They may be seen as preemptive strikes, as defensive tactics in an ongoing battles, or as symbols indicating to the world that it is indeed in a state of grave and ultimate conflict ".

On 13 January, Kim Howells, a Minister of State at the DfES, admitted that it was he who had actually made the decision, in accordance with advice given to him by civil servants that the " person did not represent an ongoing threat to children but that he should be given a grave warning ".

The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh ( which was part of Soviet Azerbaijan ) and the breakup of the centrally directed economic system of the former Soviet Union contributed to a severe economic decline in the early 1990s.

In order to halt the ongoing economic collapse, economic reforms were drafted by a group of technocrats known as the Chicago Boys because many of them had been trained or influenced by University of Chicago professors.

Concubinage is an interpersonal relationship in which a person engages in an ongoing relationship ( usually matrimonially oriented ) with another person to whom they are not or cannot be married ; the inability to marry is usually due to a difference in social status or economic condition.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

While urban areas are growing and thriving, economic adjustments have been harsh in rural and resource-dependent communities, and emigration has been an ongoing phenomenon for some parts of the region.

Popular unrest, together with the ongoing economic crisis and a sickly president, laid the background for a bloodless coup d ' état in July 1925.

On January 9, 2000, the administration of President Jamil Mahuad announced its intention to adopt the U. S. dollar as the official currency of Ecuador to address the ongoing economic crisis.

Rising inflation, financially draining wars in Europe, the ongoing aftermath of the expulsion of the Jews and Moors from Spain, and Spain's growing dependency on the gold and silver imports, combined to cause several bankruptcies that caused economic crisis in the country, especially in heavily burdened Castile.

As two of the world's top three economic powers, both countries also rely on close economic ties for their wealth, despite ongoing and occasionally acrimonious trade frictions.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.

Fraser's economic record was marred by rising unemployment, which reached record levels under his administration, caused in part by the ongoing effects of the 1973 oil crisis.

Both countries reacted negatively, especially in light of then ongoing negotiations on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the economic aid both countries provided to India.

Certain influential foreign conflicts such as the 1991 Soviet coup d ' état attempt which took place as part of the initial stages of the Dissolution of the USSR and the Fall of Communism ; the First and Second Chechen Wars, the Persian Gulf War and the Yugoslav Wars failed to dampen economic enthusiasm surrounding the ongoing Information Age and the " Irrational Exuberance " ( a phrase coined by Alan Greenspan ) of the Internet Boom.

Economic conditions during the 1970s were becoming more difficult for the UK and many other western economies as a result of the ending of the Bretton Woods Agreement and the 1973 oil shock, and the Heath government in its turn was buffeted by economic adversity and industrial unrest ( notably including confrontation with the coalminers which led to the Three-day week ) towards the end of 1973, and on 7 February 1974 ( with the crisis still ongoing ) Heath called a snap election for 28 February.

Nevertheless, the project has encountered financial difficulty ; due to ongoing economic problems, occupancy has remained at only 3 % as of November 2011.

Hostile to the Weimar Republic, and rejecting Marxism and Americanism, Benn, like many Germans, was upset with ongoing economic and political instability, and sympathized for a short period with the Nazis as a revolutionary force.

The committee was formed as an all-volunteer organization to represent Greater St. Louis in an all ongoing cultural exchange and economic development with the Russian Sister City.

With the end of the Cold War, defense intelligence began a period of reevaluation following the fall of Communism in many of the East European countries, the reunification of Germany, and ongoing economic reforms in the region.

This emulates the ongoing question with environmental justice debates: should the health and quality of life be sacrificed for jobs and economic security?

These factors have proven to be an ongoing economic challenge for local businesses as the city attracts little outside spending, and most residents spend their money elsewhere.

On January 16, 2010, it was announced that due to declining enrollment and the ongoing economic crisis, the three would merge to form the Quincy Catholic Academy, to open in September, 2010, at the present site of the Sacred Heart school.

Because of the ongoing war in Brazil the situation for the WIC in 1645, at the end of the charter, was very bad.

* Continuous: ' I am eating ' or ' I know ' ( situation is described as ongoing and either evolving or unevolving ; a subtype of imperfective )

* Stative: ' I know French ' ( situation is described as ongoing but not evolving ; a subtype of continuous )

The College of Cardinals was equally split between French and Italian Cardinals who wanted a Pope from their country due to the ongoing political situation with Charles of Anjou, younger brother of King Louis IX of France, who had usurped the throne of Sicily by arms and perpetually intervened in the political affairs of the entire Italian peninsula.

The Iraq Inquiry ( still ongoing ) may explain more on this situation, but in the meantime, the U. S. ended the regime of Saddam Hussein.

It is frequently covered by the media in connection with its exposed situation in the North Sea and its ongoing loss of land during storm tides.

Domestically, Philip proved a " strong and popular " king, despite inheriting an uncertain situation and an ongoing sequence of poor harvests.

Rap-rock band Rage Against the Machine is well known for its support of the EZLN, using the red star symbol as a backdrop to their live shows and have also often informed concert crowds of the ongoing situation.

After the attack on the Icarus Base, he contacts Carter from The Pentagon to talk about the ongoing situation.

In addition to the wide range of radio frequencies used, fire chiefs often need to communicate via landlines and send and receive information via satellite links and CCTV of the ongoing situation.

To cope with the ongoing war situation, James had introduced martial law to large swathes of the country ; he extended this during 1626 and 1627, as the financial constraints imposed by Parliament began to cut into pay, leading to soldiers rioting.

Ochs and Schieffelin demonstrated that baby talk is not universal, that the direction of adaptation ( whether the child is made to adapt to the ongoing situation of speech around it or vice versa ) was a variable that correlated, for example, with the direction it was held vis-à-vis a caregiver's body.

It also describes a situation of ongoing tension that seems likely to escalate at any moment, similar to the Cold War.

Kita — who held views on Russia and Korea from almost a decade earlier that were already remarkably similar to those espoused by the Kokuryukai — was sent by that organization as a special member, who would write for them from China and send reports on the ongoing situation at the time of the 1911 Xinhai revolution.

The spark that led to the ongoing war between Norteños and members of the Mexican Mafia involved a situation in which a member of La Eme allegedly stole a pair of shoes from a Northerner.

As editor of the Trotskyist movement's ongoing theoretical magazine, The New International, Max Shachtman delivered the first official report to the gathering, dealing with the political situation in the United States.

On 17 January 1995, UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali issued a 17-page report on the result of the intervention: the report noted the ongoing repression in Haiti, the complete lack of justice for victims of the September 1991 coup d ' état, the deteriorating economic situation, and the growing impatience of the Haitian people.

However, after the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in April 1846 diverted U. S. attention and military resources, a compromise was reached in the ongoing negotiations in Washington, D. C., and the matter was settled by the Polk administration ( to the dismay of its own party's militant hardliners ) to avoid a two-war situation and the third war with the formidable military strength of Great Britain in less than 70 years.

" Aorist " comes from Ancient Greek aóristos " indefinite ", because it was the unmarked ( default ) form of the verb, and thus did not have the implications of the imperfective aspect, which referred to an ongoing or repeated situation, or the perfect, which referred to a situation with a continuing relevance, but described an action " pure and simple ".

Anger at the country's ongoing economic problems remained high, however, and many saw Forbes and Coates as jointly responsible for the situation.

Our present situation is rarely the cause of our ongoing emotional pain.

In 2009, he met with UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon to discuss the ongoing situation in Darfur and in July 2011, he led the Saudi delegation to the U. N. High Level Meeting on Youth.

Due to its strategic situation in the zone known as the " Magdalena Medio ," as the production center of one of the main sources of wealth in the country, and as an important center for labor and employment, in the past Barrancabermeja was the scene of heated conflict between the various armed groups in Colombia's ongoing internal conflict.