Communist International in 1920-s: British direction of activity by A. Y. Prokopov

“…In this article the main attention of the author is devoted to the problem of the decisive influence of the Communist International and its tactic “the united workers front” (1921—1928) on the policy of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) towards the Labour Party, the British Congress of Trade-Unions and the first Labour Government (1924). …”
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Les enjeux idéologiques et argumentatifs de la formule « same sex marriage » by François Labatut

“…This article presents a qualitative and computer-assisted, corpus-based analysis of the use of the “same sex marriage” formulae during the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act debates in Great Britain in 2013. By drawing on Krieg-Planque’s work (2009), I want to show the reasons why same sex marriage may be assimilated to the discursive notion of formulae. …”
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Československá vojenská mise v Kanadě: Činnost a výsledky by Tomáš Jiránek

“… The Czechoslovak military mission in Canada (1941–1943) aimed to secure the enlistment of local Czechs to Czechoslovak units in Great Britain. The original expectations regarding the number of men who could be enlisted were overoptimistic; in just under 2 years only 147 men were sent to Europe. …”
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Autonomy in the Dock: Oscar Wilde’s First Trial by Bénédicte Coste

“…The 1895 Wilde trials are usually seen as either the trial of non-normative sexualities or as enabling a definition of the homosexual in Great Britain at the close of the nineteenth century. …”
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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…Contacts with the embassies of Great Britain and the USA were naturally at the top of the agenda. …”
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Analysis And Evaluation of Currently Used Standards/Norms/Guidelines for the Design and Installation of Emergency Lighting by Marcin Ochenkowski, Tomasz Popielarczyk

“…The analysis took into account the guidelines and standards of countries such as: United Arab Emirates, United States, Australia, Netherlands, Norway, Great Britain and Poland. European countries base their design requirements on the European standard EN 1838 and EN 50172, taking into account their own guidelines. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMY AND INDUSTRY USING THE CRITERION OF ECONOMIC LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGIES by A. G. Zhivotovskaia

“…By graphical and econometric analysis, the values and trends of changes in the economic level of technologies at the level of economy and industry for five countries have been estimated: the Great Britain, Germany, Russia, the USA, France. The ability of the economic level of technologies to predict internal crises in the country has been considered. …”
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« La peur du désir » : A Mummer’s Wife et Esther Waters de George Moore by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Set amidst the blazing furnaces of an industrial city and the fogs and vapours of London, A Mummer’s Wife (1885) and Esther Waters (1894) mirror the fears generated by the ongoing and accelerated process of industrialization and urbanization that took place in Great Britain in the 19th century. In these novels, the images of the industrial and urban landscape, but also of the Victorian domestic scene, conveyed and filtered through the protagonists’ minds and bodies, contribute to the dramatization of their existential state. …”
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Impact of Digital Solutions on Bigtech Companies and Energy Complex Organizations and a Number of Directions for the Development of the Republic of Belarus by A. V. Tsedrik

“…This article describes the experience of a number of regulatory measures by the governments of Great Britain and France on Bigtech companies with the largest share in the process of creating digital solutions and platforms. …”
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History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums by Yannick Le Pape

“…Dante was definitely popular in Great-Britain, so that it was quite easy for Rossetti to negotiate his works, and no doubt that the emerging speculative collecting for businessmen did limit sales to a short panel of wealthy rivals who took advantage of museums' hesitations about Pre-Raphaelitism — as well as foreign critics focused on Rossetti a bit too late, when his works were already in the English acquisitions field. …”
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Urbaniser les zones inondables, est-ce concevable ? by Bruno Barroca, Gilles Hubert

“…In France, it is considered as a quite up-bottom approach, contrarily to Great Britain were negotiation, assessment and dialogue at a local level are developed. …”
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O Simbolismo das Cores no Livro de José de Arimateia by Pedro Chambel

“…The book is a narrative about the Holy Grail, the chalice that was supposed to contain the blood shed by Jesus Christ while crucified, collected by Joseph of Arimathea; and also the adventures of the characters that interact with the grail while it was taken from Jerusalem to Great Britain. In this text there are references to several colors -white, red, green, black, blue and gold – which have symbolic meanings, that must be interpreted and taken into account on the analysis and comprehension of a narrative with a strong allegoric-symbolic content. …”
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La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónica: Inglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX) by David Martín López

“…This essay reflects, from a multidisciplinary and holistic perspective, how the medievalism interacts with the aesthetics of Freemasonry from its origins to 20th century, as a group with a supranational identity, principally in Great Britain – England and Scotland. Freemasonry, considered as one of the first “social network”, emerged in contemporary society of the pre-Enlightenment in England (1717), draw a global map of corporatism – whether philanthropic, educational, ethical, moral and even political senses could met there – with the principles and aesthetic values associated with arts and architecture. …”
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Count Philip Kinsky, the British Ministers, and Society: Social and Political Networks of an Imperial Diplomat in London, 1728–1735 by Charlotte Backerra

“…In 1728, Emperor Charles VI decided to send Count Kinsky to the court of King George II of Great Britain to re-establish diplomatic relations. The aims of Kinsky’s mission to London were challenging, and his inexperience as well as the conflicting political aims of Charles VI and George II complicated matters at first. …”
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On French and British Freedoms Early Bloomsbury and the Brothels of Modernism by Christine Froula

“…In On British Freedom (1923), Clive Bell argued that ‘Great Britain is one of the least free countries in the world’ in respect not to political freedom but to such everyday freedoms as ‘an ordinary Frenchman’ enjoys. …”
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Rozvoj infrastruktury komunálního podnikání v kontextu externího zajišťování komunálních služeb (Development of Infrastructure of the Municipal Enterpreneurship in the Context of t... by Karel Lacina, Hana Matoušková

“…The aim of the paper is to discuss the situation of the municipal enterpreneurship in some EU member countries (namely Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Scandinavian countries) with regards to the process of privatization running out since later 1970s and the subsequent outsourcing of contracting the municipal service provision by private companies. …”
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Le genre féerique illustré à l’époque victorienne : splendeurs et déclin d’un genre entré en résistance by Audrey Doussot

“…After having been blacklisted for decades, fairy tales unexpectedly came back into favour in Great Britain during the Victorian period, being staunchly supported by authors like Ruskin, Dickens or MacDonald. …”
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Elaboration of the Method for Safety Assessment of Subsea Pipeline with Longitudinal Buckling by Liudmila Muravyeva, Nikolai Vatin

“…As per the Russian standards, the vertical buckling is not considered in the stability analysis, whereas the standards of the USA, Norway (DNV-RP-F110), and the Great Britain emphasize the need for considering the lateral buckling caused by axial forces. …”
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Origins and Development of Initiation of Free Radical Polymerization Processes by Dietrich Braun

“…In the 1940s the polymerization by redox processes was found independently and simultaneously at IG Farben in Germany and ICI in Great Britain. In the 1950s the systematic investigation of azo compounds as free radical initiators followed. …”
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USSR in World War II by M. Yu. Myagkov

“…The United States and Great Britain took all measures available to them to quickly remove from the governments of Italy, France and other Western states all the left-wing forces that in 1944-1945 had a serious impact on the politics of their countries.…”
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