Robson, ranked 201 in the world, was in action at the HP Open in Osaka on Tuesday but lost in the opening round to Kimiko Date Krumm.
He had served in the navy in the second world war, and saw action in the Pacific.
The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was formed in 1858 and first fought in a major conflict in the Boer War in 1899, as well as action in the First World War, although traces its origins to an Irish dragoons regiment dating back to 1689.
He has a history of standing firm on issues he believes in, in foreign affairs at least: witness his chivvying of the rest of the world to take action against the Serbs in Kosovo.
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Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only further isolate them, as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defence and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats.
"Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defence and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats, " he said.
England meet the Boks in the group stages at the World Cup later this year and Ashton hopes some of the players in action over the next two weeks will stake a claim to be part of the squad in France.
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The world is invited to take action in 2010 to safeguard the variety of life on earth: biodiversity.
Correctly understood, mythology puts us in the correct spiritual or psychological posture for right action, in this world or the next.
"The thing that really brought the world to a better place in 2008 was genuine collective action involving both the developed and the developing world through the G20, " he told the BBC.
The rule had overtones of affirmative action in the corporate world.
The new independent ministers find themselves telling their sovereign parliaments just what are the real limits on sovereign freedom of action in the modern world.
The clergy, in his understanding, are more akin to support staff, experts in the spiritual life who offer the sacraments and means of doctrinal and spiritual formation, but the real "action" is out in the world.
In Doha, governments are expected to usher in a renewed commitment under the Kyoto Protocol, move the broad infrastructure of support they have been building for action in the developing world into firm implementation, and decide how to resolve policy issues that remain outstanding under the UN Climate Change Convention.
There's little doubt the Scotland supporters will relish seeing some of the world's best players in action at Hampden, though they would prefer to see them wearing blue shirts.
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"This particular dinosaur is a bit more distantly related to birds - it's a more primitive dinosaur... it indicates wings evolved earlier than previously thought, " she told the BBC World Service programme Science in Action.
"What is so exciting about seeing these films is that they really represent just another conception of cinema, one far more based on the image, less on notions of continuity or creating a real world for the action to take place in, " says Pena.
This was because for the first time, there was a force in the world that limited their freedom of action: the Soviet Union.
The Briton, 26, had made it as high as 48 in the world rankings last year before a serious knee injury in the summer put her out of action until Februrary, and facing Pennetta on clay proved too much.
For the world's leading central banks, the action is all in "unconventional measures" to support the economy and the banking system: like the UK's latest round of quantitative easing, or "operation twist" by the US Federal Reserve.
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Now, of course part of the Obama doctrine is that acting in the world doesn't have to be military action.
Members of UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) across the world are taking part in the Global Action Week (20-26 April).
He said most other countries in the developing world had taken action a decade ago and had backed it with money for liver services.
"We're on a moving boat and we don't have too much space to manoeuvre, to let the helicopter land, so it can be quite dangerous, " Dr Acevedo-Whitehouse told the BBC World Service's Science In Action programme.
"On the diplomatic and political fronts, in the time I have been prime minister, I cannot recall a situation that has commanded so quickly such a powerful coalition of support -- not just from those countries directly involved in military action but from many others in all parts of the world, " he said.
While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.
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