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In the run-up to the London Radiotelegraph Convention in 1912 ( essentially an international gentlemen's agreement on use of the radio band, non-binding and, on the high seas, completely null ), and amid concerns about the safety of marine radio following the sinking of the on April 15 of that year ( although there were never allegations of radio interference in that event ), the New York Herald of April 17, 1912, headlined President William Howard Taft's initiative to regulate the public airwaves in an article titled " President Moves to Stop Mob Rule of Wireless.
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run-up and London
The process of change has been accelerated since the East London line extension ( to be renamed the East London Railway on completion ) and since the reopening of Dalston Junction Station was confirmed in the run-up to London's successful bid to hold the 2012 Olympics.
In the final run-up to the 117th IOC Session, London and Paris appeared to be in an increasingly close contest.
A three-sided football game, with each team representing one of the main political parties, was played on 2 May 2010 in Haggerston Park, London in the run-up to the UK General Election.
The London Borough of Bromley has consulted interested parties on proposals put forward by London Biggin Hill Airport to temporarily amend aspects of its operating conditions for the run-up to, the period of, and a short period after the Olympic Games in 2012.
The NCP failed to take many members in key districts of the CPGB, such as London, Scotland and South Wales in the run-up to the November CPGB Congress.
Jonathan is also a keen runner ; he has run the London Marathon twice, the Brighton Marathon twice, and was chosen to carry the Queen's Jubilee Baton through Abingdon in Oxfordshire in the run-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
In the run-up to the 1981 Greater London Council elections, she was chosen to fight Islington South and Finsbury and on election formed part of the left faction in support of Ken Livingstone.
Boris Johnson, the current Mayor of London, promised in the run-up to the mayoral election to rid the city of the controversial buses, and articulated buses on routes 18, 25, 38, 507 & 521 have already been decommissioned and replaced with double deckers.
The garage was passed over to the re-born ' London General ' bus company in the run-up to privatization in 1985.
This came to a head in the run-up to the 2008 London mayoral election, in which Wadley's newspaper aggressively attacked Livingstone each day.
In the run-up to independence, the Litunga, the Ngambela ( Prime Minister ) and about a dozen senior indunas went to London for talks with the Colonial Office, in an attempt to have Barotseland remain a Protectorate.
run-up and Convention
Following the controversy over Representative Todd Akin's controversial remarks concerning " legitimate rape " in the run-up to the Convention, Democrats began calling this provision the " Akin Plank ".
run-up and essentially
Books with a quick and inexpensive printed format of tape binding and printed cardstock covers, the four monographs ( Players Book, Magic Book, Creatures Book, and Gamemaster Book ) were printed in order to assert Chaosium's copyrights in the run-up to the publishing and distribution of Deluxe Basic Roleplaying, a game system that is essentially RuneQuest 3rd Edition but with additions to allow play in other genres.
run-up and international
Sporadic fighting between Serbs and government forces occurred across Bosnia in the run-up to international recognition.
The founder and then party chairman, Mr. Martin Lee Chu-ming, became well-known internationally in the run-up to reunification as a human rights and democracy fighter, and won a number of international human rights awards.
Bush started to take the initiative from Gorbachev during the run-up to the Gulf War, when he began to define the elements of the new world order as he saw it, and link the new order ’ s success to the international community ’ s response in Kuwait.
In 2002, Roy Keane, one of Ireland's top international footballers, quit the national squad during the run-up to the World Cup after a bitter and public falling-out with coach Mick McCarthy.
Widespread international attention focused on the run-up to the Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004 in August 2004.
The magazine was linked to an international scandal in the run-up to World War II.
The efforts made for establishing and preserving international connections, Adevărul claimed, made it one the first papers in the world to report some other events of continental importance: the 1911 food riots in Vienna, the outbreak of the First Balkan War, and the diplomatic conflict between the Greek and Bulgarian Kingdoms in the run-up to the Second Balkan War.
run-up and agreement
In the run-up to the 1961 congress of the ISFI the supporters of the Argentine Juan Posadas, a leader of the Latin American Secretariat, found themselves in agreement with the supporters of Michel Pablo in stressing the primacy of the anti-colonial revolution: the majority in the ISFI placed a greater emphasis on developing activity in Europe.
In 2010, the party achieved a historic breakthrough in the run-up to the Legco vote on the government's 2012 constitutional reform package when it reached an agreement with Beijing to allow five new functional constituency members of Legco to be elected by popular vote.
The run-up to the agreement polarized the United Nations between the countries which supported Indonesia's claim of sovereignty, and the countries which supported the Netherlands ' bid for United Nations Trusteeship of the territory.
During the run-up to the 2004 elections, Rajasekhar Reddy was able bring a common platform and mutual agreement within the Andhra Pradesh Congress Party.
run-up and on
Needless to say, strong hands are not eager to be joined by weak hands, for this increases the risk that they will have to absorb what these weak hands unload on the way up, at higher prices, during the run-up phase of the campaign.
Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.
Also, if a gust of wind blows the ball over on a place kick attempt after the kicker has begun their run-up, thus allowing the opposing team to begin a charge down, then there is no time to reset the ball, and the kicker may attempt a quick drop kick.
The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.
This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.
In the run-up to the election, held on 9 April 1992, most opinion polls had suggested that the election would end in a hung parliament or a narrow Labour majority.
Kinnock also blamed his defeat on the other newspapers who had backed the Tories in the run-up to the election.
In the run-up to the announcement of the persons who would feature on the new banknotes, Lindgren's name had been the one most often put forward in the public debate.
Over the years, stock traders and analysts noted that a company touted on WSW on Friday would experience a run-up in its stock price the following Monday.
In the run-up to the album's scheduled release on January 16, 2007, America attracted publicity unknown to it since the early 1980s.
In a minute to the Cabinet's Defence and Overseas Policy committee the following month, Lamont set out his three objectives for the negotiations: first, to ensure Britain didn't have to join the single currency ; second, to ensure the opt-out was legally water-tight ; and third, to ensure that during the period in the run-up to the single currency, there should be no binding obligations on Britain.
The British decimal fifty pence ( 50p ) coin – often pronounced " fifty pee " – was issued on 14 October 1969 in the run-up to decimalisation to replace the ten shilling note.
Her series Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas is the only one of several she made to have been repeated in recent years, on the UK digital television channel Good Food, usually in the run-up to Christmas.
In December, Mike Smith announced on the CDA forums that the CDA would be disbanding as he himself had now come to support the Tories again and wanted to campaign for them in the run-up to the next UK general election and circulated a letter to all members and supporters saying that the CDA would be effectively replaced by the Traditional Britain Group and urging their support.
In the run-up to general or local elections, the fund has been used for advertising campaigns to ensure that issues of importance to UNISON are high on the agenda.
In the run-up to the July 1836 election for the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada, Head actively campaigned on behalf of the Tories against the Reformers, rallying the people behind the cause of loyalty to the British Empire.
Aircraft noise is noise pollution produced by any aircraft or its components, during various phases of a flight: on the ground while parked such as auxiliary power units, while taxiing, on run-up from propeller and jet exhaust, during take off, underneath and lateral to departure and arrival paths, over-flying while en route, or during landing.
The Northampton Sands were a strategic resource for the UK in the run-up to World War II, being the best developed bulk iron producing processes wholly free from dependence on imported materials.
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