A group of left wing Labour MPs organised under the banner of " Keep Left ", urged the government to steer a middle way between the two emerging superpowers, and advocated the creation of ' third force ' of European powers to stand between the USA and USSR.

The main government supporter Alexandr Vondra, Deputy Prime Minister for European affairs, used to be an ambassador to the USA.

The Western Allies ( the USA, Britain and France ) never formally acknowledged the authority of the East German government to govern East Berlin ; the official Allied protocol recognized only the authority of the Soviet Union in East Berlin in accordance with the occupation status of Berlin as a whole.

In the USA, there have been efforts to pass legislation at the state level encouraging use of free software by state government agencies.

A Dassult Falcon 20F was donated by the Angolan government but was soon sold to the USA.

French brigadier general Charles de Gaulle declared himself on Radio Londres to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the USA.

Methodist denominations typically give lay members representation at regional and national meetings ( conferences ) at which the business of the church is conducted, making it different from most episcopal government ( The Episcopal Church USA, however, has a representational polity giving lay members, priests, and bishops voting privileges ).

In recent years, the USA has provided training to military officers and policymakers to promote a better understanding of the role of the military in a civilian government.

Russia has restored control over Chechnya, but the separatist government functions still in exile, though it has been split into two entities: the Achmed Zakayev-run secular Chechen Republic ( based in Poland, the UK and the USA ), and the Islamic Caucasus Emirate.

After the USA entered the war in 1941, the situation of the émigrés, now classed " enemy aliens " became increasingly precarious as government measures turned from anti-Nazism to anti-communism.

Why would rights be given to one brother or sister and not another. Because it also was a benefit to the USA government to allow this to ocurr.

In a resolution passed on June 29, 2005, they stated that " Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act allows the government to secretly request and obtain library records for large numbers of individuals without any reason to believe they are involved in illegal activity.

In the 2000 X-Men film, Kelly exclaims, " We must know who these mutants are and what they can do ," even brandishing a " list " of known mutants ( a reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy's list of Communist Party USA members who were working in the government ).

* Spanish government refuses to grant diplomatic recognition to the USA.

As the Bhutanese government was unwilling to take them into their country many developed nations offered the Refugees to allow them to settle in their own countries which include USA and Australia.

The early-1978 proposition by Moro of a DC-PSI cabinet supported also by the PCI was strongly opposed by both super-powers: the USA ( and its State Secretary Henry Kissinger in particular ) feared that the collaboration of an Italian government with the Communists might have allowed these later to gain information on strategic NATO military plans and installations, and pass them to Soviet agents.

Moreover, the participation in government of the Communists in a Western country would have represented a cultural failure for the USA.

* List of vulnerabilities maintained by the government of the USA

* Early 1944: the USA government, to try to stop men from being drowned in sunken army tanks, asked the company Mine Safety Appliances ( MSA ) for a suitable small escape breathing set.

The Australian novels are individual hymns to that country, with subtle disparagement of the mores of the USA ( Beyond the Black Stump ) and overt antipathy towards the post World War II socialist government of Shute's native Britain ( The Far Country and In the Wet ).

This in part reflects the absence of wilderness areas in heavily cultivated Europe, as well as a longstanding interest in laissez-faire government in some countries, like the UK, leaving it as no coincidence that John Muir, the British-born founder of the National Park movement ( and hence of government-sponsored conservation ) did his sterling work in the USA, where he was the motor force behind the establishment of such NPs as Yosemite and Yellowstone.

The university developed from an initial collaboration between the local government of the city-state of Bremen, the University of Bremen and Rice University, USA.

Protesting " a pall of repression " and referring specifically to the USA PATRIOT Act as emblematic of that repression, it accuses the executive branch of usurping " the roles and functions of the other branches of government ," and continues, " We must take the highest officers of the land seriously when they talk of a war that will last a generation and when they speak of a new domestic order.

When the PC party held power at the federal level, it never truly embraced Reaganomics and its crusade against " big government " as vociferously as was done in the USA.

In 1968, a theme park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas, based on Capp's work and with his support.

This can be voluntary or ( if mental health legislation allows and varying state-to-state regulations in the USA ) involuntary ( called civil or involuntary commitment ).

( In the USA this is called the discount rate ).

( In the USA this is called the federal funds rate ).

These " discotheques " were also patronized by anti-Vichy youth called ' zazou ' who much like the kids in the USA during the 1940s were wearing zoot suits.

Garth's first weekend on shows in Vegas received positive reviews and was called the " antithesis of Vegas glitz and of the country singer's arena and stadium extravaganzas " by USA Today.

Subsequent talks, called SALT II, were held from 1972 to 1979 and actually reduced the number of nuclear warheads held by the USA and USSR.

Voight plays the CEO of a fictitious Arms industry called Starkwood, which has loose resemblances to Blackwater USA and ThyssenKrupp.

Their 2011 international karaoke competition has attracted ABC producers to help host America's karaoke competition in Las Vegas Nevada called Karaoke Battle USA.

Al also called national NBA games on the USA Network during its brief tenure in the early 1980s.

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

The term " latex " in the context of paint in the USA simply means an aqueous dispersion ; latex rubber ( the sap of the rubber tree that has historically been called latex ) is not an ingredient.

The hobby is sometimes called " fusilately " in the UK and a collector is known as a " fusilatelist "; In the USA it is called " telegery ".

A new denomination was formed by some members of the PC ( USA ) in 2012, called The Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians, or ECO.

As a result, some serious players, particularly in the USA, still preferred to play online using the original Quake engine ( commonly called NetQuake ) rather than QuakeWorld.

A shuttlecock ( called bird or birdie in the USA ) is a high-drag projectile used in the sport of badminton.

During halftime, USA Network aired a special edition of WWF Sunday Night Heat called Halftime Heat featuring a match between The Rock and Mankind for the WWF Championship in an Empty Arena Match that took place in Arizona and had been taped five days before.

In 1933, the United States Table Tennis Association, now called USA Table Tennis, was formed.

In 1904, as a result of experiments conducted on Edison effect bulbs imported from the USA, he developed a device he called an " oscillation valve " ( because it passes current in only one direction ).

On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts ( USA ), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players.

Some schools in the UK and USA divide the academic year into three roughly equal-length terms ( called " trimesters " or " quarters " in the USA ), roughly coinciding with autumn, winter, and spring.

In the southern USA, outdoor gatherings are not typically called " barbecues " unless barbecue itself will actually be on the menu, instead generally favoring the word " cookouts ".

In August 1999 the U. S. affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Race, Rights & Brutality: Portraits of Abuse in the USA ," prompted by high-profile excessive-force cases involving local and state police in Chicago, New York and other cities, that called on federal officials to better document excessive-force cases and to ensure that the officers responsible are prosecuted.