Urging his readers to employ reason rather than to rely on revelation, Paine argues that the only reliable, unchanging and universal evidence of God's existence is the natural world.

* S. RES. 366 Urging the Government of Egypt and other Arab governments not to allow their government-controlled television stations to broadcast any program that lends legitimacy to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and for other purposes.

66 — Urging the President immediately to withdraw all U. S. Armed Forces from Indochina and to terminate all military operations in Indochina except those of a purely defensive character related to the withdrawal, conditioned only upon agreement with the Government of the People's Republic of Vietnam for the release and repatriation of U. S. POWs.

Urging that teachers, administrators, counselors, supervisors, and curriculum developers undergo training to provide them with adequate knowledge about Ebonics, the authors also call for additional research on how educators can best build on existing knowledge about Ebonics to help students to expand their command of the Language of Wider Communication (“ standard English ”) and master the essential skills of reading and writing.

Urging him to act before the Byzantines become too powerful.

*" Clinton Accused of Urging Aide to Lie " The Washington Post.

Urging any foreign entity to declaration of war, military intervention, blockade, capture of state property, breaking diplomatic relations, breaking international treaties, and other aggressive actions against USSR: similar to 58-2.

Urging Homer and Marge to enforce stronger discipline on Bart, with the idea that he could grow up to become a Supreme Court Justice if he turns his life around, the two return home to find Bart has stolen and broken Grampa's false teeth.

The judge in court sentenced Bentley to death because of his interpretation of ' Let him have it ' and described him as ' mentally aiding the murder of Police Constable Sidney Miles '.

" Let me say at once that no court in this land has any power to issue a search warrant to enter a man's house so as to see if there are papers or documents there which are of an incriminating nature, whether libels or infringements of copyright or anything else of the kind.

Let us imagine it is a serious, successful band and that a court would declare that the two members are equal partners in a business.

# Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

* Let serve — A serve that touches the top of the net and lands in the proper service court ( it is replayed without penalty ).

Let me make clear to the court: My ideas are not Zionist ideas.

With his father's declination of the position as minister of the court ; during his young boyhood ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá witnessed his parents ' various charitable endeavours, which included converting part of the home to a hospital ward for women and children.

He claims that several women, including Eleanor and her daughter Marie de Champagne, would sit and listen to the quarrels of lovers and act as a jury to the questions of the court that revolved around acts of romantic love.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

Three late tenth century and early eleventh century women presented their views of life and romance at the Heian court in Kagerō Nikki (" The Gossamer Years ") by " the mother of Michitsuna ", Makura no Sōshi ( The Pillow Book ) by Sei Shōnagon, and Genji Monogatari ( Tale of Genji ) by Murasaki Shikibu ( herself a Fujiwara ).

7 Issue 2, pp 431 – 446 ; a new field since the 1980s ; favourite topics are work, family, religion, crime, and images of women ; scholars are using women's letters, memoirs, poetry, and court records.

She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whose innovative style of dressing was copied by women throughout Italy and at the French court.

The Caliphal court in Baghdad featured women who dressed as men, including false facial hair, but they competed with other women for the attentions of men.

The rabbis instituted legal methods to enable women to petition a rabbinical court to compel a divorce.

Traditionally, women are not generally permitted to serve as witnesses in an Orthodox Beit Din ( rabbinical court ), although they have recently been permitted to serve as toanot ( advocates ) in those courts.

In a ruling of importance for Orthodox women's capacity for legal self-protection under Jewish law, Haredi Rabbi Benzion Wosner, writing on behalf of the Shevet Levi Beit Din ( Rabbinical court ) of Monsey, New York, identified sexual harassment cases as coming under a class of exceptions to the traditional exclusion, under which " even children or women " have not only a right but an obligation to testify, and can be relied upon by a rabbinical court as valid witnesses:

Truth became one of the first black women to go to court against a white man and win the case.

In 1927, during a court case over published claims that he had had improper relationships with some of these women, the jury unanimously found that the evidence " completely vindicated the high moral character of the late Mr. W. E. Gladstone ".

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada ( Attorney General ) case.

As it was customary during this time for royal couples to lead separate lives — commonly marrying simply to preserve bloodlines and to secure political alliances — men and women would often seek gratification and companionship from people living at court.

In many cases prior to the 18th century, women leading the life of a courtesan in a royal court, with romantic relationships with kings, achieved wealth and status, but eventually it would lead to many of them being executed following very public trials that often left them appearing to have been evil, or power-hungry, when in fact they more often than not were nothing more than a lover and mistress to the king.

She quickly established herself as one of the most stylish and accomplished women at the court, and soon a number of young men were competing for her.

Kyoto held a year-long celebration commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Genji in 2008, with poetry competitions, visits to the Tale of Genji Museum in Uji and Ishiyama-dera ( where a life size rendition of Murasaki at her desk was displayed ), and women dressing in traditional 12-layered Heian court and ankle-length hair wigs.

) Others accused her of trying to sway the king to Austria's thrall, destroying long-standing traditions ( such as appointing people to posts due to friendship and not to peerage ), and of laughing at the influence of older women at the royal court.

Theatre licenses granted by Charles were the first in England to permit women to play female roles on stage ( they were previously played by boys ), and Restoration literature celebrated or reacted to the restored court, which included libertines like John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

She was invited to court often and, out of gratitude for her not contesting the annulment, Henry decreed that she would be given precedence over all women in England save his own wife and daughters.

However, the evidence is too scanty to permit historians to establish this with absolute certainty as there were several women at Margaret's court bearing the name Elizabeth or Isabella Grey.

However, in the last twenty years Orthodox Judaism has begun to develop clergy-like roles for women as halakhic court advisors and congregational advisors.

A Victorian federal court had ruled in 2000 that the existing ban on all single women and lesbians using IVF constituted sex discrimination.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

But they are aware of the world outside, they court public approval, they delight in full houses, and they occasionally dare to experiment in interpreting a dramatic classic.

* The court bard in both epics sings of the creation of the world.

Gagaku alone is one of the oldest styles of court music that is still being played in the world today.

It is not entirely clear who was playing on the court when the fight erupted ; what is undisputed is that Oxford called Sidney a ' puppy ', while Sidney responded that'all the world knows puppies are gotten by dogs, and children by men '.

The Italian humanist Enea Silvio Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II, who at one time worked at Frederick's court, described the Emperor as a person who wanted to conquer the world while remaining seated.

The Guernica jai alai court is the biggest operational court of its type in the world.

It is acknowledged by players of the game to be the finest court in the world.

2 ), which had become predominant in the Hellenistic world, were cherished in the Sasanian court.

The fact that ordinary father-son ( or grandfather-grandson ) succession did not occur has contributed to the image of the Julio-Claudian court presented in Robert Graves's I, Claudius, a dangerous world where scheming family members were all too ready to murder the direct heirs so as to bring themselves, their own immediate families, or their lovers closer to the succession.

Erec and Enide and Cligès are tales of courtly love with Arthur's court as their backdrop, demonstrating the shift away from the heroic world of the Welsh and Galfridian Arthur, while Yvain, the Knight of the Lion features Yvain and Gawain in a supernatural adventure, with Arthur very much on the sidelines and weakened.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

The idea of an international court of justice arose in the political world at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899, where it was declared that arbitration between states was the easiest solution to disputes, providing a temporary panel of judges to arbitrate in such cases, the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

The outbreak of the First World War, and in particular its conclusion, made it clear to many academics that some kind of world court was needed, and it was widely expected that one would be established.

In 1994 the medieval court and the old town was set on the UNESCO world heritage list.

The Ehl-i Hiref attracted the empire's most talented artisans to the Sultan's court, both from the Islamic world and recently conquered territories in Europe, resulting in a blend of Islamic, Turkish and European cultures.

The magnificence of Shah Jahan ’ s court was commented upon by several European travelers and by ambassadors from other parts of the world, including Francois Bernier and Thomas Roe.

Divorce laws vary considerably around the world, but in most countries it requires the sanction of a court or other authority in a legal process.

She believed she did not fit well with the general atmosphere of the court, writing of herself: " I am wrapped up in the study of ancient stories ... living all the time in a poetical world of my own scarcely realizing the existence of other people ....

Its basic subject matter and setting — love at the Heian court — are those of the romance, and its cultural assumptions are those of the mid-Heian period, but Murasaki Shikibu's unique genius has made the work for many a powerful statement of human relationships, the impossibility of permanent happiness in love ... and the vital importance, in a world of sorrows, of sensitivity to the feelings of others.

This atrocious war crime was heavily criticised by the whole world and caused Macedonia to lose much of its foreign support especially from the west, the EU and Pakistan governments strongly insisted that the people responsible for this war crime be brought to justice but the four men allegedly responsible for this were cleared of all charges and received a hero ’ s sheared after they left court.

Inside the legations and out of communication with the outside world, the foreigners simply fired on any targets that presented themselves, including messengers from the Chinese court, civilians and besiegers of all persuasions.

He had his day in court and finally lost because his whole position flew in the face of Soviet and world realities.

This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there ; and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order or edict strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it ; and how much his master was devoted to his memory, than it recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalised his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry.