Some of the earliest attempts to apply scientific methods to the study of phenomena relating to an afterlife were conducted by this organization.

On 10 December 2005, the New Zealand Herald quoted Tavola as saying that Fiji would have to find a way to resolve a stand-off between the PRC and Taiwan, over membership of the Suva-based Council of South Pacific Tourism Organisation ; China was resisting Taiwanese attempts to join the organization on an equal basis.

After several attempts to acquire Davis, the organization was ultimately successful in signing him to a four-year $ 13 million contract ( the largest annual salary in baseball history at the time ) on December 11, 1989.

Contemporary rhetorical criticism has maintained aspects of early neo-Aristotelian thinking through close reading, which attempts to explore the organization and stylistic structure of a rhetorical object.

French series are Highlander: The Series French science-fiction / fantasy television series ( both co-produced with Canada ) and a number of smaller fiction / fantasy television series, including Tang in 1971, about a super secret organization that attempts to control the world with a new super weapon, " Les atomistes " and bizarre

By the mid-1920s membership was already declining due to government repression and it decreased again substantially during a contentious organizational schism in 1924 when the organization split between the " Westerners " and the " Easterners " over a number of issues, including the role of the General Administration ( often oversimplified as a struggle between " centralists " and " decentralists ") and attempts by the Communist Party to dominate the organization.

A Typex machine without rotors was captured by German forces during the Battle of France and more than one German cryptanalytic section proposed attempting to crack Typex ; however, the B-Dienst codebreaking organization gave up on it after six weeks, when further time and personnel for such attempts was refused.

The first theory, demographic-ecological, attempts to explain gentrification through the analysis of demographics: population, social organization, environment, and technology.

The Recording Artists ' Coalition ( RAC ) is an American music industry organization that represents recording artists, and attempts to defend their rights and interests.

Separating the term " Toltec " from those of the Aztec accounts, it attempts to find archaeological clues to the ethnicity, history and social organization of the inhabitants of Tula.

Modern UEA is the result of a decades lasting process of several attempts to give the Esperanto movement a proper organization.

In these operations a government or organization attempts to impersonate another party while committing a criminal act.

Each competitor is allowed three to four attempts on each lift depending on their standing and the organization they are lifting in ( usually smallest w-class to heaviest ).

His Woodcraft Indians ( a youth organization ), combined with the early attempts at Scouting from the YMCA and other organizations, and Daniel Carter Beard's Sons of Daniel Boone, to form the BSA.

Well-known examples are George Holliday's recording of the Rodney King beating and the organization Copwatch, which attempts to surveil police officers to prevent police brutality.

During these early years of DIA's existence, Agency attempts to establish itself as DoD's central military intelligence organization met with continuing Service opposition.

Although there were previous attempts to establish such a DOD level espionage organization, there was no authorization document by which it could be established.

Globke had studied British attempts to " order " its empire by creating hierarchical social orders, for example in the organization of " martial races " in India.

( a ) Except as provided in subsection ( b ) of this section, whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person in order to compel a third person or a governmental organization to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person detained, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life and, if the death of any person results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.

Giles's primary role in the series is Watcher to Buffy ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) in her capacity as vampire Slayer ; he is in the employ of the Watchers ' Council, a British organization that attempts to oversee the actions of the Slayer.

Although both of these attempts were upsetting for the Dignity DZ organization they are continuing with their agenda to make assisted suicide for terminally ill patients a viable choice.

From 1950 he headed ' The Association ', a secret organization prepared to oppose communist attempts at subversion.

There were no attempts to continue the organization illegally.

Talking of the rapid population growth ( upwards of 12,000 babies born daily ) with an immigrant entering the United States every 1-1/2 minutes, he said `` our organization has not been keeping pace with this challenge ''.

In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:

Benton, intending to challenge Atchison in 1854, began to agitate for territorial organization of the area west of Missouri ( now the states of Kansas and Nebraska ) so it could be opened to settlement.

Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines " the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations to the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the changing experiences of individuals and families the ways in which workers challenge, resist and make their own contributions to the patterning of work and shaping of work institutions.

The organization was one of the first to challenge the Machine ; in its first election, Bentley drew 60, 000 votes for city clerk.

Another aspect of US military history is the challenge coin, also called commanders coins, they are usually given as awards of recognition and achievement, and often lapel pins are also given as a recognition device of a military association or organization.

* Moral Majority Legal Defense Fund – the organization ’ s legal instrument, used primarily to challenge the American Civil Liberties Union and secular humanist issues in court.

In the absence of sufficient personal competence, a manager may be confronted by an emergent leader who can challenge his role in the organization and reduce it to that of a figurehead.

In the absence of sufficient personal competence, a manager may be confronted by an emergent leader who can challenge her / his role in the organization and reduce it to that of a figurehead.

The challenge of Enhanced 9-1-1 for the MLTS is that information about the location of callers is only available to the extent that the private organization discloses the information.

Understanding the organization, functionality, protein composition and dynamics of the membrane systems remains a great challenge in cyanobacterial cell biology.

Despite the name of her organization, she has a strong code of morals and only steals for the challenge of it.

Two years after the conference a political grassroots organization was founded bearing the same name with the mission to challenge and dismantle the prison-industrial complex.

With the Democratic Party still discredited in the minds of many Northerners for its pro-Southern orientation and the Republican Party dominated by pro-gold interests, conditions had become ripe for the emergence of a new political organization to challenge the political hegemony of the two established parties of American politics.

The organization and communication involved in responding to a crisis in a timely fashion makes for a challenge in businesses.

* Manufacturer's Mutual Association, an organization formed in 1902 to challenge the litigation of the fledgling automobile industry

After he was reinstated, King prepared a four-year plan outlining a stronger direction for the organization, agreeing to dismiss McMorris and announcing plans to present a strong challenge to the George W. Bush administration in an August convention in Montgomery, Alabama.

Early in the 2004 presidential election campaign an organization known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was established to challenge John Kerry's bid for the presidency.

But before the organization can get there, the leaders of the AIAS must confront a major challenge.

This same year, Fulani and former National Alliance editor Jacqueline Salit formed the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, an organization dedicated to bringing various independent groups together to challenge the bipartisan nature of American politics.

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, an interdenominational missionary organization hired Wirt to challenge the new law.

The first challenge the organization sought to address was the unjust treatment of refugees arriving on U. S. shores.

A challenge coin is a small coin or medallion ( usually military ), bearing an organization ’ s insignia or emblem and carried by the organization ’ s members.