibles ", " World Class ", " First Editions ", " Barrett-Jackson ", etc., for a premium price.

First the relatively small destroyers were brought to the surface and sold for scrap to help finance the operation, then the bigger battleships and battlecruisers.

Hikaru Utada's debut album, First Love, went on to be the highest-selling album in Japan with over 7 million copies sold, whereas Ayumi Hamasaki became Japan's top selling female and solo artist, and Morning Musume remains one of the most well-known girl groups in the Japanese pop music industry.

* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.

* 1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

* Runyon First and Last ( 1949 )

* 1888 – Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines ( d. 1949 )

* 1949 – First recorded case of snowfall in Los Angeles, California.

First, the radiocarbon dating method, invented in 1949, had, by the 1970s, become sufficiently inexpensive to be applied on a mass scale.

** Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines ( d. 1949 )

First published in Super Science Stories, November 1949.

First published in Charm, March 1949.

First held in 1949, the Badminton event was created after a poor performance by the British Eventing Team at the 1948 Olympic Games, with the purpose of being a high-class preparation event, and as extra exposure for the military horses, who very rarely had the chance to compete.

New York: Enigma Books, 2008, First edition 1948 ( 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner ).

Judi Bari ( November 7, 1949 – March 2, 1997 ) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First!

* 1949 – First implant of intraocular lens, by Sir Harold Ridley

" In 1949, Molotov was replaced as Foreign Minister by Andrey Vyshinsky, although retaining his position as First Deputy Premier and membership of the Politburo.

First generation " Ripple Bonnet " Citroën 2CV built from 1949 to 1960

After World War II, Haley was able to petition the Coast Guard to allow him to transfer into the field of journalism, and by 1949 he had become a Petty Officer First Class in the rating of Journalist.

* Olivia Goldsmith ( born Randy Goldfield, 1949 – 2004 ), author of the novel The First Wives Club.

The Rutherford First Aid-Ambulance Corps is a volunteer ambulance service that was organized in 1949.

The International Committee of the Red Cross 1958 Commentary on 1949 Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War states: " Every person in enemy hands must have some status under international law: he is either a prisoner of war and, as such, covered by the Third Convention, a civilian covered by the Fourth Convention, or again, a member of the medical personnel of the armed forces who is covered by the First Convention.

** Sir Moilin Jean Ah-Chuen 朱梅麟 ( 1909-1991 ; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ; Hakka pronunciation: Chu Moi Lin ), First Chinese member, Legislative Council, 1949 ; Minister of Local Government, 1967 – 1976 ; Second Hakka after Sun Yatsen to have his portrait printed on the bills of a country's currency

A more complex case occurred however in 1949 when the First Inter-Party Government was defeated in a snap Dáil vote on a financial measure due to the absence of a number of Government TDs.

( 1949 ) The Life and Circumstances of James Brydges, First Duke of Chandos Oxford: Clarendon Press

With the start of the new university system in 1949, Todai swallowed up the former First Higher School ( today's Komaba campus ) and the former Tokyo Higher School, which henceforth assumed the duty of teaching first and second-year undergraduates, while the faculties on Hongo main campus took care of third and fourth-year students.

* 1949: Price Day, Baltimore Sun, " for his series of 12 articles entitled, ' Experiment in Freedom: India and Its First Year of Independence.