1336 résultats pour "nation"

• Middle East - Geography.

  though overall they have improved considerably since the 1970s. This variation reflects the different levels of wealth and development in countries of the Middle East. Inthe highly developed country of Israel the infant mortality rate was 8 deaths per 1000 live births in 1997. By comparison, the rate per 1000 live births was 71 in less-developed Egypt and 75 in Yemen. A Ethnic Groups and Languages Arabs make up the majority of the people of the Middle East, accounting for almost the entire popu...

• ARTICLE DE PRESSE: Monsieur le président !

  C'est en 1967 que commence la vraie vie politique. Au député nouvellement élu, Georges Pompidou dit, un matin d'avril, surles marches de l'hôtel Matignon, avant d'annoncer la composition de son gouvernement : " Chirac, je vous ai réservé unstrapontin, mais ne vous prenez surtout pas pour un ministre. " Jacques Chirac sera secrétaire d'Etat aux affaires sociales, chargéde l'emploi. Au bon moment, puisque mai 1968 approche. Il y jouera un rôle modeste, avec ce qu'il faut de romantisme. Pendantla g...

• histoire du droit

  A. UNE SOUVERAINETE BSOLUE On pense au concept de souveraineté à partir des 13 ème -14 ème siècles. Les fondements antiques vont à partir du 13 ème , à la royauté d’affirmer son indépendance alors qu’elle est aux prises avec le mot féodal mais aussi avec l’Augustinisme de Saint Augustin (= idée que le Pape est supérieur au roi). C’est au 16 ème que la notion de souveraineté va être pleinement théorisée et sa nature précisée. (Machiavel avec le prince). Les principales doctrines F...

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• North America - Geography.

  D Climate Although North America has considerable climatic variety, five principal climatic regions can be identified. The northern two-thirds of Canada and Alaska, as well as all ofGreenland, have subarctic and arctic climates, in which long, dark, bitterly cold winters alternate with brief, mild summers. Most of the region, which receives relativelylittle precipitation, is covered with snow and ice during much of the year. A second climatic region is made up of the eastern two-thirds of the U...

• Edmonton - Geography.

  both of which built fur trading posts near present-day Edmonton in 1795. The posts were rebuilt several times, always along the North Saskatchewan River, whichprovided the traders’ main transportation route. The last move came in 1830, when Fort Edmonton was erected on the high bluff where the Alberta Legislature nowstands. For the next 50 years, the fort was the major trading center on the western plains. The modern city began to take shape after 1900, when central Alberta was opened to Europea...

• « Ainsi que j'en exprimais l'espoir l'année dernière, notre Expédition touche à son terme.

  l'ensemble français.Pourlui,àl'échelle delaplanète, lebien commun, àcommencer parcelui delaFrance, exige quechacun puissecommercer aveclemonde entier. Dès 1861, oncommença àreconnaître ànos colonies laliberté d'importation etd'exportation. Dèslors, toute la politique coloniale changeait designification etd'objet. Lescolonies n'étaient plusunechasse gardée; leurs ressources naturellespouvaient avoird'autres utilisateurs quelamétropole. Danscecontexte nouveau, elles devenaient autantdepoints d'app...

• United Kingdom - country.

  B Natural Regions and Topography The island of Great Britain can be divided into two major natural regions—the highland zone and the lowland zone. The highland zone is an area of high hills andmountains in the north and west. The lowland zone in the south and east consists mostly of rolling plains. The zones are divided by an imaginary line running throughEngland from the River Exe on the southwest coast to the mouth of the River Tees on the northeast coast. The lowland zone has a milder climat...

• La reconstruction économique et financière de l'Europe dans les années 1920 (économie)

  Épisode de renversement des valeurs morales, on s'est beaucoup indigné que les épargnants se sont ruinés et queles endettés se soient enrichis. Culture gouvernementale allemande: à partir de 24, obsession de stabilité monétairese retrouve chez tous les dirigeants allemands quelle que soit leur tendance. II- La solution par l'action solidaire internationale: la SDN et le sauvetage financier de l'Autriche. A- La menace d'une crise majeure en Autriche fondée avec traité de Versailles. La SDN traine...

• réglementé »: il faudra cinq signatures pour que soit enregistrée l'interpellation, puis l'accord de deux bureaux sur cinq au Sénat et de quatre bureaux sur neuf au Corps législatif pour que sa discussion puisse être engagée.

  Peu detemps après, laloi sur lesréunions publiques estvotée àson tour. Lesréunions sontautorisées à condition qu'onn'yfasse pasdepolitique —sauf, fortheureusement, enpériode électorale... Ollivierapprécie: « L'Empereur avaitprisson parti [...].Comme ilse piquait dedémocratie, ilcomprenait quecedroit estlaliberté vraiment démocratique. » Voilà doncuneoeuvre courageuse etde grande conséquence, fruitdelaseule volonté deLouis Napoléon. Il était endroit derevendiquer sinonlemérite dumoins laresponsab...

• Jordan (country) - country.

  whom belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, make up about 4 percent of the population. Islam is the state religion and Arabic the official language. C Education Jordan has made significant strides in education in recent decades, despite the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees and the very large share of the nationalbudget assigned to the armed forces. Public education is free and compulsory between the ages of 6 and 15. At the secondary level, about 85 percent of the malechildren and 87 p...

• North Korea - country.

  IV EDUCATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVITY Education and culture in North Korea are under state control and are utilized by the governing Korean Workers’ Party regime to indoctrinate and foster its ideology. A Education Education is free and compulsory in North Korea for the first ten years of schooling. In the late 1980s, some 1.5 million pupils were enrolled annually in elementaryschools, and another 2.8 million students attended vocational and secondary schools. Statistics for subsequent years are...

• Europe - geography.

  movement of a segment of the Earth’s crust against the stable shield during the Caledonian orogeny (about 500 to 395 million years ago) raised the mountains of Ireland,Wales, Scotland, and western Norway. Subsequent erosion has rounded and worn down these mountains in the British Isles, but the peaks of Norway still reach 2,472 m(8,110 ft). The second major geological region, a belt of sedimentary materials, sweeps in an arc from southwestern France northward and eastward through the Low Countri...

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• Pennsylvania - geography.

  B Rivers and Lakes There are three major river basins in Pennsylvania: the Susquehanna, the Ohio, and the Delaware. Together they drain more than 90 percent of Pennsylvania’s landarea. Most of eastern and central Pennsylvania is drained by the Susquehanna and Delaware systems. The western part of the state is drained by the Allegheny andMonongahela rivers, which join at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio. In addition to the three major river basins, short streams flowing into Lake Erie drain the north...

• Pennsylvania - USA History.

  B Rivers and Lakes There are three major river basins in Pennsylvania: the Susquehanna, the Ohio, and the Delaware. Together they drain more than 90 percent of Pennsylvania’s landarea. Most of eastern and central Pennsylvania is drained by the Susquehanna and Delaware systems. The western part of the state is drained by the Allegheny andMonongahela rivers, which join at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio. In addition to the three major river basins, short streams flowing into Lake Erie drain the north...

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• La question des nationalités en Autriche-Hongrie 1867-1914 (histoire)

  I) La prise de conscience des nations non historiques. A) Des nations non historiques... nations non historiques → aucun droit d'Etat : ensemble de privilèges historiques sur lequel une nation sa base pour réclamer son autonomie à l'intérieur du royaume de Hongrie. → simples groupes éthnolinguistiques : nom des "nationalités" de l'ancienne "Monarchie" en particulier celles qui étaient qualifiées de non historiques → aucun droit d'Etat, elles ne constituaient...

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• Canada.

  Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...

• Canada - country.

  Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...

• Canada - Canadian History.

  Six general landform regions are distinguishable in Canada: the Appalachian Region, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands, the Canadian Shield, the Great Plains,the Canadian Cordillera, and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. B1 Appalachian Region and Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands Eastern Canada consists of the Appalachian Region and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands. The Appalachian Region embraces Newfoundland Island, NovaScotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the G...

• C apitale du cinéma, « ville mirage », que l'on

  leurs continuateurs (Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, les frères Warner), que le cinéma américain doit son essor économique et, par voie de conséquence, son formidable pouvoir de séduction auprès des foules. Huit grandes sociétés de production, les « major companies », virent le jour entre 1912 et 1928 : Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros, Columbia, RKO et United Artists. Cette dernière, à vocation plus ouvertement « artistique », avait été fondée à l...

• Israel (country) - country.

  harbor in the northern part of the country, and Ashdod, an artificial deepwater port to the south, serve as the main seaports on the Mediterranean. The port of Elat onthe Gulf of Aqaba provides Israel’s only access to the Red Sea, making it extremely important to the country’s shipping interests. D Natural Resources Although much of Israel’s desert regions contain poor soils, the northern Negev, the coastal plains, and the interior valleys provide patches of productive soils. Anestimated 18 per...

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  Institutions européennes 2013 b) Le point négatif Au MA, deux conceptions s’oppose : celle du pv religieux (pape) et le pv temporel (empereur) et cette division est accentuée par la féodalité, il n’y a pas d’Etat en tant que telle, la féodalité morcelle l’Europe. La renaissance va fixer un cadre qui va perdurer, ce qui est caractéristique c’est la monté en puissance des Etat souverain contre les anciennes tutelles : l’empire et l’église. Ces Etats vont a...

• Définition: ÉTOUFFÉ, -ÉE, participe passé et adjectif.

  étouffée; corridor, passage étouffé. Les magnifiques bassins d'Anvers sont, en effet, tout autre chose que notre port du Havre, unique, étroit, étouffé (JULES MICHELET, Sur les chemins de l'Europe, 1874, page 229) : Ø 5.... dans le village où la vie semble suspendue, chacun, espérant la fraîcheur, diffère le moment de retrouver sa chambre étouffée, son lit chaud, mou, trop étroit. ROGER MARTIN DU GARD, Vieille France, 1933, page 1095. 7. ART CULINAIRE. Longe de veau étouffée. Cuite à l'étouff...

• Venezuela - country.

  Venezuela has six navigable rivers. Of the thousand or more streams in the country, the majority flow into the Orinoco. The Orinoco flows east across central Venezuelaand drains approximately four-fifths of the total area of the country. With the tributaries—the Apure, Meta, and Negro rivers—it forms the outlet into the Atlantic Oceanfor the waters of much of the interior of Colombia, as well as of inland Venezuela. F Climate The climate of Venezuela is tropical on the Llanos and along the coas...

• Hugo Chávez.

  VII 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND AFTER Chávez easily won reelection in the 2006 presidential contest. Although opposition parties had boycotted legislative elections in 2005, they returned to the electoralprocess in 2006. Nevertheless, Chávez won handily with about 63 percent of the vote as most Venezuelans appeared to approve of the way the country’s oil wealth wasbeing distributed. Following the election, Chávez asked the National Assembly for the power to rule by decree for a period of 18...

• Cuba - country.

  Only two land mammals, the hutia, or cane rat, and the solenodon, a rare insectivore that resembles a rat, are known to be indigenous. The island has numerous batsand nearly 300 kinds of birds, including vultures, wild turkeys, quail, finches, gulls, macaws, parakeets, and hummingbirds. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is thesmallest bird in the world. Among the few reptiles are tortoises, caimans, the Cuban crocodile, and a species of boa that can attain a length of 3.7 m (12 ft). More than700 speci...

• Harry S.

  B2 Presiding Judge Political machines, such as the Pendergast organization, were common to both parties in the 1920s. They were based on the spoils system, in which winning politiciansgave government jobs to those loyal party members who had helped them get elected. Using government jobs as rewards, politicians created efficient (and oftenalmost unstoppable) vote-getting “machines,” in which party loyalty was often more important than doing any work. Without local machine support a political ca...

• Harry S.

  B2 Presiding Judge Political machines, such as the Pendergast organization, were common to both parties in the 1920s. They were based on the spoils system, in which winning politiciansgave government jobs to those loyal party members who had helped them get elected. Using government jobs as rewards, politicians created efficient (and oftenalmost unstoppable) vote-getting “machines,” in which party loyalty was often more important than doing any work. Without local machine support a political ca...

• Fidschi - geographie.

  wieder in den Commonwealth of Nations aufgenommen. Bei den Parlamentswahlen im Mai 1999 gewann die FLP mit 37 der insgesamt 71 Mandate die absolute Mehrheit; ihr Vorsitzender Mahendra Chaudhry wurde – als ersterIndischstämmiger – Premierminister des Landes. Als oberstes innenpolitisches Ziel formulierte Chaudhry die Beendigung der Spannungen zwischen den ethnischen Gruppen,die sich unter der die Melanesier bevorzugenden Regierung Rabuka verschärft hatten. Am 19. Mai 2000 wurden Premierminister C...

• Massachusetts - geography.

  mi). Other large artificial lakes include Wachusett Reservoir, East Brimfield Reservoir, and Cobble Mountain Reservoir. Assawompsett Pond, covering about 10 sq km(about 4 sq mi), is the largest natural lake. North Watuppa Pond and Long Pond are other large natural lakes. Lake Chaubunagungamaug, near Webster, is usuallycalled Webster Lake, because the Algonquian name is difficult to pronounce and spell. The full version of the Native American name is said to be the longest place-namein North Amer...

• Native Americans of North America.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• Native Americans of North America - Canadian History.

  addition to smallpox and measles, explorers and colonists brought a host of other diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pleurisy, mumps,diphtheria, pneumonia, whooping cough, malaria, yellow fever, and various sexually transmitted infections. Despite the undisputed devastation wreaked on Indian populations after European contact, native populations showed enormous regional variability in their response todisease exposure. Some peoples survived and, in some cases, even...

• Hassan II, le roi qui a conjugué absolutisme et ouverture

  Premier complot Devenu juriste, Moulay Hassan conseille son père. Il participe à la rédaction du discours du Trône de 1952, considéré commela charte du nationalisme marocain. L'épreuve de force est engagée entre le palais et la résidence générale. Celle-ci encourage lesintrigues du glaoui, pacha de Marrakech, à la tête des conjurés, qui proclament sultan un fantoche, Mohammed Ben Arafa.Mohammed V refuse l'ultimatum du général Guillaume le sommant d'abdiquer. Le 20 août 1953, il est arrêté ave...

• comptabilité nationale.

  organismes sans personnalité juridique mais qui vendent des biens ou des services ; elles sont le plus souvent publiques (telle la Poste), mais sont parfois privées (filiales résidentes en France de sociétés non résidentes). 2e secteur : les ménages. Il s'agit de l'ensemble des personnes physiques résidentes, titulaires de revenus et dont la fonction économique principale est la consommation. Ce secteur regroupe encore les entrepreneurs individuels (industriels, commerçants, professions lib...

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• Guatemala - country.

  C Climate The climate of Guatemala varies according to elevation, from hot coastal plains to cold mountain heights. Most of the population lives between 900 and 2,400 m (3,000and 8,000 ft) above sea level, where there are warm days and cool nights with average annual temperatures of 20°C (68°F). The coastal regions are hot and humid,with average annual temperatures of 28°C (83°F). A rainy season, from May through October, is sometimes called “winter” because it brings cloudy afternoons andlower...

• memoire

  logistique : Une gestion pertinente des compétences des ressources humaines et la mise en place de relations de collaboration entre une entreprise et ses partenaires de chaîne logistique 3 . Cependant la chaine logistique n’est elle pas un pilier pour améliorer la compétitivité de l’entreprise au national et a l’international ? Intérêt L’objectif de cette thèse est donc de proposer un repere s’appuyant sur ces deux inducteurs pour formaliser une démarche d’évaluation de la performa...

• Michigan - geography.

  The interior location of Michigan in the northern part of North America results in a continental climate, characterized by four definite seasons with moist, mild to hotsummers and snowy, cold winters. Winds off of Lakes Michigan and Superior in winter create heavy snow accumulations in nearby areas. The tempering effects of LakeMichigan account for the presence of the state’s famous fruit-growing belt along the lake’s shore. Since the water is colder than the land in spring, the westerly windspa...

• Michigan - USA History.

  The interior location of Michigan in the northern part of North America results in a continental climate, characterized by four definite seasons with moist, mild to hotsummers and snowy, cold winters. Winds off of Lakes Michigan and Superior in winter create heavy snow accumulations in nearby areas. The tempering effects of LakeMichigan account for the presence of the state’s famous fruit-growing belt along the lake’s shore. Since the water is colder than the land in spring, the westerly windspa...

• Sept semaines d'exode massif au Kosovo

  tenaient les négociations de Rambouillet, la présence - dès janvier selon le Post - de paramilitaires comme les "tigres" d'Arkandans la région de Mitrovica, de Velika Hoca ou ailleurs, les "bérets rouges" de Franko Simatovic. Le départ, enfin, desvérificateurs de l'OSCE, qui franchirent la frontière macédonienne le 20 mars, sous les applaudissements des forces serbes. D'après un décompte effectué jeudi 6 mai par le Haut-Commissariat aux réfugiés de l'ONU (HCR), 875 000 Albanais duKosovo ont q...

• Washington, D.

  South of the Federal Triangle is the Mall, a narrow park stretching roughly 1.6 km (1 mi) from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. Although the Mall officially ends at14th Street, landscaped greenery extends to the Potomac. The Washington Monument, whose marble shaft dominates the skyline, stands 169 m (555 ft) high near thecenter of this parkland. The interior of the monument is hollow, and visitors may either climb its 898 steps or ride its elevator 150 m (500 ft) for a magnificent view. A...

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• Japanese Art and Architecture I INTRODUCTION Otani Oniji as Eitoku Otani Oniji as Eitoku is one of a number of woodblock prints created by the artist T? sh ?sai Sharaku between 1794 and 1795 during the Edo period in Japan.

  Jō mon PotteryJapan’s J ōmon people, who thrived from 10,000 to 300 bc, made distinctive pottery for boiling, steaming, and storing food.The pots were made with coils of clay and then decorated by rolling carved sticks, plant fibers, or braided cords over theouter surface. This cord-marked (j ōmon) pottery gave the culture its name.Scala/Art Resource, NY The first settlers of Japan, the J ōmon people (10,000?-300? BC), named for the cord markings that decorated the surfaces of their clay vessel...

• Thailand - country.

  E Natural Resources Thailand possesses a range of mineral resources. Tin is mined in the peninsula. Important gemstones, such as sapphires, are found in the southeast, and coal reserves,particularly lignite, are in the north. Fish are abundant in rivers and coastal waters. In addition to being consumed domestically, fish are also exported. F Climate Thailand experiences a typical monsoon climate. Winds blow from the northeast during the winter months of October to March or April (known as the...

• Georgia (state) - geography.

  B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...

• Georgia (state) - USA History.

  B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...