Thus it blurred the distinctions between a reliability trial, a general event and a race.

Also, the infrequency with which vaccines are administered among the general population since the eradication of the disease would leave most people unprotected in the event of an outbreak.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.

A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

Many biblical scholars conclude that Matthew 24: 15 and Mark 13: 14 are prophecies after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general Titus ( see Dating of the Gospel of Mark ).

In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves.

Nevertheless, the event is reasonably popular in Melbourne and Australia ( with a large European population and a general interest in motorsport ).

In general, if we let A < sub > i </ sub > be the event that toss i of a fair coin comes up heads, then we have,

There is a general consensus among scholars that the first formative event in the emergence of the distinctive religion described in the Bible was triggered by the destruction of Israel by Assyria in c. 722 BCE.

Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself.

There is no general agreement on whether to consider more recent extinctions as a distinct event, merely part of the Quaternary extinction event, or just a result of natural evolution on a non-geologic scale of time.

There are three general manifestations of such trauma-the typical knock out which results in a sustained loss of consciousness ( comparable to general anesthesia-where the recipient emerges and has lost memory of the event ), a " flash " knock out where a very transient ( less than three seconds ) loss of consciousness occurs ( where the recipient often maintains awareness and memory of the combat ), and lastly a " stunning " where consciousness is maintained despite extremely distorted proprioception, visual fields, and auditory processing.

Professor Colin Pillinger, head of the Beagle 2 project, was the Guest Speaker, and the event marked the first time Beagle 2 had been presented to the general public in the UK.

Thus, no Nostradamus quatrain is known to have been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.

In general relativity, a naked singularity is a gravitational singularity without an event horizon.

After having first told about the resurrection of Jesus, which makes the Athenians interested to hear more, Paul goes on, relating how this event relates to a general resurrection of the dead:

Some people, including Steven M. Greer, have expressed cynicism that the general public might not be informed in the event of a genuine discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence due to significant vested interests.

His death was the epoch event beginning the troubled Crisis of the Third Century where a succession of short-reigning military emperors, revolting generals, and counter claimants presided over governmental chaos, civil war, general instability and great economic disruption.

In view of his probable accession to power, preparations were made in the City of London for a banquet and a general illumination to celebrate the event.

After the war many players returned to their teams, while the major event of the second half of the 1940s was the 1945 signing of Jackie Robinson to a players contract by Branch Rickey the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Attire at an event includes a mandatory armband as seen here, although the armband is not required in general show jumping.

In the most general description of pulsed FT spectrometry, a sample is exposed to an energizing event which causes a periodic response.

As acting commissioner, Selig represented MLB during the 1994 players strike and cancelled the World Series, marking the first time the annual event had not been staged since 1904.

By contrast, the " Verb of Similarity " ( فعل المضارع, fi ' l al-mudaara ' ah ), so called because of its resemblance to the active participial noun, is considered to denote an event in the present or future without committing to a specific aspectual sense beyond the incompleteness implied by the tense: يضرب " yadribu ", he strikes / is striking / will strike / etc.

In 1956, he edited an important book on the subject, La grève de l ' amiante, which argued that the strike was a seminal event in Quebec's history, marking the beginning of resistance to the conservative, Francophone clerical establishment and Anglophone business class that had long ruled the province.

Moreover, if a fragment of an icy comet were to strike the Earth, the most likely outcome, due to the low tensile strength of such bodies, would be for it to disintegrate in the upper atmosphere, leading to an air burst explosion analogous to that of the Tunguska event.

In addition, each side doubted the other side's commitment to not deploy first-strike weapons, or even in the event of their deployment, to not strike first.

U. S. President Ronald Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, if it had ever been deployed ( and proven successful ), would have undermined the fundamental premise of mutual assured destruction ( the inevitable outcome of equal and unacceptable destruction for both sides in the event of nuclear war ), removing the incentive for the US not to strike first.

* Initiating event-an external event ( example: bird strike to aircraft )

This event becomes the apparent casus belli for the Soviet Union to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States and her allies.

However, a varistor may not be able to successfully limit a very large surge from an event such as a lightning strike where the energy involved is many orders of magnitude greater than it can handle.

* 1968 – A lengthy student strike erupted that developed into an important event in the history of the U. S. in the late 1960s.

One notably uncharacteristic event in Barrington's life was his dispatch of troops on 1 January, 1812 to break up a miners ' strike at collieries owned by the Dean & chapter of Durham Cathedral in nearby Chester-le-Street.

Arthur Scargill ( born 11 January 1938 ) is a British politician and trade unionist who was president of the National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM ) from 1982 to 2002, leading the union through the 1984 / 85 miners ' strike, a key event in British labour and political history.

The B26s had been scheduled to strike at Kong Le, but the strike was stayed by an event on the far side of the world.

A beginner need simply to point the rod at the fly, lifting the rod in the event of a strike.

The Washington Post reported Pakistani officials had agreed to allow the United States to use Pakistani airspace in the event of a military strike against Afghanistan, but Pakistan would not involve its forces in any action beyond its own geographical boundaries.

In March 1916, as a result of a strike related to the implementation of the dilution agreement, Kirkwood was arrested and deported from Glasgow to Edinburgh, an event which greatly increased his profile.

The newest sections of the tunnel network was dug as late as the middle 20th century, built in the Cold War as a shelter for citizens in the event of a nuclear strike on the city.

Built in the late 1950s in response to the increasing threat of nuclear warfare during the Cold War, the 35-acre subterranean site was designed to be the main emergency government war headquarters of the UK outside of London and safely house up to 4, 000 central government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike.

The event was also threatened in 2005 and 2006 because of a student associations strike and other organisation problems.

The defining event of the 1980s for British socialists was the 1984-5 miners ' strike.

Converted from a 1940s Anti-aircraft Operations Room ( AAOR ) the bunker would support over one hundred ROC volunteers and a ten-man United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation warning team responsible for the famous Four-minute warning in the event of a nuclear strike on the UK.

The hurricane is estimated to have been a Category 3 event and to have made landfall at Jamaica Bay, making it the only hurricane in recorded history to directly strike what is now modern New York City.

In 1977, when an airline strike forced him to miss a scheduled event, he signed up at the last minute for a half-marathon and won with ease, running a course more than four times as long as anything he had attempted in public before, against the British marathon champion.