Sagan often challenged the decisions to fund the Space Shuttle and Space Station at the expense of further robotic missions.

Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.

Sound further tightened the grip of major studios in numerous countries: the vast expense of the transition overwhelmed smaller competitors, while the novelty of sound lured vastly larger audiences for those producers that remained.

The Vichy regime sought to collaborate with Germany, keeping peace in France to avoid further occupation although at the expense of personal freedom and individual safety.

In 1935, the parliamentary republic was weakened further when, by way of, Józef Piłsudski's May Coup, the president was forced to sign the April Constitution of 1935, an act through which the head of state assumed the dominant position in legislating for the state and the Senate increased its power at the expense of the Sejm.

After his return, Cenwealh faced further attacks from Penda's successor Wulfhere, but was able to expand West Saxon territory in Somerset at the expense of the Britons.

The general trend since 1949 has been to further centralize management in the Department of Defense, elevating the status and authorities of civilian OSD appointees and defense-wide organizations at the expense of the military departments and the services within them.

places of safety ( places de sûreté ), which were military strongholds such as La Rochelle, in support of which the king paid 180, 000 écus a year, along with a further 150 emergency forts ( places de refuge ), to be maintained at the Huguenots ' own expense.

Spain entered the war to reestablish its influence in northern Italy, further reversing an Austrian dominance over the Italian peninsula that had been achieved at Spain's expense as a consequence of that country's own war of succession earlier in the 18th century.

* The Rebellion of the Seven States against the Han Dynasty fails and Emperor Jing of Han further consolidates his power at the expense of the regional, semi-autonomous kings governing the eastern portion of the empire.

In an increasingly bitter public correspondence, Pivoda claimed that Smetana was using his position to further his own career, at the expense of other composers.

This required further expense in building retaining walls along the water's edge for somewhat more than half of the length of the canal, utilising some 165, 000 cubic metres of masonry.

Without the further expense and responsibility of a monument above the grave, the catacombs have afforded a secure, dignified and exclusive resting place for the well-to-do, particularly the unmarried, the childless and young children of those without family plots or mausolea elsewhere.

The following year would see this tendency develop further, primarily at the expense of Miroslav Vitouš.

Shortly afterwards he undertook the further laborious task of reducing the enormous mass of observations of the moon made at Greenwich during the same period under the direction, successively, of James Bradley, Nathaniel Bliss, Nevil Maskelyne and John Pond, to defray the expense of which a large sum of money was allotted by the Treasury.

In 1838 he published a revision of the lunar theory, entitled Fundamenta nova investigationis, & c., and the improved Tables of the Moon (" Hansen's Lunar Tables ") based upon it were printed in 1857, at the expense of the British government, their merit being further recognized by a grant of £ 1000, and by their adoption in the Nautical Almanac as from the issue for the year 1862, and other Ephemerides.

Lightweight materials, such as aluminum, plastic, carbon fiber, and / or hollow components can provide further weight reductions at the expense of greater cost and / or fragility.

In 1772, Johnson constructed a courthouse and jail, partly at his own expense, leading to further development.

Elyot, in a letter addressed to Thomas Cromwell, says that he never received the emoluments of this office, while the empty honour of knighthood conferred on him when he was displaced in 1530 merely put him to further expense.

Fine Gael Environment spokesman Phil Hogan further criticised O ' Donoghue's expense claims, labelling them as unjustifiable and inexcusable.

It was further revealed that O ' Donoghue flew to and from County Kerry at the expense of the taxpayer 73 times, despite having a full-time car driver to his service.

An advantage of this plaster image is that it is relatively cheap ; should a patron approve of the durable image and be willing to bear further expense, subsequent molds could be made for the creation of a wax image to be used in lost wax casting, a far more expensive process.

As a largely rural constituency with affluent residential areas, Bromsgrove District is strongly Conservative with further conservative seats being won in the local elections at the expense of ' other ' candidates.

Hence, the diffusion rate is more than 97 %, and the market is said to be saturated ; i. e. further growth of sales of refrigerators will occur basically only as a result of population growth and in cases where one manufacturer is able to gain market share at the expense of others.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

But his own work was evolving further.

`` The case was that Bang-Jensen came up to Shann claiming he had found further errors in the report.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

There was one further step in my religious progress.

In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.

In 1954 I was drafted and after serving two years honorably on Active Duty I was not required to participate in any further Army Reserve activities.

In order to further refine the management of passenger vehicles, on July 1, 1958, the actual title to every vehicle was transferred, by Executive Order, to the Division of Methods, Research and Office Services.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

Referring further to the Foundation's officers, Dr. James F. Mathias, for eleven years our discerning colleague as Associate Secretary, was promoted to be Secretary.

The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.

Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

There was further elimination of all companies that were not accompanied by the name of a responsible company executive.

The prevalent opinion which we encountered in a variety of expressions in your country denied not only the existence of this conflict but it was elaborated even further with an incredible semantic dexterity.

We may carry this sequence one step further and say that at seventy he was a poet at the height of his powers, wanting only the impetus of two tragedies, one personal, the other national, to loose those powers in poetry.

A further example of the incompatible difference in personalities was when two policemen held up a Torrio beer convoy on a West Side street and demanded $300 to let it through.

There was no cleaning or further care, but the wound healed in less than two weeks and showed no scar.

There was another on this side, a little further down.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

But he further said that it was better politics to let others question the wisdom of administration policies first.