More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

Ultra vires gives a legal justification for the forced cessation of such action, which might be enforced by the people with the support of a decision of the judiciary, in a case of judicial review.

For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the whole of the ITV network ( apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.

Seizing on this action and the popular unrest it engendered, the army forced the president to resign on May 10, 1950.

The action begins when a young couple, Bob ( William Bates ) and Shirley ( sexploitation actress Pat Barrington, billed as Pat Barringer ) survive a car crash only to find themselves tied to posts in a misty cemetery where they are forced to watch dead spirits dance for the Emperor of the Night played by Criswell ( best known for Plan 9 From Outer Space ).

People were forced to live in their corresponding regions and the action of passing the boundaries without a permit was made illegal, extending pass laws that had already curtailed black movement.

* Inertia replaced the medieval impetus theory, that unnatural motion (" forced " or " violent " rectilinear motion ) is caused by continuous action of the original force imparted by a mover into that which is moved.

However when Maximus began an invasion of Italy in 387, Theodosius was forced to take action.

This led to the silting up of the river mouth by the action of longshore drift ; the town was then forced into making artificial breakwaters to keep the port in being.

Conrad campaigned unsuccessfully against Poland in 1028 – 1030, but in 1031 in a combined action with the Kievan Rus ' forced King Mieszko II, son and heir of Bolesław I, to make peace and return the land that Bolesław had conquered from the Empire during Henry II's reign.

The Prussians forced the Armée du Nord to fight all the day of the 15th to reach Ligny in a delaying action by the Prussian 1st Corps.

Austro-Hungarian authorities in Venice forced him to move the action from France to Mantua.

" Instead, circumstances more or less forced a team into action.

But the terms of her divorce from Thomas James did not permit of either spouse's remarriage while the other was living, and the beleaguered newlyweds were forced to flee the country to escape a bigamy action brought by Heald's scandalized maiden aunt.

For three and a half years no further action was taken, during which time the Continental Congress was forced out of Philadelphia before returning in 1778.

As a result of this 1943 decision, NBC was forced to sell one of its two networks — the Blue Network — and it was this action which then led to the creation of the American Broadcasting Company

In the action which followed Massey was severely wounded and he and his men were forced to retreat northwards along the west bank of the Severn towards the river Teme and Worcester.

Dunham, who had started the game but was relieved by the young rookie after poor play, was forced back into action in the third period.

Immediately after the German occupation in September 1939 action was taken against the Jews in the form of fines, confiscation of property, forced labour, and the like.

While federal regulators took no action, Florida regulators forced BCCI to pull out of the state.

The mainland territory north of the 49th parallel remained unincorporated until 1858, when a mass influx of Americans and others during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush forced the hand of Colony of Vancouver Island's Governor James Douglas, who declared the mainland a Crown Colony, although official ratification of his unilateral action was several months in coming.

Khánh ’ s action nullified a counter-plot involving Hương that had developed during the civil disorders that forced him from office.

In 139 BC Parthian activity forced Demetrius to take action.

Horatius ' action at the bridge halted the Etruscan attack and forced Lars Porsena to engage in a protracted siege of Rome rather than sacking it outright, which was later concluded by peace treaty with the city intact.

According to very scanty information from the Imperial archives, including sources such as Rikkokushi, and Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku, Emperor Yōzei murdered one of his retainers, an action that caused massive scandal in the Heian court.

According to the chronicles of Thietmar, this attack was an arbitrary action, without the consent of the Emperor:

By the action of the Emperor Maximilian and of other German princes they were, in the 16th century, once more restricted to Westphalia, and here, too, they were brought under the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts, and finally confined to mere police duties.

* 1153-The First Treaty of Constance is signed between Emperor Frederick I and Pope Eugene III, by the terms of which, the emperor is to prevent any action by Manuel I Comnenus to reestablish the Byzantine Empire on Italian soil and to assist the pope against his enemies in revolt in Rome.

Powell further claimed that even if nuclear weapons had not existed, the Russians would still not have invaded Western Europe: " What has prevented that from happening was ... the fact that the Soviet Union knew ... that such an action on its part would have led to a third world war -— a long war, bitterly fought, a war which in the end the Soviet Union would have been likely to lose on the same basis and in the same way as the corresponding war was lost by Napoleon, by the Emperor Wilhelm and by Adolf Hitler.

* Pope Innocent IV returns to Rome, having left 9 years earlier in 1244 to depose Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, and being unable to return until after Frederick's death, due to the agitation throughout Europe caused by that action.

The Hildebrandine party was aroused to action, however ; a Lateran council of March 1112 declared null and void the concessions extorted by violence ; a council held at Vienne in October 1111 excommunicated the Emperor ; and Paschal II sanctioned the proceeding.

Emperor Augustus reserved the Asparagus Fleet for hauling the vegetable, and coined the expression " faster than cooking asparagus " for quick action.

* Emperor Shi Zhi is killed by Ran Min's forces, an action that sets the stage for Wei's victory in the Wei-Jie war ( China ).

After the deaths of both Napoleon Bonaparte in 1821, and of his eldest brother Joseph in 1844, Louis was seen by the Bonapartists as the rightful Emperor of the French, although Louis took little action himself to advance the claim.

Simplicius defended the action of the Council of Chalcedon against the Eutychian heresy, labored to help the people of Italy against the marauding raids of barbarian invaders, and saw the Heruli mercenaries revolt and proclaim Odoacer king of Italy in 476, having deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor.

The Oath outlined the main aims and the course of action to be followed during Emperor Meiji's reign, setting the legal stage for Japan's modernization.

As the general staff were discussing the matter, general Rapp, a senior aide-de-camp to the Emperor, was being brought from the field of battle, having been wounded in action.

He immediately recommended to the Emperor that the Guard be deployed for action at which the Emperor is said to have retorted: " I will most definitely not ; I do not want to have it blown up.

Peace with the Eastern Emperor, who still claimed Benevento and Capua, which were actually in Lombard hands and whose forces had come to strife with Otto in Bari recently, was Liutprand's recommended course of action.

After the conference, Napoleon asked Davout to stay on and the two spent a long time planning Davout's difficult and complex attack on the fortified position at Markgrafneusiedl, an action which the Emperor saw as decisive for the battle to come.

The Emperor was too far away from the action and Bessières had been wounded during his earlier cavalry charge and had been carried away from the battlefield, so the Horse Guards did not move.

However, this action provoked a counter move by the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I.

It was a result of this action and the increased British influence that in 1765 a firman ( decree ) came from the Emperor of Delhi, recognizing the British possessions in southern India.

The Oath outlined the main aims and the course of action to be followed during Emperor Meiji's reign, setting the legal stage for Japan's modernization.

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations that conscience was the human capacity to live by rational principles that were congruent with the true, tranquil and harmonious nature of our mind and thereby that of the Universe: " To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind.

However, in an unprecedented action, Emperor Meiji spoke out during the Supreme War Council meeting, defending Nogi and demanding that he be kept in command.