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The act of mobilizing

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The marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war.

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The process by which the armed forces of a nation are brought to a state of readiness for a conflict.

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The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place

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The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another

Germany viewed the Russian mobilization as an act of war and therefore declared war on Russia.

Mobilization began in all the countries affected on Sept.

At the completion of mobilization the ration strength of the field forces alone, exclusive of III.

These constituted 12 active divisions, plus, on mobilization, 10 first reserve divisions and 3 second reserve divisions.

His chief professional assistant is the chef detat-major general (chief of the general staff), a vice-admiral, who is responsible for the organization of the naval forces, the mobilization and movements of the fleet, &c.

Reinstatement After mobilization, you are obliged to reinstate a former Reservist employe in their old job.

In this model the positive feedback mechanism is operated via quantal release enhancing mobilization.

The unity of revolutionaries is only meaningful when it is turned toward the overall tasks of mobilization and political reorganization of the social movement.

But on leaving the colors the men disperse to their homes, and thus a regiment has, on mobilization, to draw largely on the nearest reservists, irrespective of the corps to which they belong.

The Rigsdag which assembled on the 23rd of February 1657 willingly granted considerable subsidies for mobilization and other military expenses; on the 15th of April Frederick III.

Within six years the mobilization arrangements were recast, the war against Denmark in 1864 proving an opportune test of the new system.

Bulgaria began her mobilization at the end of September, followed immediately by her allies; Turkey ordered mobilization on Oct.1; by Oct.

The death of Arcadius in May 408 caused milder counsels to prevail in the western cabinet, but Alaric, who had actually entered Epirus, demanded in a somewhat threatening manner that if he were thus suddenly bidden to desist from war, he should be paid handsomely for what in modern language would be called the expenses of mobilization.

It is assumed that on mobilization these men are immediately available.

It did, indeed, assent to a treatyafterwards signed on behalf of the confederationby which Prussia and Austria guaranteed each other, but it resolutely opposed the mobilization of the confederate army.

By the 16th of March 1866 the Austrian war preparations were so far advanced that Count Mensdorff thought it safe to send an ultimatum to Prussia and, at the same time, a circular note to the princes declaring that, in the event of an evasive reply, Austria would move in the diet for the mobilization of the federal forces.

Every battalion receives two additional companies on mobilization and takes the field with six companies.

He succeeded, however, in compelling the archbishop of Mainz and the bishops of Wiirzburg and Bamberg to contribute to the cost of his mobilization.

The special reserve, converted from the militia, consists of infantry, field and garrison artillery, the Irish Horse (late Yeomanry), engineers, and a few A.S.C. and R.A.M.C. Its object is to make good on mobilization deficiencies (so far as they may exist of ter the calling in of the army reserve) in the expeditionary or regular forces, and to repair the losses of a campaign.

The war organization of the home establishment, with its general and special reserves, aimed at the mobilization and despatch overseas of 6 army divisions, each of 12 battalions in 3 brigades; 9 field batteries in 3 brigades, a brigade of 3 field howitzer batteries, and a heavy battery, each with the appropriate ammunition columns; 2 field companies and telegraph company R.E.; 2 companies mounted infantry; and ambulances, columns and parks.

In addition to the field army itself, various lines of communication troops are sent abroad on mobilization.

But in accordance both with the growing tendency to separate command and administration and with the desire to enlist local sympathies and utilize local resources, "associations," partly of civilian, partly of military members, were formed in every county and charged by statute with all matters relating to the enlistment, service and discharge of the county's quota in the force, finance (other than pay, &c. in camp), buildings, ownership of regimental property, &c. To these duties of county associations are added that of supervising and administering cadet corps of all sorts (other than officers' training corps), and that of providing the extra horses required on mobilization, not only by the territorial force, but by the expeditionary force as well.

The Riksdag of 190o, in addition to grants for the fortifications at Boden, in the province of Norrbotten, on the Russian border, and other military objects, voted a considerable grant for an experimental mobilization, which fully exposed the defects and faults of the old system.

The arrangements for mobilization are otherwise very complete, and the field army is maintained in a high state of efficiency.

The tenor of his speeches was always to encourage Ministers in vigorous action - on such questions, for instance, as the mobilization of industry, the treatment of aliens and the provision of munitions.

The mobilization of 1870 placed him at the head of the VIII.

During mobilization in 1914 he was at the head of the German field railway service.

In particular, it traces the emergence of a strategy of mobilization, which was closely associated with leftist trends within Bolshevism.

That is why the biggest mobilization ever against capitalist war took place in 2003, on the eve of the invasion of Iraq.

The big anti-war protests in late 2002 and early 2003 also rehabilitated mass mobilization as a way to engage in politics.

Although it relied on mass mobilization, this was never a central plank of its strategy, and was always subjugated to diplomacy.

On the 30th of November the mobilization of a sixth division was ordered, offers of colonial aid were accepted, and every facility provided for local recruiting in the South African ports.

Two ordinary congressional sessions are held each year - April 1 to May 31 and September 16 to December 15 - and a permanent committee of 29 members (14 senators and 15 deputies) sits during recess, with the power to confirm executive appointments, to give assent to a mobilization of the national guard, fo convene extra legislative sessions, to administer oaths, and to report at the next session on matters requiring congressional action.

After a period of vacillation Hanover threw in her lot with Austria, the decisive step being taken when the question of the mobilization of the federal army was voted upon in the diet on the 14th of June 1866.

The citizens, who were called upon to fight their battles, were usually unable to contend successfully with men whose whole lives had been passed in warfare; the isolation of the cities was not favorable to the creation or mobilization of an active and homogeneous force; and, moreover, at this time many of them were disturbed by internal troubles.

This was useful for the purposes of speedy mobilization, though there was some danger that the local and national spirit might penetrate into the army.

These constituted 12 active divisions, plus, on mobilization, II first reserve divisions and 6 second reserve divisions.

Venizelos then ordered a general mobilization of the Greek army and formally declared war against Germany and her allies.

Even in the summer and autumn a large proportion of the army consisted of men with but a few months servicea highly dangerous state of things considering the peculiar mobilization conditioss of the country.

Napoleon was surprised by the news of Prussia's mobilization; he had come to regard her as a negligible quantity, and now he found that her unexpected sensitiveness on points of honour was about to revivify the Third Coalition against France.

In 1850 Prussia, realizing from the breakdown of her mobilization for the war then impending with Austria that success was impossible, submitted to the Austrian demands, but her statesmen saw from the first that the "surrender of Olmiitz," as it was termed, rendered eventual war with Austria "a military necessity."

One result of this is that mobilization and concentration are much slower processes than they are in Germany.