Meade was promoted from captain to brigadier general of volunteers on August 31, 1861, a few months after the start of the Civil War, based on the strong recommendation of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin.

Major General George G. Meade, a Pennsylvania officer whom Curtin had recommended for brigadier general and command of one of the Pennsylvania reserve brigades in 1861, defeated Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg.

At the general election in September 1940, there was a large swing to Labor and the UAP-Country Party coalition lost its majority, continuing in office only because of the support of two independent MPs, Arthur Coles and Alexander Wilson.

During the general election of 1933, the Labor Party received 500, 526 votes from the Norwegian public.

In general, the summer season runs from June through Labor Day weekend, coinciding with the months most American children are not in school.

Labor spokesperson ( now federal attorney general ) Nicola Roxon has previously said that reform will " always fail if we seek to inflict a certain option on the public without their involvement.

In 1920 he assisted in the formation and subsequently became general secretary of the Histadrut, the Zionist Labor Federation in Palestine.

On March 18, 2011, the Industrial Workers of the World website ( www. iww. org ) supported an endorsement of a general strike as a followup to protests against Governor Scott Walker's proposed labor legislation in Wisconsin, following a motion passed by the South Central Federation of Labor ( SCFL ) of Wisconsin endorsing a statewide general strike as a response to those legislative proposals.

Labor leaders threaten a general strike if the legislation is passed.

The strike and the new de facto workers ' government, while given encouragement by the largely German-American Workingmen's Party and the Knights of Labor ( two key players in the organization of the Missouri general strike ), were run by no organized labor group.

In the United States, the Fair Labor Standards Act defines outside sales representatives as " employees sell their employer's products, services, or facilities to customers away from their employer's place ( s ) of business, in general, either at the customer's place of business or by selling door-to-door at the customer's home " while defining those who work " from the employer's location " as inside sales.

Despite a general consensus, codified in the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, that emergency care must be provided even to the indigent, it is not widely accepted in the United States that the availability of broader health care should be considered a right and paid for by public funds.

In the end, Pinchot finished a distant third, behind Pepper and Vare, who went on to defeat former Labor Secretary William Wilson in the general election.

Debs not only ignored the federal court injunction he instead called a general strike of all union members in Chicago, but it was opposed by Samuel Gompers, head of American Federation of Labor, and other established unions, and failed.

" The Trotskyists retained a common orientation with the radicalized SP in their opposition to the European war, their preference for industrial unionism and the CIO over the trade unionism of the American Federation of Labor, a commitment to trade union activism, the defense of the Soviet Union as the first workers ' state while at the same time maintaining an antipathy toward the Stalin government, and in their general aims in the 1936 election.

At the 2007 NSW general election, Nile was re-elected for a further eight year term and was appointed by Labor to the newly created position of Assistant President of the NSW Legislative Council.

* Aluf Amram Mitzna, general, former Labor party leader

In June 1913 the Labor government was unexpectedly defeated at the general elections by Joseph Cook's Liberals.

In June, 1919, the American Federation of Labor ( AFL ), in session in Atlantic City, New Jersey, passed resolutions in general opposition to the general strike.

In the general election, she defeated Mary Kay Baum ( Labor and Farm party nominee ) and Patricia Hevenor ( Republican party nominee ) 59 %- 23 %- 17 %.

* The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1949 introduced various provisions designed to “ assure the health, efficiency and general well-being of workers .”

Large gains made by Labor took place in many of former Liberal strongholds in the mortgage belt due to various issues common with the 1996 election in terms of general dissatisfaction as well as high interest rates.

Following his nomination, Edge faced Democratic candidate Vincent J. Murphy, mayor of Newark and state leader of the American Federation of Labor, in the general election.

After working for six months in 2001 as a special assistant to Elaine Chao, the United States Secretary of Labor in Washington, D. C., McHenry returned to North Carolina and ran again for the state legislature, winning in the November 2002 general election.

There is little evidence that they are giving any systematic thought to a general theory of the optimum scope and nature of their part in government.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

By-passing the military junta which has ruled Turkey since the overthrow of Premier Adnan Menderes 17 months ago, the army general staff, led by Gen. Cedvet Sunay, had set a deadline for the parties to join in a national coalition government.

The general impression was that, as much as the senate was packed with men devoted to the royal couple and the government obtained a large majority at the general elections, King Alexander would not hesitate any longer to proclaim Queen Draga's brother as the heir to the throne.

In 1441 Pope Eugene IV merged them into one congregation called " Congregatio Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus ", made the original house the main seat, and laid down a system of government whereby a general chapter met every three years, elected the priors who stayed in office till the next chapter.

The victorious Roman general, Publius Cornelius Sulla, left the Athenians their lives and did not sell them into slavery ; he also restored the previous government, in 86 BC.

* Attorney general, the principal legal adviser to a government

The fourth phase was the " general application " of Massoud's principles to the whole country, and the final demise of the Afghan communist government.

The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.

A decree of the council of state on 25 December 1714 reunited Barcelonnete with the general government of Provence.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

In the February 1974 general election the Conservative government of Edward Heath won a plurality of votes cast, but the Labour Party gained a plurality of seats due to the Ulster Unionist MPs refusing to support the Conservatives after the Northern Ireland Sunningdale Agreement.

In the October 1974 general election the Liberals slipped back slightly and the Labour government won a wafer-thin majority.

On 6 May 1997, following the 1997 general election which brought a Labour government to power for the first time since 1979, it was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, that the Bank of England would be granted operational independence over monetary policy.

However, despite claims of government corruption, favoritism of Zaghawas, and abuses by the security forces, opposition party and labor union calls for general strikes and more active demonstrations against the government have been unsuccessful.

It declares that the government is the " organ that defines, leads, and executes the general internal and external policy of the country " and is responsible to the National Assembly.

Despite a general selling of state property and contrary to neoliberal prescriptions, the regime retained the lucrative state owned mining company CODELCO which stands for about 30 % of government income.

Beyond its general economic and political stability, the government has also encouraged the use of Chile as an " investment platform " for multinational corporations planning to operate in the region, but this will have limited value given the developing business climate in Chile itself.

Ireland has had consecutive coalition governments since the 1989 general election, excluding two brief Fianna Fáil minority administrations in 1994 and 2011 that followed the withdrawal of their coalition partners from government.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.