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Against and background
Against the background of the German Peasants ' War, unrest also arose among the townsfolk in 1525.
Against the background of ethnic homogeneity, significant regional differences exist.
Against the background of ethnic homogeneity, however, significant regional differences exist.
Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.
Against this background the negotiations for the Treaty of Amiens started in October 1801.
Against this background, the gardens fell into a serious state of neglect, and were lost to sight.
Against this background Chen Duxiu became an increasingly influential activist in the revolutionary movement against both foreign imperialism and the Qing government itself.
Against the background of the developments in Europe, CRC was able to persuade the Canadian government to develop the system into a fully-fledged service.
Against this background, William Cubitt was asked to investigate possible solutions in 1814.
Against the background of the Great Depression, he and de Valera engaged in the Anglo-Irish Trade War which lasted from 1933 until 1938, causing severe damage and hardship to the Irish economy and the cattle industry.
Against this background the English Civil War began, with Farnham playing a major part.
Against the background of an absence of organized law enforcement and liberal criminal procedures, penalties were savagely increased.
* Tim Parks ' review of Lauro Martines, April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici: a sketch of the subtleties and contradictions in the background to the " Pazzi conspiracy "
Against the background of the Group realizing its global ambitions, ING Investment Management has also expanded across borders.
Although all his books were set against a background of horse racing, his male heroes held a variety of jobs including artist ( In the Frame and To the Hilt ), private investigator ( Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders — all starring injured ex-jockey Sid Halley, one of only two heroes used more than once ), pilot, artist, wine merchant and many others.
Against a background of good progress, Alexander issued further orders to Patton to develop an eastward threat along the coast road once he had cut it.
Against the blue background, the metallic lettering now has the appearance of glass or perspex.
Against this background of discontent, Lenin concluded that world revolution was not imminent and proceeded in the spring of 1921 to replace the War Communism with his New Economic Policy.
Against this background, Washington's vision, as expressed in his " Atlanta Compromise " speech, became controversial and was challenged by new leaders, such as W. E. B.
Against this background, various explanations have been put forward to explain the origins and spread of the motte-and-bailey design across northern Europe ; there is often a tension amongst the academic community between explanations that stress military and social reasons for the rise this design.
Against the background of a student rebellion, two murders are committed on the Tisquanto State College campus.
Against a background of ongoing protest and low-level sabotage, on the night of January 18, 1982 an RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade attack was launched against the unfinished plant.
Against such a background, Muir ’ s continued presence in Edinburgh was regarded as a serious threat to public order, and he was removed to an armed cutter, the Royal George, at Leith Roads.
Against the background of a different theory of explanation, Malle, Knobe, and Nelson ( 2007 ) tested an alternative set of three actor-observer asymmetries and found consistent support for all of them.
Against the background of the scarcity of Slovak literature, Tranovský's Slovak hymns formed a source for raising national consciousness.

Against and committee
The Alliance Against Sexual Harassment At workplace ( AASHA ) announced they would be working with the committee to establish guidelines for the proceedings.
After the adoption of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, several members of a United Nations women's committee that was looking at how New Zealand was keeping its commitment to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ) criticised the government of New Zealand for decriminalising brothels and pimping and asked it to repeal the new law.
The magazine group was original part of the steering committee of Unite Against Fascism, but resigned their position after differences over tactics.
The CNVA's immediate antecedent, a committee known as Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, was formed by radical Quaker Lawrence Scott.
Against the wishes of NFLPA president Pete Retzlaff and later Bernie Parrish, Miller was reluctant to engage in collective bargaining, and instead ran the association as a "' grievance committee '".
Robert Coleman was a steering committee member of the Metro New York Religious Campaign Against Torture from 2007 to 2009.
Reverend Robert B. Coleman is currently Chief Program Minister / Minister for Social Justice ; he was a steering committee member of the Metro New York Religious Campaign Against Torture from 2007 to 2009.
Assisted by Rick Bartolucci, the Liberal MPP for Sudbury, the CRASH 69 ( Community Rallying Against Substandard Highway 69 ) committee of Sudbury residents campaigned throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s to have the project reinstated.
This failure was followed up in January 1923 by a joint appeal of the Comintern and Profintern for the creation of a " action committee against fascism ," followed in March with the establishment of a formal Action Committee Against Fascism in Berlin, headed by Clara Zetkin.
In 1934 her membership of the Communist Party of Australia and the Movement Against War and Fascism led her to lead the Egon Kisch welcome committee which rapidly metamorphised into the committee to defend Kisch from exclusion from Australia.

Against and men
Against Enki's wish the Gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or " Abgallu " (* Ab
Against these scenes, the film's title cards express the film's anti-war message, concluding with the following comments :" Today, the great sorrowful eyes of this same Son of God gaze down upon blackened fields, where the mangled bodies of men are strewn as grains of wheat, upon flaming shattered hamlets and stricken firesides.
Against this, Constantine could only bring a force of between twenty-five and forty thousand men.
* In 1997, in Sensation, London, Marcus Harvey's giant painting of Myra Hindley made from children's hand prints was attacked by two men with ink and eggs, and picketed by the Mothers Against Murder and Aggression protest group, accompanied by Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's Moors murders victims.
Against Japan, the U. S. had deployed 1, 873, 023 men, 7, 857 aircraft, and 713 warships.
Against Germany the totals were 1, 810, 367 men, 8, 807 airplanes, and 515 warships.
Lysias and Polemarchus were rich men, having inherited property from their father, Cephalus ; and Lysias claims that, though merely resident aliens, they discharged public services with a liberality which shamed many of those who enjoyed the franchise ( Against Eratosthenes xii. 20 ).
The events cited span the course of four decades and pertain to attacks such as the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 by men trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs invasion, and the War Against the Bandits between the government and anti-communist rebels in the Escambray Mountains ( see also Operation Mongoose ).
The next morning, several men from " Citizens Against Crime ", including Jim Tripplett ( Lee Frederick ) and Bob Skokes ( Jeff Prettyman ), drive through the neighborhood shooting at the packs of wild dogs that roam the area.
Daniels lasted ten minutes and subsequently faced Styles in a thirty-minute Iron Man match for the X Division Championship at Against All Odds in which ended in a draw with both men having scored a single pinfall.
Young men who were subject to the conscription lottery also formed their own anti-conscription organisation, the Youth Campaign Against Conscription.
Against this background, Bradford ascends to the leadership of Heartland, hoping to reform the Soviet occupation from within ; Milford is released from the prison camp, hoping to be reunited with his children and fight against the occupation ; and Denisov hopes to " salvage as much as possible " of the old America, while realizing that the U. S. essentially must cease to exist as a nation in order to appease the " old men in the Kremlin.
Against Our Will is a feminist book which argues that rape " is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.
Against them, the Soviets threw 200, 000 men of the Leningrad Front.
# Jessica Against Bruce-Bruce Patman decides things are a little too dull in Sweet Valley and starts a secret club called " Club X "; he thinks that only men should be in this club as all girls are weak.
* On May 30 Jan Crumb and ten like-minded men attended a peace demonstration in Washington, D. C., and on June 1 Vietnam Veterans Against the War was born.
Her 1994 book, Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm which includes 100 pornographic photos, was a study establishing how pornography encourages men to rape and leads to increased incidents of rape.
Against the men from Reno
Against these the Medes armed no less than eight hundred thousand men ( these are the numbers given by Ctesias, which shouldn't be given much trust ).
* An Arrow Against All Tyrants ( 1646 ) is best known for the line written by Overton which was paraphrased by others, including Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence: " by natural birth, all men are equally and alike born to like propriety, liberty and freedom "
The Report argued for the full ratification and implementation of all the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ), as well as a wide-ranging movement in Arab civil society that engages both women and men in the struggle to steadily expand the frontier of women's opportunities – for the benefit not only of women but for Arab society as a whole.

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