In 1950, Britain and France went to the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) for friendly discussions to decide to which country the Minquiers and Ecréhous belonged.

* Histoire des Minquiers et des Ecréhous.

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The Duchy of Normandy survives as the Channel Islands, which for administrative purposes are grouped into the two bailiwicks of Jersey ( comprising the island of Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers and Écréhous ) and Guernsey ( comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou ).

The term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands, which for administrative purposes are grouped into the two bailiwicks of Jersey ( comprising the island of Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers and Écréhous ) and Guernsey ( comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou ).

* The Minquiers ( Les Minquiers ) are situated 9 miles south of Jersey, and are administratively part of the Parish of Grouville.

The Minquiers are part of the parish of Grouville.

The Minquiers are part of the parish of Grouville, but are uninhabited.

* the Bailiwick of Jersey, comprising the island of Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers and Écréhous

In 933, the Duchy of Normandy annexed the Channel Islands including Chausey, Minquiers and Ecrehos.

Besides the main island, the bailiwick includes other islets and reefs with no permanent population: Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, Les Pierres de Lecq, Les Dirouilles.

Certain maps showed the Ecréhous islands as not being part of Jersey.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

( There are two receivers in case one should be dropped and damaged.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

These songs ( practically all Persian music, for that matter ) are limited to a range of two octaves.

Here are the two Preambles: Federal Constitution, 1789

Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.

But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

In the mystery story, as in The Wealth of Nations, individualism and the social good are two sides of the same benevolent coin.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

These ways are absolutely irreconcilable because they offer two different recipes for man's redemption from chaos.

Within this context of spontaneous and unanalyzed responses to the experience of civilizational crisis, two basic organizations of response are observable: reaction and ideological progressivism.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

Here, in two nations alone, are almost five hundred million people, all working, and working hard, to raise their standards, and in doing so, to make of themselves a strong bulwark against the spread of an ideology that would destroy liberty.

`` the matters to be considered are obviously of a grave character, and I therefore respectfully request that the hearing be postponed for two weeks in order that I might make adequate preparation ''.

Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.

But there are at least two reasons for contemplating one's mind in even a cracked mirror.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

Regardless of the decision two facts are clear.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor.

The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.

The decision maker who acts for the community as a whole must decide whether the objectives pursued and the methods used are appropriate to public policy regarding cultural groups.

The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.

It is a fact of life that magazines are edited by groups: they have to be or they wouldn't be published at all.

There are other countries where, with skillful diplomacy, we may be able by our aid to give encouragement to those groups in government which would like to press forward with economic and social reform measures to promote growth.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

Student musical organizations are the Knights of Carleton and the Overtones ( men's vocal groups ), and the Keynotes ( a women's singing group ).

Occasional meetings are held for the whole membership, usually with a guest speaker, while smaller discussion groups meet more frequently.

There are other organizations representing several of the denominational groups.

Ordinary politeness may have militated against this opinion being stated so badly but anyone with a wide acquaintance in both groups and who has sat through the many round tables, workshops or panel discussions -- whatever they are called -- on this subject will recognize that the final, boiled down crux of the matter is education.

The groups are therefore really non-comparable in content as well as in size.

but, second, `` that the semantic groups are surprisingly unvarying in their average persistence '' ( as between M-K and I-E ).

Educational policies are formed by several groups who are officially or unofficially appointed to act in the public interest.

Like the other policy-making groups, these are middle class in their educational attitudes, and they attempt to act in the general public interest, as they see it.

There are also corresponding members and outside advisory groups.

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

Sample copies of new books are on display at headquarters, where librarians may evaluate them by themselves or in workshop groups.

Ironically, these are the groups which have doubled or tripled their missionary efforts since World War 2,, while the more established denominations are barely maintaining pre-war staffs.

Rouben Ter-Arutunian, in his stage settings, often uses the scrim curtain behind which Mr. Cole has placed couples or groups who sing and set the mood for the scenes which are to follow.

It has controversially been argued by some evolutionary scientists such as E. O. Wilson that natural selection can act at the level of non-kin groups to produce adaptations that benefit a non-kin group even if these adaptions are detrimental at the individual level.

Ethnoarchaeology is a type of archaeology that studies the practices and material remains of living human groups in order to gain a better understanding of the evidence left behind by past human groups, who are presumed to have lived in similar ways.