Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.

Notably, an Indian mathematician Mahavira ( c. 850 ) provided the general formulae for the number of permutations and combinations.

The popularity of curry houses in Britain has encouraged a number of publications aiming to show how the curry house cuisine, as opposed to authentic Indian cuisine, can be recreated at home.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

These include a large number of ethnic restaurants including Chinese, Thai, Greek, Pakistani, Italian, Indian and Mexican.

The 2004 Indian elections saw the INC winning the largest number of seats to form a government leading the United Progressive Alliance, and supported by left-parties and those opposed to the BJP.

The Mediterranean Sea became the " world highway of trade " and a number of ships called at Malta for coal and various supplies on their way to the Indian Ocean and the Far East.

Proposals for Indian Removal heightened the tensions of cultural changes, due to the increase in the number of mixed-race Native Americans in the South.

A gastropod shell | shell of the Indian volute, Melo melo, surrounded by a number of pearls from this species

In the early 20th century a number of Indian scholars, most notably as K. P.

According to ' The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora ' ( published in 2006 ), " independent surveys approximate the number of South Asians on work permits to be between 30-35 per cent of the total ' Indian ' population in Singapore, or approximately 90, 000-100, 000.

It is noteworthy that the number of Indian PRs and foreigners have doubled in the last 2 years!

Since becoming independent from Britain in February 1948, the economy of the country has been affected by natural disasters such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and a number of insurrections, such as the 1971, the 1987-89 and the 1983-2009 civil war.

Grand Slam tournaments are among the small number of events that last two weeks, the others being the Indian Wells Masters and the Miami Masters.

Airlines from a number of nations also provide air services to fly in and out of the country, which includes Turkish Airlines, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ) and others.

The leader of a gang was called the ' jemadar ': this is an ordinary Indian word and is now used as the rank of an Army officer ( Lieutenant ), who would command a similar number of men to a Thuggee gang-leader.

As the country headed into the 1950s, rebuilding continued and a number of immigrants from the remaining British Empire, mostly the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent, were invited to help the rebuilding effort.

Statistical data indicate that during Grant's two terms as President the number of Indian battles per year decreased by 58, going from 101 Indian battles in 1869 to 43 in 1877.

However, that study was later found to be based on incomplete data, and recent studies point to multiple maternal origins, with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, originating from the Indian subcontinent, where a large number of unique haplotypes occur.

The Brown Corpus has also spawned a number of similarly structured corpora: the LOB Corpus ( 1960s British English ), Kolhapur ( Indian English ), Wellington ( New Zealand English ), Australian Corpus of English ( Australian English ), the Frown Corpus ( early 1990s American English ), and the FLOB Corpus ( 1990s British English ).

In the nineteenth century, the United States government removed a number of Native Americans to federally owned and designated Indian reservations.

Prior to this, karaoke music was carried on laserdiscs. A large number of CD Movies sell in Indian market.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of Métis were initially included in a number of other treaties and then unilaterally excluded under later amendments to the Indian Act.

Due historically to a third of Bermuda's manpower being at sea at any one time, and to many of those seamen ultimately settling elsewhere, especially as the Bermudian maritime industry began to suffer, Bermuda was noted for having a high number of aging spinsters well into the 20th century.

In 1450 an unpopular advisor to the king, Bishop Adam Moleyns of Chichester was conducting a service at the chapel of Domus Dei when a number of naval seamen ( resentful of being only partially paid and only provided with limited provisions ) burst in to the church, dragged out the bishop and murdered him.

American blues became known in Britain from the 1930s onwards through a number of routes, including records brought to Britain, particularly by African-American GIs stationed there in the Second World War and Cold War, merchant seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast, and through a trickle of ( illegal ) imports.

There is some speculation that there may have been hundreds more killed but uncounted, including visiting seamen, non-census laborers and their families, and an untold number of travelers.

Hawkins was determined that his navy, as well as having the best fleet of ships in the world, would also have the best quality of seamen, and so petitioned and won a pay increase for sailors, arguing that a smaller number of well-motivated and better-paid men would be more effective than a larger group of uninterested men.

Many of its families count seamen among their number.

A number of drillships were established at the main seaports around the coast of Britain and Ireland and seamen left their vessels in the base ports to undertake gunnery training in a drillship for a period of one month annually.

Only a certain number of billets ( job openings for this rank ) open up biannually and all seamen compete.

Amongst the many early works of this charitable trust a number of initiatives were introduced for the protection and assistance of seamen.

A number of naval hulks were moored in the major seaports around Britain to facilitate gunnery training of seamen when they came in from foreign voyages.

This resulted in an increasing number of Norwegian seamen taking landbased work in the US or changing to other countries ' ships running in less dangerous areas.

The number of Chinese seamen ( who mainly worked as stokers ) dwindled sharply during the Depression and the subsequent decline of coal-fired intercontinental shipping after the Second World War.

Although roughly equivalent, the United States Navy has a different " Table of Honors " – some civilian officials more, others less ; often different musical tunes – and includes in its arsenal of formal Honors one more, which is specific to naval traditions: Sideboys, an even number of seamen ( in this list 8 for guests with quadruple or triple ruffles and flourishes, 6 for lower ranking dignitaries ) posted at the gangway when the dignitary boards or leaves the ship, historically to help ( or even hoist ) him aboard, presently as a ceremonial sort of guard of honor.

Tryon wrote a memo to the admiralty recommending that the penalties for desertion should be reduced, suggesting that a number of those deserting were of little use to the navy and should be let go, while others who were good seamen, but who had some urgent personal reason why they had deserted, were afraid to return later because of the severe penalties.

He was repatriated in 1943 under an unusual agreement with Italy whereby some 800 Italian seamen interned in neutral Saudi Arabia from the Red Sea squadron were exchanged for a similar number of British POWs.

* ' there were defence reasons for wanting to know the number of seamen '

The National Transport Workers ' Federation was created in 1910 to co-ordinate the actions of trade unions representing dockers, seamen, tramwaymen and so forth, and in 1912 the National Union of Railwaymen was created as an amalgamation of a large number of local and sectional organizations representing rail workers.

Capital imports drawn from a number of sources must be employed and combined skillfully enough to permit domestic investment programming to go forward.

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

Furthermore, Pericles employed a number of offices to maintain Athens ' empire: proxenoi, who fostered good relations between Athens and League members ; episkopoi and archontes, who oversaw the collection of tribute ; and hellenotamiai, who received the tribute on Athens ' behalf.

The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Amazonian Colombia, is known by a number of different names ( see below ).

The Warriors were not only used for pilot training, but also as light strike aircraft, and a number of them were employed by the FABF's Escadrille de Chasse ( EdC ).

A relatively small number of men were also employed on a part-time basis, typically for one shift each week ( e. g. Post Office employees who were experts in Morse code or the German language ).

Other than the previously mentioned use as a biological control for pests, the cane toad has been employed in a number of commercial and noncommercial applications.

A number of special media have been employed for the cultivation for cholera vibrios.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Traditional encyclopedias are written by a number of employed text writers, usually people with an academic degree, and distributed as proprietary content.

In an effort to increase birthrates, the Italian Fascist government gave financial incentives to women who raised large families, and initiated policies designed to reduce the number of women employed.

His notation for the cardinal numbers was the Hebrew letter ( aleph ) with a natural number subscript ; for the ordinals he employed the Greek letter ω ( omega ).

It consisted of a single cylinder and 22 gears, and employed the mixed base-2 and base-5 number system familiar to users to the soroban ( Japanese abacus ).

* Size: It refers to the amount of capital invested, number of people employed and the volume of production.

For example, in the mid-1970s a substantial number of the residents of Baqubah, the administrative center and major city of Diyala Governorate, were employed in agriculture.

The labour force is defined as the number of individuals age 16 and over, excluding those in the military, who are either employed or actively looking for work.

The unemployment level is defined as the labour force minus the number of people currently employed.

The employment rate is defined as the number of people currently employed divided by the adult population ( or by the population of working age ).

The infantry, including missile troops ( such as archers ), would typically be employed at the outset of the battle to break open infantry formations while the cavalry attempted to defeat its opposing number.

The Rashidun cavalry, while lacking the number and mounted archery skill of their Roman and Persian counterparts was for the most part skilfully employed, and played a decisive role in many crucial battles such as Battle of Yarmouk.

In 1999, de Icaza, along with Nat Friedman, co-founded Helix Code, a GNOME-oriented free software company that employed a large number of other GNOME hackers.

Suggesting a moral equivalence between a number of acts carried out by the Allies during the Second World War and the deeds of the Nazis, especially the Final Solution is a common strategy employed by apologists for the Nazis in Germany, such as politicians of the National Democratic Party of Germany.

Like the 1992 remake of The Last of the Mohicans and Geronimo: An American Legend ( 1993 ), Dances with Wolves employed a number of Native American actors, and made an effort to portray Indigenous languages.

The total number of formally employed people is decreasing steadily, from about 400, 000 in 1997 to 330, 000 in 2008, according to a government survey.

A symphony orchestra will usually have over eighty musicians on its roster, in some cases over a hundred, but the actual number of musicians employed in a particular performance may vary according to the work being played and the size of the venue.