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American and government
Does the organization show an affinity for a foreign government, political party or personality in opposition or preference to the American system??
Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.
No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.
The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.
In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.
The magistrate tonight refused to return to the five $29,000 in American and British currency, mostly $20 bills, and in British government bonds and stocks.
Britain began designing the ship in 1956 but got nowhere until the American government decided to end a ban on sharing military secrets with Britain that had been imposed after Fuchs blabbed.
it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.
In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.
Politics of American Samoa takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
In, the President of the United States directed that the Secretary of the Interior should take care for the administration of civil government in American Samoa.
The government operates under a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor of American Samoa is the head of government.
Transfers from the U. S. federal government add substantially to American Samoa's economic well-being.
* 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
Liberal in its use of statistics to make its arguments, the book argued his view that the American republican system of government was superior to the British monarchical system.
* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).
* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.
He also made several contacts among the Native American tribes in the area, at one point negotiating an $ 800, 000 settlement between the Creeks and other tribes and the federal government.
In July 1782, in a change of government, Thomas Townshend became Secretary of State for Home and American Affairs ,, and assumed responsibility for organising an expedition against Spanish America.
It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
These sets were expanded in 1963 to 7 bits of coding, called the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) as the Federal Information Processing Standard which replaced the incompatible teleprinter codes in use by different branches of the U. S. government.

American and managed
Mr. Herman has managed to mix musical ideas drawn from Israel and the standard American ballad style in a manner that stresses the basic tunefulness of both idioms.
The American Bar Association's official journal concerning administrative law is the Administrative Law Review, a quarterly publication that is managed and edited by students at the Washington College of Law.
The National Science Foundation approved the plan for the creation of the not-for-profit organization to " give the users of IP numbers ( mostly Internet service providers, corporations and other large institutions ) a voice in the policies by which they are managed and allocated within the North American region.
In the third era ( 10th – 14th editions, 1901 – 73 ), the Britannica was managed by American businessmen who introduced direct marketing and door-to-door sales.
The commissary managed enemy prisoners, and also was responsible for supplying American prisonerswho were held by the British.
Chosen by the Second Continental Congress in 1775 to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, Washington managed to force the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and almost captured later that year when he lost New York City.
It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film.
However, the largest strand was a series of bands that emerged from 1966 from the British blues scene, but influenced by folk, jazz and psychedelia, including Pink Floyd, Traffic, Soft Machine, Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( led by an American, but initially produced and managed in Britain by Chas Chandler of The Animals ).
Operating from the US as the North American Philips Company, they managed to run the company throughout the war.
A number of the locks are managed by the Canadian Saint Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation and others are managed by the American Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
American company General Motors managed to purchase the motors division.
Even though Borge did not speak a word of English upon arrival, he quickly managed to adapt his jokes to the American audience, learning English by watching movies.
, the AMC managed the IFC Capitalization Fund ( Equity ) Fund, L. P., the IFC Capitalization ( Subordinated Debt ) Fund, L. P., the IFC African, Latin American, and Caribbean Fund, L. P., and the Africa Capitalization Fund, Ltd.
France attached comparatively little value to its North American possessions, especially in respect to the highly profitable sugar-producing Antilles islands, which it managed to retain.
While not reaching the commercial heights of previous albums, it managed at least to reach both the British and American Top 20.
A friend managed to organise a meeting with Wesley Fishel, an American academic who had done consultancy work for the United States government.
Interventions include subsidies, taxes and tariffs, non-tariff barriers, such as regulatory legislation and import quotas, and even inter-government managed trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) and Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ) ( contrary to their formal titles ) and any governmental market intervention resulting in artificial prices.
The American public was happy and relieved that America had finally managed to launch a satellite after the launch failures in the Vanguard and Viking series.
The Christian right has managed to gain a foothold as the " self-appointed conscience of American society ".
Although Lamoriello had been a college coach for 19 years, he had never played, coached, or managed in the NHL and was almost unknown outside the American college hockey community.
In 2008 sister congresswomen Loretta Sanchez and Linda Sanchez published the joint memoir Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters Are Making History in Congress. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book and wrote: " Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story — noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements ( including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress ) but also for its “ American Dream ” aspect — their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.
The Fort would pass into his possession and if the Spanish managed to conquer it, he and his troops had nothing to do with the failure other than trusting an insane American to guard.
He was a capable leader and managed to improve his settlers ' relationships with the Native Americans over time and Cornelius himself married an Native American woman.
New Zealand's John Walker, the first man to run the mile under 3: 50, managed to run 135 sub-four-minute miles during his career ( during which he was the first person to run over 100 sub-four-minute miles ), and American Steve Scott has run the most sub-four-minute miles, with 136.

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