Claiming that the Americans had circulated ' propaganda ' that Mullah Omar had gone into hiding, Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil stated that he would like to " propose that prime minister Blair and president Bush take Kalashnikovs and come to a specified place where Omar will also appear to see who will run and who not.

Claiming that his remarks were based on " intelligence ," Chen also said Soong promised during the meeting to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow for popular referendums on future constitutional amendments, in exchange for Beijing's approval for Soong to visit China.

Claiming to be an ex-Desert Rat, Potter would often complain to John Alderton, who played the part of schoolteacher Mr Hedges, about class ' Five C ' and their ' dreadful behaviour '.

Claiming of remaining tricks is possible as well, but for a defender only if he or she would be able to take the remaining tricks herself.

Claiming that it was a " rebellion " and that their next move would be to kill all the senators, he declared the Order to be enemies of the Republic.

Claiming that the Home Office had intervened for political reasons to ensure that Blair would not have to resign over the incident as it had occurred in the aftermath of 21 July 2005 London bombings, Paddick says he came to accept that his police career was over and that he would never achieve his goal of becoming a chief constable.

Claiming that independence would have assured nothing but weak markets, an internal enemy and strengthened anarchist movements.

* Claiming to be homosexual, when the military in question excludes homosexuals-this would be considered evasion if the claim was false, but if the potential conscript is in fact a homosexual, it would be the rules of the military body that prevent him from enlisting, even if he wished to do so.

Claiming that he will not take the seat if he wins, he told BBC Essex: " I don't take it for one moment that it would be a vote for me.

Claiming racial discrimination, he would call in friend René Duprée to help him enforce " cultural sensitivity ".

Claiming to be inspired by figures such as General Aleksei Brusilov and Vladimir Purishkevich, both of whom had said they would serve the Bolsheviks in the interests of Russia, Ustryalov called for a reconciliation with the Soviet Union as it was only the Bolsheviks who could guarantee Russia's security.

Claiming that this arrangement would do financial harm to KUAC, UAF announced on December 8 that KUAC-TV would leave AlaskaOne and revert to being a separate station at that time.

Claiming all Soviet laws had no legal power in the Baltics would also cancel the need to follow the Constitution of the Soviet Union and other formal secession procedures.

Claiming to be Switzerland's first online bonus program, Bonuspoints was launched in early 2008 and offers incentives for shopping at 70 different online stores.

Claiming that Meres was obsessed with numerology, they propose that the numbers should be symmetrical, and that careful readers are meant to infer that Meres knew two of the English poets ( viz., Oxford and Shakespeare ) to actually be one and the same.

Claiming to be Britain's second oldest colony, this is one of the most isolated islands in the world and was for several centuries of vital strategic importance to ships sailing to Europe from Asia and South Africa.

* March 23 – Claiming to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founds the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in India.

Under the ' Claiming Rule ', CRT teams agree to allow up to four of their engines per season to be claimed, after a race, by one of the major manufacturer teams at a cost of € 20, 000 each including transmission, or € 15, 000 each for the engine alone.

Claiming that " hubristic, pompous displays of group pride might actually be a sign of group insecurity as opposed to a sign of strength ," she believes that those that express pride by humbly focusing on members ' efforts and hard work tend to have high social standing.

Claiming that the king himself had officially expressed a desire to be buried in Egypt, he then carried the body of Alexander to the heart of the temple of Ptah, and had him embalmed by the priests.

Claiming not to be racists, their often aggressive sticker campaigns arguably spoke a different language with slogans such as " Låt inte din dotter bli en negerleksak " ( Don't let your daughter become a negro toy ) and " Negrer hotar sina offer " ( Negros threaten their victims ).

Claiming to be someone you're not can be problematic with other online community users and for yourself.

Claiming it to be a disruptive technology, he says that the operators will lose revenue on the reduction in number of SMS's on their network but will benefit from the data plan that the user has to buy.

Claiming to be the first CD-only independent record label in the United States, Rykodisc was founded in 1983 in Salem, Massachusetts, by Arthur Mann, Rob Simonds, Doug Lexa and Don Rose.

Claiming his big brother is a Federation mobile suit pilot, Chay impresses his friends with what appears to be an authentic Federation Forces rank badge.

Claiming to be the " Smart place for science " RiChannel. org brings together the best science videos from a wide-range of institutions and independent film-makers.

Claiming to be called to active duty, he took a leave of absence from Congress.

Claiming frustration at what they believed to be a corrupt Snohomish County government, on April 23, 1995, the Freedom County commissioners submitted to the Washington Secretary of State a petition with 12, 679 signatures calling for the secession of the northern half of Snohomish County, excluding Marysville and the Tulalip Indian reservation.

Claiming to be the successor of David, he claimed royal honours and absolute power in the new " Zion ".

Showalter's best known works are Toward a Feminist Poetics ( 1979 ), The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture ( 1830 – 1980 ) ( 1985 ), Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle ( 1990 ), Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media ( 1997 ), and Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage ( 2001 ).

Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage ( 2001 ) surveys feminist icons since the 18th century, situated mostly in the U. S. and the United Kingdom.

Claiming frustration with the ongoing police involvement, Ahmad left to Syria in 2001 to complete the marriage ceremonies with his fiancee.

Æthelbald would retain the western shires ( i. e., traditional Wessex ), and Æthelwulf would rule in the east.

This work was to be divided into " so many bookes as there be shires yn England, and sheres and greate dominions yn Wales ", i. e. about fifty: a further six books would deal with Britain's offshore islands.

The sheriffs would buy food at a set price in the shires and the sellers had to sell at the government price.

Then, the various sheets from all the shires were piled together and affixed together at the top, and the resulting document would be rolled into a tight roll resembling a pipe.

It tends not to be found in the names of shires that were pre-existing divisions.

Through comparison of what details are recorded in which counties, six " circuits " can be determined ( plus a seventh circuit for the Little Domesday shires ).

The county was created by the Massachusetts General Court on May 10, 1643, when it was ordered " that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four shires ".

The shires were soon to be called counties.

In 1634, the King of England ordered the colony, which numbered about 5, 000 settlers, to be divided into eight shires, or counties.

In 1634, the colonial government organized the territory of Virginia into eight shires, to be governed as shires were in England.

From the seventeenth century the shires started to be used for local administration apart from judicial functions.

From the seventeenth century the shires started to be used for local administration apart from judicial functions.

By a legal fiction, criminal cases to be heard in the shires were set down for trial in Westminster Hall " unless before " ( nisi prius ) the justice came to the county, which was where the trial actually took place.

Around 1014, England was divided into shires or counties, largely to defend against the Danes ; each shire was led by a local great man, called an earl ; the same man could be earl of several shires.

Around 1014, England was divided into shires or counties, largely to defend against the Danes ; each shire was led by a local great man, called an earl ; the same man could be earl of several shires.

The borders were to become the ' middle shires ', as if history could be sidestepped by semantics.

It could be said that she embraced the way of life of the upper middle classes of the English shires with the zeal of the convert.

Similar to many shires in England, during the Middle Ages, many such gaus came to be known as counties or Grafschaften, the territory of a Graf or count within the Holy Roman Empire.

It is considered one of the 5 original shires of the Virginia colony to be extant essentially in the same political form ( county ) in 2005.

Since there are currently no " shires " in Virginia, and there have been none since the terminology was changed to " county " within a few years of their creation in 1634, all could be considered lost to posterity, at least in name.

Article XII of the Union with Scotland Act 1706 ( Act settling the Manner of electing the Representatives of Scotland ), provided that one representative should be chosen for every shire and steuartry ( except for some shires which were to take turns ).