Major Croatian advances in foreign relations during this period have included:

From a Memorandum of 20 October 1963 by Major Raúl Castro, it can be seen that great importance was attached to the decent behaviour of the troops, with strict instructions being given on their proper conduct during foreign interventions.

On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.

Major domestic privatization programs have been undertaken, as well as fostering of foreign direct investment through international tender of the oil distribution company, a leading cashmere wool company, and banks.

Major advances in the decoding were: recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text ( 1799 ); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names ( 1802 ); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic ( Thomas Young, 1814 ); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words ( Champollion, 1822 – 1824 ).

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China ( and the severing of ties with the Republic of China ); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ); the brokering of the Camp David Accords ; the transition of Iran from an important U. S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic, encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union ; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion ; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U. S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

He had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1966 and in 1968 he and Major Boris Martínez led a successful coup d ' état against the recently elected president of Panama, Arnulfo Arias, after only eleven days in office, when he tried to order Torrijos to a foreign post.

In Major League Baseball, modifying a bat with foreign substances and using it in play is illegal and subject to ejection and further punishment.

Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004 ) was a Major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, and co-author with Christopher Andrew of The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, a massive account of Soviet intelligence operations based on copies of material from the archive.

Other known foreign military consultants were the Italian Major Pompeo Grillo, who worked at the Osaka foundry from 1884 to 1888, followed by Major Quaratezi from 1889 to 1890, and the Dutch Captain Schermbeck, who worked on improving coastal defenses from 1883 to 1886.

Major disadvantages of a Banking Edge, compared with an agency, are the smaller size of its loans ( due to its smaller capital base, compared with that of the agency's parent bank ) and the limitation of domestic lending ability to international or foreign business transactions.

HLA-identical siblings or HLA-identical unrelated donors often have genetically different proteins ( called minor histocompatibility antigens ) that can be presented by Major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) molecules to the donor's T-cells, which see these antigens as foreign and so mount an immune response.

They give three reasons for this: Maj. Major " always followed the rules, yet no-one liked him or trusted him "; his swift promotion to the rank of Major where he then remains is " a clear foreshadowing of the Peter Principle "; and the anathema to Maj. Major of being identified with Fonda, a symbol of competence, causes Maj. Major to retreat from everyone around him, making efforts to hide and to become, in the novel's words, a recluse "&# 91 ; i &# 93 ; n the midst of a few foreign acres teeming with more than two hundred people ".

Major General Fuller's tenure was a period of general retrenchment and withdrawal of Marines from foreign countries.

For the next seven years, from 1939 to 1946, the chief of the foreign intelligence department ( then 5th Department of the GUGB / NKVD ) was a very young NKVD officer and graduate of the first official intelligence school ( SHON ), Major of State Security Pavel Fitin.

United States Marine Corps Major Matt Lewis heads an army of multinational soldiers and Marines defending the foreign compound in Peking.

Under pressure from foreign powers, Abdul Hamid agreed to the creation of a body of one hundred Montenegrin constables under the command of the British Major Bor.

* Patrick Haseldine was dismissed by the then foreign secretary, John Major, in August 1989 following his public criticism of prime minister Margaret Thatcher for being " soft on terrorism ".

Major General Henry Spencer Palmer ( 30 April 1838 – 10 February 1893 ) was a British army military engineer and surveyor, noted for his work in developing Yokohama harbor in the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor to the Japanese government

Major legislation was passed in 1992 to promote Honduran reforestation by making large tracts of state-owned land more accessible to private investors.

Major investors called for the resignation of key personnel, including CEO Jane Cavanagh, over this issue as well as delays to key titles.

Major institutional investors in Infineon are: Dodge and Cox International: 10. 03 %, Merrill Lynch International: 5. 25 %, Templeton Global Advisors Limited: 5. 16 %, Capital Group International: 4. 14 %.

Anschutz was one of the co-founders and one of the lead investors of Major League Soccer.

Major group members include Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd., which offers retail services such as online trading to individual investors and Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. Ltd.

Slater is part of a group of investors headed by Stan Kasten that successfully purchased the Major League Baseball team, the Washington Nationals.

It was declared ready for operations on January 1, 2000, and deployed to the Horn of Africa in November 2000 to form the core of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea ( UNMEE ) under the command of Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Major General Patrick Cammaert.

Other Italian officers were Captain Francesco De Martini in Eritrea, Colonel Calderari in western Ethiopia / Somalia, Colonel Di Marco in Ogaden / British Somaliland, " blackshirt centurion " De Varda in Somalia / Ethiopia and Major Lucchetti in Ethiopia.

Major OCHA country offices are located in Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Palestinian territories, Sri Lanka, Sudan ( including a sub-office in Southern Sudan's capital Juba ), Uganda, and Zimbabwe, while regional offices are located in Panama City, Dakar, Cairo, Johannesburg, and Bangkok.

Major monopolies in Armenia include:

Major successes include Absurd Person Singular ( 1975 ), The Norman Conquests trilogy ( 1973 ), Bedroom Farce ( 1975 ), Just Between Ourselves ( 1976 ), A Chorus of Disapproval ( 1984 ), Woman in Mind ( 1985 ), A Small Family Business ( 1987 ), Man Of The Moment ( 1988 ), House & Garden ( 1999 ) and Private Fears in Public Places ( 2004 ).

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

Major movements in modern a cappella over the past century include Barbershop and doo wop.

Major bodies of water of Southeast Alaska include Glacier Bay, Lynn Canal, Icy Strait, Chatham Strait, Stephens Passage, Frederick Sound, Sumner Strait, and Clarence Strait.

Major industries in Southeast Alaska include commercial fishing and tourism ( primarily the cruise ship industry ).

Major mines and mining areas in the outback include opals at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, metals at Broken Hill, Tennant Creek, Olympic Dam and the remote Challenger Mine.

Major research efforts in the field include sequence alignment, gene finding, genome assembly, drug design, drug discovery, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of gene expression and protein – protein interactions, genome-wide association studies and the modeling of evolution.

Major roles of clinical engineers include training and supervising biomedical equipment technicians ( BMETs ), selecting technological products / services and logistically managing their implementation, working with governmental regulators on inspections / audits, and serving as technological consultants for other hospital staff ( e. g. physicians, administrators, I. T., etc .).

Major roads include:

Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.

Major traditions include Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Szechuan, and Zhejiang cuisines.

Major manufacturers include Four Winns, AAR Manufacturing, Avon Rubber and Plastics, FIAMM Technologies, Michigan Rubber Products and Rexair.

Major movements within American conservatism include support for tradition, law-and-order, Christianity, anti-communism, and a defense of " Western civilization from the challenges of modernist culture and totalitarian governments.

Its hierarchies include: Brazil ( Country ), Major Regions, States, Macro-regions, micro-regions, municipalities, districts, sub-districts, Neighborhoods and census tracts.

Examples include Geena Davis, Morley Safer, Ashley Judd, Gordon Elliott, former Major League pitcher Bill Lee, and astronaut John Grunsfeld calling from the Space Shuttle.

Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

Major types of dance competitions include:

Major roads include N1 west from Djibouti 246 km via Ouê ' a and Mouloud to Dikhil, then north via Yoboki to Ethiopia, designated part of the Ndjamena-Djibouti Trans-Africa Highway 6 ;

Major roads include:

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

Additional theater credits include Mister Roberts, The Teahouse of the August Moon, Camino Real, Major Barbara, Luv, and Staircase, co-starring Milo O ' Shea, which was a serious depiction of an aging homosexual couple.

Major influences on food production include international organizations ( e. g. the World Trade Organization and Common Agricultural Policy ), national government policy ( or law ), and war.

Major airports include: