Four years later, four nations met in Geneva and formed the organization which has grown into the Red Cross, with a key stated aim of " aid to sick and wounded soldiers in the field ".

The 1857 Sepoy Rebellion, or Indian Mutiny, an uprising initiated by Indian troops, called sepoys, who formed the bulk of the Company's armed forces, was the key turning point.

It was looking certain that the Tories would be re-elected, and the only key issue that the media were still speculating by the end of 1982 was whether it would be Labour or the Alliance who formed the next opposition.

Romantic nationalism formed a key strand in the philosophy of Hegel ( 1770-1831 ), who argued that there was a " spirit of the age " or zeitgeist that inhabited a particular people at a particular time, and that, when that people became the active determiner of history, it was simply because their cultural and political moment had come.

The teachings of Apostle Paul formed a key element of the Christian tradition and theology.

Of particular note is Bajor which was occupied for fifty years, and the end of whose occupation destabilized the Cardassian government and formed a key story-arc for Deep Space Nine episodes.

A key to forming society is social interaction, and Durkheim believes that human beings, when in a group, will inevitably act in such a way that a society is formed.

Several key areas needed to link the East ( Chicago ) to the West had none, and hence the Union Pacific was formed by Congress.

In the 19th century, after the Mexican Independence War, Monterrey rose as a key economic center for the newly formed nation, especially due to its balanced ties between Europe ( with its connections to Tampico ), the United States ( with its connections to San Antonio ), and the capital ( through Saltillo ).

Together with Zinoviev and Joseph Stalin, he formed a ruling ' triumvirate ' ( or ' troika ') in the Communist Party, and played a key role in the marginalization of Trotsky.

During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and Joseph Stalin formed a ruling ' triumvirate ' ( or ' troika ') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of Leon Trotsky.

From 5000 years ago, when beeswax formed the pattern, to today ’ s high technology waxes, refractory materials and specialist alloys, the castings ensure high-quality components are produced with the key benefits of accuracy, repeatability, versatility and integrity.

After the Museveni government was formed in 1986, a number of key Rwanda Patriotic Front personnel became part of the National Resistance Army that became Uganda's new national armed forces.

The Chicago-based AACM, a loose collective of improvising musicians including Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Jack DeJohnette, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famadou Don Moye, Malachi Favors and George Lewis was formed in 1965 and included many of the key players in the nascent international free improv scene.

Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company when Henry Ford departed along with several of his key partners and the company was dissolved.

On 28 September 2010, key members of the OpenOffice. org Project formed a new group called The Document Foundation, and made available a rebranded fork of OpenOffice. org, named LibreOffice.

He promoted Smith to the major media and formed enduring relationships with key journalists.

Several key characters from Radio Active transferred to KYTV largely unchanged from their radio incarnations, including Mike Channel, Mike Flex, Anna Daptor and Martin Brown, who formed the central presentation team for KYTV's programmes ; other characters including Anna Rabies and the Right Reverend Reverend Wright also transferred across.

On June 25, 1969, Carver-on-the-Minnesota, a non-profit historic preservation organization formed to purchase, renovate and save key properties.

Local political parties are formed on an ad-hoc basis, generally focused on key issues of local concern ; national political parties do not officially participate in township elections.

The key to the formation of a good meringue is the formation of stiff peaks formed by denaturing the protein ovalbumin ( a protein in the egg whites ) via mechanical shear.

York Castle formed a key part of the city defences, with a military governor ; rural castles such as Goodrich could be used a bases for raiding and for control of the surrounding countryside ; larger castles, such as Windsor, became used for holding prisoners of war or as military headquarters.

Soon after the death of Tony Hulman in 1977, and the loss of several key USAC officials in a 1978 plane crash, several key team owners banded together and formed CART in late 1978 to sanction the sport of Indy car racing.

The organisation has units of trained firemen and medical responders based in key areas around the country.

Both units are key to the " ORMOS Red Plan " which makes provision for the evacuation of Monaco in case of natural disaster or civil emergency.

The inability to pin an idea or cultural feature to quantifiable key units is widely acknowledged as a problem for memetics.

Their purpose was to locate the enemy and direct and correct the indirect fire of artillery from the artillery fortifications as well as to report on the progress and position of key enemy units.

This resulted from a keypad used for prototyping being different from the production keypad ; the prototyping keypad had tactile feedback upon key pressing that the production units lacked.

The army suffered from a critical shortage of key personnel, and many of its fighting units were undermanned.

A key concern is how meaning attaches to larger chunks of text, possibly as a result of the composition from smaller units of meaning.

In the wire spring relay vintage Bell System 1A2 key service units, a model 216 automatic ringdown was used to operate the circuit.

Within this sandžak ( and eventual vilayet ) of Bosnia, the Ottomans introduced a number of key changes in the territory's socio-political administration ; including a new landholding system, a reorganization of administrative units, and a complex system of social differentiation by class and religious affiliation.

The Consejo de Portugal independent inasmuch as it was one of the key administrative units used by the Castilian monarchy, on legally equal terms with the Consejo de Indias.

From the perspective of others, however, the proposed airborne units had a key weakness: they required exactly the same resources as the new strategic bomber capability, another high priority, and would also compete with the badly stretched strategic air lift capability, essential to Churchill's strategy in the Far East.

Under the area defense strategy, which had determined the army's organizational structure until 1993, the army was divided into three principal elements: the standing alert force ( Bereitschaftstruppe ) of active units, including the air division ; the mobile militia ( Mobile Landwehr ), organized as eight mechanized reserve brigades to be deployed to key danger spots in the event of mobilization ; and the stationary militia ( Raumgebundene Landwehr ) of twenty-six reserve infantry regiments organized for territorial defense.

Military engineers are key in all armed forces of the world, and invariably found either closely integrated into the force structure, or even into the combat units of the national troops.

Fort Hood also has a key role as a training base for mobilizing Reserve and National Guard units to support the Homeland Defense effort.

The use of infra-red lights and thermal tape that are invisible to observers without night-goggles, or fibres and dyes that reflect only specific wavelengths are still in their infancy, but may prove to be key identifiers for friendly infantry units at night.

One key point of proof was missing from the broadcast: the North Vietnamese Army, who had chemical warfare units stationed in southern Laos at the time, made no comment on what would have been a propaganda coup of gigantic proportions.

However, there is still much debate concerning the ages of certain key events, because correlating lunar regolith samples with geological units on the Moon is difficult, and most lunar radiometric ages have been highly affected by an intense history of bombardment.

He positioned militia units under Maj. Granville Haller to protect key bridges in Harrisburg and Wrightsville, as well as nearby fords.

These elite units served as raiders against American / ARVN troops, and infiltrated spearheads during the final Ho Chi Minh Campaign in 1975 – where they seized key road and bridge assets, destroyed installations, attacked command and control nodes located deep inside enemy territory, and otherwise helped the PAVN's rapid mobile forces advance.

After four months of bitter fighting, the Red Guards were defeated and the White Guards were recognized as one of the key agents in the victory, downplaying for political reasons the role of the German intervention units and the German-trained 2, 000 Jaegers.

Most Guard air units were stripped of many key personnel, and the units were federalized into the regular Army Air Corps and were re-equipped with more modem aircraft.

The 406 was notably successful in the United Kingdom having broken into the key UK fleet sales market, with a high percentage of units becoming company cars and taxis.

Combat engineers are a key role in all armed forces of the world, and invariably found either closely integrated into the force structure, or even into the combat units of the national troops.