Hitchens is critical of the British government's desire for identity cards, its attempts to abolish jury trial, and its creation of the national law enforcement body the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Serious attempts at centralization began under Maria Theresa and especially her son Joseph II in the mid to late 18th century, but many of these were abandoned following large scale resistance to Joseph's more radical reform attempts, although a more cautious policy of centralization continued during the revolutionary period and the long Metternichian period which followed.

Serious attempts at scholary study made steady progress over the 19th century starting with the founding of the Instituto di Corrispondenza in Rome in 1828 ( later the German Archaeological Institute ), followed by Eduard Gerhard's pioneering study Auserlesene Griechische Vasenbilder ( 1840 to 1858 ), the establishment of the journal Archaeologische Zeitung in 1843 and the Ecole d ' Athens 1846.

Serious excavations in Novgorod started only in 1932, although some attempts had been made in the 19th century.

Serious attempts at formulating a uniform policy for the recapture of escaped slaves began under the Articles of Confederation of the United States in 1785, which was after the colonies had signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

Serious peace negotiations began in the spring of 299.

Serious efforts to understand how proteins are encoded began after the structure of DNA was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick, who used the experimental evidence of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin ( among others ).

Serious studies of the archaeological remains of the Maldives began with the work of H. C. P. Bell, a British commissioner of the Ceylon Civil Service.

Serious investigation began eight years later after the discovery that radar could be used to track airplanes.

Serious debate concerning the unusual rocks began in 1794 when German physicist Chladni published a book claiming that rocks had an extraterrestrial origin ( Westrum ).

Serious building began in the 1845 with a scheme sponsored by Henry Tufnell and designed by John Shaw Jr, who had laid out the Eton Estate in Chalk Farm.

Serious development finally began in the 1970s, as the village's proximity to two trunk line interstates resulted in both industrial growth ( a Mobil oil refinery, two petrochemicals plants, a gigantic soybean oil production facility, and numerous support businesses for the freight hauling industry ) and residential development.

Serious talk of merging the three cities began shortly after World War I, but the community of Baytown was opposed to this idea.

Serious metamathematical reflection began with the work of Gottlob Frege, especially his Begriffsschrift.

Serious linguistic research on TSL began in the 1970s and is continuing at present.

Serious African insurrections began soon afterwards, in Zululand and on the Xhosa frontier of the Cape Colony.

Serious issues first began developing over a proposed change of hosting service.

Serious debates over abolition took place in the Virginia legislature in 1829 and 1831 ; in the North discussion began about the possibility of freeing the slaves and then resettling them back in Africa ( a proposal that led to the founding of Liberia ).

* David Bowie performed, on two consecutive nights, at the centre during his Serious Moonlight Tour on 5 – 6 June 1983, began the first European leg of his Sound + Vision Tour, on two consecutive nights, on 19 – 20 March 1990, performed on two consecutive nights, during his Outside Tour on 20 – 21 November 1995 & performed on two consecutive nights during his A Reality Tour on 19 – 20 November 2003.

Serious talk of expansion began in 1959 when the father of a student from Monterey, California, suggested to President Weigle that he establish a new campus there.

Serious searches for evidence of life began in the 19th century, and continue via telescopic investigations and landed missions.

Serious discussion began when the state of Colorado lobbied for the Interstate Highway System to route a transcontinental interstate across Colorado.

Following this, James began hosting the WWE. com and YouTube web series Are You Serious?

Serious scientific enquiry began in the 19th century with Johannes Peter Müller, Jules Baillarger and Alfred Maury, and continued into the twentieth century with Leroy.

United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office began its probe on July 2007, and was investigating offshore accounts in the British tax havens of Jersey and Guernsey, which were used to transfer more than $ 30m to a company called Apex Finance between April 2002 and February 2004.

Serious rifts between nations contributing to UNOSOM II also began to develop, with Italy in particular being a major critic of the American methods.

Serious missionary and religious activity only began in the 9th century from the kingdom of Asturias and Franks, and continued after the Reconquista with famous monastic foundations ( Monastery of Leyre, San Millán de la Cogolla ) and the diocese of Bayonne in the 11th century.

Serious archaeological investigation began in the 1950s.

The first iteration of Samurize went up to version 0. 63c, at which point work began on Serious Samurize, which was released at version 0. 80a, breaking compatibility with older configs.

The Serious Organised Crime Agency ( SOCA ) can also designate their officers with the power of a constable and many police officers that joined the agency when it was formed were immediately given such a designation.

Serious damage was caused to the canal during the Second World War, when it was the scene of fighting due to its strategic importance.

Serious work on SST designs started in the mid-1950s, when the first generation of supersonic fighter aircraft were entering service.

Serious violations in homoscedasticity ( assuming a distribution of data is homoscedastic when in actuality it is heteroscedastic ()) may result in overestimating the goodness of fit as measured by the Pearson coefficient.

A merkin may also be used if the actor has less pubic hair than required, such as the nude dancing extras in The Bank Job, Amy Landecker in A Serious Man ( for a nude sunbathing scene, as the actress ' bikini wax was not common for the period ( 1967 ) when the film is set ), and female slaves in Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

In 1990, when prisoners at Strangeways ( see 1990 Strangeways Prison riot ) took over the prison in protest at conditions, the RCG was active together with other groups supporting them on the outside, and later published a book, ' Strangeways: A Serious Disturbance ', largely written by prisoners and former prisoners.

Serious first became interested in Albert Einstein when he was travelling down the Amazon river and saw a local wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a physicist on it.

Serious danger regarding allergies can begin when the respiratory tract or blood circulation is affected.

Serious accidents have been recorded in cases when this principle was not observed.

The Serious Fraud Office conducted an investigation into the Al Yamamah contract on the back of this strengthened legislation from late 2003 until 14 December 2006 when it was suddenly discontinued.

Serious issues and feelings are avoided, and people focus on being busy with routines, such as team organization, who does what, when to meet, etc.

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Serious mistakes can result when combining results from different authors without carefully verifying that compatible notations are used.

It was abolished on 1 October 2008 when Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 came into force, replacing it with three new statutory offences of encouraging or assisting crime.

Serious damage occurred during World War II when a bomb destroyed the booking hall's glass ceiling.

The UK edition of the novel was used for the adaptation-this becomes evident in Fit the Sixteenth, when the " Rory " award is said to be given for the Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word Fuck In A Serious Screenplay.

Japanese investment bank Nomura mounted a £ 700m leveraged buyout of William Hill in 1997, when Brent Walker collapsed with debts exceeding £ 1. 3bn after an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office which saw two directors given jail sentences.

Among Fine's compositions are a violin sonata ; a string quartet ; Fantasia for String Trio ; Music for Piano ; Partita for Wind Quintet ; Toccata Concertante for Orchestra ; Notturno for Strings and Harp ; Serious Song, subtitled a " lament for string orchestra "; Diversions for piano and orchestra ; and the Symphony 1962, which premiered at Tanglewood less than two weeks before his untimely death following a heart attack ( Fine conducted the premiere when Charles Munch, who was originally to have conducted, fell ill ).

Serious debate on the ordination of women as ministers began when Mary Levison petitioned the General Assembly for ordination in 1963.

Serious Sam II focused on this game mode even more than its predecessors, as it was the only multiplayer mode to be included when the game was released, although deathmatch was later added in a patch.

Serious negotiations commenced between the club and Bartlett Construction regarding moving from Huish to a new site at Houndstone camp, the first meeting took place on 12 November 1985 when an offer of £ 1. 3m was made for the Huish site.