This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

Although over the past years more emphasis has been given to the construction of grassroots alternatives to ( capitalist ) globalization, the movement's largest and most visible mode of organizing remains mass decentralized campaigns of direct action and civil disobedience.

The largest class action suit to date in Canada was settled in 2005 after Nora Bernard initiated efforts that led to an estimated 79, 000 survivors of Canada's residential school system suing the Canadian government.

The largest military action in the Maritimes during the revolutionary war was the attack on Fort Cumberland ( the renamed Fort Beausejour ) in 1776 by a force of American sympathizers led by Jonathan Eddy.

This was the largest class action ever conducted in the English courts-there were 49, 500 claimants, all small shareholders in Railtrack.

Syndicalism can be accurately divided into the purely economic focused camp, exemplified by the Italian USI ( Unione Sindacale Italiana, the largest Italian syndicalist union in 1920, taking part in Biennio rosso ) and the anarcho syndicalism of the CNT ( national confederation of labour ), taking both political and economic action, wishing to take control of both workplace and political life, while syndicalism has traditionally focused on the economic sector alone.

* In Karachi, Pakistan more than 5, 000 radical Islamist students mount the largest demonstration yet against possible U. S. military action against Afghanistan.

Dar es Salaam is the capital and largest city ; Dodoma, located in the centre of Tanzania, has been designated the new capital, although action to move the capital has stalled.

In the largest partisan sabotage action of the entire Second World War, the so-called Asipovichy diversion of 30 July 1943 four German trains with supplies and Tiger tanks were destroyed.

In 2003 twelve Carabinieri were killed in a suicide bombing on their base in Nasiriyah, near Basra in southern Iraq, in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the Second World War.

The battle was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars.

The battle was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250, 000 men and resulting in at least 70, 000 casualties.

He was mentioned in despatches for his action as a turret officer aboard the Collingwood during the Battle of Jutland ( 31 May – 1 June 1916 ), an indecisive engagement with the German navy that was the largest naval action of the war.

President Jiang Zemin was alerted to the demonstration by Politburo member Luo Gan, and was reportedly angered by the audacity of the demonstration — the largest since the Tiananmen Square protests ten years earlier, and called for resolute action to suppress the group.

His first action was one of the largest clean-outs of players in the history of any VFL club.

She was the first English two-decker, and when launched she was the largest and most powerful warship in Europe, but she saw little action.

The Battle of Borodino (, Borodinskoe srazhenie ; ), fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and all Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250, 000 troops and resulting in at least 70, 000 casualties.

In May 2007, the U. S. filed an action against the Holy Land Foundation ( the largest Muslim charity in the United States at the time ) for providing funds to Hamas, and federal prosecutors filed pleadings.

In the largest British post-war action, Operation Dawn ( 13 to 14 May 1948 ) was launched with the support of Coastal Command.

By far the largest military action in which the United States engaged during this era was the War of 1812.

The 1980s spawned all sorts of popular action figure lines, many based on cartoon series ', which were one of the largest marketing tools for toy companies.

Cymdeithas yr Iaith believes in non-violent direct action and in the course of their campaigns over a thousand people have appeared before the courts for their part in various campaigns, many receiving prison sentences, making it one of Britain's largest protest groups since the suffragettes-in terms of fines and the numbers sent to prison .< ref > Dylan Phillips, < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Trwy ddulliau chwyldro ..?

The Hong Kong based company owns, restores and licenses the world's largest collection of Chinese-made films including the Shaw Brothers library of fan favorite kung fu and action classics such as The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Five Deadly Venoms and The One-Armed Swordsman.

`` Old Knife's got the largest war party ever seen on the river '', he said calmly.

In 1915 Germany promised to restore the boundaries according to the Treaty of San Stefano and Bulgaria, which had the largest army in the Balkans, declared war on Serbia in October the same year.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war.

The study found that statistically switching the size of a country's diaspora from the smallest found in the study to the largest resulted in a sixfold increase in the chance of a civil war.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

Ethiopia nationalized Eritrea ’ s 42 largest factories and systematically dismantled the Eritrean industrial sector during the protracted civil war.

A nine month long war ended on December 16 of 1971, when the Pakistan Armed Forces overran in Dhaka, ultimately signing the instrument of surrender which resulted the largest in number of prisoners of war since World War II.

About 80, 000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Olustee occurs – the largest battle fought in Florida during the war.

The Continental Army under Washington engaged the enemy for the first time as an army of the newly independent United States at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the entire war.

The largest resistance group, the National Liberation Front ( EAM ), was controlled by the Communists, as was ( Elas ) led by Aris Velouchiotis and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the National Republican Greek League ( EDES ) in those areas liberated from the Germans.

When World War I started, Liberia declared war on Germany and expelled its resident German merchants, who constituted the country's largest investors and trading partners – Liberia suffered economically as a result. http :// www. globalsecurity. org / military / ops / grebo2. htm

By the end of the war, MIT became the nation's largest wartime R & D contractor ( attracting some criticism of Bush ), employing nearly 4000 in the Radiation Laboratory alone and receiving in excess of $ 100 million ($ billion in 2012 dollars ) before 1946.

By mid-1995 the over 1. 7 million Mozambican refugees who had sought asylum in neighboring Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Zambia, Tanzania, and South Africa as a result of war and drought had returned, as part of the largest repatriation witnessed in Sub-Saharan Africa.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members ( 12 ) during that war.

She became the largest landowner in Paraguay after Solano López transferred most of Paraguay and portions of Brazil into her name during the war, yet she retained practically nothing when the war ended.

This would encourage new republics in the aftermath of the war, when several of the largest European empires collapsed.

The largest sieges of the war, however, took place in Europe.

The largest siege of the war, and the arguably the roughest, most gruesome battle in history, was the Battle of Verdun.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

The Carthaginian army in Iberia, excluding the forces in Africa, totaled, according to Polybius, 90, 000 infantry, 12, 000 cavalry and 37 war elephants: it was thus one of the largest in the Hellenistic world and equal in numbers to any that the Romans had yet fielded.