But you do not defend the British Army by defending the indefensible.

Arab attacks on isolated Jewish settlements and the British failure to protect them led to the creation of the Haganah (" Defense "), a mainly socialist underground Jewish militia dedicated to defending Jewish settlements.

The Royal Navy struggled to maintain British supply lines, defending convoys from American and French attacks such as a the fiercely fought convoy battle, the Naval battle off Cape Breton.

Iceland was encouraged to do this by the British and American armed forces that were defending Iceland from Nazi invasion.

In the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War the combined forces of the British East India Company and the Nizam of Hyderabad defeated Tipu and he was killed on 4 May 1799, defending the fort of Seringapatam.

When World War II broke out in 1939, New Zealanders saw their proper role as defending their proud place in the British Empire.

During the Napoleonic Wars, a British military expedition landed in the Cape Colony and defeated the defending Dutch forces at the Battle of Blaauwberg ( 1806 ).

As a French ally he opposed Britain during the American Revolution in June 1779, supplying large quantities of weapons and munitions to the rebels and keeping one third of all the British forces in the Americas occupied defending Florida and what is now Alabama, which were ultimately recaptured by Spain.

In October 1917, Lawrence, as part of a general effort to divert Turkish military resources away from the British advance before the Third Battle of Gaza, led a small force of Syrians and Arabians in defending Petra against a much larger combined force of Turks and Germans.

In the subsequent conflict, the War of Austrian Succession, the Royal Navy was able to concentrate more on defending British ships.

On the other hand, the departure of the French troops was an indispensable point for the British as they could not allow the Netherlands to be dominated by a hostile power, and the Batavian Republic was incapable of defending its own neutrality.

Following the British setback at Saratoga, Amherst successfully argued for a limited war in North America, keeping footholds along the coast, defending Canada, East and West Florida, and the West Indies while putting more effort into the war at sea.

In Harry Turtledove's second novel of the Worldwar series, Worldwar: Tilting the Balance ( p. 95 ), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill speaks of defending " the green hills of Earth " against an invasion by reptilian aliens.

As the French committed themselves to defending Verdun, their capacity to carry out their role on the Somme was significantly reduced and the burden shifted to the British.

The plot of the movie, which bears little resemblance to Yeats-Brown's memoir, concerns British soldiers defending the borders of India against rebellious natives.

Ultimately, the actual experience of successfully defending without Spanish aid the viceroyalty from a foreign invader during the 1806 – 1807 British invasions of the Río de la Plata, triggered a decisive quest for even greater autonomy from the colonial metropolis.

After successfully defending the FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 it became the first British club to win a UEFA club competition – the European Cup Winners ' Cup.

With the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War, the Shawnee lost valuable assistance in defending the Ohio Country.

Chavez continued defending his Light Welterweight title and on December 18, 1993, he defeated British Commonwealth Light Welterweight Champion Andy Holligan ( 21-0-0 ) by fifth round TKO.

British strategy was one of survival, defending the British isles directly in the Battle of Britain and indirectly by defeating Germany in the Battle of the Atlantic and the combined Axis powers in the North African Campaign.

Also, the legislatures were sometimes willing to help maintain regular British units defending the colonies.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

On 26 April 1941, during the Battle of Greece between defending British troops and the invading forces of Nazi Germany, German parachutists and glider troops attempted to capture the main bridge over the canal.

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With the exceptions of Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Quebec, whose private law is based on civil law, and British Columbia, whose notarial tradition stems from scrivener notary practice, a notary public in the rest of the United States and most of Canada has powers that are far more limited than those of civil-law or other common-law notaries, both of whom are qualified lawyers admitted to the bar: such notaries may be referred to as notaries-at-law or lawyer notaries.

In many countries, even licensed lawyers, e. g., barristers or solicitors, must follow a prescribed specialized course of study and be mentored for two years before being allowed to practice as a notary ( e. g., British Columbia, England ).

Richard Dawkins, formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, writes that the same three names of British scientists who are also sincerely religious crop up with the " likable familiarity of senior partners in a firm of Dickensian lawyers ": Arthur Peacocke, Russell Stannard, and John Polkinghorne, all of whom have either won the Templeton Prize or are on its board of trustees.

Presumably, lawyers for Cousteau or L ' Air Liquide could have slowed or stopped this genericization by taking prompt action, but this seems not to have been done in Britain, where Siebe Gorman held the British rights to both the trade name and the patent.

The two men were lawyers on holiday, whom the IRA shot believing they were off-duty British Army soldiers.

Without a draft document prepared by lawyers or Colonial Office officials, Hobson was forced to write his own treaty with the help of his secretary, James Freeman, and British Resident James Busby, neither of whom was a lawyer.

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Hughes formed a partnership with British lawyers Sir Henry Kimber and John Boyle, and bought the Board of Aid.

In 1957, he was among a group of eminent British lawyers who founded JUSTICE, the human rights and law reform organisation and he became its first chairman-a position he held until 1972.

In the Province of British Columbia, licensed lawyers are automatically permitted to practice the powers of a Notary Public.

The Russian side was represented by a team of lawyers, which included Georgy Matyushkin, Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights, and British lawyer Michael Swainston.

During the early history of the United States, the court dress of judges and practising lawyers closely mirrored British court dress of the 18th century ; both wore white powdered wigs and ( typically ) black robes in the lower courts, and in the higher ones, judges would wear red with black markings.

At a meeting of the Canadian Arab Federation on the day after the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard the complaint, Hall served on a panel along with Khurrum Awan, one of the student lawyers who helped file the complaint who testified at the BC Human Rights Tribunal against Maclean's, and Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star.

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Professions regulated in most or all EU states include British qualified accountants ( Chartered Certified Accountant ( ACCA ) or Chartered Accountant ( ACA or CA ) or International Accountant ( AIA ) in the UK ), Chartered Engineer, or Eur Ing ( European Ingénieur ), Incorporated Engineer, MIET-Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, teachers ( Qualified Teacher Status in the UK ), and lawyers ( barristers, solicitors and advocates in the UK ).

Earlier writers have applied the term to lawyers, to the British queens consort ( acting as a free agent, independent of the king ), and to the proletariat.

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The British consul in Boston remarked that every other citizen was “ walking around with a Law Book under his arm and proving the right of the S. Jacintho to stop H. M .’ s mail boat .” Many newspapers likewise argued for the legality of Wilkes ’ actions, and numerous lawyers stepped forward to add their approval.

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In Australasia, the term self-governing colony is widely-used by historians and constitutional lawyers in relation to the political arrangements in the seven British settler colonies of Australasia — New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia — between 1852 and 1901, when the six Australian colonies agreed to Federation and became a Dominion.

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Originally envisioned as a group of American and British scholars and diplomats, some of whom belonging to the Round Table movement, it was a subsequent group of 108 New York financiers, manufacturers and international lawyers organized in June 1918 by Nobel Peace Prize recipient and U. S. secretary of state, Elihu Root, that became the Council on Foreign Relations on 29 July 1921.

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