It was intended as a military defense association against Persia but was turned into an empire, collecting tribute and deciding policy of its associates.

The Board of Fire Commissioners ( BOFC ) oversee the organization by setting policy and establishing an operating budget by collecting taxes based on property value assessments.

In 1953, with Commonwealth forces engaged in Korea and Malaya the museum began its current policy of collecting material from all modern conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces were involved.

Hollmann was responsible for procurement of ships, and had a policy of collecting ships as funding permitted.

However, shortening the CCC creates its own risks: while a firm could even achieve a negative CCC by collecting from customers before paying suppliers, a policy of strict collections and lax payments is not always sustainable.

Editor George H. Scithers, who knew Piper socially, has stated that Piper wanted to spite the ex-wife he despised: by committing suicide, Piper voided his life insurance policy, and prevented her from collecting.

The College has an active policy of collecting contemporary work by its staff, students and alumni.

Also led by the Secretary of State, the Directorate of Political Affairs is the central office for collecting and processing the information needed to implement Swiss foreign policy.

Since the opening of the museum, it has followed the policy of collecting, conservation, publicizing, education, and scientific research, using its many historical relics, and conducted various types of display.

He instituted a policy of collecting anything the army could use and storing in Zahal warehouses and the rest to be distributed amongst Jewish agricultural settlements.

It is surmised that Dial is interested in collecting the insurance money, since he has a $ 1, 000, 000 life insurance policy on Willy.

The practice then collects the repriced amount from the patient directly, as per practice policy for collecting balances due on self-pay patient accounts.

The David Forbes World Collection of minerals is in the Museum and since the 1920s there has been a policy of complementary collecting by the Museum and the University Department of Geology by which the Museum specialises in hard rock petrology.

Its collecting policy is focused on Wales, Welsh-language and Celtic material.

For the next couple of years, Laurinaitis stayed out of the wrestling ring, collecting on a very lucrative insurance policy from Lloyd's of London while Hegstrand competed all over the world.

Nonetheless the policy of not publishing, or simply not collecting, data that was deemed unsuitable for various reasons was much more common than simple falsification ; hence there are many gaps in Soviet statistical data.

The purposeful collecting policy of the 1970s brought to the Gallery a number of high quality artworks by leading British artists of the 18th-century Georgian period.

The result was a policy that collecting of specimens, except under government permit, was not acceptable, and that no collecting should take place at campouts anyway.

Its collecting policy concentrates on French literature from the 16th century to the 19th century, publications connected with the archives and manuscript collections ( fonds ) already held, bibliophilia, the history of the book and bookbinding, and the history of the Arsenal itself and its occupants.

The collecting policy does not, however, focus solely on artists who were directly influenced by Rembrandt.

That same month, the RealPlayer was accused of violating the privacy of its users and breaching its own privacy policy by collecting information about what software was installed alongside the RealPlayer.

It is defined as a " globally interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating, and managing information on demand to warfighters, policy makers, and support personnel.

It does this by working to influence policy that impacts computing research, encouraging the development of human resources, contributing to the cohesiveness of the professional community and collecting and disseminating information about the importance and the state of computing research.

The Museum again readjusted its collecting policies as interest in " modern " objects: prints, drawings, medals and the decorative arts reawakened.

She enlisted the help of Henry Francis du Pont of the Winterthur Museum to assist in collecting artifacts for the mansion, many of which had once been housed there.

* The Spanish Esperanto Museum, in San Pablo de Ordal, Spain, which began in 1963 when Mr. L. M. Hernandez Yzal began systematically collecting Esperanto publications.

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum in Kenly has been collecting artifacts and showcasing the heritage of the Eastern North Carolina farmer for over 25 years.

In the 1960s, La Crosse became a regional center of barbed wire collecting, leading to the establishment of the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum and the nicknaming of the city as " The Barbed Wire Capital of the World ".

This National War Museum Committee set about collecting material to illustrate Britain's war effort by dividing into subcommittees examining such subjects as the Army, the Navy, the production of munitions, and women's war work.

Berkman and Goldman spent much of 1920 traveling through Russia collecting material for a proposed Museum of the Revolution.

He began collecting plants and birds eggs on the shores of Strangford Lough and his accumulation grew into a priceless collection that formed the nucleus of the British Museum.

His collecting program added important Paleozoic specimens to the Walker Museum of Paleontology.

The Tweed Museum of Art's history began in the 1920s when George and Alice Tweed first began collecting pieces of 19th and 20th American and European art including examples of the French Barbizon School and Impressionist influenced American Landscape painting.

In 1811, Claudius James Rich, an Englishman and a resident for the East India Company in Baghdad, began examining and mapping the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh, and collecting numerous inscribed bricks, tablets, boundary stones, and cylinders, including the famous Nebuchadnezzar Cylinder and Sennacherib Cylinder, a collection which formed the nucleus of the Mesopotamian antiquities collection at the British Museum.

After a collecting trip to Nicaragua he joined the staff of the United States National Museum in Washington DC as a nightwatchman.

The dinosaur fossil beds ( bone beds ) were discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass, a paleontologist working and collecting for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

For 30 years until his death in Budapest in 1894 he served as the Director of the Zoological Garden of Budapest and as curator of ethnography at the Hungarian National Museum, as well as undertaking collecting expeditions in Asia.

Clarke until 1843, and then by William Sheridan Wall, a longtime collector with the Museum. In these early years, collecting was the main priority of the Museum.

The Scots Musical Museum was a major publication that had a pivotal role in the collecting and tradition of Music of Scotland.

The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903 and opened the Museum of the American Indian on Audubon Terrace in upper Manhattan in 1922.

Henry Ford Museum began as Henry Ford's personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906.

The biological, archaeological, and ethnographic collections shall belong to the state with the title vested in the Florida Museum of Natural History ... In collecting or otherwise acquiring these collections, the Florida Museum of Natural History, except as provided in s. 267. 12 ( 3 ) shall comply with pertinent state wildlife, archaeological, and agricultural laws and rules.