In British English it is not necessary to indicate an abbreviation with a full stop ( period ) after the abbreviation, when the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the unabbreviated word, while the opposite holds true in North American English.

British band Napalm Death holds the Guinness World Record for shortest song ever recorded with the one-second " You Suffer " ( 1987 ).

As a British prince, Harry holds no surname ; however, as with the other male-line grandchildren of Elizabeth II, he uses the name of the area over which his father holds title ; i. e., Wales.

* 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

She holds honorary degrees from the University of Toronto, York University, McMaster University, Trent University, and the University of British Columbia.

These notebooks — originally loose papers of different types and sizes, distributed by friends after his death — have found their way into major collections such as the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Louvre, the Biblioteca Nacional de España, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan which holds the twelve-volume Codex Atlanticus, and British Library in London which has put a selection from its notebook BL Arundel MS 263 online.

British Methodism does not have bishops ; however, it has always been characterized by a strong central organization, the Connexion, which holds an annual Conference ( note that the Church retains the 18th century spelling " connexion " for many purposes ).

The British Library holds a 1591 Spry map of Plimmouth from this era.

SFU also has a Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, which holds many exhibits on lease from the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria.

Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.

* January 7 – British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference at Zonhoven describing his supporting role at the Battle of the Bulge.

He holds both British and Australian citizenship and has enjoyed considerable success in stage performances in both countries.

During this time, Ferguson has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the Year most times in British football history.

British Honduras for the English and Belice for the Spaniards and Guatemalans gained its independence from Great Britain in 1981 and adopted the name " Belize ", although Guatemala still holds territorial claims over this territory.

Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent.

Eddy runs her own PR firm, and Patsy holds a sinecure position at a top British fashion magazine.

The Duke of Cornwall holds both the dukedom ( title ) and Duchy ( estate holdings ), the latter being the source of his personal income ; whilst the Duke takes his Sovereign rights from Cornwall, those living in his estates are currently subjects of the British Sovereign.

Lancaster has several unique ties to the British monarchy ; the House of Lancaster was a branch of the English royal family, whilst the Duchy of Lancaster holds large estates on behalf of Elizabeth II, who herself is also the Duke of Lancaster.

Musicologist Bill McGlaughlin likens its place in British music to the place Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings holds for Americans.

The collection includes about 1130 British and 650 European oil paintings, 6800 British watercolours, pastels and 2000 miniatures, for which the museum holds the national collection.

After WWII Plon was chosen as the site for King Alfred School, a remarkable secondary school for British Forces children under the inspired, maverick headmastership of Freddie Spencer Chapman with his hand-picked staff and on the site of what is now the little-changed non-commissioned officer school, and as such the town holds a place of affection with many former pupils across the world and the declining number of surviving teachers and their families.

In July 2006, Norman Baker MP accused the British Government of " hoarding information about people who pose no danger to this country ", after it emerged that MI5 holds secret files on 272, 000 individuals — equivalent to one in 160 adults.

If the claim is unopposed, the Committee will generally award the claim, unless there is evidence of collusion, the peerage has been in abeyance for more than a century, or the petitioner holds less than one-third of the claim.

The Duke of Marlborough holds certain subsidiary titles: Marquess of Blandford ( created 1702 ), Earl of Sunderland ( 1643 ), Earl of Marlborough ( 1689 ), Baron Spencer, of Wormleighton ( 1603 ), and Baron Churchill, of Sandridge ( 1685 ) ( all are in the English peerage ).

The current earl holds the subsidiary title of Lord Johnstone ( 1662 ), in the peerage of Scotland.

He also holds the titles of Earl of Dunbar, Viscount of Drumcairn and Lord Halldykes in the Jacobite peerage ( see the Viscount Stormont for the background to these titles ).

The second Baron, Wilfred Carlyle Stamp, holds the record for having held a peerage for the shortest length of time.

Under a decision of 1927, however, the Committee can deny a claim if the peerage has been in abeyance for more than 100 years, or if the petitioner holds less than 1 / 3 of the claim ( an eldest son would inherit all of his parent's claim, while daughters divide their parent's claim amongst them in the absence of sons ).

As revealed in Blackadder II, he has at least three grandsons: one named Osric is kidnapped and his ransom not paid, another named Nathaniel marries a fanatical Puritan and holds the peerage of Whiteadder, and another one squanders the family fortune " on wine, women and amateur dramatics "; by the end of his life he ekes out a living doing humorous impressions of Anne of Cleves.

He holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time.

He died of the sweating sickness one hour after the same disease claimed his elder brother Henry ( who had succeeded their father as 2nd Duke of Suffolk in 1545 ), and because of this holds the record for the shortest tenure of a British peerage.

She has the small, highly developed body of a prime athlete, and holds in contempt the `` girls who just move sex ''.

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

Vocational training which holds no hope that the skill developed will be in fact a marketable skill becomes just another school `` chore '' for those whose interest in their studies has begun to falter.

It holds an equally valuable lesson for a society where the word `` intellectual '' has become a term of opprobrium to millions of well-meaning people who somehow imagine that it must be destructive of the simpler human virtues.

In the even simpler case of a collection of one set, a choice function just corresponds to an element, so this instance of the axiom of choice says that every nonempty set has an element ; this holds trivially.

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

It has bilateral relations with some Lusophone nations and holds membership in a number of international organizations.

It also holds, jointly with the Parliament, the budgetary power of the Union and has greater control than the Parliament over the more intergovernmental areas of the EU, such as foreign policy and macroeconnomic coordination.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

Childress, who currently holds the rights from NASCAR to the No. 3, has placed a moratorium on using it.

It is estimated that this 3. 7 km < sup > 2 </ sup > lens holds 19 million m3 of fresh water and has an average daily recharge from rainfall of over 10, 000 m3, of which 40 % remains in the lens and 60 % is lost through evapotranspiration.

Egoism and altruism both contrast with ethical utilitarianism, which holds that a moral agent should treat one's self ( also known as the subject ) with no higher regard than one has for others ( as egoism does, by elevating self-interests and " the self " to a status not granted to others ), but that one also should not ( as altruism does ) sacrifice one's own interests to help others ' interests, so long as one's own interests ( i. e. one's own desires or well-being ) are substantially equivalent to the others ' interests and well-being.

By contrast with empiricism and idealism, which emphasize the epistemologically privileged status of sense data ( empirical ) and the primacy of Reason ( theoretical ) respectively, modern rationalism adds a third ' system of thinking ', ( as Gaston Bachelard has termed these areas ) and holds that all three are of equal importance: The empirical, the theoretical and the abstract.

During its theatrical run the film grossed $ 2. 4 million, currently holds a 100 % positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has developed a cult following.

The IEEE claims to produce 30 % of the world's literature in electrical engineering, has over 360, 000 members worldwide and holds over 3, 000 conferences annually.

The Roman Catholic Church believes that the matter for the Eucharist must be wheaten bread and fermented wine from grapes: it holds that, if the gluten has been entirely removed, the result is not true wheaten bread, For celiacs, but not generally, it allows low-gluten bread.

For alcoholics, but not generally, it allows the use of mustum ( grape juice in which fermentation has begun but has been suspended without altering the nature of the juice ), and it holds that, " since Christ is sacramentally present under each of the species, communion under the species of bread alone makes it possible to receive all the fruit of Eucharistic grace.

One that can be seen in the Japanese trailer has Jet Jaguar blinding Megalon with his flashlight eyes right before Megalon starts to kick at him while Gigan holds him down.

#* This is done by first noting that a sentence such as is either refutable or has some model in which it holds ; this model is simply assigning truth values to the subpropositions from which B is built.

A head of state is an official who holds the highest position in a governance system of the state and has the vested powers to act as the chief public representative of a country.

The Labour Party has an overall control of the council with 17 seats, whilst the Conservative Party holds 14 seats and the Liberal Democrat party has 1 seat.