Without Orders is a 1936 American drama film directed by Lew Landers and starring Sally Eilers, Robert Armstrong, Frances Sage, Charley Grapewin and Vinton...
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Order in Council (redirect from Orders in Council)
terminology may vary. Orders-in-Council are distinct from Orders of Council, which are made in the name of the Council without sovereign approval. There...
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Order of chivalry (redirect from Knightly orders)
Catholic military orders of the Crusades (c. 1099–1291) and paired with medieval concepts of ideals of chivalry. Since the 15th century, orders of chivalry...
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While any guard posting has rules that may go without saying ("Stay awake," for instance), these orders are carefully detailed and particularly stressed...
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Superior orders, also known as just following orders or the Nuremberg defense, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether civilian, military or...
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Order of Council (redirect from Orders of Council)
Council, Orders of Council are made by the Privy Council in its own right and without requiring the monarch's approval. The preamble of all Orders of Council...
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Gwato on 4 January 1897 by a group of Benin soldiers who were acting without orders from the Oba; the ambush had led to the deaths of all but two of the...
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the Berlin Wall, under pressure from a large crowd of protesters and without orders to do so. Jäger grew up in Bautzen, and was educated in the manufacture...
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Order of magnitude (redirect from Orders of Magnitude)
and 2,000,000: they differ by 6 orders of magnitude. Examples of numbers of different magnitudes can be found at Orders of magnitude (numbers). Below are...
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In motor racing, team orders is the practice of teams issuing instructions to drivers to deviate from the normal practice of racing against each other...
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Penitent order (redirect from Penitential Orders)
defend the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, and, like all mendicant orders, they derive their means of subsistence entirely from contributions and...
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such as when he sent the Leibstandarte division "charging into Rostov" without orders "purely to gain a prestige victory". Once Dietrich was promoted to a...
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Classical order (redirect from Architectural orders)
present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders are the styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions...
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Sickles moved his III Corps ahead of the main line of the Union Army without orders, causing him to be nearly cut off from the main army when the Confederate...
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Executive order (redirect from Executive orders)
the federal government. The legal or constitutional basis for executive orders has multiple sources. Article Two of the United States Constitution gives...
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the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, after he moved his III Corps without orders to an untenable position, where they suffered 40% casualties but slowed...
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In certain Christian denominations, holy orders are the ordained ministries of bishop, priest (presbyter), and deacon, and the sacrament or rite by which...
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Vindex, the forces under Verginius appear to have decided on a battle without orders. Desire for plunder and the weakness of Verginius as a commander are...
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executions and political repression. In other instances they were committed without orders by Soviet troops against prisoners of war or civilians of countries...
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ships and "Black May" when the allies sank at least 44 U-boats—each without orders to exercise EMCON/radio silence.[citation needed] Radio silence can...
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the size of the universe[further explanation needed] (see least-energy in orders of magnitude (energy)) 10−18 1 aK Macroscopic quantum tunnelling of matter...
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the release of the prisoners. The opinion that Wilkes had operated without orders and had erred by, in effect, holding a prize court on the deck of the...
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chess game can claim a draw if 50 consecutive moves are made by each side without any captures or pawn moves. Demography: The population of Nassau Island...
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procedures in place at the time did not allow Greer to take action without orders from senior agent Roy Kellerman, who sat to Greer's right. Kellerman...
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German invasion of Hungary (1944) (category Articles missing coordinates without coordinates on Wikidata)
ruse to keep Horthy out of the country and to leave the Hungarian Army without orders. Negotiations between Horthy and Hitler lasted until 18 March, when...
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Executive Orders is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on July 1, 1996. It picks up immediately where the final events of Debt...
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tellings of the story, young Casabianca refuses to desert his post without orders from his father. (It is sometimes said, rather improbably, that he heroically...
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with the news that Scott had withdrawn. With his troops withdrawing without orders, it became clear to Lee that he was losing control of the vanguard,...
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Desertion (redirect from Absent without leave)
Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning...
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hope') and they still had hope that one day the orders would return. After many years without orders, the manufacturing plant in Osaka asked management...
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