While tensions remain ( for example, with Muslim immigrants and in the Basque region ), modern Spain has seen the development of a robust, modern democracy as a constitutional monarchy with popular King Juan Carlos, one of the fastest-growing standards of living in Europe, entry into the European Community, and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

His preoccupation worsened at the beginning of the Great War: Manuel was fearful that England would ally with Spain, in light of Portugal's instability, and that Spain would want to annex Portugal, as the price for Spain's entry into the War.

French entry into the war would lead to further escalation of the war when Spain entered the fight against England as France's ally, after the signing of the Treaty of Aranjuez on April 12, 1779, and again in December 1780 when England declared war on the Dutch Republic after seizing a Dutch merchant ship they claimed was carrying contraband to France during the Affair of Fielding and Bylandt.

In was announced in 1999 that, as of the 2000 Contest, the four biggest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) – Germany, Spain, France and the United Kingdom – would all be given automatic entry into the Contest, regardless of their average scores over the past five years.

Despite the setback at Saratoga, and the entry of France, Spain and the Dutch Republic into the war North's government continued to gain strength until October 1781 when a British army under Lord Cornwallis was forced to surrender to a combined Franco-American force at Yorktown.

ISO 3166-2: ES is the entry for Spain in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

Following the entry of France, Spain and the Dutch Republic into the conflict, British emphasis shifted to focus increasingly on a global war.

On 12 November, Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 18, which stated that " political measures to induce the prompt entry of Spain into the war have been initiated " and that " The aim of German intervention in the Iberian Peninsula ( code name Felix ) will be to drive the English out of the Western Mediterranean.

Gondomar conceived his embassy as a sortie in enemy country, and took for his maxim aventurar la vida y osar morir — " risk your life and dare to die "; his opening challenge was his refusal to strike the colours of Spain at his warships ' entry to Portsmouth harbour, in which an appeal to the King averted an exchange of cannonfire that would have sunk the ambassador in his vessel.

In 1762 the entry of Spain into the war offered further chances for British expeditions.

Nin had a number of disagreements with Trotsky in this period, specifically when Trotsky advised the ICE leader that entry into the Socialist Youth of Spain would augment the forces at their disposal, while Nin advocated forming of a united party with the Workers and Peasants Bloc ( BOC ), a group coming out of the communist movement but seen as being on its right wing.

Rochford ’ s secret instructions for his Madrid embassy were mainly concerned with countering French influence over the king, Carlos III, and reporting on Spain ’ s naval reconstruction after her late and disastrous entry into the Seven Years ’ War.

For example, in 1985 he openly threatened Jacques Delors to veto the entry of Spain and Portugal in the Community in order to secure more monetary aid for Greece.

He traveled on April 2, 1786, to the modern-day Dubrovnik ( a vassal city of the Ottoman Empire, then better known with other, Italian name Ragusa ), and then to Constantinople in Turkey ( until September 23, 1786 ), Russia, ( from September 26, 1786 until September 7, 1787, slightly under one year ), Sweden, ( in Stockholm as from September 10, 1787 until November 2, 1787 ), Norway, from November 10, 1787 until departing from Karlskrona in Sweden from December 17, 1787 ), Denmark ( from September 23, 1787 until March 10, 1788 after being received in Denmark orders of capture from Spain no later than January 22, 1788 ), the Free Hanseatic Town of Hamburg, ( from ( April 1, 1788 until the April 27, 1788 ), the Free Town of Bremen, ( leaving on April 27 ), Holland, ( from around the May 2, 1788 until around June 16, 1788 ), some actual Belgian towns and German cities along the Rhine river, Swiss Basel, ( arrival July 30, 1788, and then again after touring German-speaking Switzerland on October 12, 1788 ), Swiss Geneva ( arrival September 25, 1788 ), and France, ( entry around the 3rd and 4th weeks of September 1788, two stays in Marseilles, the second departing there towards Bordeaux on February 26, 1789 via inland waterways ), travels to Rouen, Le Havre and Paris around May 5, 1789, getting papers as " Mr. Meeroff from Livonia " to arrive in Dover, ( England ) and then London on June 19, 1789, taking lodgings at the house of his British friend, " A Barlow ", at 47 Jermyn Street ).

The Barcelona chair was exclusively designed for the German Pavilion, that country's entry for the International Exposition of 1929, which was hosted by Barcelona, Spain.

The expedition was unfortunate, as eight vessels were lost in a storm, and Flores, on account of rivalry with Sarmiento de Gamboa, abandoned him with twelve vessels in the entry of the strait and returned to Spain.

Karagounis captained Greece's entry to the 1998 UEFA Under-21 Championship, and the team came very close to winning, losing 1 – 0 to Spain in the final.

The Third Council of Toledo ( 589 ) marks the entry of Catholic Christianity into the rule of Visigothic Spain, and the introduction into Western Christianity of the filioque clause.

Meanwhile, his wife also became Heir to her brother's House with his entry to the clergy, and thus 15th Condesa de Chinchón Grandee of Spain First Class with a Coat of Arms of de Bourbon in 1803 ( Letter of March 7, 1804 ) and 1st Duquesa de Sueca Grandee of Spain First Class ( Letter of March 7, 1804 ).

The commandos were issued counterfeit Argentine passports under false names and marked with false earlier entry stamps to Spain.

Last but not least, changes in accounting method often seriously affected the deficit numbers ( Spain and Portugal had, like Greece, marginally exceeded 3 % in their reference year for entry, when their deficit was revised according to ESA95 ).

For example, the 2010 entry list included players from the British Isles ( England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland ), mainland Europe ( France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, Iceland ), North America ( USA, Canada, Mexico ), South America ( Argentina, Bolivia, Peru ), Asia ( China, India, South Korea, Japan, Singapore ), Australasia ( Australia, New Zealand ) and Africa ( South Africa ).

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

His artistic accomplishments guaranteed him entry into any social gathering.

Article 6, entry into force

Each entry that is selected for storage is written into the next available cells of the Aj.

George walked steadily ahead into his entry.

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

Most Christians deny that entry into Heaven can be properly earned, rather it is a gift that is solely God's to give through his unmerited grace.

To make a successful entry into the upper echelons of the Roman political hierarchy, Octavian could not rely on his limited funds.

However, before they were to gain entry into the sanctuary, Straboromanos and royal guards caught up with them to summon them back to the palace.

Although cheap and effective in enabling use of some software that only used official ROM entry points for text output, this solution proved very slow because the Electron had to be placed into an 80-byte-pitch display to be able to get anywhere near to reproducing mode 7 and the CPU spent a lot of time drawing approximations of mode 7 characters and graphics that in a hardware solution would be achieved without any CPU processing.

* 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip " Tito " Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow " temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory ".

This was unique at the time, and a direct result of Baptists being denied entry into other schools that required religious tests of their students and staff.

What was surprising was the sudden entry into the market of new competition, whose machines quickly cut off the sales of the 2600.

The entry of Saxony into the Zollverein in 1833 let trade, industry and traffic blossom farther.

In the light of the blockage concerning the entry into force of the Ban amendment, Switzerland and Indonesia have launched a “ Country-led Initiative ” ( CLI ) to discuss in an informal manner a way forward to ensure that the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes, especially to developing countries and countries with economies in transition, do not lead to an unsound management of hazardous wastes.

Its 24 chapters tell of the entry of the Israelites into Canaan, their conquest and division of the land under the leadership of Joshua, and of serving God in the land.

Judges forms part of Deuteronomistic history, a theologically-oriented history of Israel from the entry into Canaan to the destruction of the Temple.

There is a parallel with the entry of Mary and Joseph, homeless, into the same town, Bethlehem, before the birth of Jesus.

Bookkeeping involves, first of all, recording the details of all of these source documents into multi-column journals ( also known as a books of first entry or daybooks ).

* The British Empire, although officially a staunch supporter of the Ottoman Empire's integrity, took secret diplomatic steps encouraging Greek entry into the League in order to counteract Russian influence.

: In the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, the entries for Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, Palmyra Atoll and the Midway Islands were merged into a new United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges entry.

On September 7, 2006, the CIA also merged the entries for Bassas da India, Europa Island, the Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island into a new Iles Eparses entry.

With the entry of the United States into World War II, Hollywood became focused on themes related to the conflict.