It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( published October 2001 ) at the time of her death.

* The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( October 2001 ; ISBN 0-89526-167-7 )

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

The bishops also refused to eliminate what the Germans called the " Abuses " ( e. g. private Masses, celibacy of the clergy, invocation of saints ) allowed by the Anglican Church.

Abuses by tax gatherers are brought under control, and public building is promoted as a worthy cause.

Abuses can also take place in the form of the customer abusing the lender by not repaying the loan or with an intent to defraud the lender.

* " Report Details Abuses in Irish Church-Run Reformatories " article by Sharon Otterman in The New York Times May 20, 2009

Swearing on stage was officially banned by the Act to Restraine Abuses of Players in 1606, and a general ban on swearing followed in 1623.

Abuses of Human Rights conducted by, or alleged to have been conducted by, Iraq-based insurgents US troops and / or terrorists include:

* Chiquita Lauded for Human Rights Abuses by Dan Kovalik, CounterPunch, January 12, 2010

:" But a Broom-stick, perhaps you'll say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head ; and pray what is Man, but a Topsy-turvy Creature, his Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational ; His Head where his Heels should be ; groveling on the Earth, and yet with all his Faults, he sets up to be a universal Reformer and Corrector of Abuses, a Remover of Grievances, rakes into every Slut's Corner of Nature, bringing hidden Corruptions to the Light, and raises a mighty Dust where there was none before, sharing deeply all the while, in the very same Pollutions he pretends to sweep away: His last Days are spent in Slavery to Women, and generally the least deserving ; ' till worn to the Stumps, like his Brother Bezom, he's either kicked out of Doors, or made use of to kindle Flames, for others to warm Themselves by.

Abuses by the Spanish government, military and the clergy prevalent during its three centuries of occupation, and the exposition of these excesses by the ilustrados in the late 19th century paved the way for a united Filipino people.

De duodecim abusivis saeculi " On the Twelve Abuses of the World " is a treatise on social and political morality written by an anonymous Irish author between 630 and 700.

The books that Edith Barrett sees standing the cabinet are titled, from left to right ; Obsessive Acts And Religious Practices by Sigmund Freud ; The Worship of Priapus by Richard Payne Knight ; The Psychology of Sex by Havelock Ellis ;, Sin And Sex ; Conation Volition ; Sex And Celibacy by T. Long ; The Anatomy of Abuses by Philip Stubbs ; Phallic Worship ; and Autoerotic Phenomena In Adolescence by K. Menzies.

Abuses in the Buddhist establishment, and among the public, were duly rectified, and food and clothes as well as other necessities of life were hastily distributed to those who needed them, thus bringing respect and affection to him.

Abuses were reformed, the safety of property and persons was restored, but the greatest severity was shown to malefactors.

Abuses were at their worst in regions with a predominantly Christian population, where local authorities often openly supported them as a means to keep Christians subjugated.

Abuses were common.

Abuses in tax collection were reformed and the city councils were strengthened, both actions necessary to rebuild the strength of the Empire but disadvantageous to the richest aristocrats.

" Abuses by " tax farmers " ( together with a tax system that exempted the aristocracy ) were a primary reason for the French Revolution that toppled Louis XVI.

The American Civil Liberties Union had originally expressed concerns about the Act, saying that the increased penalties were rash, the increased pretrial detention was " repugnant " to the US Constitution, the mandatory HIV testing of those only charged but not convicted is an infringement of a citizen ’ s right to privacy and the edict for automatic payment of full restitution was non-judicious ( see their paper: " Analysis of Major Civil Liberties Abuses in the Crime Bill Conference Report as Passed by the House and the Senate ", dated September 29, 1994 ).

Quinlivan sought an injunction under the Prevention of Electoral Abuses Act 1923: under section 11 of the act it is a criminal offence to make or publish a false statement of fact in relation to an election candidate.

A major attack in the House of Lords followed on his corruption resulting in the Honours ( Prevention of Abuses ) Act 1925.

* A chapter in Uses and Abuses of Psychology ( 1953 ) entitled " What is wrong with psychoanalysis ".

The 22nd session of the council, which met in 1562, dealt with church music in Canon 8 in the section of “ Abuses in the Sacrifice of the Mass ” during a meeting of the council on September 10, 1562.

He also demonstrated his future skills as an advocate in a pamphlet entitled " Observations on the Prevailing Abuses in the British Army Arising from the Corruption of Civil Government with a Proposal toward Obtaining an Addition to Their Pay ".

* Hans Eysenck publishes the book Uses and Abuses of Psychology including a controversial chapter " What is wrong with psychoanalysis ".

In 1574 he published his Perfect Platform of a Hop-garden, and necessary instructions for the making and maintenance thereof, with Notes and Rules for Reformation of all Abuses.

At the Chicago World ’ s Fair in 1893, during a " congress " of the Board of Lady Managers, Foltz introduced her idea of the public defender, with a speech entitled " Rights of Persons Accused of Crime — Abuses Now Existing.

The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favor of Inoculation of the Small Pox, Boston: J. Franklin, 1722.

Modeling experts have written criticisms of UML, including Brian Henderson-Sellers and Cesar Gonzalez-Perez in " Uses and Abuses of the Stereotype Mechanism in UML 1. x and 2. 0 ".

According to its preamble, the act was designed to " take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament.

In his essay " On the Uses and Abuses of History for Life " from his Untimely Meditations, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche examines three forms of history.

Abuses and exaggerations in the presentation of mystery plays during the Middles Ages, however, forced the church to prohibit performances during the 15th century.

* Human Rights First ; Getting to Ground Truth: Investigating U. S. Abuses in the “ War on Terror .” ( 2004 )

Abuses, however, crept into this form of discipline, due as well to indiscretions of popular fervour as to the carelessness of some bishops in inquiring into the lives of those whom they permitted to be honoured as saints.

* May 27 – The English Parliament passes An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players, which tightens the censorship controls on public theatre performances, most notably on the question of profane oaths.

The country is committed to the doctrine of security by military means.

The only cardinal sin which may be committed in warming a wine is to force it by putting it next to the stove or in front of an open fire.

Though the reference to race was stricken by the association in 1950, being an agent of such `` detrimental '' influences still appears as the cardinal sin realtors see themselves committed to avoid.

and if he wasn't entirely committed to what he did, he was at least fascinated by the chance of wider opportunities.

Lincoln understood that the Federal government's power to end slavery was limited by the Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

In order for the appeal to succeed, the appellant must prove that the lower court committed reversible error, that is, an impermissible action by the court acted to cause a result that was unjust, and which would not have resulted had the court acted properly.

Affirming the consequent, sometimes called converse error, is a formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form:

Afterwards, he does not want to be interviewed by the police, since he has committed a crime by attempting suicide, and fears arrest .</ br > Cottard's personality changes after the outbreak of plague.

Central to his behaviour in the later novels is the underlying assumption that particular crimes are only committed by particular types of people.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

At the Anabaptist Council of Venice 1550, the early Italian instigators of the Radical Reformation committed to the views of Miguel Servet ( d. 1553 ), and these were promulgated by Giorgio Biandrata and others into Poland and Transylvania.

The Triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Augustus in 31 BC.

All the produce of the monks ' labour was committed to him, and by him shipped to Alexandria.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

In common law states an assault is not committed by merely, for example, swearing at another ; without threat of battery, there can be no assault.

She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.

* 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

# The unlawful act must be committed on board of an aircraft ( that is, by a person being on board of an aircraft, e. g. a passenger or crew member.

In a situation, when he has justification to assume, that a given person committed or is attempting to commit an act regulated by the convention, he can apply towards that person “ reasonable measures ” including restraint, under a condition that they do not break the rules enumerated in Article 6, paragraph 1 of the Tokyo Convention.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

The form used in the Roman Rite included anointing of seven parts of the body while saying ( in Latin ): " Through this holy unction and His own most tender mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever sins or faults thou hast committed deliquisti by sight hearing, smell, taste, touch, walking, carnal delectation ", the last phrase corresponding to the part of the body that was touched ; however, in the words of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, " the unction of the loins is generally, if not universally, omitted in English-speaking countries, and it is of course everywhere forbidden in case of women ".

Acts of terrorism committed by the MK include the Church Street bombing and the Magoo's Bar bombing.