What does DORA stand for?

Defence Of the Realm Act

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Military and Government

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Heathrow, a civil airport, was forced on the local populace by subterfuge under the 1939 Defence of the Realm Act.

Heathrow's heavy tactics

Freedom's Frontier offers a history of British censorship going back to the nineteenth century, taking in the Official Secrets Act of 1911, the Defence of the Realm Acts, which curtailed the press during the World Wars, and the long battles over pornography and obscenity pre-inter-and-post-war.

Censorship in today's Britain

But it was the wartime Defence of the Realm Act in 1914 that set the framework for licensing for most of the 20th century.

Crackdown on boozers began way back in 1736

In World War II, under the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA), we detained all known Germans, Austrians, pro-Nazis and pro-Fascists on the Isle of Man for the duration.

We forkout [pounds sterling]1m in legal aid for Osama Bin Laden's ...