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However, residents could distil and retain their own personal supply, and liquor producers could continue distillation and export for sale, which allowed this already sizable industry to strengthen further.
Lasuén chose the site because of the area's fertile cropland, steady water supply, and sizable Indian population.
She was drawn into Lili's expanding war work, and by the end of the year the two sisters had organised a sizable charity, the Comité Franco-Américain du Conservatoire National de Musique et de Déclamation, which existed to supply food, clothing, money, letters from home etc.
The collective fear, expressed by the FAO and news organizations covering the situation, was the potential destruction of a sizable portion of Africa's food supply if control operations could not be mounted quickly and successfully.
However, continued friction with the Soviets and their refusal to adequately supply the Polish troops with war equipment and food, as well as the Soviets ' insistence on dispersing the not-yet-combat-ready Polish units along the front, led to the eventual evacuation of Anders's troops, along with a sizable contingent of Polish civilians, to Iran.
A town would have been constructed at the Cove Fort site, but the water supply was inadequate to support a sizable population.

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Iglehart, the Orioles ' largest shareholder at 32 % and owner of a sizable amount of CBS stock, straightened out his conflict of interest issues on May 25, 1965 by selling his 64, 000 shares in the ball-club to the National Brewing Company, an original team investor which finally had controlling interest at 65 %.
The autonomous territory of Neutral Moresnet, between what is today Belgium and Germany, had a sizable proportion of Esperanto-speakers among its small and multiethnic population.
The autonomous territory of Neutral Moresnet, between Belgium and Germany, had a sizable proportion of Esperanto-speakers among its small and multiethnic population.
With Woodrow Wilson's support, Polish independence was officially endorsed in June 1918 by the Entente Powers, on whose fronts sizable armies of Polish volunteers had been mobilized and fought.
When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.
With a brief interruption in the mid-15th century, Landau had a sizable Jewish community from the Middle Ages until the Nazi era, at one point the largest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as one of its most prosperous ( many Jews were wine merchants ).
The Kriegsmarine, already numerically far inferior to Britain's Royal Navy, had lost a sizable portion of its large modern surface units in April 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign, either as complete losses or due to battle damage.
In eastern Canada, the Toronto protopunk band Dishes had laid the groundwork for another sizable scene, and a September 1976 concert by the touring Ramones had catalyzed the movement.
Out of necessity, this criterion has had to be extended further for the sizable collection of texts in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese now in the collection, where UTF-8 is used instead.
The New York neighborhoods of Greenwich Village and Harlem were home to a sizable homosexual population after World War I, when many men and women who had served in the military took advantage of the opportunity to settle in larger cities.
It was not for entirely selfless reasons that one of the leagues of barons helped him to power: Sigismund had to pay for the support of the lords by transferring a sizable part of the royal properties.
However, Stark had decided to capitalize on weaknesses in the German's widely distributed position, and had sent sizable flanking parties to either side of his lines.
“ While there had been sound economic growth in years prior to 2008, there were still sizable fund balance drawdowns in both 2006 and 2007 ,” Fitch wrote.
Although the population exchange of the Arabs of Palestine with Jews from across the Arab world took place around the period of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the idea of the transfer of Arabs from Palestine, usually to Iraq ( where there was a sizable Iraqi Jewish population ), had been considered about half a century beforehand.
He also had a sizable hit with the sex comedy Bachelor Party, also in 1984.
By 1709, John V prohibited emigration, since Portugal had lost a sizable fraction of its population.
The latter days of Henry VI's government had been marked by a general breakdown in law and order, as well as a sizable increase in both piracy and banditry.
During this second turn at the Governor's desk, Menem implemented generous corporate tax exemptions, attracting the first sizable presence of light manufacturing his province had ever seen.
A sizable number of these recruits were immigrants from Ireland, England and Germany, just as many of the veteran troopers had been before their enlistments.
He had also built a sizable and solid fan base, many of whom remained loyal throughout his career.
Since the beginning of the 19th century, Włocławek had a flourishing, sizable Jewish population.
Some large cities where TV development was slow, like Pittsburgh and St. Louis, had only one station on the air for a prolonged period, many more of the largest cities such as Boston only had two, and many sizable cities including Denver and Portland, Oregon had no television service at all until the second half of 1952 after the freeze ended.

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Had he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.
Environment-current issues: government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers ; a once sizable population of Shi ' a Muslims, who have inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced ; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations ; inadequate supplies of potable water ; development of Tigris-Euphrates Rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey ; air and water pollution ; soil degradation ( salination ) and erosion ; and desertification.
It has been proposed that Mad is more susceptible to this criticism than many media because a sizable percentage of its readership turns over regularly as it ages, as Mad focuses greatly on current events and a changing popular culture.
The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.
Islamic influence has also been increasing and there is a sizable number of Ahmadi Muslims ( belonging to Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ) in Majuro.
Carbon County historically has been the base of Democratic Party support in strongly Republican Utah with its sizable blue-collar population.
However, government forces easily defeated the insurgency and a sizable portion of the insurgents sought refuge in Pakistan where they enjoyed the support of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government, which had been alarmed by Daoud's revival of the Pashtunistan issue.
However, as the Thebans approach the city, they learn that a sizable force has been dispatched from Sparta to reinforce the garrison at Orchomenus and is approaching the city.
There have been sizable advances in repressing criminal activity, due to use of " wolf pack " saturation tactics by the South Tucson Police Department in conjunction with the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
In a rare view that has not been adopted by any sizable element of the Jewish or Christian community, Ignaz Maybaum has proposed that the Holocaust is the ultimate form of vicarious atonement.
Planned additions in the future include renovating the now empty Ryan Gym ( since being replaced by the GIAC, it has been used as a mostly informal hang-out space ) to make space for a cafe, a large space suitable to house the college's sizable special collections, a technology commons, classrooms and study space as well as offices and performance space for the Huford Arts and Humanities Center.
Logging had been carried out for some time, but the arrival of the railway in 1914 made this much more profitable and for several years there were a few sizable mills and lumber operations: The Barrs at Parkhurst Mill on Green Lake ( to the north ), and the Gebharts with the Rainbow Lumber Company on Alta Lake.
The Boleyns eventually allocated her the sizable annual pension of £ 100, precisely what they had given their eldest daughter Mary, when she had been widowed eight years earlier.
Because Nashville Municipal Auditorium and Vanderbilt's Memorial Gym, the only other sizable indoor venues in Nashville, are unsuitable for arena football ( Municipal Auditorium's floor was too small to contain the field of play as its ice hockey rink had always been of less-than-regulation size and Vanderbilt had a " dry " policy for on-campus athletic events ), Adams explored the idea of building his own mid-size arena ( roughly 10, 000 seats ) to host the Kats and compete with the a | Gaylord Entertainment Center for concerts and smaller sporting events.
It was envisaged that government and administrative functions will move to the new capital, along with ( possibly ) the National Assembly and supreme court, although no sizable relocation was expected until the first phase of the project has been completed by 2012.
Moreover, the contributions that Norway has been able to make to international operations have tended to consist of lightly armoured mechanized infantry, well-suited for more traditional peacekeeping tasks ( UNIFIL in southern Lebanon to which Norway contributed a sizable unit for over twenty years ) but not sufficiently robust for missions which might entail enforcement tasks.
Discussions then drifted toward the matter of confiscating land from the Greek Orthodox monasteries in Romania ( their sizable properties and traditional tax exemptions had been the subject of controversy ever since the Phanariote period ).
Archaeology has shown that Ware has been occupied since at least the Mesolithic period ( which ended about 4000 BC ) The Romans had a sizable settlement here and foundations of several buildings, including a temple, and two cemeteries have been found.

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