Knipp's outrageously stereotypical character has drawn criticism and prompted demonstrations from black, gay and transgender activists.

* Boston Phoenix journalist Dan Kennedy awarded Boston government official Jerome Smith the dubious Muzzle Award for his part in leading to the cancellation of Knipp's scheduled 2004 Boston performance.

' A number of videos of Knipp's Butterfield were featured on several different YouTube accounts until 2007 when most disappeared.

John's reply was like a declaration of war.

Beyond improving their existing association, the records of the Second Continental Congress show that the need for a declaration of independence was intimately linked with the demands of international relations.

There was a rise at the point of confession, as though the author was stepping out into the open and making a bold declaration, but a corresponding fall when admitting his blindness.

The declaration is notable since, according to Livy, it was the first time that the Romans had declared war by means of the rites of the fetials.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá asked Aqa Mirza Aqa to coordinate the work so that the house of the Báb would be restored to the state that it was at the time of the Báb's declaration to Mulla Husayn in 1844 ; he also entrusted the work on the House of Worship to Vakil-u'd-Dawlih.

Ultimately, Dhoni walked-off and Dravid's declaration was effected but the game was delayed.

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

These changes came about partly as the result of the urgings of Edwin Samuel Montagu, an influential anti-Zionist Jew and secretary of state for India, who was concerned that the declaration without those changes could result in increased anti-Semitic persecution.

Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the new Middle East department of the Foreign Office discovered that the correspondence prior to the declaration was not available in the Colonial Office, ' although Foreign Office papers were understood to have been lengthy and to have covered a considerable period '.

This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called " the Milner Declaration ," since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet.

" This attack was the final straw that led to the declaration of war by Chad and the alleged deployment of the Chadian airforce into Sudanese airspace, which the Chadian government denies.

A declaration of independence was officially issued by Chile on February 12, 1818 and formally recognized by Spain in 1840, when full diplomatic relations were established.

Additionally, legal experts at the State Department and Justice Department concluded that a declaration of war could be avoided so long as another legal justification, based on the Rio Treaty for defense of the Western Hemisphere, was obtained via a resolution by a two-thirds vote from the members or the Organization of American States ( OAS ).

It was based on the 2nd century Rules of Faith and the interrogatory declaration of faith for those receiving baptism, which by the 4th century was everywhere tripartite in structure, following Matthew 28: 19.

The declaration stated that the Politburo, Orgburo and the Secretariat was taking complete control over the party, and it was these bodies which elected the delegates to the Party Congresses – in effect making the executive branch, the Party Congress, a tool of the Soviet leadership.

A second and lengthier declaration, known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1793 was later adopted.

At the time of the Republic proclamation in 1889, horse # 6 of the Imperial Honor Guard was ridden by the officer making the declaration.

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

Louis XVIII created another policy in 1805: a declaration that was far more liberal than his former ones.

She later discovered that it would be difficult to attend a film festival in Venice, as her declaration had created much scandal in Italy.

O ' Kelly made a point of ensuring that his first state visit, following the declaration of the Republic of Ireland in 1949, was to the Vatican to meet Pope Pius XII, a visit which, as mentioned, created controversy when the famously talkative O ' Kelly inadvertently revealed the Pope's private views on communism.

Western is also a signatory of the Talloires Declaration, a sustainability declaration created for presidents of higher education.

Real estate owned as a condominium is usually similarly owned in fee simple, but typically subject to rules in the declaration of condominium or created by the condominium association, such as paying required monthly fees for maintaining the property's common areas.

The Hino da Independência ( Portuguese: Independence Anthem ) is a Brazilian official patriotic song, created in 1822, commemorating the country's declaration of independence from Portugal.

The quotation " All men are created equal " has been called an " immortal declaration ", and " perhaps " the single phrase of the United States Revolutionary period with the most grand " continuing importance ".

The art students who created the statue wrote a declaration that said in part:

" Stephen Douglas also charged Lincoln with a lack of consistency when speaking on the issue of racial equality, and cited Lincoln's previous statements that the declaration that all men are created equal applies to blacks as well as whites.

It is a declaration of the unknown name of the Father ; possession of which enables the knower to penetrate the veil of ignorance that has separated all created beings from the Father, and declares Jesus Christ as Savior has revealed that name through a variety of modes laden with a language of abstract elements.

The year 1922 was signalized at its opening by the conference of Cannes, between France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, which met to consider the situation created by Germany's declaration of her inability to pay what was demanded of her for 1922.

Together with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel ( Free University of Brussels ), in 2003 Erasmus University College Brussels created the Universitaire Associatie Brussel ( Brussels University Association ) to bring the master ’ s degree programmes in line with the academic requirements of the Bologna declaration.

In 1988 he with other 34 prominent people created Sąjūdis Reform Movement, which eventually led to the declaration of independence of Lithuania on March 11, 1990.

The October Revolution of 1917 and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918 created the prerequisites for declaration of independence of these governorships from Russia as the independent states of Estonia and Latvia.

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The Republic of Minerva issued a declaration of independence on 19 January 1972, in letters to neighboring countries and even created their own currency.

One view, whose most notable proponent is William Swadling, holds that a resulting trust will arise either because of a presumed declaration of trust in the transferor's favour by the transferor ( consent ), or when created by a court if a trust fails ( for uncertainty of objects, for example )-- the so-called ' automatic ' resulting trust ( according to Swadling we do not know what event causes this: it ' defies legal analysis ').

The conference, and the eventual declaration that was created, was broadly influenced by the following:

Both Serb kingdoms are now one and the Montenegrin people shall fulfill their duty, sacrificing everything for the fatherland and for the salvation and unification of Serbdom ... I only regret that that Law has not yet created such article, which defines that the declaration of war on Serbia automatically draws upon a declaration of war from Montenegro.

Having created the declaration Towards a Global Ethic at the 1993 Parliament and attempted to engage guiding institutions at the 1999 Parliament, the 2004 Parliament concentrated on four pressing issues: mitigating religiously motivated violence, access to safe water, the fate of refugees worldwide, and the elimination of external debt in developing countries.

Finally the declaration then specifies that the resultant Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is one that is created on free will of the peoples, that its purpose follows the ideals of the October Revolution, that each and every socialist republic has the right to join and leave the Union at its own will, and hinting at the Soviet foreign policy of socialist irredentism ( see World Revolution ), finishes stating that the treaty ... will serve a decisive step on the path of unification of all workers into a " World Socialist Soviet Republic ".

However, by statute ( Act of 27th of April 1855, s. 7 ), a presumption of release or extinguishment is created where no payment, claim or demand has been made for the rent, nor any declaration or acknowledgment of its existence made or given by the owner of the premises subject to it, for the period of 21 years.

The Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija is a local government created by the Serbian minority in the Kosovo city of Mitrovica in response to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence.