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He implemented the plan – codenamed " Operation Catapult " – for a British fleet, coded " Force H " and based in Gibraltar, to sail to the harbor of Mers-el-Kébir, near Oran in Algeria, where four capital ships and other vessels were stationed, in order to persuade Admiral Marcel-Bruno Gensoul to disobey orders from Vichy and have his vessels sail either to British waters or else to those of French colonies in the Far East or even to the ( still neutral ) USA with a view to preventing them from being used against the Allies.
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The plan was sound if all its parts were implemented, but it allowed Marlborough to cross the Nebel without serious interference and fight the battle he had in mind.
This system would be implemented into the national response plan for bioweapons attacks in the Netherlands.
The plan was leaked to the press and never implemented.
In an attempt to control rapid growth of the city, the municipal government ( Municipalidad de Guatemala ) headed by longtime Mayor Álvaro Arzú, has implemented a plan to control its growth based on transects along its important arterial roads and exhibitting Transit-oriented development ( TOD ) characteristics.
The plan began to be implemented on 15 August 2005, and was completed on 12 September 2005.
Greenwich Village was allowed to keep the 18th century street pattern of what is now the West Village: areas west of the 18th century Greenwich Lane ( now Greenwich Avenue ) and the early 20th century Sixth Avenue, which were already built up when the plan was implemented, resulting in a neighborhood whose streets are dramatically different, in layout, from the ordered structure of newer parts of town.
Opposition from senior Iraqi officials, together with the poor security situation, meant that Bremer's privatization plan was not implemented during his tenure, though his orders remain in place.
If the implementation of the change should fail or, the post implementation testing fails or, other " drop dead " criteria have been met, the back out plan should be implemented.
The plan is being implemented by the Lake Champlain Basin Program and its partners at the state, provincial, federal and local level.
Until recently an open dialing plan was used but as of April 1, 2012 Moldova has implemented a closed dialing plan on all of its territory.
In 1955 Stroessner fired the country's finance minister, who was unwilling to implement reforms, and in 1956 accepted an International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) stabilization plan that abolished export duties, lowered import tariffs, restricted credit, devalued the currency, and implemented strict austerity measures.
After the 1989 earthquake inflicted further damage, the university implemented a billion-dollar capital improvement plan to retrofit and renovate older buildings for new, up-to-date uses.
# The ‘ action plan for airport capacity, efficiency and safety ’ is to be implemented thus providing ground capacity.
The purpose of salvation is debated, but in general most Christian theologians agree that God devised and implemented His plan of salvation because he loves them and regards human beings as his children.
New Jersey, for example, has implemented a plan that divides the state into five planning areas, some of which are designated for growth, while others are protected.
Plans to restore Los Angeles to Las Vegas Amtrak service using a Talgo train were discussed in the late 1990s, but the plan was not implemented.
A 1938 master plan by Githens and Keally suggested acquisition of new land along Forbes Avenue, but the plan was not fully implemented.
The Trustees implemented an elaborate plan for settlement of the colony, known as the Oglethorpe Plan, which envisioned an agrarian society of yeoman farmers and prohibited slavery.
During his rule, Calderón Sol implemented a plan of privatization of several large state enterprises and other neoliberal policies.
In 2003, Gelli told La Repubblica that it seemed that the P2 " democratic rebirth plan " was being implemented by Silvio Berlusconi:
Lemay implemented this unorthodox plan and the strike rate went up to eighty percent.
The Austrian Army did develop a defense plan in 1938 against Germany, but politics prevented it from being implemented.
After Thanh's death in July, Giáp was assigned to implemented this plan, now known as the Tet Offensive.
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As president, he implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments.
As president, he implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments.
The first reforms were implemented in three rounds – 1974 – 1983, 1985, and 1990.
Growth in real GDP averaged 8 % from 1991 – 1997, but fell to half that level in 1998 because of tight monetary policies ( implemented to keep the current account deficit in check ) and because of lower export earnings, the latter which was a product of the Asian financial crisis.
* " Civil Defence " – A site with details of the UK's Civil Defence preparations, including those implemented during the Cold War such as the Burlington Central Government War HQ., at Corsham, Wiltshire.
Low-pass filter implemented with a Sallen – Key topology
This correlates with about 16 – 27 lines of code per function point implemented in a 4GL.
* 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree.
* 1913 – Natives ' Land Act in South Africa implemented.
The KSR-1 processor was implemented as a four-chip set in 1. 2 micrometer complementary metal – oxide – semiconductor ( CMOS ).
* 1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
Sedevacantism owes its origins to the rejection of the theological and disciplinary changes implemented following the Second Vatican Council ( 1962 – 1965 ).
Stalinism is the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist – Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy.
The NEP had been implemented by Lenin in order to ensure the survival of the Communist state following seven years of war ( 1914 – 1921, World War I from 1914 to 1917, and the subsequent Civil War ) and had rebuilt Soviet production to its 1913 levels.
Opponents of this view include revisionist historians and a number of post – Cold War and otherwise dissident Soviet historians including Roy Medvedev, who argues that although " one could list the various measures carried out by Stalin that were actually a continuation of anti-democratic trends and measures implemented under Lenin ... in so many ways, Stalin acted, not in line with Lenin's clear instructions, but in defiance of them ".
The AMP implemented a long instruction word instruction set containing instructions designed for multimedia, such as integer and floating-point multiply – accumulate and SIMD arithmetic.
A few professional degrees for various purposes were introduced in 1749 – 1750, but the radical suggestion of binding students to a single program of study adapted to a particular profession was never implemented.
In June 1985, as part of a package of five rule changes to be implemented for the 1985 – 86 season, the NHL Board of Governors made a decision to ban four-on-four play when penalties are assessed by the referee at the same time.
Although the Soviet Union and the United States never directly entered military conflict with each other, several proxy wars, such as the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ) and the Vietnam War ( 1957 – 1975 ), were waged as the United States implemented its worldwide " containment " policy against communism.
* March 1 – Scotland votes narrowly for home rule, which is not implemented, and Wales votes against it.
* April 30 – The Inquisition is implemented in Portugal.
* – returns an array of objects representing all the interfaces that are implemented by the class or interface
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