Created in December 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) is a relief and human development agency, originally intended to provide jobs on public works projects and direct relief for 652, 000 Arabs who fled from Israel during the fighting that followed the end of the British mandate over Palestine.

** A 6. 25 Richter scale earthquake in Nicaragua kills 5, 000 – 12, 000 people in the capital, Managua ; President Somoza is later accused of pocketing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid intended for relief.

Their generous use of it was actually intended as a source of comic relief.

In Peter Jackson's live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gimli's character is occasionally used as comic relief and several of his appearances are intended to emphasize the difference between the Dwarves and Elves.

They are not intended for fast relief.

Later in the year, Morrison also donated a previously unreleased studio track to a charity album, Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now, which raised money for relief efforts intended for Gulf Coast victims devastated by hurricanes, Katrina and Rita.

However, in 1443 Henry put the newly-created John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset in charge of an army of 8, 000 men, initially intended for the relief of Gascony.

This grouping is devoted to woods and running waters, which are intended as a shelter and a relief from the heat of the season, the canicula.

These comic interludes are probably intended to provide the reader with some light relief from the otherwise dark and serious themes of the book.

The official DVD is the only authorized video release in which proceeds go directly to famine relief, the cause that the concert was originally intended to help.

Essex originally intended marching straight to the relief of Banbury, but at about 8 a. m. on 23 October, his outposts reported that the Cavaliers were massed on Edgehill, from Kineton.

The matrix in relief printing is classically created by starting with a flat original surface, and then removing ( e. g., by carving ) away areas intended to print white.

The Speenhamland system was a form of outdoor relief intended to mitigate rural poverty in England at the end of the 18th century and during the early 19th century.

During his rule, Doe portrayed himself as an enlightened leader whose actions were intended to bring " relief to many ".

The United Nations World Food Programme ( UN-WFP ) has delivered 20 tons of high energy biscuits to the evacuees to complement supplies provided by the DSWD, with more to be allocated from emergency food stocks intended for relief from the effects of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season.

Originally intended as a relief for Catholic families suffering high infant mortality rates, it had not been intended to be used for Jewish families.

For some parasitic diseases there is no treatment and in the case of serious symptoms, medication intended to kill the parasite is administered, while in other cases, a symptom relief options is used.

Bennett attempted to prevent social disorder by evacuating the unemployed to relief camps far away from the cities but this only exacerbated social tensions leading to the " On to Ottawa Trek " of unemployed protesters who intended to ride the rails from Vancouver to Ottawa ( gathering new members along the way ) in order to bring their demands for relief to Bennett personally.

Vicks NyQuil is a brand of over the counter medication intended for the relief of various symptoms of the common cold.

Gilbert's Act was intended to allow parishes to share the cost of poor relief by forming unionsknown as Gilbert Unionsto build and maintain even larger workhouses to accommodate the elderly and infirm.

Chalmers believed that compulsory assessment actually swelled the evil it was intended to mitigate, and that relief should instead be raised and administered by voluntary means.

Article 123 was perhaps the most radical of the provisions of the 1917 Constitution and was intended to give the working class a relief to the many abuses and hardships they had previously faced from uncontrolled labor managers.

* International Jazz Day, organized by UNESCO, first observed in 2012, " is intended to raise awareness in the international community of the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for peace, unity, dialogue and enhanced cooperation among people.

It was part of the ' Big Push ' ( later known as the Battle of the Somme ) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 1914.

The expedition was intended to bring the Cyclades into the Persian empire, to punish Naxos ( which had resisted a Persian assault in 499 BC ) and then to head to Greece to force Eretria and Athens to submit to Darius or be destroyed.

Whereas MacNeill intended to use force only to resist the imposition of conscription on Ireland, or to prevent the use of force to disarm of the Volunteers, the IRB men intended to launch an armed rebellion in pursuit of Irish independence.

Napoleon began his Continental System, intended to force other European countries to join his embargo of Britain.

When the threat of invasion faded, John formed a large military force in England intended for Poitou, and a large fleet with soldiers under his own command intended for Normandy.

Prince Louis intended to land in the south of England in May 1216, and John assembled a naval force to intercept him.

Rather, Madison explained that " interposition " involved a collective action of the states, not a refusal by an individual state to enforce federal law, and that the deletion of the words " void, and of no force or effect " was intended to make clear that no individual state could nullify federal law.

Since 2003 the country has made efforts to normalize its ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, ' The Libya Model ', an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation, rather than force, when there is goodwill on both sides.

Starting in 2003, the Libyan government restored normal diplomatic ties with the European Union and the United States and has even coined the catchphrase, " The Libya Model ", an example intended to show the world what can be achieved through negotiation rather than force when there is goodwill on both sides .< ref > Hirsh, Michael, ( 11 May 2006 ), < u >" The Real Libya Model "< u >, Newsweek.

In contrast, the Green Standard Army was originally intended to be a professional force.

He was the driving force behind Mars Direct — a proposal intended to produce significant reductions in the cost and complexity of such a mission.

In the history of the R-Type saga, Bits are the product of incomplete research that was intended to independently mimic the bioenergy technology of the Bydo, namely, the Force Device itself ; only with human life force.

Worth some 250 million euros, it is intended to turn the new Somali navy into a stronger naval force capable of curbing piracy and protecting its coastline.

# The resulting product of the power and time distribution, in various frequency ranges, of the radiated or conducted electromagnetic emission levels that may be encountered by a military force, system, or platform when performing its assigned mission in its intended operational environment.

Speech acts can be analysed on three levels: A locutionary act, the performance of an utterance: the actual utterance and its ostensible meaning, comprising phonetic, phatic and rhetic acts corresponding to the verbal, syntactic and semantic aspects of any meaningful utterance ; an illocutionary act: the pragmatic ' illocutionary force ' of the utterance, thus its intended significance as a socially valid verbal action ( see below ); and in certain cases a further perlocutionary act: its actual effect, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise getting someone to do or realize something, whether intended or not ( Austin 1962 ).

The Coalition intended this force to have overwhelming numbers against the numerically inferior imperial French army — which in fact never came close to reaching Napoleon's goal of more than 2. 5 million under arms.

His focus seems to be that the lack of a definite article is intended to deny permanence to the " unsatisfactory " pre-1967 border, rather than to allow Israel to retain land taken by force.

His force was said by some to number 8, 000 to 9, 000 men, but by others to be only a few hundred strong, as York intended to recruit local forces with a Commission of Array.

On February 5, 1993, under Security Council Resolution 806, the mandate was extended to include physical action to prevent violations and the force was expanded to an intended three mechanized infantry battalions plus support.