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After the company announced plans to reduce benefits, the union threatened to retaliate by calling for a strike.
The Fiji national rugby union sevens team is the reigning Sevens World Series Champions in World Rugby.
The Canadian Labour Congress was founded in 1956 as the national trade union center for Canada.
Legislation was introduced in many jurisdictions reversing union collective bargaining rights, and many jobs were lost to contractors.
In the 1870s and 1880s, the growing trade union movement began a series of protests against foreign labour.
The service model union focuses more on maintaining worker rights, providing services, and resolving disputes.
Although their political structure and autonomy varies widely, union leaderships are usually formed through democratic elections.
Other global trade union organizations include the World Federation of Trade Unions.
Several sources of current news exist about the trade union movement in the world.
These include LabourStart and the official website of the international trade union movement Global Unions.
It reports news and analysis about union activity or problems facing the labour movement.
The resulting political union was also called the Indian Empire and after 1876 issued passports under that name.
From 1914 to 1918, trade union membership doubled, from a little over four million to a little over eight million.
In the long run, there was little impact on trade union activity or industrial relations.
In addition, he ruled that the strike in the plaintiff union had been called in contravention of its own rules.
With the outbreak of World War I, Masaryk began working for Czech independence in a union with Slovakia.
However, there was no money for investment to modernise these industries, and there was no effort made to turn control over to union members.
India is a federal republic governed under a parliamentary system and consists of 29 states and 7 union territories.
The remaining five union territories are directly ruled by the centre through appointed administrators.
Each state or union territory is further divided into administrative districts.
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The Benelux is an economic and political union between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Switzerland and Liechtenstein participate in a customs union since 1924, and both employ the Swiss franc as national currency.
While stressing the need for coordination, governments have rejected talk of fiscal union or harmonisation in this regard.
Before the Lisbon Treaty came into force, the question of whether a member state had a legal right to leave the union was unclear.
The defeat of the miners' strike led to a long period of demoralisation in the whole of the trade union movement.
The union rejected the offer and on 24 January 1986 its 6,000 members at Murdoch's papers went on strike.
The efficiency was obvious and frightened the union into holding out an entire year.
The union tried an illegal secondary boycott and was fined in court, losing all its assets which had been used for pensions.
Former Wanderers' player Jason White was captain of the Scotland national rugby union team.
The trade union movement in Britain gradually developed from the Medieval guild system.
Each member state is party to the founding treaties of the union and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership.
While the member states are sovereign, the union partially follows a supranational system that is comparable to federalism.
The threat of separatism was in fact minimal, as the few underground groups aiming for union with Albania had little political significance.
Besides the native region it is also spoken by the majority of the population in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It is also a major language in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It is also one of the official languages of the union territory of Puducherry and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The state of Utah was eventually admitted to the union on 4 January 1896, after the various issues had been resolved.
Proposals in 1957 for union with the Church of England were rejected over the issue of bishops and were severely attacked in the Scottish press.
Albania and Macedonia have not yet started negotiations to join, nor has the European union set any negotiations start date.
The terms of the union had been negotiated the previous year, and laid out in the Treaty of Union.
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The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 made general strikes illegal and ended the automatic payment of union members to the Labour Party.
For example, at first historians emphasized that strikes became illegal in July 1940, and no trade union called one during the war.
It was revived after union with England in 1707 by figures including Allan Ramsay and James Macpherson.
Although Richard also played cricket, tennis, and table tennis, biographer Bragg notes rugby union football to be his greatest interest.
The Thomson Corporation management were struggling to run the business due to the 1979 energy crisis and union demands.
The change kit is pale blue and white, with varying shades displaying the same union flag design as the home kit.
The Scotland national rugby union team is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union.
The Scottish rugby team dates back to 1871, where they beat England in the first international rugby union match at Raeburn Place.
The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 brought rugby union in Scotland to a halt.
The thistle is the national flower, and also the symbol of the Scotland national rugby union team.
Unlike many other rugby union competitions the bonus point system has not previously been used.
Rugby union in England is one of the leading professional and recreational team sports.
The artisans and merchants of Dublin also feared any union as it may have resulted in a loss of business.
In 1907, Cornwall won the county tournament and went on to represent Britain at Rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
The Rugby Football Union are the governing body for rugby union in England.
Rugby union has often been considered, somewhat pejoratively, a 'posh' game.
In this category, it places rugby union at the second place in England behind football.
Historically rugby union was a participatory sport rather than a spectator sport in England and attendances at club games were low.
Rugby union is not the national sport in Scotland, being far behind football.
Rugby union in Wales is the national sport and is considered a large part of national culture.
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Unlike the game in England, rugby union in Wales was never seen as a sport for gentlemen of higher learning.
Another reason for the fall in the Welsh union game can be placed on the improvement of football in Wales.
Even the WRU had problems, as it faced the fact that it was the only home union without their own ground.
The 1980s and early '90s were a difficult time for Welsh rugby union when the team suffered many defeats.
Rugby union has a particular hold on the national psyche of Wales, especially the Six Nations tournament.
The first proof of Wales as a nation embracing the sport of rugby union is reflected in the rapid growth of rugby clubs in the late 19th century.
The attendance of 82,208 set a new world record attendance for a club rugby union game.
Rugby union is played and supported throughout Ireland, but is especially popular in cities and urban areas such as Dublin, Limerick and Cork.
Scotland play in a dark blue strip, similar to the nation's football and rugby union teams, with blue shirt, shorts and socks.
Scotland's second match was against the United States in Northampton, traditionally a rugby union city.
Instead, the federal union as a single entity becomes the sovereign state for purposes of international law.
However, not all Schengen states or all of the territory of Schengen states are part of the customs union or VAT area.
Kenya is active in several sports, among them cricket, rallying, football, rugby union and boxing.
Besides the former European Super League team, he has played for Widnes Vikings and rugby union with Sale Sharks.
Rugby union is increasing in popularity, especially with the annual Safari Sevens tournament.
The union speculates that at this time he was involved in campaigning for an improvement in pay for Air Ministry staff.
The economic devastation caused by this war forced the country to conclude a customs and monetary union with its other neighbour, Switzerland.
Liechtenstein participates in a customs union with Switzerland and employs the Swiss franc as the national currency.
The Coat of Arms, which represents the union of the provinces, came into use in 1813 as the seal for official documents.
The federation is composed of the union of the Federal District, the 26 states, and the 5,570 municipalities.
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However, the SRU is still being lobbied to have Alba added to the national rugby union strip.
The Union of the Crowns in 1603 expanded the personal union to include Scotland.
The effect was to create a personal union between the Crown of Ireland and the British Crown, instead of the English Crown.
The terms of the union were agreed on 28 March 1800 by both houses of the Irish Parliament.
The terms of union with England specified the retention of separate systems.
It was revived after union with England in 1707 by figures including Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and James Macpherson.
During the following years, William proposed a complete union to the Parliament of Scotland in 1700 and 1702, but the proposals were rejected.
The union with England meant that Scottish law was perceived as being increasingly Anglicised.
Highland RFC is the local rugby union club that competes regularly in the Caledonia Regional League Division One.
Four years later, she married her first cousin, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, but their union was unhappy.
Under Cromwell's Commonwealth, Scotland was forced into a temporary union with England and the General Assembly of the Kirk lost all civil power.
He was appointed Miners' Agent in August 1879 and his new career as a trade union organiser and functionary was launched.
The young couple moved to the town of Cumnock, where Keir set to work organising a union of local miners, a process which occupied nearly a year.
A sitting independent MP and prominent union organiser, Keir Hardie, became its first chairman.
In the 1890s the ILP was lacking in alliances with the trade union organisations.
The House of Lords judged that the minority continuing after the 1900 union were entitled to all the assets.
The minority of the Free Church of Scotland who continued outside the union of 1900, retained the title the Free Church of Scotland.
Others with similar theological views waited for imminent union but chose to continue with the Free Church.
At the time this difference was sufficient to preclude the union being pursued.
In the following years the Free Church Assembly showed increasing willingness for union on these open terms.
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On the following day the union was completed, and the United Free Church of Scotland came into being.
His rebellion dramatized the need to reform the country's outmoded constitution and led to the 1841 union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
Some nonactualized possible communities should be included among those communities whose relevant alternatives constitute the relevant union set.
Following the union of Scotland with England, the government began bringing Scotland's local governance into line with the rest of Great Britain.
Generally, a central bank or treasury is solely responsible within a state or currency union for the issue of banknotes.
Further unsuccessful suggestions for union were brought about throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries.
A second, smaller union opened at nearby Littlejohn Street a couple of years later but by 2010 it too had closed.
Vannes, on its side, was the seat of the Chamber of Accounts and of the Parliament until the union with France.
These events include matches of the Scottish national football team and the Scottish rugby union team.
Rugby Beo broadcasts one live Magners League rugby union game a week, involving one of the competition's Scottish teams.
The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams.
Prior to the Rugby World Cup, there was no truly global rugby union competition, but there were a number of other tournaments.
The 2003 final, between Australia and England, became the most watched rugby union match in the history of Australian television.
In the early days of the union of 1707, St Andrews elected one member of parliament along with Cupar, Perth, Dundee and Forfar.
Social democracy is connected with the trade union labour movement and supports collective bargaining rights for workers.
The union represents more than 26,000 noninstructional school staff members, including school aides and parent coordinators.
According to Livy the two peoples participated in a ceremony of union after which they were named Quirites after the Sabine town of Cures.
Y Darian, as it was known, strongly supported the trade union movements among the miners and ironworkers of the valleys.
Aberdare Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team formed in 1890 which still play in Aberdare today at the Ynys Stadium.
The two main sports with which the Rhondda appeared to produce quality participants were rugby union and boxing.
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Wrexham is also home to rugby union team Wrexham RFC, a team affiliated to the Welsh Rugby Union.
In March 2010 Labour and Plaid Cymru AMs refused to cross the PCS union picket line.
For example, the trade union is a type of coalition which was formed in order to represent employees' wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Bangor is also home to rugby union team Bangor RFC who play in the WRU Division Two North league.
Cricket, football and rugby union teams play at Tower Fields, which overlooks the town and the International Eisteddfod field and pavilion.
Rugby union is played at various levels, from school to senior league level.
It is possible it was only the union of Gwent and Glywysing that was referred to as Morgannwg.
Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.
The Library's holdings can also be found in the European Library and Copac union catalogues.
Bridgend Sports Bridgend Sports Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Bridgend.
The Celtic Warriors, formed in 2003, are a now defunct regional rugby union team that was mainly based at the Brewery Field in Bridgend.
A resurgence of both economy and rugby union followed in the 1930s and, in 1931, Wales won their first championship for nine years.
Rugby union and Wales' national team hold an important place in Welsh culture and society.
The 1999 Rugby World Cup was the fourth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial international rugby union championship.
The European Rugby Challenge Cup is an annual European rugby union competition organised by European Professional Club Rugby.
Giggs is the son of former rugby union and rugby league player and former Wales international Danny Wilson.
In the summer of 2003, the WRU voted to reduce the top tier of Welsh professional rugby union from nine clubs into five regions.
To prevent losing their star players, many rugby union clubs secretly paid their players a small amount of money for each match played.
The new clubs faced hostility from the rugby union scene, class prejudice and the rise of a more popular professional game, association football.
Daman and Diu is a union territory of India which, like Goa, was a former colonial possession of Portugal.
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The union territory of Puducherry was a French colony for around 200 years, making French cuisine a strong influence on the area.
As the national sport of Wales, rugby union is widely played throughout the county at both town and village level.
Before 2006, the company had sponsored the rugby union and rugby league cup competitions under the Powergen brand.
In 1828, modern Greece's first president Ioannis Kapodistrias called for union of Cyprus with Greece, and numerous minor uprisings took place.
The Greek Cypriots viewed the island as historically Greek and believed that union with Greece was a natural right.
In 1955 the EOKA organisation was founded, seeking union with Greece through armed struggle.
Amatori Catania have competed in the top Italian national rugby union league called National Championship of Excellence.
The national rugby union team has competed at every Rugby World Cup, and takes part in the annual Six Nations Championship.
Rugby union enjoys a good level of popularity, especially in the north of the country.
But with the union followed other problems and in the 1520s Sweden left this union.
The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905, leading to Sweden's current borders.
The County of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Aragon entered in a dynastic union and gained territory and power in the Mediterranean.
In 1814 Christiania once more became a real capital when the union with Denmark was dissolved.
In 1814 the former provincial town of Christiania became the capital of the independent Kingdom of Norway, in a personal union with Sweden.
These events led to the formation of an organized association of Hanseatic towns, which replaced the earlier union of German merchants.
In 1958, Egypt and Syria formed a sovereign union known as the United Arab Republic.
Thus, a mixed marriage is forbidden as is the union of a horse and a donkey, and in both unions the offspring are judged matrilineally.
Used to hold and torture political opponents and union organizers, the camps initially held around 45,000 prisoners.
Dating from 1901, the Bristol Combination and its 53 clubs promote rugby union in the city and help support Bristol Rugby.
The United Reformed Church resulted from the 1972 union of the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales.
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Jogaila embarked on gradual Christianization of Lithuania and established a personal union between Poland and Lithuania.
This union consisted of the provinces of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Los Altos, Mosquito Coast, and Nicaragua.
In 1380, the Norwegian Kingdom entered into a personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark.
Interracial marriage was a rarity, and was almost always a case of a union between a white man and a mulatto woman.
When he won the presidency they left the union to escape the 'ultimate extension' of slavery.
At first, the new states carved out of these territories entering the union were apportioned equally between slave and free states.
Politically he was the king's spokesman, supporting union with Norway, a platform that acquired him enemies among the chiefs.
In 1262, the Althing ratified union with Norway and royal authority was instituted in Iceland.
Historian Warren Hollister argues that Henry and Matilda were emotionally close, but their union was also certainly politically motivated.
Meanwhile, Poland's attention was turned eastwards, as the union with Lithuania created an enormous entity in the region.
Sportspeople born in Southampton include rugby union player Mike Brown and Australian tennis player Wally Masur.
The consequence was a dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479 when Ferdinand ascended to the Aragonese throne.
His aims of union did not work and the Spanish Crown continued as a confederation of kingdoms.
The Congo Free State was an independent kingdom in central Africa in personal union with Belgium under King Leopold.
In 1950, after the new Indian Constitution was adopted, the provinces in India were replaced by redrawn states and union territories.
Rugby union is considered the national sport and attracts the most spectators.
Serbia in turn declared the dissolution of the union as unconstitutional and the Yugoslavian army unsuccessfully tried to maintain status quo.
As industrial work forces grew in Western Europe, socialism and trade union activity developed.
The Treaty of Saint Germain and the Treaty of Versailles explicitly forbid union between Austria and Germany.
The union was conditional upon fulfillment of the agrarian reform, autonomy, and respect for universal human rights.
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This union was recognized by the principal Allied Powers in the 1920 Treaty of Paris, which however was not ratified by all of its signatories.
Plans for a union with Romania were abandoned, and the new Constitution gave autonomy to the breakaway Transnistria and Gagauzia.
Modern Romania was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia.
Due to Austrian and Ottoman opposition and British reserves, the union program as demanded by radical campaigners was debated intensely.
Soon after, the parliamentary assembly declared independence, and then union with the Kingdom of Romania.
This formed a rare union of rural and urban communes, all of which enjoyed imperial immediacy in the Holy Roman Empire.
Nominally a union of multiple equal national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized.
The Russian nation had constitutionally equal status among the many nations of the union but exerted de facto dominance in various respects.
After the union of the Lombards to the Frankish kingdom, the capitularies made for the entire kingdom were applicable to Italy.
The union was the work of Scandinavian aristocracy wishing to counter the influence of the Hanseatic League.
This limited union under Prussia would have almost entirely eliminated Austrian influence on the other German states.
This union respected the existing institutions and parliaments of both territories.
Their marriage was a dynastic union which became the constituent event for the dawn of the Kingdom of Spain.
Between 1815 and 1890 the King of the Netherlands was also in a personal union the Grand Duke of the sovereign Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
During the wedding banquet, a drunken Attalus publicly prayed to the gods that the union would produce a legitimate heir.
However, the union of Sicily and Apulia was resisted by Pope Honorius II and by the subjects of the duchy itself.
Rugby is also a growing sport in Thailand with the Thailand national rugby union team rising to be ranked 61st in the world.
Despite the two Kingdoms being in a personal union under the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasts, they remained constitutionally separate.
The next year, 1816, finally saw the formal union of the Kingdom of Naples with the Kingdom of Sicily into the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
With the union of Castile and Aragon in 1469, these kingdoms set their sights on annexing Granada.
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Other sports such as golf, rugby league, rugby union beach soccer and netball are considered growing sports.
He claimed that it was the 'unholy union between London and Ottawa' that brought about confederation.
The name Tawantinsuyu was, therefore, a descriptive term indicating a union of provinces.
There was civil unrest, and the colonial government crushed all trade union activities.
The loss of colonies was one of the reasons that contributed to the end of the personal union with Spain.
Panama broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela named the Republic of Gran Colombia.
In 1580 the Portuguese crown was united in a personal union with the Spanish crown, with which the Dutch Republic was at war.
This republican union was dissolved automatically with the restoration of King Charles II to the thrones of England and Scotland.
Impetus for this incorporating union came almost entirely from King William, who feared leaving Scotland open to a French invasion.
In the following decade, however, union again became a significant topic of political debate.
Tories were not in favour of union and only one was represented among the commissioners.
However, modern research has shown that payments were made to supporters of union that appear not to have been overdue salaries.
Not one petition in favour of an incorporating union was received by Parliament.
The prospect of a union of the kingdoms was deeply unpopular among the Scottish population at large, and talk of an uprising was widespread.
Also after the accession of George I to the throne of Great Britain in 1714, the kingdom was in a personal union with the Electorate of Hanover.
This placed the new Kingdom of Ireland in personal union with the Kingdom of England.
Political union between England and Scotland was established in 1707 with the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Northumbria was originally formed from the union of two independent kingdoms, Bernicia and Deira.
However, after the union of the crowns of Scotland and England under King James VI and I, peace was largely established.
With defeat came enforced baptism and conversion as well as the union of the Saxons with the rest of the Germanic, Frankish empire.
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Caesar then defeated a union of Gauls at the Battle of Alesia, completing the Roman conquest of Transalpine Gaul.
The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches.
Margaret was working toward a union of Sweden with Denmark and Norway by having Olaf elected to the Swedish throne.
The Society of Saint Francis, founded as a union of various Franciscan orders in the 1920s, has experienced great growth in the Solomon Islands.
It was also the end of the period when England was a separate realm before its royal union with Scotland.
On 7 July 1604, James had angrily prorogued Parliament after failing to win its support either for full union or financial subsidies.
By actively pursuing more than just a personal union of his realms, he helped lay the foundations for a unitary British state.
A political union is a type of state which is composed of or created out of smaller states.
He articulated clearly the difference between a full legislative union and a federation.
At the union of 1707, England had about five times the population of Scotland and about 36 times as much wealth.
In 1867 there was a union of three colonies with British North America which together formed the Canadian Confederation, a federal dominion.
We are only a small and young nation, but we march with a union of hearts and souls to a common destiny.
Rugby union is also widely enjoyed across the islands with four national teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Progress on the customs union proceeded much faster than the twelve years planned.
It was initially formed as a means for the trade union movement to establish political representation for itself at Westminster.
Current MEPs also include former judges, trade union leaders, media personalities, actors, soldiers, singers, athletes, and political activists.
Leicester Tigers are an English rugby union club based in Leicester at the Welford Road stadium and play in the Aviva Premiership.
Northampton Saints are a professional rugby union club from Northampton, England.
Hawking was the first to set forth a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
In 1707, England formed a union with Scotland by passing an Act of Union in March 1707 that ratified the Treaty of Union.
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Hawaii is the only state in the union in which Asian Americans outnumber white American residents.
The union with Norway made it possible for Denmark to inherit the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland.
When the union between Denmark and Norway dissolved as a result of the Treaty of Kiel in 1814, Denmark retained possession of the Faroe Islands.
Norway became the weaker part and lost sovereignty over Greenland in 1814 when the union was dissolved.
Later the Kingdom of Norway entered into a personal union with Denmark in 1380, and from 1397 was a part of the Kalmar Union.
At that point, Luxembourg became a fully independent country in a personal union with the Netherlands.
The island is in customs union with the UK, and related revenues are pooled and shared under the Common Purse Agreement.
These monarchies are united by the personal union of their monarch, but they are separate as states.
In June 2012, Alistair Darling said voters in the rest of the UK could choose not to be in a currency union with Scotland.
If Scotland joined a currency union with the UK, some fiscal policy constraints could be imposed on the Scottish state.
Salmond said in February 2014 that an independent Scotland in a currency union would retain tax and spending powers.
Gordon Brown pointed to the 2012 medal count for Great Britain, saying that it showed the success of a union that included the two nations.
The power of the Marcher lords was ended in 1535, when the political and administrative union of England and Wales was completed.
The European Union is a supranational union and not a sovereign state, and has limited scope in the areas of foreign affairs and defence policy.
A personal union is the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch while their boundaries, laws, and interests remain distinct.
The precise terms of the union between the two realms became a matter of dispute in the 19th century.
Because Yuan Dynasty made Chungseon abdicate the King of Goryeo in 1313, the personal union was ended.
There was an attempt to create national symbols with the revival of the union flag and unite coin.
In 1837, however, the personal union of the thrones of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended.
Rugby union is very popular and pitches can be seen along the valley floors.
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Negotiators were convinced that accommodation with the union was possible.
In the United States, the main autoworkers' union is the UAW, the United Auto Workers.
Ontario lawmakers voted to impose fines on workers and the union if they failed to heed a back-to-work order.
While most union leaders are people of integrity, there are still bad apples.
If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed.
Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.
They had perpetuated a dubiously holy union of Church and State that had refused for centuries to hear the cry of the poor and the oppressed.
Hockin was emerging as a principal target-villain in the case, a traitor to his union yet a key figure in the dynamitings.
This union exalted him, wore away the rough edges of his character, emotionalized his mental life.
The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
Severing's belief that trade union workers were the most progressive and democratic element in Germany holds up well under investigation.
Before the union England was ruled by its monarch and the Parliament of England.
Rugby union originated in Rugby School, Warwickshire in the early 19th century.
Wales was fully incorporated into the Kingdom of England, and Ireland was constituted as a kingdom in personal union with the English crown.
By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms.
Scotland subsequently entered into a political union with the Kingdom of England on 1 May 1707 to create the new Kingdom of Great Britain.
Rugby union is seen as a symbol of Welsh identity and an expression of national consciousness.
There is an Isle of Wight Saturday Football League with three divisions, and a rugby union club.
The power of a union could demand better terms by withdrawing all labour and causing a consequent cessation of production.
Employers had to decide between giving in to the union demands at a cost to themselves or suffering the cost of the lost production.
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Two Aviva Premiership rugby union teams are based in London, Saracens and Harlequins.
A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002, and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency.
Euratom was to integrate sectors in nuclear energy while the EEC would develop a customs union among members.
Until the drive towards economic and monetary union the development of the capital provisions had been slow.
In 1999 the currency union started, first as an accounting currency with eleven member states joining.
In 2010 the region had the second highest trade union membership among UK men.
From the accession of James VI and I in 1603, the Stuart dynasty ruled England in personal union with Scotland and Ireland.
James VI and I ascended the throne of England and brought it into personal union with the Kingdom of Scotland.
This continued after the 1801 union between the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Scottish and English parliaments established a commission to negotiate a union, formulating an instrument of union between the two countries.
During the union with Denmark, the government imposed using only written Danish, which decreased the writing of Norwegian literature.
After Norway's union with Denmark was dissolved in 1814, Oslo became the capital.
To English historians the lands in France were an encumbrance, while French historians considered the union to be an English empire.
At Birgham, with the prospect of a personal union between the two realms, the question of suzerainty had not been of great importance to Edward.
In a federal or confederal union the states continue in existence but place themselves under a new federal authority.
The county has numerous rugby union clubs, including Derby, Matlock, Ilkeston, Ashbourne, Bakewell and Amber Valley.
Rugby union was not entirely driven from Northern England, and in the 1970s the region was home to several strong teams.
The powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces.
The pallium was the symbol of metropolitan status, and signified that Augustine was in union with the Roman papacy.
Henry defended the legality of their union by pointing out that Catherine had previously been married.

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