British common sense is proverbial.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

Their nationalism was born out of hundreds of years of fighting against imperialism, a continuing struggle for independence battling mainly British expansion into central South Africa, as well as the harsh African climate and a strong sense of nationhood.

British scout aircraft, in this sense, included the Sopwith Tabloid and Bristol Scout.

Along with Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and " his exceptional personality and moral character.

One of the most important parts of Moore's philosophical development was his break from the idealism that dominated British philosophy ( as represented in the works of his former teachers F. H. Bradley and John McTaggart ), and his defence of what he regarded as a " common sense " form of realism.

In a very real sense, they represented the British Government.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

The political, military and financial costs of remaining in Ireland were higher than the British government was prepared to pay and this in a sense forced them into negotiations with the Irish political leaders.

This led to a false sense of confidence about British intentions with which he unwittingly deceived his Führer.

… British hackers mostly learned / kluhj / orally, use it in a restricted negative sense and are at least consistent.

Polanyi rejected the claim by British Empiricists that experience can be reduced into sense data.

In a 1994 academic paper, the folklorist Jacqueline Simpson noted that British folklorists remembered Murray with " embarrassment " and a " sense of paradox.

Blue Lines was seen widely as the first major manifestation of a uniquely British hip hop movement, but the album's hit single " Unfinished Sympathy " and several other tracks, while their rhythms were largely sample-based, were not seen as hip hop songs in any conventional sense.

In Denmark tabloids in the British sense are known as ' formiddagsblade ' ( before-noon newspapers ), the two biggest being BT and Ekstra Bladet.

Her strength lay in good common sense and directness of character ; she expressed the qualities of the British nation which at that time made it preeminent in the world.

On 2 June, Powell spoke against the stationing of American Cruise missiles in Britain and claimed the United States had an obsessive sense of mission and a hallucinatory view of international relations: " The American nation, as we have watched their proceedings during these last 25 years, will not, when another Atlantic crisis, another Middle East crisis or another European crisis comes, wait upon the deliberations of the British Cabinet, whose point of view and appreciation of the situation will be so different from their own ".

After Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990, Powell claimed that since Britain was not an ally of Kuwait in the " formal sense " and because the balance of power in the Middle East had ceased to be a British concern after the end of the British Empire, Britain should not go to war.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing and crisis.

But six months after the crisis, a Gallup Poll found that public worry about nuclear weapons had fallen back to its lowest point since 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U. S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the British public away from CND.

Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

Husserl describes here the cultural crisis gripping Europe, then approaches a philosophy of history, discussing Galileo, Descartes, several British philosophers, and Kant.

The lead British admiral had a crisis of nerves, and his second-in-command withdrew after one day, with moderate casualties.

Ribbentrop and Hitler misunderstood the British attempts to provide for a peaceful settlement of the Danzig crisis as a sign that Britain would not go to war for Poland.

Felmy noted the alleged panic that had broken out in London during the Munich crisis, evidence he believed of British weakness.

" He was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis and his fatwa calling for the death of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie.

Influenced by the British Levellers, the movement's popularity rose again during the 1990s, once more due to a housing crisis, this time related to the 1992 Summer Olympics and the concomitant urban regeneration.

During the abdication crisis in 1936, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin consulted the Commonwealth Prime Ministers at the request of King Edward VIII.

In September 1922 the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, appealed repeatedly to King for Canadian support in the Chanak crisis, in which a war threatened between Britain and Turkey.

The episode marks a constitutional crisis that was resolved by a tradition of non-interference in Canadian political affairs on the part of the British government.

The constitutional crisis of 1926 provoked a consideration of the constitutional relations between the self-governing dominions and the British government.

This led to a brief political crisis ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ) and a mutiny by conscripts posted in British Columbia, but the war ended a few months later.

The British were disappointed with King's response, but the crisis was soon resolved, as King had anticipated.

Since the British sovereign is a constitutional monarch, he or she abides by the advice of his or her ministers, except when executing reserve powers in times of crisis.

* June 14 – Tientsin Incident: The Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war in the summer of 1939.

* The British government takes emergency powers to deal with the balance-of-payments crisis.

* Elizabeth I of England decrees that all Africans should be removed from the British realm in reaction to the food crisis.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).