Throughout its history, the British Army has seen action in a number of major wars involving the worlds great powers, including the Seven Years ' War, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, World War I and World War II.

As well as teaching knowledge about democracy, parliament, government, the justice system, human rights and the UK's relations with the wider world, students participate in active citizenship, often involving a social action or social enterprise in their local community.

1986 ) ( granting certification of a class action involving asbestos ).

Both sides claim they attempted to resolve the matter without legal action, but the ultimately complicated legal dispute ( involving royalties, publishing rights, and a number of other issues ) soon led to the courts, where Biafra was found liable for the royalties after the jury determined that he had committed fraud and malice, and was ordered to pay damages of nearly $ 200, 000, including $ 20, 000 in punitive damages, to the band members.

The Civil Rights Act of 1871 applies to public employment or employment involving state action prohibiting deprivation of rights secured by the federal constitution or federal laws through action under color of law.

In using the Koopman approach of considering the action of the flow on an observable function, the finite-dimensional nonlinear problem involving Φ < sup > t </ sup > gets mapped into an infinite-dimensional linear problem involving U.

This action was taken after a long period of increasing tension between the two countries due to a series of cross-border incidents involving the Eritrean Islamic Jihad ( EIJ ).

* 1946 – Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutinied in Bombay harbour, from where the action spread throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20, 000 sailors

A plan is put into action, involving infecting Godzilla with the regained ANEB.

These include two of the only three battle honours awarded in the 20th century for an action involving a single opposing ship:

Although Maxwell did not explicitly mention the sea of molecular vortices, his derivation of Ampère's circuital law was carried over from the 1861 paper and he used a dynamical approach involving rotational motion within the electromagnetic field which he likened to the action of flywheels.

In certain types of cases ( for example, cases involving time-sensitive matters, such as elections ), a delay of even a few days is likely to be met with a defense of laches, even where the applicable statute of limitations might allow the type of action to be commenced within a much longer time period.

Injuries or wounds which do not qualify for award of the Purple Heart include frostbite or trench foot injuries ; heat stroke ; food poisoning not caused by enemy agents ; chemical, biological, or nuclear agents not released by the enemy ; battle fatigue ; disease not directly caused by enemy agents ; accidents, to include explosive, aircraft, vehicular, and other accidental wounding not related to or caused by enemy action ; self-inflicted wounds ( e. g., a soldier accidentally fires their own gun and the bullet strikes his or her leg ), except when in the heat of battle, and not involving gross negligence ; post-traumatic stress disorders ; and jump injuries not caused by enemy action.

Race Game is a pencil and paper game, involving the pencil flick action.

The hop landing phase is very active, involving a powerful backward " pawing " action of the right leg, with the right take-off foot landing heel first on the runway.

As in many Thorne Smith novels, a courtroom scene involving the protagonists and an exasperated judge provides a climax to the characteristically tipsy action.

In 2003, two lawsuits involving U-M's affirmative action admissions policy reached the U. S. Supreme Court ( Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger ).

This genre is distinct from beat ' em ups, another action genre involving combat, where the player character must fight many weaker enemies at the same time.

Current evidence suggests that the dorsal striatum contributes directly to decision-making, especially to action selection and initiation, through the integration of sensorimotor, cognitive, and motivational / emotional information within specific corticostriatal circuits involving discrete regions of striatum.

This television show's action and straightforward story-telling left little time for personal stories involving wives or girlfriends, though a two-part story in the first season dealt with the loss of McGarrett's sister's baby.

Cost accounting is regarded as the process of collecting, analysing, summarising and evaluating various alternative courses of action involving costs and advising the management on the most appropriate course of action based on the cost efficiency and capability of the management.

In Constantinople, he quickly rose to become the commander of the Byzantine Varangian Guard, and saw action on the Mediterranean Sea, in Asia Minor, Sicily, possibly in the Holy Land, Bulgaria and in Constantinople itself, where he became involved in the imperial dynastic disputes.

In May 2007, director Robert Rodriguez entered talks with Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to film a live action film adaptation of The Jetsons for a potential 2009 theatrical release, having at the time discussed directing a film adaptation of Land of the Lost with Universal.

He suggests that some action of Barbie's prevented the Cuckoo from leaving the Land on her own and that these events may have had some connection to the events of The Doll's House.

The legality of such action was at the time governed by international law found in the Hague Regulations on Land Warfare of 1907, which state " the attack or bombardment, by whatever means, of towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings which are undefended is prohibited ".

When the Great Ouse Catchment Board was created under the powers of the Land Drainage Act in 1930, effective action could at last be taken.

The Ouse Drainage Board was formed in 1918, but had no powers to deal with navigation issues, and it was not until the powers of the Land Drainage Act ( 1930 ) were used to create the Great Ouse Catchment Board that effective action could be taken.

In May 2007, the U. S. filed an action against the Holy Land Foundation ( the largest Muslim charity in the United States at the time ) for providing funds to Hamas, and federal prosecutors filed pleadings.

Several prominent evangelical leaders of the Christian right sent the " Land Letter " to President Bush arguing a just war rationale for an invasion, citing Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of nuclear and biochemical weapons, and advocating immediate military action.

* Donald Land, a Famicom action game featuring Ronald McDonald

Von Colson and Kamann v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen ECR 1891 Case 14 / 83 established that Directives can have indirect effect in where an individual takes action in a national court against another individual, where a Directive can never have direct effect, or where the provision of the directive is not sufficiently clear and unconditional to have direct effect.

Land and sea forces saw action at Martín García island, a fortified island from Buenos Aires, known as " the Gibraltar of the River Plate ", which commanded the access to the rivers Paraná and Uruguay.

It is the first Oz book where the majority of the action takes place outside of the Land of Oz.

Woolery is one of the founders of the political action committee Restart Congress, along with, among others, Michigan's 41st Secretary of State, Terri Lynn Land.

Wonder Boy in Monster Land is an action role-playing platform video game developed by Westone.

The Debut of Thomas Cat, the first cartoon made in color ( although some claim the first animated short was made by Natural Colour Kinematograph Company, which was In Gollywog Land ( 1912, UK ), a stop motion film in Kinemacolor who also contained live action )— Brewster Color, invented by Percy Brewster of Newark, New Jersey — was released on February 8, 1920.

The Land League also used direct action protest tactics and the use of these tactics was to reappear in the early 20th century.

In 1884 protest action was much more widespread, many thousands of crofters became members of the Highland Land League and among MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885 there were Crofters ' Party MPs elected by the constituencies of Argyllshire ( Donald Horne Macfarlane ), Inverness-shire ( Charles Fraser-Mackintosh ), Ross and Cromarty ( Roderick Macdonald ) and Caithness ( Gavin Brown Clark ).

* In the 1997 film Cop Land, after a white NYPD officer kills two African American motorists who he thought were firing on him, the other officers back him up referring to his past heroic action in Red Hook.

The headquarters transitioned to become Headquarters Commandement de la force d ' action terrestre ( CFAT ) ( the Land Forces Action Command.

In their belief, the Jewish state is " the commencement of the growth of our redemption " ( reshit tzmichat ge ' ulateinu ), and that state may be brought about by human action, without waiting for the Messiah to gather the Jews back into the Land of Israel.

*" Urban America: HUD's call to action ", Urban Land magazine ( ISSN 0042-0891, v. 53, n. 1, pp. 22 – 24, January 1994 )

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak, original title Gwendoline, is a 1984 French action / sexploitation film directed by Just Jaeckin, written by Jaeckin and John Willie and starring Tawny Kitaen and Brent Huff.

Land Rover developed ' cross-linked ' air suspension to solve this problem – when needed, the suspension mimics the action of a beam axle ( as one wheel drops, the other rises ).

* Sir Thomas Blamey, Australian Army – then-General, later Field Marshal Blamey was decorated with the Army Distinguished Service Cross as Commander, Allied Land Forces, Southwest Pacific for " heroism in action in New Guinea, during the Papuan Campaign, July 23, 1942, to January 8, 1943.