In February 2010, Czech media started to speculate about possible corruption around the purchase of Pandur II vehicles for the Czech Army.

In the late 1970s, fiction that included a sexual relationship between two of the male characters of the media source ( first Kirk / Spock, then later Starsky / Hutch, Napoleon / Illya, and many others ) started to appear in zines.

As the final against the Germans approached, the media learnt of Greaves ' return to fitness and, while appreciating Hurst's contribution, started to call for the return of England's most prolific centre forward.

Complaints about supposed mainstream misuse started as early as 1983, when media used “ hacker ” to refer to the computer criminals involved in the 414s case.

In 1937, the Rockefeller Foundation started funding research to find the effects of new forms of mass media on society, especially radio.

In recent times a public debate has started in the media on the rights of the indigenous people of Biafra.

Several notable networks started as MANs, such as the Internet peering points MAE-West, MAE-East, and the Sohonet media network.

The first Indymedia project was started in late November 1999 to report on protests against the WTO meeting that took place in Seattle, Washington, and to act as an alternative media source.

At the collegiate level, academic quiz bowl competitions enjoyed broad exposure in the United States media via College Bowl, which started on radio in 1953 and aired on national television from 1959 to 1970.

The streak started quietly, but by the time it had reached 30 games, the media took notice and a pool of reporters accompanied Rose and the Reds to every game.

It is intended as a largely free and open source digital media framework that runs on numerous operating systems and processors ( including mobile phones ) and was started by RealNetworks which has contributed much of the code.

News media coverage started a firestorm of controversy after the riots, and Zerzan was one of those that they turned to in order to explain the actions that some had taken at the demonstrations.

The channel drew considerable media attention thanks to its promotion by famous comedian Bill Cosby, who was part-owner of that station when it started.

The band arrived in the middle of a media storm mid-2006 when they started using a " golden shower " act onstage during a rendition of Depeche Mode's " Enjoy the Silence " at Rock Am Ring and Pinkpop.

Miss World started as the Festival Bikini Contest, in honour of the recently introduced swimwear of the time, but was called " Miss World " by the media.

With the tour only ten days away and the music media reporting that The Human League was finished now that " the talented people had left ," promoters started threatening to sue Oakey if the tour was not completed as contracted.

" A campaign was then started to usher in the Messianic age through " acts of goodness and kindness ," and some of his followers placed advertisements in the mass media, including many full-page ads in the New York Times, declaring in Rabbi Schneerson's name that the Moshiachs arrival was imminent, and urging everyone to prepare for and hasten it by increasing their good deeds.

Ironically, Seagram had purchased Motown ’ s former parent MCA in 1995, as such Motown was in effect reunited with many of its MCA corporate siblings ( Seagram had, in fact, hoped to build a media empire around Universal, and started by purchasing PolyGram ).

In 2002, Lord delivered what the media and others hailed as an electrifying speech at the national Progressive Conservative Party of Canada convention in Edmonton, Alberta, which started speculation that he might run for a job in federal politics, specifically, replacing Joe Clark as federal PC leader.

Public television broadcasting started in the United Kingdom in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channels for consumers as well as on-demand content.

In 1975, media tycoon and French old money heir, multi-millionaire Nicolas Seydoux started managing Gaumont ; he personally owned 60 % of the shares and 70 % of the votes.

In June 1999, Steve Perlman left Microsoft and started Rearden, a business incubator for new companies in media and entertainment technology.

After the hype surrounding the release of Be Here Now had started to wane, critical response to the band became calmer and more considered, leading to a media backlash.

Another prominent virginity pledge program was the Silver Ring Thing ( SRT ) which started in 1995 has been featured in hundreds of media reports worldwide.

Social critics have adopted this term to refer to how the synthesis of paranoid conspiracy theories, which were once limited to American fringe audiences, has given them mass appeal and enabled them to become commonplace in mass media, thereby inaugurating an unrivaled period of people actively preparing for apocalyptic millenarian scenarios in the United States of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

English-speaking media commentators and journalists will sometimes refer to celebrities as belonging to the A-List or state that a certain actor belongs to the B-List, the latter being a disparaging context.

Informal references by the general public and media have used to refer to celebrities as: The stars, sports stars, rock stars, rap stars, supermodels, movie stars, TV stars, radio stars, music stars, superstars, stardom, and media personalities.

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

In genres which the non-vocal part is conceived using electronic media, the instrumental not necessarily has to be conceived by musical instruments, but is the term to refer to some composition or version that does not include vocals.

The word " oracle " is used by Tibetans to refer to the spirit that enters those men and women who act as media between the natural and the spiritual realms.

By analogy the same term is used in politics and public affairs to refer to the informal process by which statements, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents, are deployed in the media.

Within the politically heated turmoil of the early Weimar Republic, the media frequently used the term Fememord to refer to right-wing political homicides, e. g. the murder of Jewish politicians such as Kurt Eisner ( 1919 ), Matthias Erzberger ( 1921 ), or Walther Rathenau ( 1922 ) by right-wing groups such as Organisation Consul.

Shovelware is often used to refer to conversions from one media format to another in the manner floppy disk collections were aggregated onto CD-ROMs.

They refer to the " psychological " mechanisms used by forces such as Hezbollah and Hamas in being willing to exploit their own civilians as well as enemy civilians towards obtaining tactical gains, in part by using the media to influence the course of war.

International news media often use " China " to refer only to mainland China or the People's Republic of China.

However, because Canada and the UK are independent of one another, it is incorrect to refer in the Canadian context to the family of the monarch as the " British Royal Family "— as is frequently done by Canadian and other media — and there exist some differences between the official lists of each: for instance, while he never held the style His Royal Highness, Angus Ogilvy was included in the Department of Canadian Heritage's royal family list, but was not considered a member of the British Royal Family.

In that capacity, the name is frequently used in popular media and fiction to refer to a very hard substance.

Moroccan media erroneously refer to it as Laila ( ليلى ) instead.

However, official PRC media outlets and officials often refer to Taiwan as " China's Taiwan Province " or simply " Taiwan, China ", and pressure international organizations to use the term.

In practice, official sources and state-controlled media never refer to the " ROC government ", and seldom to the " government of Taiwan ".

However, the plural term " playoffs " is conventionally used by fans and media to refer to baseball's postseason tournament ( and has always been used by Minor league baseball for its own postseason play ), so this article defers to that usage.

Some media refer to the prize as the Alternative Nobel Prize ,.

The term coined by Radcliffe-Brown is now commonly used and familiar to broader Australian and international audiences, as it is increasingly used by government agencies, museums, art galleries, Aboriginal organisations and the media to refer to the pan-Australian Aboriginal myth specifically, and as a shorthand allusion to Australian Aboriginal mythology generally.

While the term was originally restricted to stories in which male media characters were involved in an explicit sexual relationship as a primary plot element ( also known as " slash ", " m / m slash ", " menslash ", " altfic "), it is now often used to refer to any fan story containing a pairing between same-sex characters, although many fans distinguish the female-focused variety as a separate genre commonly referred to as femslash ( also known as " f / f slash ", " femmeslash ", " altfic " and " saffic ").

" Use of the term to refer to events in 1918-19 in Polish cities including Kielce, Pinsk and Lwów was specifically avoided in the 1919 Morgenthau Report ( preferring " excesses "), whose authors argued that the term pogrom was inapplicable to the conditions existing in a war zone and required the situation to be antisemitic in nature rather than political, and media use of the term pogrom to refer to the 1991 Crown Heights riot caused public controversy.