And to sidestep Anglo-French vetoes at the Security Council, for the first time the General Assembly met in emergency session (where no country held a veto) and took up a Canadian suggestion to assemble an international emergency force to go to the canal and monitor the ceasefire.
The prime minister said an emergency task force had been activated, and he appealed for calm.
He delayed the appointments and convened an emergency task force.
If that was unlikely to fly, the military met another demand on December 10th, as BNP leaders met to consider a poll boycott: it announced that the state of emergency in force since January 2007 would be lifted.
It also would offer incentives for renewable energy, require the government to release oil from its emergency reserve, and force oil companies to drill on federal lands they already lease from the government.
Sir Peter Fahy said it had become the main issue for officers responding to emergency calls, and the force was struggling to cope.
Although it's worth noting that parliament is supposed, eventually, to pass a resolution approving that state of emergency for it remain in force beyond two months.
In 1979 3M revamped its technology--sold under the Opticom brand--to allow it to recognize two different priority levels: a high level for emergency vehicles, which could force traffic lights to change immediately and a lower level for transit vehicles, which could hold off changing the light entirely if changing the light to green would snarl traffic.
Despite intense floods in Australia, causing the company to declare a force majeure, or emergency measure allowing it to miss contracted deliveries due to circumstances beyond their control, the company saw increased revenues in all geographic regions.
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An emergency task group of the Brazilian National Force has been sent to the region to assist local authorities.
The caller to the force's non-emergency number who reported the murder of Carl King in Emmerdale gave his name as "Alan Sugar".
One hundred and fifty orphans and 28 adults died when a US air force transport plane made an emergency landing after a door blew out.
For the last five years Carolyn has been the driving force behind the Denver Community Emergency Response Training (Denver CERT) and the Emergency Preparedness Programs which includes a special focus on diverse populations and organizations.
For the last two years, America joined with the international community to provide emergency food aid and support for an African Union peacekeeping force.
Callers to the 101 line are automatically connected with their local county police force, which will redirect calls to the other emergency forces as necessary.
As a result neither were prepared to make the hefty concessions that could possibly convince the presidential task-force that the pair were deserving of big supplies of emergency cash.
The force could also be made available to support the UN in an emergency, such as the crisis in May when UN peacekeepers were attacked and taken hostage.
The force said its objectives for 2012-13 included delivering an effective emergency response, targeting organised crime groups and drug markets, working with partners and the public to catch offenders, reduce re-offending and road accident fatalities, and plan and prepare to respond to any major and serious incidents.
In UNESCO Islamabad, a small in house task force has been constituted which is actively involved in providing technical assistance for emergency response in different parts of Pakistan.
In 1971, the Pakistani air force attacked Indian airfields and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency.
Uzbekistan doesn't mind contributing military units to the rapid-reaction force "but does not consider it necessary for the moment" to attach emergency responders, drug-control forces and other special services, organization spokesman Vitaly Strugovets told Interfax.
The developments are reportedly right in line with the US government's Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Initiative, and we're sure officials are mighty proud of the E-Flare, which provides optical and acoustic warnings coupled with a force-feedback gas pedal, and E-Horn, which accepts incoming warning signals from emergency vehicles and alerts the driver via (presumably distracting) in-cabin lights and sounds.
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Emergency services have been dealing with a number of fallen trees, and power cables brought down by the storm-force winds.
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