So unpopular was her campaign among fellow politicians that when she introduced the first bill proposing to liberalise the law on contraception into the senate, no other member would agree to ' second ' the initiative and so it could not be further discussed.

The foundation of The Hague as an " international city of peace and justice " was laid in 1899, when the world's first Peace Conference took place in The Hague on Tobias Asser's initiative, followed by a second in 1907.

But when Charles IX and his mother learned of the involvement of the duke of Anjou, and being so dependent on his support, they issued a second royal declaration, which while asking for an end to the massacres, credited the initiative with the desire of Charles IX to prevent a Protestant plot.

One of Roy Disney's stated reasons for engineering his second " Save Disney " initiative had been Eisner's well-publicized but financially unjustified dissatisfaction with long-time production partner Pixar Animation Studios and its CEO Steve Jobs, creators of shared hits Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and other critically acclaimed computer animated motion pictures.

The failure of the KAU to attain any significant reforms or redress of grievances from the colonial authorities shifted the political initiative to younger and more militant figures within the African trade union movement, among the squatters on the settler estates in the Rift Valley and in KAU branches in Nairobi and the Kikuyu districts of central province The Agikuyu soldiers who had come back from the second world war as King African Rifles ( KAR ), having gained military skills resulted to war to liberate Agikuyu from British oppression and colonisation.

In Eugene Onegin, Lensky's second, Zaretsky, does not ask Onegin even once if he would like to apologise, and because Onegin is not allowed to apologise on his own initiative, the duel takes place, with fatal consequences.

In the second position, he was responsible for the World Bank ’ s global programmes and policies to fight poverty and the development of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper ( PRSP ) initiative that had just been launched.

Browne's second initiative was much more controversial.

The Bulgarian behavior had also a long termed consequence over the Russo-Bulgarian relations as together with the uncompromising Bulgarian position tο review the prewar agreement with Serbia during a second Russian initiative for arbitration between them, finally led Russia to cancel its alliance with Bulgaria.

During the second term, Pérez served as Betancourt's Minister of Mines and Petroleum and in 1960, through his initiative, OPEC was founded in Baghdad, Iraq.

In the second half of June 1974 Makarios decided to take the initiative and challenge directly the Ioannides regime believing that he would humiliate it and eliminate their control of Cyprus through the Greek military officers in the Cypriot National Guard, thus making it impossible for them to stage a coup against him. In a second letter on July 2, 1974 he demanded the withdrawal of all Greek officers in the island by July 20, 1974.

visited Langkawi and was so impressed by Tunku's initiative that he persuaded the Council of State to transfer and promote him to the post of District Officer of Sungai Petani, the most second most important district in Kedah.

A second major initiative toward implementation of the Comprehensive Program came in 1976 at the 30th Council Session, when a decision was made to draw up Long-Term Target Programs for Cooperation in major economic sectors and subsectors.

The widening of Dame Street, between Cork Hill, the centre of Anglo-Irish power and College Green the centre of Anglo-Irish learning was the second great initiative of the commission.

In the First Test in Brisbane, Ponting top-scored in Australia's first innings with 196 runs, and he followed this up with 60 not out in the second as Australia took the initiative with a commanding win.

However, the high year tenure initiative mandates that a petty officer second class may only have 14 years of service.

The 70, 000 gardens, which the completed initiative is expected to produce, will supply approximately 840, 000 vegetables in the first year with 1, 728, 000 in the second.

The first team was a brief offshoot of the team Defenders, and the second is part of an initiative to place a superhero team in each state of the United States.

With the McLarens of Prost and Niki Lauda dominating 1984, Arnoux had a less successful second season at Ferrari, only finishing 6th with 27 points, with his new teammate Michele Alboreto progressively taking the initiative and team leadership from him.

Macartney launched a vicious counterattack and became the second Australian to score a Test century before lunch on the opening day ; this bold play helped Woodfull to settle in and the Australians to seize the initiative on a bowler-friendly surface.

The ETC was able to quickly determine that private entrepreneurs were not going to build a monorail system without public financial support, leading to a second monorail initiative, allowing the ETC to spend $ 6 million for additional studies to determine an improved monorail plan with full cost estimates and a funding package to pay for construction.

She has promoted several legislative initiatives: one of these initiatives made judicial review of laws possible, the second initiative, which she promoted with D66 leader Boris Dittrich, proposed a price fixation on books.

Alternatively 7 ... Nc6 can be considered the main line of this variation, when 8. 0-0 Nxd4 9. Kh1 is the notorious Zilbermints Gambit, sacrificing a second pawn in order to increase White's initiative.

We did not dare speak to so exalted a being, but Norton aimed his camera and shot him, so to speak, on the rise, the split second between the halt and the turn.

In a second phase, Philip aimed to launch the Bastarnae on an invasion of Italy via the Adriatic coast.

The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of " seinen "— for " youth, young man " and for " adult, majority "— the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin (" adult " ) manga.

These contacts usually consist first of the bump or pass so that the ball's trajectory is aimed towards the player designated as the setter ; second of the set ( usually an over-hand pass using wrists to push finger-tips at the ball ) by the setter so that the ball's trajectory is aimed towards a spot where one of the players designated as an attacker can hit it, and third by the attacker who spikes ( jumping, raising one arm above the head and hitting the ball so it will move quickly down to the ground on the opponent's court ) to return the ball over the net.

The second, a full-scale nuclear war, could consist of large numbers of nuclear weapons used in an attack aimed at an entire country, including military, economic, and civilian targets.

His promise of modest reform was held to, and the second most famous bill of this ministry, while " reforming " in 21st century eyes, was in fact aimed at the reformers themselves, with their constituency among the new industrial rich.

A second Morrill Act in 1890 was also aimed at the former Confederate states.

The attack was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from Pozières, on the Albert – Bapaume road, south-east towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.

The southern two divisions were to achieve two additional objectives: the Blue Line encompassing the town of Thélus and the woods outside the town of Vimy, and the Brown Line, which aimed at capturing the Zwölfer-Graben trench and the German second line.

Feldman was born in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, California, the second of five children of Sheila ( née Goldstein ), his childhood manager, and Bob Feldman, a musician who eventually owned his own talent agency aimed at modeling other children's careers after his son's.

It had aimed downward, had become cheap and unbelievable, and had willingly settled for second best.

In the mid-1690s a brief second Restoration comedy renaissance arose, aimed at a wider audience.

Also, in the second half of 1980s, a student-based happening movement Orange Alternative founded by Major Waldemar Fydrych became known for its much attended happenings ( over 10 thousand participants at one time ) aimed against the military regime led by General Jaruzelski and the fear blocking the Polish society ever since the Martial Law had been imposed in December 1981.

In January 2002, S Club 7 embarked upon their second arena tour, S Club 7 Carnival 2002, which aimed to please fans by stylising their songs to fit with a carnival-like theme with music styles from different countries of the world.

The situation was complicated for the Americans by the launching of two smaller attacks by the North Vietnamese: the first aimed to seize Kon Tum in the Central Highlands, and threatened to cut South Vietnam in two ; the second prompted a series of savage battles in and around An Lộc, the capital of Binh Long Province.

This is in conjunction to rules aimed to avoid confusion, which state that " the first and second letters or second and third letters of an identifier may not be duplicated with less than 200 nautical miles separation.

On the other hand, the second half of the debate ( lines 836-940 ) features absurd accusations that are aimed at an entirely comic villain.

A second campaign, in 975, was aimed at Syria, where John's forces took Emesa, Baalbek, Damascus, Tiberias, Nazareth, Caesarea, Sidon, Beirut, Byblos and Tripoli, but failed to take Jerusalem.

In the second quarter of 2009, the FDIC imposed an emergency fee aimed at raising $ 5. 6 billion to replenish the DIF.

The preface to the second edition ( 1833 ) and the third ( 1838 ) aimed at a vindication of his principles against contemporary criticism.

The investigative report cited an NSA memo which advised senior agency officials that it was "' mounting a surge ' aimed at gleaning information not only on how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second resolution on Iraq, but also ' policies ', ' negotiating positions ', ' alliances ' and ' dependencies ' - the ' whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises '.

A second British attack aimed to capture Montevideo, which was captured in the Battle of Montevideo.