In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

In Renaissance Europe, the arrival of mechanical movable type printing introduced the era of mass communication which permanently altered the structure of society: The relatively unrestricted circulation of information and ( revolutionary ) ideas transcended borders, captured the masses in the Reformation and threatened the power of political and religious authorities ; the sharp increase in literacy broke the monopoly of the literate elite on education and learning and bolstered the emerging middle class.

The threatened repealing of that status in the 1980s triggered mass street demonstrations in favor of the status.

They were threatened with torture if they did not give proper signs of reverence when mass was performed on the ship.

Muthesius, who was director of design education for the German government, championed mass production, standardisation and an affordable, democratic art ; Van de Velde thought mass production threatened creativity and individuality.

During most of 2002 and into 2003, the United States government continued to call for " regime change " in Iraq and threatened to use military force to overthrow the Iraqi government unless Iraq rid itself of all weapons of mass destruction and convinced the UN that it had done so.

Hanoi had underestimated the strategic mobility of the allied forces, which allowed them to redeploy at will to threatened areas ; their battle plan was too complex and difficult to coordinate, which was amply demonstrated by the 30 January attacks ; their violation of the principle of mass, attacking everywhere instead of concentrating their forces on a few specific targets, allowed their forces to be defeated piecemeal ; the launching of massed attacks headlong into the teeth of vastly superior firepower ; and last, but not least, the incorrect assumptions upon which the entire campaign was based.

The term refers to the skin color of East Asians, and the belief that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages and standards of living.

The bill maintains that the vice president purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States ( 1 ) by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and ( 2 ) about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests and ( 3 ) that Cheney has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States.

If the companies failed to comply, the Ogonis threatened to embark on mass action to disrupt their operations.

In 1928 a mass of thousands of British workers who could not find work threatened to become violent and were shipped back across the Atlantic at government expense.

While in the 19th century, intellectuals managed to construct art as a proper, closed domain in which only the in-crowd was allowed to judge, they have seen this autonomy become ever more threatened by 20th-century mass society.

Along with members of the Prairie School and other regional movements, these architects developed new approaches to the planning, design, and ornamentation of buildings that embraced industrial techniques and building types while reaffirming democratic traditions threatened by the rise of urban mass society.

At Beria's urging the East German government sent the public signals about an easing up in the regime thus raising expectations but when they equivocated on implementing changes such as cancelling a plan to increase labour production ( and thus workload on individual workers ) a mass protest movement resulted that threatened the existence of the government and resulted in a hard crackdown using Soviet troops ( see Uprising of 1953 in East Germany ).

However, at the end of this administration was elected as President Ricardo Cortés Monroy, prompting a strong rejection of the players the first team, who even threatened mass resignations to the club.

Communist leaders threatened to crack down on Sąjūdis, but backed down in the face of mass protests.

" Lyons threatened legal action in response, and CyberCheeze replied on their site that the threat was " about as intellectual as the purple quivering mass of gyrating goo you call Barney, but that it also is demeaning to everyone that visits our website and reads this worthless attempt and scare tactic.

Rosales threatened parishes that permit cross-dressing homosexuals to play Saint Helena, or female saints in the Santacruzan or Flores de Mayo procession with official punishment and removal from mass.

Emanations of other problems include terrorism targeted against tourists, injustice of mass trials, threatened species of Caudata.

On May 11, the assembly overwhelmingly passed universal conscription, over the objections of the financial and administrative elite, who threatened mass emigration if their sons were forced into military service.

*" Home truths: The notion that the west is threatened with mass invasions of immigrants is a myth ," ( Refugees in Britain: special report ), The Guardian ( Saturday April 15, 2000 ).

In Boston, firefighters threatened mass resignations in August 1918 and won raises.

Once the news circulated within the Fourteenth Army, mutinies and mass resignations of officers were threatened.

Bitter contract disputes, including a threatened walk-out by the Marxes, crippled relationships between them and Paramount just as Duck Soup went into production.

Events included the threatened walk-out of the contestants after Nick Bateman was referred to as " Nasty Nick ", the planned addition of Jade Goody's then boyfriend Jeff Brazier ( from the reality TV show Shipwrecked ) as a thirteenth contestant, Uri Geller walking out, the suspicion of Josie D ' Arby being a mole ( and the subsequent arguments and divides ), the love interest between James Hewitt and Sarah Kozer, the rushing of Jade Goody to hospital and the " Ricardo Incident " when the flamboyant cross-dresser Rocardo Ribero argued with other housemates and then proceeded to destroy the kitchen.

For example, recently several bird classified as threatened with extinction appeared in the legal wild bird trade because the CITES process never considered their status.

The plea is successful and the threatened coup d ' état never takes place.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

More remains under the agricultural land nearby which had never been excavated were for a while seriously threatened by deep ploughing.

Although the Oirats later occupied the Ordos Desert, they never again seriously threatened the Ming state.

In The Young Bank Messenger, for example, a woman is throttled and threatened with death – an episode that would never have occurred in his earlier work.

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

Although flamethrowers were never used in the American Civil War, the use of Greek Fire was threatened, and flamethrowers have been in use in most modern conflicts ever since.

Reorganization at Paramount Pictures brought fears that money due the Brothers would never be paid ; as a result, the Brothers threatened to leave Paramount and start their own company, Marx Bros., Inc. Their first planned independent production was a film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Of Thee I Sing, with Norman McLeod leaving Paramount to direct.

He threatened to leave Troy, never to return believing that this choice will enable him to live a long life.

De Gaulle's initiative threatened the FLN with the prospect of losing the support of the growing numbers of Muslims, who were tired of the war and had never been more than lukewarm in their commitment to a totally independent Algeria.

In January 1998, Postel was threatened by US Presidential science advisor Ira Magaziner with the statement " You'll never work on the Internet again " after Postel collaborated with root server operators to reduce Network Solutions ' influence, which had undermined IANA's authority over the root zone.

There was, however, another revolution which never happened, though from time to time it threatened.

Giuliani then claimed that he never made the statement and threatened the town with legal action in retaliation.

Concerning his role as Dumbledore, Harris had stated that he did not intend to take the part at first, since he knew that his own health was in decline, but he relented and accepted it because his 10-year-old granddaughter threatened never to speak to him again if he did not take it.

" His ingenuity in providing amusement for the younger members of the circle ensured his popularity, which was never seriously threatened except by Antoine Godeau, and this rivalry ceased when Richelieu appointed Godeau bishop of Grasse.

The 101 road losses is a major-league record, and will never be seriously threatened under current scheduling practices, as teams can only play up to 81 home and 81 away games ( excluding one-or three-game playoffs ).

The hostages, although threatened by Olsson never became violent toward the police or each other.

Some sources also claim Berliner as a co-founder ; others say Berliner was never connected with the Victor company, though that may have been part of a ruse by Johnson to defeat the Zonophone lawsuits that had put Berliner Gramophone out of business ( in the U. S., but not in Canada, the UK, or Germany ) and threatened Johnson's phonograph business.

* A 1997 Irish Times / MRBI poll found that 18 % believed that abortion should never be permitted, 77 % believed that it should be allowed in certain circumstances ( this was broken down into: 35 % that one should be allowed in the event that the woman's life is threatened ; 14 % if her health is at risk ; 28 % that " an abortion should be provided to those who need it ") and 5 % were undecided.

Stuart at Yellow Tavern on May 11 and beat Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee at Meadow Bridge on May 12, the raid never seriously threatened Richmond and it left Grant without cavalry intelligence for Spotsylvania and North Anna.

The government was threatened with further native rebellions when Rhodes telegraphed his assurance that compensation would be granted and that such a decision would never be made again.

Many Vanda orchids ( especially Vanda coerulea ) are endangered, and have never been common because they are usually only infrequently encountered in habitat and grow only in disturbed forest areas with high light levels, and are severely threatened and vulnerable to habitat destruction.

" Bernstein threatened to sue over the book and film, but he never did.

The attack never happened, as the Ottomans threatened the land of Despot Jovan Uglješa, the lord of Serres, Vukašin's younger brother who ruled in eastern Macedonia.