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A few came in the form of jury instructions, such as the statement issued on April 23, 1776, by Chief Justice William Henry Drayton of South Carolina: " the law of the land authorizes me to declare ... that George the Third, King of Great Britain ... has no authority over us, and we owe no obedience to him.
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He fought it, seeking to kill the last few words, but on they came out.
From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.
When he came to the movies -- more or less by accident -- they were still cheap entertainment capable of enthralling the unthinking for an idle few minutes.
David Ruelle, a physicist who joined the IHÉS faculty in 1964, said that Grothendieck came to talk to him a few times about physics.
Most of the European parties eventually came around to the arguments made by the Americans, but France and a few others held out for a shorter cell length.
This line also came under severe pressure and, in turn, was forced back to their third-line of cavalry and the few battalions still remaining on the plain.
In a few cases, a bishop came to preside over a number of dioceses, i. e., Rome, Antioch, and Alexandria.
On the death of Ahaz, c. 715 BCE, his son Hezekiah followed a policy which Isaiah saw as dangerous, waging war on the Philistine cities and on Edom even though territory under direct Assyrian control ( i. e., the former kingdom of Israel ) now came to within a few miles of Jerusalem.
The B5500 came a few years later ; followed by the B6500 / B6700 in the later 1960s, the B7700 in the mid 1970s, and the A series in the 1980s.
Later in the season finale of Season 2, Gordon came to the show as one of the few people who believes in Batman.
" With these few words ... came a sureness of mind that matched the depth of feeling in my heart.
Thus the castrati came to supplant both boys ( whose voices broke after only a few years ) and falsettists ( whose voices were weaker and less reliable ) from the top line in such choirs.
As there were no users waiting at an interactive terminal, this was no problem: users handed in a deck of punched cards to an operator, and came back a few hours later for printed results.
The votes of the powerful were given more weight through a system of gerrymandering, so most high officials, including members of the Senate, came from a few wealthy and noble families.
His battlecruisers achieved few hits on the enemy, with most of the damage being inflicted by the battleships when they eventually came close enough to take part.
A few days after his return, news came that blood had finally been shed over the land disputes.
But a few months later, Mountbatten's efforts nearly came to naught when he received a letter from his sister Alice in Athens informing him that Philip was visiting her and had agreed to permanently repatriate to Greece.
From 1909 a small number of American films, and even one or two European ones, came to include a few dialogue titles, or " spoken titles " as they were called at the time.
The first win came a few days later at Derby County's Baseball Ground, by a score line of 1 – 0.
One of the few positive reviews came from Joel Siegel of Good Morning America, who is quoted on New World's newspaper ads as saying, " Hysterical fun ... the best Godzilla in thirty years!
While conventional reality was eventually restored, it came at a high price, as thousands if not millions of Earth ’ s mutant population lost their powers or died in the process, leaving only a few hundred mutants alive and powered.
Britain came under increasing pressure from barbarian attack on all sides towards the end of the 4th century, and troops were too few to mount an effective defence.
In the last few centuries, they have revolved around the process by which the Homeric poems came into existence and were transmitted over time to us, first orally and later in writing.
Such a statement on her part, however, worked to her advantage because it made her statements that all of her writings and music came from visions of the Divine more believable, therefore giving Hildegard the authority to speak in a time and place where few women were permitted a voice.
Settlers only came to a few colonies in sufficient numbers to have a strong impact.
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When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.
Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.
A few US professional societies whose professions frequently employ various non-word characters, such as chemistry and computer programming, use the British form in their style guides ( see ACS Style Guide ).
72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.
While protons and neutrons combined to form the first atomic nuclei only a few minutes after the Big Bang, it would take thousands of years for electrons to combine with them and create electrically neutral atoms.
A few minutes into the expansion, when the temperature was about a billion ( one thousand million ; 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >; SI prefix giga -) kelvin and the density was about that of air, neutrons combined with protons to form the Universe's deuterium and helium nuclei in a process called Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
Communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Message ( what type of things are communicated ), source / emisor / sender / encoder ( by whom ), form ( in which form ), channel ( through which medium ), destination / receiver / target / decoder ( to whom ), and Receiver.
All but a few of the most inert elements, such as noble gases and noble metals, are usually found on Earth in chemically combined form, as chemical compounds.
Numerous events in newspaper comic strips have reverberated throughout society at large, though few of these events occurred in recent years, owing mainly to the declining role of the newspaper comic strip as an entertainment form.
A few cars, notably the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Porsche 924, and Chevrolet Corvette ( since 1997 ), sought a more even weight distribution between front and back by placing the weight of the transmission at the rear of the car, combined with the rear axle to form a transaxle.
Exceptions to this local form of local governance include a few churches that submit to the leadership of a body of elders, as well as the Episcopal Baptists that have an Episcopal system.
The vines are watered frequently during the first few weeks until roots form and new shoots grow.
The Puritan execution sermon, preached on the occasion of a public hanging, then quickly printed up in pamphlet form and sold for a few pence, was an early form of true-crime literature.
James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death ( which was from some form of abdominal cancer ).
Athenian democracy took the form of a direct democracy, and it had two distinguishing features: the random selection of ordinary citizens to fill the few existing government administrative and judicial offices, and a legislative assembly consisting of all Athenian citizens.
In every form of play, the goal is to play as few throws per round as possible.
There are a few natural depressions on the atoll rim that capture the abundant rainfall to form areas of fresh-water wetlands.
The few extant fragments of satyr-plays attributed to Aeschylus and Sophocles indicate that these were a loosely structured, simple and jovial form of entertainment.
* Adagio skating, a form of pair skating most commonly seen in ice shows, where the skaters perform many acrobatic lifts but few or none of the other elements which competitive pairs must perform.
Hoar frost can form in these areas even when the air temperature a few feet above ground is well above freezing.
About 70 – 80 % of the mass in a cluster is in the form of dark matter, with 10 – 30 % consisting of this heated gas and the remaining few percent of the matter in the form of galaxies.
A few gemstones are used as gems in the crystal or other form in which they are found.
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