During his acceptance speech he reflected on the important influence of traditional European music and the melancholy of the Swedish soul on ABBA's brand of pop music.

Greece has come out in support of Turkey's bid for European Union membership, and supports its full integration to the union when conditions for its acceptance are met.

Under some conventions – e. g. the European Convention on Human Rights – individuals or states are permitted, subject to certain conditions, to take individual cases to the enforcement mechanisms ; under most, however ( e. g. the UN conventions ), individual access is contingent on the acceptance of that right by the relevant state party, either by a declaration at the time of ratification or accession, or through ratification of or accession to an optional protocol to the convention.

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin heard Marshall's radio broadcast speech and immediately contacted French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to begin preparing a quick European response to ( and acceptance of ) the offer.

He was a major supporter of the expansion of the European Union from the beginning and especially of the acceptance of Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.

The Eureka Project 147 resulted in the publication of European Standard, ETS 300 401 in 1995, for DAB which now has worldwide acceptance.

He advocated a pause in the social policies, a clear acceptance of the market economy, and an alignment with European social democracy.

The European Union's acceptance only brings the number to 41.

Especially the 45 ft pallet-wide high-cube shortsea container has gained wider acceptance as these containers can replace the 13. 6 m swap bodies that are common for truck transport in Europe – the EU has started a standardization for pallet wide containerization in the EILU ( European Intermodal Loading Unit ) initiative.

This trend towards greater acceptance of ethnic and racial " minorities " by " WASPs " ( Anglo-Americans and other, mainly Protestant Americans of Northern European descent ) was first evident in popular culture in the combat films of the Second World War, starting with Bataan ( 1943 ).

According to historian Charles Powell, it was the king's goal to win Spain's full acceptance by other European powers.

This initial agreement was based on a tacit acceptance of the partition of Spain's European possessions.

The term Bell-magpie was proposed to help distinguish it from the European Magpie but failed to gain wide acceptance.

Clinical medical device management: Specification, selection, acceptance testing, commissioning and quality assurance / control of medical devices in accordance with the latest published European or International recommendations and the management and supervision of associated programmes.

The term has more recently begun to be particularly applied to New Zealand-born persons of predominantly European descent as a means of distinguishing themselves from more recent settlers and emphasising their temporal and spatial distinctiveness, but acceptance of this notion still remains far from universal.

A theory proposed by Richard Coates, which does not have widespread acceptance, suggests that the name derives from a Celticised Old European river-name forming part of the oldest stratum of European toponymy, in the sense established by Hans Krahe ; Coates suggested a derivation from a pre-Celtic Plowonida — from two roots, plew and nejd, possibly meaning " the flowing river " or " the wide flowing river ".

Its acceptance within the European Space Agency's scientific programme in 1980 was the result of a lengthy process of study and lobby.

At the negotiations leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi Ngapuhi chief Te Wharerahi disagreed with his brothers Rewa and Moka ' Kainga-mataa ' and spoke for peace and the acceptance of the European, and was duly supported by Nene and Patuone.

The supremacy doctrine has found widespread acceptance, though the direct and indirect application of European Union law still needs to fully establish itself.

The most conservative members of the PS, they advocated an alignment of French socialism along the lines of European social democracy, that is, a clear acceptance of the market economy.

The three-door hatchback body style has been somewhat unpopular in the United States, but has achieved wide acceptance in Canada, as well as popularity in Japan and European markets, helping cement Honda's reputation as a maker of sporty compact models.

Soon afterwards, the arrival of competing European imperialists — the German doctor Karl Peters ( an erstwhile philosophy professor ) and the British captain Frederick Lugard broke the Christian alliance ; the British Protestant missionaries urged acceptance of the British flag, while the French Catholic mission either supported the Germans ( in the absence of French imperialists ) or called for Buganda to retain its independence.

The Rainbow states that it sees the acceptance of the Republic of Macedonia in the European Union with a positive regard.

The use of Arabic numerals spread around the world through European trade, books and colonialism.

Modern-day Arab telephone keypad with two forms of Arabic numerals: Western Arabic / European numerals on the left and Eastern Arabic numerals on the right

* The widespread Western Arabic numerals used with the Latin script, in the table below labelled European, descended from the West Arabic numerals developed in al-Andalus and the Maghreb.

( There are two typographic styles for rendering European numerals, known as lining figures and text figures ).

Examples are Roman numerals, Brahmi numerals, and Chinese numerals, as well as the Hindu-Arabic numerals used by speakers of many European languages.

However, the symbols used in different areas are not identical ; for instance, Western Arabic numerals ( from which the European numerals are derived ) differ from the forms used by other Arab cultures.

Below is a list of the Indian numerals in their modern Devanagari form, the corresponding European ( Indo-Arabic ) equivalents, their Sanskrit pronunciation, and translations in some languages.

During World War I the American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) adopted the common European usage of designating corps by Roman numerals

By the 13th century, Hindu-Arabic numerals were accepted in European mathematical circles ( Fibonacci used them in his Liber Abaci ).

In his Algorismus, theorized to have been his first work, Sacrobosco showed himself to be a strong proponent of the Arab methods of numerical calculation, his Algorismus being the first text to introduce Hindu-Arabic numerals and procedures into the European university curriculum.

The pioneering European player Oskar Korschelt disliked kifu because nineteenth century kifu always used Chinese numerals, which are indeed difficult to read unless one is familiar with them.

Created by Henrik Kubel of A2 / SW / HK in close collaboration with Margaret Calvert, New Rail Alphabet features six weights: off white, white, light, medium, bold and black, with non-aligning numerals, corresponding italics and a set of Eastern European characters.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

To do so, something was necessary beyond volunteering because there was little glamour or romance in the European war ; ;

Another powerful factor in the European movement was the threat of Soviet aggression.

In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community was launched, placing the coal and steel production of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux under a supranational High Authority.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

In 1957 the social-economic approach to European integration was capped by the formation among `` the Six '' of a tariff-free European Common Market, and Euratom for cooperation in the development of atomic energy.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

Wheaton stated that the public law was essentially `` limited to the civilized and Christian peoples of Europe or to those of European origin ''.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

The European customs on which international law was based were to become, by force and fiat, the customs that others were to accept as law if they were to join this community as sovereign states.

Hall, for example, was quite explicit on this point when he said states outside European civilization must formally enter into the circle of law-governed countries.

In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

His son Snorri Thorfinnsson was the first American born ( somewhere between 1010 and 1013 ) to European ( Icelandic ) immigrant parents.

The road between Lubango and Namibe, for example, was completed recently with funding from the European Union, and is comparable to many European main routes.