From the eighteenth century, Spanish sources reported that immediately after the takeover of the city, Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own initiative caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession of the Rock in name of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, whose government ratified the occupation.

Morocco opened its doors to offshoring in July 2006, as one component of the development initiative Plan Emergence, and has so far attracted roughly half of the French-speaking call centres that have gone offshore so far and a number of the Spanish ones.

But the remoteness of New Granada's capitol Santa Fe de Bogotá proved a greater obstacle than the Spanish crown anticipated as the authority of the new Viceroyalty was contested by the seniority, closer proximity, previous ties to the Viceroyalty of Peru in Lima and even Panama's own initiative.

The Alliance of Civilizations ( AOC ) initiative was proposed at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations in 2005 by the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

He provided the resolute leadership which had been lacking and took the initiative from the Spanish by driving them from their stockade at Toubacanti in January 1700.

Meanwhile Villaamil, who was in disagreement with both the Spanish Government's shaky war direction and Cervera's rather passive strategy, advocated trying to offset the superiority of the American forces by scattering the fleet and taking the initiative through quick and dispersed actions ; he even volunteered to lead a diversionary attack to New York with his destroyers, but his proposals were not accepted.

While the Spanish had taken the initiative by beginning the engagement, two factors slowed their escape.

The foundation of the first convents of Discalced Carmelites in the Southern Netherlands depended wholly on the personal initiative of the Archdukes and bore witness to the Spanish orientation of their spirituality.

See also Hipatia, a related Spanish language initiative.

He agreed to join the Spanish landowners in the colony in a petition to the emperor to suspend them, but claiming a lack of authority, he refused to suspend them on his own initiative.

In 1928, as an initiative to mitigate the closure of the School of Fine Arts, Mori is once again sent by the Chilean government to Europe, this time to direct the studies of a group of young painters known as the " Generation of 28 " ( Spanish: Generacion del 28 ), which culminated in twentysix of the most outstanding young Chilean artists being sent to study in Paris for five years.

Prior to the rebrand, History International also occasionally featured shows in a language other than English, such as French or Spanish for use with the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's Cable in the Classroom initiative.

Fortunately, Spanish forces had regained enough of the military initiative to convince a politically divided United Provinces to sign a truce in 1609.

In July 2011, " The Ranking Web of World repositories " ( an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Spanish National Research Council ), ranked SSRN first among 1222 open access repositories in the world.

Prior to the three towns ’ cooperation initiative, the name of the river Bidasoa had been used to define the ' comarca ' ( a Spanish territorial type of district ), which groups Irun and Hondarribia as the Comarca del Bajo Bidasoa.

Through the initiative of then-president of Mexico Miguel Alemán Valdés, the First Congress of Academies convened with the purpose of maintaining the integrity of and fostering the further growth of Spanish.

At the beginning of the 19th century, in 1802, the School of Civil Engineering was founded at the initiative of Augustin de Bethencourt, an outstanding representative of the eloquent restless and inquiring spirit of the Spanish Enlightenment.

With the approval of the Spanish colonial government, the town was founded on April 30, 1859, upon the initiative of Spanish abaca trader, Don Manuel de Castro.

By initiative of Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, ( Minister of Education and later candidate the to the presidency of Colombia, assassinated in 1949 ) founded the Ateneo Nacional de Altos Estudios ( National Athenaeum of Higher Learning ) which became later the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, one of the most prestigious philological and linguistic research institutions in the Spanish language.

To overcome this shortage of coins, Governor Lachlan Macquarie took the initiative of using £ 10, 000 in Spanish dollars sent by the British government to produce suitable coins in a similar manner to that described above.

The initiative had the political goal of reinserting the state in an oligopolic market that was completely privatized during the Menem administration in the 1990s ; these privatizations included the state oil firm YPF to the Spanish corporation Repsol, as well as its sister company, Gas del Estado, to eleven mainly foreign-owned firms.

Australia promptly seized the initiative, won the First Test convincingly and inaugurated a dominant post-war era.

In 2007, in the line of the excellence initiative, RWTH Aachen was chosen by DFG as one of nine German Universities of Excellence for its future concept RWTH 2020: Meeting Global Challenges and additionally won funding for one graduate school and three clusters of excellence.

: dozens of cables in which the Ambassador sought to undermine regional peace efforts such as the Contadora initiative that ultimately won Costa Rican president Oscar Arias a Nobel Prize, as well as multiple reports of meetings and conversations with Honduran military officers who were instrumental in providing logistical support and infrastructure for CIA covert operations in support of the contras against Nicaragua -" our special project " as Negroponte refers to the contra war in the cable traffic.

Scarborough won the 2008 / 2009 award for the most creative and inspiring entrepreneurship initiative in Europe, and was also named as the most enterprising town in the United Kingdom in 2008.

He won a Charles Dick Medal of Merit in 2004 for this initiative, thus becoming the last Marylander to win this award which was previously awarded to U. S. Rep. Beverly Byron ( 1992 ), State Senator John Astle ( 1993 ), U. S. Senator Barbara Mikulski ( 1994 ), U. S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett ( 1998 ) and State Del ( now State Comptroller ) Peter Franchot ( 1999 ).

Additionally, the winner will have, by the initiative shown, and leadership qualities so obviously displayed during the training period, won the respect of his / her peers and authorities.

Thompson conceived of an initiative he called the Delta Plan but when he saw the effects of the strategic hamlets initiative, begun in February 1962 he became an enthusiastic backer, telling President Kennedy in 1963 that he felt the war could be won.

For the remainder of the New Order, Golkar won absolute majorities at every elections, while the parliament did not produce a single law on its own initiative, its role being reduced to passing laws proposed by the government.

As a direct result of her charismatic intervention, Romania won back the initiative and successfully achieved all its pre-conference aims, eventually expanding its territory by 60 %, gaining Bessarabia, Bukovina, Transylvania, as well as parts of the Banat, Crişana and Maramureş.

During this time he was promoted to major and his bold initiative on outpost duty won a commendation.

This militancy achieved its peak in the 1970s when teachers won salaries equivalent to state parliament backbenchers, a massive and systemic initiative for building improvements, and massive curriculum reform.

When the legislature later called a convention, Walsh won election as a delegate-at-large as part of a slate of candidates who endorsed adding provisions for initiative and referendum to the state constitution, key Progressive-era reforms.

In 1940 he met with ecumenical friends in the Netherlands to unite the churches ready for a joint peace initiative after victory over Nazi Germany had been won.

It won the $ 100, 000 Award for the year 2005 for its trailblazing ITC e-Choupal initiative which has achieved the scale of a movement in rural India.

It won the $ 100, 000 Award for the year 2005 for its trailblazing ITC e-Choupal initiative which has achieved the scale of a movement in rural India.

The company also won the award in 2004 for its e-Choupal initiative.

The company also won the award in 2004 for its e-Choupal initiative.

In 2002, NICTA won a competitive selection process to be established as Australia's national centre of excellence in Information and Communication Technology ( ICT ) research, under an Australian Government policy initiative to promote science and innovation called Backing Australia's Ability.

This tends to create friction and confusion and has not made it easier for Secretary Rusk to restore vigor and initiative among his subordinates.

What is important here is that many of the cities and towns recognize the need for improved fiscal practices and are taking the initiative to obtain them.

The responsibility for taking the initiative in generating ideas is that of every officer in the Department who has a policy function, regardless of rank.

Childhood experiences in learning work and self-discipline habits within a context of developing autonomy and initiative have considerable significance for the prevention of illegitimacy.

The positive development, during adolescence, of this capacity to think and to feel strongly and with increasing independence, and to identify overtly either with or against given ideas, values, and practices, depends to a considerable degree on both previous and present opportunities for developing autonomy, initiative, and self-certainty.

Yet for better or for worse, the truth of the matter is that most American Catholic colleges do not owe their existence to general Catholic support but rather to the initiative, resourcefulness and sacrifices of individual religious communities.

There are increasing numbers of neighborhoods that are integrated residentially without great loss of property values, the white population having taken the initiative in preparing the areas for an appreciation of the Negroes' desire for well-kept housing, privacy, etc..

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.

The powers of officials were precisely defined and their capacity for initiative limited.

Having in mind the bad condition of the forest fund, and in particular the catastrophic wildfires which occurred in the summer of 2007, a citizen's initiative for afforestation was started in the Republic of Macedonia.

Independent battalions were also deployed as ' stiffeners ' for infantry divisions, and the StuG III's anti-tank capabilities contributed greatly to the German's ability to draw out World War II after they had lost the strategic initiative.

In November 1995, the presidents of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire ( currently Democratic Republic of Congo ) announced a regional initiative for a negotiated peace in Burundi facilitated by former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere.

The Bluetooth Innovation World Cup, a marketing initiative of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group ( SIG ), is an international competition encouraging the development of innovations for applications leveraging the Bluetooth low energy wireless technology in sports, fitness and health care products.

The reluctance of his Dutch allies to see their frontiers denuded of troops for another gamble in Germany had denied Marlborough the initiative, but of far greater importance was the Margrave of Baden ’ s pronouncement that he could not join the Duke in strength for the coming offensive.

Yahweh, as the main character in the book, takes the initiative in conquering the land, and it is Yahweh's power that wins battles ( for example, the walls of Jericho fall because Yahweh is fighting for Israel, not because the Israelites show superior fighting ability ).

The Human Genome Project is an initiative of the U. S. Department of Energy (" DOE ") and the National Institutes of Health (" NIH ") that aims to generate a high-quality reference sequence for the entire human genome and identify all the human genes.

Whilst the population remains small, the impact of transfers will be greater, it is for that reason that the establishment of a " metapopulation management plan " occurs concurrently with conservation initiatives to enhance in-situ population growth and why this initiative is both urgent and fundamental to the future survival of mountain bongo in the wild.