More controversial had been Leopold's decision to surrender to Nazi Germany during World War II, when Belgium was invaded in 1940 ; many Belgians questioned his loyalties, but a commission of inquiry exonerated him of treason after World War II.

His forceful, energetic and sometimes passionate and fiery personality proved a good complement for Leopold's Hamlet-like tendency to allow endless doubts and scruples to paralyse his capacity for action.

they were determined by the points at which Leopold's explorers and gunmen got tired of walking.

Callicott supports a holistic, non-anthropocentric environmental ethic which is in accordance with Leopold's view that " A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

He had an early taste of power while acting as Leopold's deputy in Vienna while the incoming Emperor traversed the Empire attempting to win back those alienated by his brother's policies.

Some of Conrad's experiences in the Congo and the story's historic background, including possible models for Kurtz, are recounted in Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost.

In King Leopold's Ghost ( 1998 ), Adam Hochschild argues that literary scholars have made too much of the psychological aspects of Heart of Darkness while scanting the horror of Conrad's accurate recounting of the methods and effects of colonialism.

The first community computer was placed outside of Leopold's Records in Berkeley, California.

Richard quarrelled with Leopold V of Austria over the deposition of Isaac Komnenos ( related to Leopold's Byzantine mother ) and his position within the crusade.

Leopold's banner had been raised alongside the English and French standards.

Duke Leopold kept him prisoner at Dürnstein Castle under the care of Leopold's ministerialis Hadmar of Kuenring.

The Academy was not pleased, and as a countermeasure Johan Erik Rydqvist ( 1800 – 1877 ) published the first edition of SAOL in 1874, based on the orthography in Leopold's work of 1801.

His mother, Maria Antonia, had been Leopold's daughter by his first marriage, to Philip IV of Spain's younger daughter Margaret Theresa.

Nevertheless Albert, having received a good education, undertook the government of Austria proper on the occasion of Leopold's death in 1411 and succeeded, with the aid of his advisers, in ridding the duchy of the evils which had arisen during his minority.

As he did not manage to overcome Leopold's obstinacy, Frederick returned to Munich as a prisoner, even though the Pope had released him from his oath.

However, after Leopold's death in 1326, Frederick withdrew from the regency of the Empire and returned to rule only Austria.

One of Leopold's sons was Otto, bishop of Freising.

") was made count palatine of the Rhine in 1140, and became margrave of Austria on Leopold's death in 1141.

Leopold's fortune was greatly increased through the proceeds of Congolese rubber, which had never previously been mass-produced in such surplus quantities.

Leopold's regime began undertaking various development projects, such as a railway that ran from the coast to Leopoldville ( now Kinshasa ) which took years to complete.

However, there were international protests particularly in Britain and the United States in 1903-04 spearheaded mainly by Edmund Dene Morel and British diplomat / Irish patriot Roger Casement, whose 1904 report on the Congo condemned the practice, as well as famous writers such as Mark Twain ( who wrote King Leopold's Soliloquy ) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

During Leopold's exile in Switzerland ( 1945 – 1950 ), Prince Charles of Belgium acted as the regent.

The result of Leopold's aggressive tendencies, and those of his son Francis II, who succeeded him in March, was that France declared war on Austria on 20 April 1792.

In 1686 he again supported Leopold's Turkish War.

It can be translated as a term of endearment: for as the leader of Leopold's expedition, he commonly worked with the labourers breaking rocks with which they built the first modern road along the Congo River.

* Hochschild, Adam: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.

This ending proved unpopular and Ibsen later regretted his decision on the matter.

The Cook – Levin theorem states that the Boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete, and in fact, this was the first decision problem proved to be NP-complete.

By 1990, after efforts by Wendy's agency, Backer Spielvolgel Bates, to get humor into the campaign, a decision was made to portray Thomas in a more self-deprecating and folksy manner, which proved much more popular with test audiences.

This proved to be a hasty decision, for they were on the wrong side of the Tigris with no clear means of retreat and the Persians had begun to harass them from a distance, burning any food in the Romans ' path.

Despite an all-star cast ( including Neve Campbell and Matthew Modine ) and the pedigree of Miller's script, Spacey's decision to lure Altman to the stage proved disastrous: after a fraught rehearsal period, the play opened to a critical panning, and closed after only a few weeks.

In these circumstances the decision to propose Robinson proved to be politically inspired.

Then Fischer and Rabin ( 1974 ) proved that any decision algorithm for Presburger arithmetic has a worst-case runtime of at least, for some constant c > 0.

Hence, the decision problem for Presburger arithmetic is an example of a decision problem that has been proved to require more than exponential run time.

On the other hand, a triply exponential upper bound on a decision procedure for Presburger Arithmetic was proved by Oppen ( 1978 ).

:" We were justified intuitionistically in using the classical 2-valued logic, when we were using the connectives in building primitive and general recursive predicates, since there is a decision procedure for each general recursive predicate ; i. e. the law of the excluded middle is proved intuitionistically to apply to general recursive predicates.

But the decision proved the precursor of the long Avignon Papacy, the " Babylonian captivity " ( 1309 – 77 ), in Petrarch's phrase, and marks a point from which the decay of the strictly Catholic conception of the pope as universal bishop may be dated.

By doing so the victorious Spartans proved to be the most clement state that fought Athens and at the same time they turned out to be its saviour as neither Corinth nor Thebes at the time could challenge their decision.

Implementing the Council's decision, Pope Pius V promulgated, in the Apostolic Constitution Quo Primum on 14 July 1570, an edition of the Roman Missal that was to be in obligatory use throughout the Latin Church except where there was a traditional liturgical rite that could be proved to be of at least two centuries ’ antiquity.

Charles's decision to wait in the end proved crucial, as it forced the Umayyads to rush uphill and through woods, negating to a large degree the lethality of a cavalry charge.

An extended search for an anchorage at King Edward VII Land proved equally fruitless, so Shackleton was forced to break his undertaking to Scott and set sail for McMurdo Sound, a decision which, according to second officer Arthur Harbord, was " dictated by common sense " in view of the difficulties of ice pressure, coal shortage and the lack of any nearer known base.

Mikawa's decision not to attempt to destroy the Allied transport ships when he had the opportunity proved to be a crucial strategic mistake.

But his decision proved successful, forcing an imperial retreat to protect the defenseless residence of Jianwen.

The casting of John Malkovich proved to be a controversial decision that divided critics.

This decision proved fatally flawed.

Becerra proved too experienced for the young Sánchez, the bout ended in a split decision defeat for Sánchez.

Howard Davis Jr proved more of a challenge — he led Rosario on all scorecards with ten seconds remaining in the bout, but was dropped by Rosario and lost a split decision.

Hal Jordan disagreed with this selection upon seeing Stewart's apparently belligerent attitude, but the Guardians stood by the decision and the recruit quickly proved himself.

The scion of a once prominent Central Florida political family, Bragg is a former active duty U. S. Army infantry officer and Korean War veteran whose own foray into public life was a run for the Florida State Legislature which proved disastrous because of his open support for racial desegregation based on the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.