As Roman authority began to fail in the western portion of the empire, the church took over much of the civil administration.

In 1995 the Supreme Court rejected the Gun-Free School Zones Act in the Lopez decision, and also rejected the civil remedy portion of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 in the United States v. Morrison decision.

Moreover, in January 2002, the government renegotiated civil servant wages ( a significant part of the work force and a significant portion of government expenditure ), agreeing to raises as high as 100 %.

* Herat International Airport ( 2600 m runway ) is the primary civil airport for the western portion of the country.

In the absence of a civil service system, parties also continued to rely heavily on financial support from government employees, including assessments of a portion of their federal pay.

According to Joint Publication 1-02, the United States Department of Defense defines a resistance movement as " an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability ".

Pulaski Township is a civil township of Jackson County in the southern portion of the U. S. state of Michigan, comprising the entire portion of the survey township of T4S R3W.

The largest portion of the City of Midland is located within the boundaries of the survey township, but is administratively autonomous of the civil township.

Bowdoin stepped up civil actions to collect back taxes, and the legislature exacerbated the situation by levying an additional property tax to raise funds for the state's portion of foreign debt payments.

Although the service of civil process makes up a major portion of their duties Massachusetts Constables have broad law enforcement authority.

On 30 September 1993, most of Hahn Air Base was turned over to civil German authorities, the USAF retaining a small portion as a communications site.

Other works are a treatise on the fundamental laws of property ( Über die Grundlage des Besitzes, Berlin, 1829 ), a portion of a systematic work on the Roman civil law ( System des römischen Zivilrechts, 1827 ), and a collection of his miscellaneous writings ( Vermischte Schriften.

The portion of Sunset Boulevard east of Figueroa Street was renamed Cesar Chavez Avenue in 1994 along with Macy Street and Brooklyn Avenue in honor of the late Mexican-American union leader and civil rights activist.

However, the civil rights portion of the agreement provided the basis for the work of the Moscow Helsinki Group, an independent non-governmental organization created to monitor compliance to the Helsinki Accords ( which evolved into several regional committees, eventually forming the International Helsinki Federation and Human Rights Watch ).

The term " unorganized territory " is used by the United States Census Bureau to designate a portion of a county that is not included in any legally established minor civil division for the purpose of presenting statistical data.

Bowdoin stepped up civil actions to collect back taxes, and the legislature exacerbated the situation by levying an additional property tax to raise funds for the state's portion of foreign debt payments.

The portion of graduates pursuing further university education, such as a second Master's degree or a doctorate, rather than entering the French civil service, has been growing in recent years to over 30 %.

However, a large portion of the councilors before 1798 were also civil servants under the Republic and were re-elected by the Landsgemeinde in 1803.

The first portion deals with political and civil history and is known as the Chronicon Syriacum.

Dacko encouraged the rapid " Centralafricanization " of the CAR's administration, which was accompanied by growing corruption and inefficiency, and he expanded the number of civil servants, which greatly increased the portion of the national budget needed to pay salaries.

Bermuda's flag is an appropriate civil ensign for vessels registered on the Bermuda portion of the British Register, by virtue of the Bermuda Merchant Shipping Act of 2002.

A portion of the student body who are French civil servants are called Normaliens.

Two British civil servants, Miss Ethel Gee, 46, and her newly devoted friend, Harry Houghton, 55, and divorced.

Johnson resented what he had perceived as British sympathy toward the Confederacy and he ignored a series of armed incursions by Fenians ( Irish-American civil war veterans ) into Canada.

The term the Government always takes a plural verb in British civil service convention, perhaps to emphasize the principle of cabinet collective responsibility.

British traditions such as the monarchy were rejected by the U. S. Constitution, but many English common law traditions such as habeas corpus, jury trials, and various other civil liberties were adopted in the United States.

However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

Armed Arab volunteers during the 1947 – 1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine | 1947-1948 civil war in the British Mandate of Palestine

The language was an inter-service standard for British military programming, and was also widely adopted for civil purposes in the British control and automation industry.

The débâcle of the Afghan civil war left a vacuum in the Hindu Kush area that concerned the British, who were well aware of the many times in history it had been employed as the invasion route to South Asia.

Amidst intrigue in the Afghan court, and political and civil unrest in India, he sought to divert attention from the internal divisions of Afghanistan and unite all faction behind him by attacking the British.

The tradition is itself named after Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), a British civil servant and scholar of magic.

Thousands of Scots, mainly Lowlanders, took up positions of power in politics, civil service, the army and navy, trade, economics, colonial enterprises and other areas across the nascent British Empire.

The civil service was increasingly filled with natives at the lower levels, with the British holding the more senior positions.

The Gandhi-led independence movement opposed the British rule using non-violent methods like non-cooperation, civil disobedience and economic resistance.

Evictions only increased after the repeal of the British Corn Laws in 1846 and the new Encumbered Estates Act being passed in 1849 as well as the removal of existing civil rights.

British pressure, and tensions between the pro-and anti-Treaty factions of the IRA, led to a bloody civil war, ending in the defeat of the anti-Treaty faction.

Trained civil servants were recruited from graduates of British universities, and these men set out to rule India.

* 1972 – Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen unarmed civil rights / anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.

Nehru and most of the Congress leaders were initially ambivalent about Gandhi's plan to begin civil disobedience with a satyagraha aimed at the British salt tax.

Krivitsky claimed that two Soviet intelligence agents had penetrated the British Foreign Office, and that a third Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper during the civil war in Spain.

The British Government agreed to free all political prisoners, in return for the suspension of the civil disobedience movement.

Alex Chan's take on the 2005 civil unrest in France, The French Democracy, attained mainstream attention and inspired other machinima commentaries on American and British society.

* 1912 – Melita Norwood, British civil servant and KGB intelligence source ( d. 2005 )