In 1997, PETA filmed staff inside Huntingdon Life Sciences ( HLS ) in the UK, Europe's largest animal-testing facility, hitting puppies, shouting at them, and simulating sex acts while taking blood samples.

They are regarded as one of Europe's best live acts, with their 2002 Performance at Roskilde earning them several " Concert of the Year " awards, as well as " Concert of Roskilde 2002 ".

Between 1980 and 1987 Saxon established themselves as one of Europe's biggest metal acts, they also had success in Japan and in the USA.

The genre and other forms of South Asian music began to influence Europe's pop mainstream as acts like Björk, Bananarama, Erasure, and Siouxsie and the Banshees all released singles or remixes featuring South Asian instrumentation.

These include 60's legend Marty Balin, 80's icon Tiffany, blue-eyed soul singer / songwriter Grayson Hugh, Europe's Lory Bianco, and newer American acts such as The Low Anthem, Regina Spektor and Jack Johnson ( who sold his music at CD Baby prior to signing with a mainstream major label ).

The Port of Liverpool acts as one of Northern Europe's largest container ports and principal ports for trade with the United States and Canada.

KfW thus acts as a second-tier bank.

After scoring one popular hit with the label with " This Old Heart of Mine ( Is Weak for You )", the Isleys felt typecast in the role as a second-tier act while well-established Detroit acts like The Temptations, The Miracles and The Four Tops got more promotion from the label Motown.

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

The competition between Holly and Sebastian for the center ring develops into a romantic triangle as well, with both Sebastian and Brad vying for Holly as the aerialists ' acts become increasingly daring and dangerous.

* sales on the condition that ( A ) the buyer or lessee not deal with the competitors of the seller or lessor (" exclusive dealings ") or ( B ) the buyer also purchase another different product (" tying ") but only when these acts substantially lessen competition ( Act Section 3, codified at );

The Wheeler – Lea Act of 1938 is a United States federal law that amended Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act to proscribe “ unfair or deceptive acts or practices ” as well as “ unfair methods of competition .” It provided civil penalties for violations of Section 5 orders.

It also added a clause to Section 5 that stated " unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce are hereby declared unlawful " to the Section 5 prohibition of unfair methods of competition in order to protect consumers as well as competition.

The Wisconsin court order showed defendants was ordered to pay damages to plaintiff for defendants ' acts of infringing Plaintiff's copyrights, trademark, and acts of unfair trade practices and unfair competition.

In the evening is the Extravaganza-a show of sketches and acts about Alderney, the theme, and inter-island competition.

Initially thriving in North America during the first half of the 1920s, by 1927 competition between acts demanded more and more dangerous tricks and a rash of highly publicized accidents forced the implementation of new safety regulations that resulted in the demise of barnstorming.

The statute declares that “ unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful .” Unfairness and deception towards consumers represent two distinct areas of FTC enforcement and authority.

No competition was held in 2006, but in the 2008 edition, which also acts as a qualification tournament for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup and for a play-off for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the New Zealand All Whites emerged as winners.

The play won a state competition, and eventually $ 500 in a national competition after it was written into three acts.

In recent years the venue has been in competition for many of the bigger acts with Birmingham's o2 Academy, among others.

In April 2004, Colt filed a lawsuit against Heckler & Koch and Bushmaster Firearms, claiming acts of trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, trademark dilution, false designation of origin, false advertising, patent infringement, unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices.

Unfair competition in commercial law refers to a number of areas of law involving acts by one competitor or group of competitors which harm another in the field, and which may give rise to criminal offenses and civil causes of action.

This uncertainty acts as a powerful deterrent and ensures that companies are unable to undertake a cost / benefit analysis before breaching competition law.

: engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts over the past decade to obstruct the entry of low-price generic competition for three of Bristol's widely used pharmaceutical products: two anti-cancer drugs, Taxol and Platinol, and the anti-anxiety agent BuSpar.

Congress had passed acts promising land grants to the first railroad to reach the Kansas border via the Neosho Valley and the part of the Katy had been the Union Pacific Railway, Southern Branch was in a heated competition for the prize.

This dinner nightclub hosted acts like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Liberace, Cherry Hill Estates neighbors Al Martino & Frankie Avalon and more ; before closing due to competition from casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Despite the reasonable success of this move, Livid was now in direct competition with Sydney's Homebake festival and the nation-wide Big Day Out, and citing a " scarcity of headline acts on this year ’ s international festival touring circuit ", the event's promoters announced that the show would not he held in 2004.

The British rapper Akala won Best Hip Hop Act, beating stiff competition from American acts such as Kanye West, 50 Cent, and The Game.

Typically farmers break up hardpan up with a subsoiler, which acts as a long, sharp knife to slice through the hardened layer of soil deep below the surface.

In this case, only a residual force ( described below ) called the residual strong force acts between the " colourless " hadrons, and this residual force diminishes rapidly with distance, and is thus very short-range ( effectively a few femtometers ).

** The original acts cited below are held by the Parliamentary Archives.

Speech acts can be analysed on three levels: A locutionary act, the performance of an utterance: the actual utterance and its ostensible meaning, comprising phonetic, phatic and rhetic acts corresponding to the verbal, syntactic and semantic aspects of any meaningful utterance ; an illocutionary act: the pragmatic ' illocutionary force ' of the utterance, thus its intended significance as a socially valid verbal action ( see below ); and in certain cases a further perlocutionary act: its actual effect, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise getting someone to do or realize something, whether intended or not ( Austin 1962 ).

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

As a general rule, the law in many countries often intervenes in sexual activity involving young or adolescent children below the legal age of consent, non-consensual deliberate displays or illicit watching of sexual activity, sex with close relatives ( incest ), harm to animals, acts involving the deceased ( necrophilia ), and also when there is harassment, nuisance, fear, injury, or assault of a sexual nature, or serious risk of abuse of certain professional relationships.

The autonomic nervous system ( ANS or visceral nervous system or involuntary nervous system ) is the part of the peripheral nervous system that acts as a control system functioning largely below the level of consciousness, and controls visceral functions.

Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film.

In the examples below, if the B field is increasing, the induced field acts in opposition to it.

From 1940 the Sovereign could appoint a person as a Commander, Officer or Member of the Order of the British Empire for gallantry, for acts of bravery ( not in the face of the enemy ) which ranked below the level required for the George Medal, with the grade being determined by the same criteria as usual and not by the level of gallantry ( and with more junior people instead receiving the British Empire Medal ).

As the label has grown it has branched out, and in 2005 spawned the spinoff imprint Broken Sounds Records to focus on more hardcore acts ( see below ).

Today, the principal business of consistory courts is now the dispensing of faculties dealing with churchyards and church property, although they retain the power to hear the trial of clergy ( below the rank of bishop ) accused of immoral acts or misconduct ( under the Clergy Discipline Act 1892 ).

A number of the acts listed below are only distributed by Astralwerks, as it licenses a number of European acts for the US market.

Each higher layer acts as an " express lane " for the lists below, where an element in layer i appears in layer i + 1 with some fixed probability p ( two commonly used values for p are 1 / 2 or 1 / 4 ).

At the outer surface there is a cornea, below which is a pseudocone which acts to further focus the light.

The queen closer acts as an offset for the third brick along — which will be a stretcher — aligning this stretcher ’ s centre above that of the header below, and thus generating the bond.

The banks of the river below Bawtry have been raised so that the river acts as a high level carrier for the drainage of the surrounding land.

Taking its fixed point from below, it acts upon the pelvis, supporting it and the trunk upon the head of the femur ; this is especially obvious in standing on one leg.

To recognize acts deserving recognition, but at a level below that required for the Medal of Honor, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Cross were created by Public Law 253 on 4 February 1919.

The Mudanda Rock is a 1. 6 km inselberg of stratified rock that acts as a water catchment that supplies a natural dam below.

Some clinical trials in the mid-to-late 1970s suggested that Gerovital H3 acts as a weak, competitive, reversible MAO inhibitor, and so may have some antidepressant value, but otherwise has negligible effect on disease ( see Clinical Trials, below ).

These acts are listed below.

It acts as an obstacle to any rise into a higher class, and as a pair of water wings with respect to the classes below … Class type, relations with class fellows, power over outward resources adapted to the class situation, and so on .” ( Schumpeter, 163-164 ) In capitalist society movement between classes is a possibility.