Since its founding in 1958 VSO has placed over 50, 000 volunteers in over 140 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Except for a spell as a VSO teacher in Swaziland in a gap year before attending university in 1972, and a few months working as an administrator at the Middlesex Hospital in 1976, he has worked entirely in full time politics either for the Labour Party or as an elected Member of Parliament.

For instance, French has SVO for nouns, but SOV when the object is a pronoun and VSO for questions ; German has verb-medial order in main clauses, but verb-final order in subordinate clauses.

Throughout its long history, the VSO has had its successes and struggles.

To this end, the VSO has continually appointed a composer in residence since 1996.

According to Joseph Greenberg's linguistic universal No. 12, " If a language has dominant order VSO in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions ; if it has dominant order SOV in declarative sentences, there is never such an invariant rule.

* VSO UK homepage

CUSO was in its first decades roughly analogous to the Peace Corps of the United States and Voluntary Service Overseas ( VSO ) of the UK, and was established at roughly the same time.

* VSO Ireland homepage

* VSO Netherlands homepage ( in Dutch )

The Federation includes VSO organizations in the U. K., the Netherlands, Kenya, and the Philippines.

* VSO Jitolee homepage ( Kenya )

A former social worker and university lecturer, Armstrong worked for VSO in Kenya before entering politics.

* VSO Bahaginan homepage ( Philippines )

The new organization – first called CUSO-VSO and now known as Cuso International – is the North American strategic alliance partner of the international VSO Federation.

In German and in Dutch, SVO in main clauses coexists with SOV in subordinate clauses, as given in Example 1 below ; and a change in syntax – for instance, by bringing an adpositional phrase to the front of the sentence for emphasis – may also dictate the use of VSO, as in Example 2.

In the 60s and 70s its volunteer operations were on a comparable scale to those of VSO ; however, new directions and funding cuts led to volunteerism being scaled back in favour of more project aid.

The proponents of the Insular Celtic hypothesis ( such as Cowgill 1975 ; McCone 1991, 1992 ; and Schrijver 1995 ) point to shared innovations among Insular Celtic languages, including inflected prepositions, shared use of certain verbal particles, VSO word order, and the differentiation of absolute and conjunct verb endings as found extensively in Old Irish and to a small extent in Middle Welsh ( see Morphology of the Proto-Celtic language ).

The VSO School of Music offers private music instruction and include the following lessons ; piano lessons, guitar lessons, violin lessons, and vocal lessons.

In December 2009, Tovey and the VSO rejected an invitation to play at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Vancouver, after the Vancouver Organizing Committee requested that the orchestra pre-record music that other musicians and a different conductor would mime to at the televised event.

VSO is an international development charity that works through experienced volunteers living and working as equals alongside local partners.

Sentences have different types of word order and the four most commonly used are verb – subject – object ( VSO ), verb – object – subject ( VOS ), subject – verb – object ( SVO ) and object – verb – subject ( OVS ).

Irish syntax is rather different from that of most Indo-European languages, notably because of its VSO word order.

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

* " VSO focuses on senior teachers ", Education Guardian, January 10, 2006

With local financial intervention, and a $ 500, 000 federal grant, the VSO began to rebuild, focusing more attention on popular works and collaborations with contemporary artists.

The VSO broadcasts 18 times annually on the CBC ( 6 concerts repeated 3 times each ) including their now very popular Christmas concert.

The VSO launched the VSO School of Music on Sept 6, 2011.

1946 marked the beginning of the tenure of maestro Herbert von Karajan who, though not principal conductor, worked with the VSO in the " Karajan Series " concerts, going on extensive tours throughout Europe and North America.

Majangir ( also called Majang ) and Southwest Surmic languages ( Fleming 1983 ) share a number of traits, so they are therefore presumably reconstructable in Proto-Surmic: relative clauses ( which include adjectives ), demonstratives, adverbs, numerals, genitives, and possessive pronouns follow their heads, noun derivations and subject marking on verbs are marked by suffixes, VSO ( verb – subject – object ) order predominates in indicative main clauses.

Ancient Greek tended to be verb-final, while neutral word order in the modern language is VSO or SVO.

* The default word order in Biblical Hebrew is VSO, while Modern Hebrew is SVO.

All of the Scandinavian languages follow this order also but change to VSO when asking a question.

However the subject pronouns here are grammatically unnecessary and most other constructions suggest that both languages are VSO languages at their core, though Modern Hebrew generally uses SVO construction as well as the modern varieties of Arabic.

Russian allows all possible combinations SVO, OVS, SOV, OSV, VSO, VOS.

During refueling of the aircraft, the volumetric shutoff ( VSO ) control was believed to have been triggered before the tanks were full.

To continue the pressure fueling, a TWA mechanic overrode the automatic VSO by pulling the volumetric fuse and an overflow circuit breaker.

VSO is a member of the European Volunteer Centre.

This group distinguishes itself from the Northwest and South Semitic languages by its SOV word order, while the other Semitic languages usually have either a VSO or SVO order.

Opera Australia ( OA ) was formed by the merger of the Australian Opera and the Victoria State Opera ( VSO ) companies in 1996, following the financial collapse of the Melbourne based VSO.

Adrian Collette was appointed General Manager of the new company, and evolved a three year plan to restructure the company involving twice yearly seasons in both Sydney and Melbourne, integrating the OA and VSO staff and planning a viable financial structure so as to manage the inherited debt.

OzOpera was established after the merger of the AO with the VSO in 1996 under the Directorship of Lindy Hume.

All are verb initial languages, with VSO ( verb-subject-object ) being the most common word order.

Most Formosan languages display verb-initial syntax ( VSO ( verb-subject-object ) or VOS ( verb-object-subject )), with the exception of some Northern Formosan languages such as Thao, Saisiyat, and Pazih, possibly due to influence from Chinese.

It is a VSO ( verb – subject – object ) language.

Virtual Storage Option ( VSO ) DEDBs can replace MSDBs in modern IMS releases, so MSDBs are gradually disappearing.

Between school and university, he spent a year with VSO teaching in the Volta Region of Ghana.