The initial plan was for Britain to buy 150 Jaguar " B " trainers, with its strike requirements being met by the advanced BAC-Dassault AFVG aircraft, with France to buy 75 " E " trainers ( " �cole " ) and 75 " A " single-seat strike attack aircraft ( " appui " ).
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Currently the organization dates from 2001 with a distribution in several types of units : combat units, response units ( " unit�s d'intervention " ), " unit�s de soutien et d'appui ", and finally special reserve units as part of 3 joint military r�gions ( " interarm�es " ) and the 10 military land sectors.
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The agency was created in Luxembourg on 20 July 2006 by seven local institutions : the European Investment Fund ( EIF ), the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry ( ALFI ), the Luxembourg Bankers Association ( ABBL ), the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, the Appui au D�veloppement Autonome ( ADA ), the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance and the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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It has prompted much speculation as to its iconographic significance . " Unwavering faith " has been taken to be the underlying theme by many commentators, including Spitta and Schweitzer, who compared the unsteady theme to the vision of a sailor seeking a firm foothold on a stormy deck ( " un marin qui cherche un appui solide sur une planche roulante " ).
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The IISS estimated in 2012 that the Army had a strength of 11, 900 soldiers, three armoured battalions the 22nd, 24th, and 25th ( at Bignona ) and the 26th " Bataillon de reconnaissance et d'Appui " at Kolda; there are six infantry battalions 1st to 6th . 3rd Battalion may have been at Kaolack with 4th at Tambacounda at one point.
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Cross-channel negotiations led to the formation of "'SEPECAT "'( " Soci�t?Europ�enne de Production de l'Avion d'�cole de Combat et d'Appui Tactique " the " European company for the production of a combat trainer and tactical support aircraft " ) in 1966 as a joint venture between Breguet and the British Aircraft Corporation to produce the airframe.
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In Berlin, Lshima was ordered to convey to the German foreign minister Ribbentrop that the " Japanese government have decided to secure'points d'appui'in French Indochina to enable further to strengthen her pressure on Great Britain and the United States of America, " and to present this as a " valuable contribution to the common front " by promising that " We Japanese are not going to sit on the fence while you Germans fight the Russians ."
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As he writes in his English adaptation " Sound and Symbol in Chinese " ( 1923 ), Chapter I : " Thus, though Chinese traditions give no hint whatever of an immigration from any foreign country, and though there consequently is no external chronological " point d'appui ", we are nonetheless able to state, from internal evidence, that the Chinese tradition which places the reign of the emperor Yao in the twenty-fourth century B . C . is correct; that the Chinese even in those remote times were skilled astronomers; that they put down in writing in the Chinese language records of memorable events, and in all probability wrote their accounts soon after the events; in short, that a well-developed Chinese civilization resting undoubtedly on foundations many centuries old together with the Chinese language, existed on Chinese soil two thousand years before Christ ."
