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secret police
secret police policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures. The Nature of a Secret Police Enforcement of the law has required, in nearly all societies, a certain amount of secrecy, particularly in the investigation of... Read more |
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Armed Forces Reserve Act
Armed Forces Reserve Act (1952). The Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952 was a response to the severe weaknesses in the U.S. reserve forces and inequities for veterans revealed by the partial mobilization during the Korean War. Pressured by reserve and veterans' organizations, Congress sought to... Read more |
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Quaternary Structure
Quaternary Structure Many proteins are made up of a single, continuous polypeptidechain and are thus called monomeric. Other proteins are composed of two or more polypeptide chains called subunits. The quaternary structure describes the arrangement and position of each... Read more |
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Reserve Forces Act
Reserve Forces Act (1955). President Dwight D. Eisenhower's “New Look” defense strategy emphasized nuclear‐armed air power, stronger reserve forces, and a greater reliance on conventionally‐armed allies. To correct the weaknesses of all of the reserve components of the... Read more |
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task force
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Posse Comitatus Act
Posse Comitatus Act 1878, U.S. federal law that makes it a crime to use the military as a domestic police force in the United States under most circumstances. The law was designed to end the use of federal troops to supervise elections in the post-Civil War South. The posse comitatus (from which... Read more |
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treaty of Tien-Tsin
Tien-Tsin, treaty of, 1858. The second Opium War began in October 1856 when the Chinese authorities at Canton seized the British-registered Arrow. In June 1856 at Tien-Tsin, the Chinese agreed to receive a British diplomat at Peking, open up more treaty ports, pay an indemnity, and legalize the... Read more |
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Battle of Edgecote
Edgecote, battle of, 1469. In July 1469 Edward IV was in Nottingham to put down a rising in Yorkshire led by ‘Robin of Redesdale’; this may have been instigated by the earl of Warwick. Warwick unmasked his intentions in a manifesto at Calais on 12 July, and then marched on London.... Read more |
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extortion
extortion in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with corrupt motives, demanding money or... Read more |
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Battle of Tannenberg
TANNENBERG, BATTLE OF The Battle of Tannenberg, in August 1914, was the consequence of Russia's commitment to an immediate offensive during World War I. On the grand strategic level, the tsarist empire's major problem involved making sure its major continental ally, France, was not forced out of... Read more |
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The riot police who may cost us [pound]1m for doing their duty.
...from the force because...them. The Police Federation in West Yorkshire is passing...senior West Yorkshire officers...frontline for up to eight...A senior Police Federation...eight other forces, including...Yorkshire Police Authority already faces...doing ... |
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Police merger plans are set to go ahead.
...merge Notts Police with four...restructuring of police forces in...East and the Yorkshire and Humber...said the options he had set...But Notts Police Authority...public on the future of policing...with other forces in the area...Regional Police ... |
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Minister hears pleas against police merger.
...said the option of "retaining a single force easily represents...for West Yorkshire." Disruption...that its future is being...but on the force's convenient...three smaller forces, which...allow West Yorkshire to retain...ordered all police authorities to come ... |
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CATTARAUGUS SHERIFF TAKES CREDIT CARDS
...are teamed up the for the...in Olean, Yorkshire and Randolph...of Gowanda Police Department...to enable police to create...Citizen Task Force to meet in...Citizen Task Force will hold...recommend closure options to state and...recently placed future ... |