Commercial interest is chiefly in this type of treatment, as is military interest under peacetime conditions.

As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.

This may be done in desperation, as during peacetime cannibalism is much less frequent ; at other times, it is consciously directed at certain groups believed to be relatively helpless, such as Congo Pygmies, even considered subhuman by some other Congolese.

The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.

While in peacetime the deficit is financed by selling bonds, during a war it is typically difficult and expensive to borrow, especially if the war is going poorly for the government in question.

The idea of human rights states, " if the public discourse of peacetime global society can be said to have a common moral language, it is that of human rights.

It is also in charge of other tasks, e. g. protection of VIP in peacetime.

When there is a bad harvest, as has been persistently the case over recent years, the population faces actual famine: a situation never before seen in a peacetime industrial economy.

The reverse case is true for peacetime, when the flag is hoisted with blue stripe over the red.

It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.

In peacetime, its principal function is planning ; in time of war, its chairman is the principal staff officer to the president in the supervision and conduct of the war.

In international relations, peacetime is not only the absence of war or violent conflict, but also the presence of positive and respectful cultural and economic relationships.

Typically, the application of accurate, long-range fire is the domain of the marksman and the sniper in warfare, and of enthusiastic target shooters in peacetime.

The foreign policy of Sweden is based on the premise that national security is best served by staying free of alliances in peacetime in order to remain a neutral country in the event of war.

Enlistment is voluntary in peacetime, but the government has the authority to conscript in emergencies.

* September 16 – WWII: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is signed into law by Franklin D. Roosevelt, creating the first peacetime draft in U. S. history.

Caste-based discrimination is forbidden, and major systematic violations of sentient rights, such as the unjust peacetime imprisonment of specially modified soldiers on the planet Angosia, are not tolerated for any petitioner.

This made them problematic ; while at war they were considerably more reliable than a standing army, at peacetime they proved a risk to the state itself like the Praetorian Guard had once been.

After the boom in orders during the First World War, the lack of new work in peacetime caused severe financial problems and in August 1920, 68. 5 % of the company's shares were acquired by nearby Crossley Motors who had an urgent need for more factory space for automotive vehicle body building.

The bushidō literature of this time contains much thought relevant to a warrior class seeking more general application of martial principles and experience in peacetime, as well as reflection on the land's long history of war.

The advantage of a scientifically and technologically sophisticated country became all too apparent during wartime, and in the ideological Cold War to follow the importance of scientific strength in even peacetime applications became too much for the government to any more leave to philanthropy and private industry alone.

The Greater Romania () generally refers to the territory of Romania in the years between the First World War and the Second World War, the largest geographical extent of Romania up to that time and its largest peacetime extent ever ( 295, 049 km² ); more precisely, it refers to the territory of the Kingdom of Romania between 1919 and 1940.

With the contraction of the Air Force in peacetime, life at Leuchars returned to a more gentle pace, hosting a school for general reconnaissance and the St Andrews University Air Squadron complete with de Havilland Tiger Moth.

While this process was simple in peacetime, it could be considerably more complicated in wartime, as for example in the Great Jewish Revolt.

Code A would be needed immediately if war broke out and could be passed in peacetime, while Code B ( containing the more severe restrictions on civil liberties ) would be brought in later.

The period from 1890 to the outbreak of the First World War has become an object of nostalgia, ostensibly because the teams played cricket according to " the spirit of the game ", but more realistically because it was a peacetime period that was shattered by the First World War.

During peacetime, it was rare for one officer to command more than 5, 000 men.

A consultancy that had been set up by Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the father of radar, offered more interesting prospects for the conversion of wartime developments into peacetime technologies.

Unlike normal bases, the facilities of a staging area are temporary, mainly because for a certain time it will hold much more troops and material than would be reasonable in peacetime.

He deemed them more suitable for a peacetime anthem.

Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong ( 1893 – 1976 ) written by the husband and wife team of writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, and depicts Mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.

The book opens with the sentence " Mao Tse-tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth century leader.

Again, rather than literally meaning Colonel General, its more accurate translation is " Supreme General " as it was normally the highest peacetime military rank.

Although Major Sinclair led the battalion through the rest of the war, Brigade HQ considered Barrow to be a more appropriate peacetime commanding officer.

He could have been redeployed within the service, but the fact that he was a veterinary surgeon ( a reserved occupation ) meant that he was considered more useful to the war effort by resuming his peacetime profession.

The Second Protocol therefore attempts to address these problems with much more detail and precision in relation to the actions that States Parties should take both within peacetime preparations and in the conduct of armed conflicts.

The Second Protocol is much more explicit in relation to the range of peacetime safeguarding measures that States should undertake, and includes such measures as the preparing of inventories, of measures for the emergency protection of buildings against fire or structural collapse and plans for the evacuation of movable cultural property ( Article 5 ).

Before his appointment to lead the Discovery Expedition, Scott had followed the conventional career of a naval officer in peacetime Victorian Britain, where opportunities for career advancement were both limited and keenly sought after by ambitious officers.

The 9th Operations Group trains, organizes and equips U-2 Dragon Lady, RQ-4 Global Hawk and MC-12W Liberty combat elements for worldwide employment to include peacetime intelligence gathering, contingency operations, conventional warfighting and Emergency War Order support.

*** Wartime Broadcasting Service A service of the BBC intended to broadcast for over three months after a nucear attack on the United Kingdom, or if conventional bombing and shelling destroyed peacetime BBC transmitters ( it never went on air ).

Headquartered at Beale Air Force Base, Cal, the 9th Reconnaissance Wing mission is to organize, train and equip U-2S Dragonlady and RQ-4 Global Hawk combat elements for peacetime intelligence gathering, contingency operations, conventional war fighting and Emergency War Order support.