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During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.
Conspiracies within secret intelligence services have occurred more recently, and led Harold Wilson in the 1960s to put in place rules to prevent phone tapping of members of parliament for example.
Wilson and the bills ' supporters requested that Marshall put a gag-order in place to cut off debate, but he refused on ethical grounds, allowing a number of bills to be defeated in hopes that opposition would eventually end their filibuster.
Powell had also expressed his opposition to the race relations legislation being put into place by Labour prime minister Harold Wilson at this time.
As Kelley Winters ( pen-name Katharine Wilson ), an advocate for GID reform put it, " Behaviors that would be ordinary or even exemplary for gender-conforming boys and girls are presented as symptomatic of mental disorder for gender nonconforming children.
By coincidence, it was Bevan's further resignation from the Shadow Cabinet in 1954 that put Wilson back on the front bench ( as a spokesman, initially, on finance ).
A number of private members ’ bills related to consumer affairs, put forward by Co-operative MPs, became law under the First Wilson Government, and much of the consumer legislation taken for granted by contemporary British shoppers can be attributed to the legislation passed during this period.
" The rumor was that they put it against Flip Wilson and The Mod Squad because they didn't think it would survive.
For the rest of 1920 Curzon, supported by Milner ( Colonial Secretary ) argued that Britain should retain control of Persia: when Wilson asked ( 15 July 1920 ) to pull troops out of Persia to put down rebellion in Mesopotamia and Ireland, Lloyd George blocked the move, saying that Curzon “ would not stand it ”.
Wilson for example, " There is no certain evidence that any dramatist before the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 dared to put upon the public stage a play based upon English history [...] so far as we know, Shakespeare was the first.
When House's staff begin to wonder what dark meaning to put to House throwing away the expensive Christmas gift of the book, a bemused Wilson begins making up a story about House having a brief, unhappy affair with a nurse named Irene Adler whom he will always consider " the woman ".
" The director then replied, " If you put it like that, Mr Wilson, I'm sure we can make an exception in this case.
These principles of teratology were put forth by Jim Wilson in 1959 and in his monograph Environment and Birth Defects.
Malcolm Wilson, Rockefeller's successor, put the project on hold ; and his successor, Hugh Carey, killed it for good in 1976.
He was the only candidate put forward for the job by a six-owner search committee ( Wellington Mara, Lamar Hunt, Art Modell, Robert Parins, Dan Rooney, and Ralph Wilson ), however, a group of eleven newer owners who wanted more of a voice in the selection process abstained from voting, preventing Finks from receiving the nineteen votes necessary to become Commissioner.
The store was unsuccessful and Gordy sought work at the plant, but his family connections put him in touch with Al Green ( not the singer ), owner of the Flame Show Bar talent club, where he met singer, Jackie Wilson.
Stax put out funky, distinctly Southern records by artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and Wilson Pickett that stood in sharp contrast to the smoother, more pop records coming out of Detroit's Motown ( see Memphis soul ).
Main Wilson loved the script and saw the potential for a series and it was put in to production almost immediately as a Pilot for Comedy Special-a showcase for new talent which had succeeded Comedy Playhouse-under the title Citizen Smith.
Nevertheless, Pike and Wilson put aside their wartime quarrel with Hodges-more or less-and the renovation begins.
When asked in 1957 about persistent demands for further unification, Wilson responded: " It's an oversimplification in the false hope that you could thus wash out the problems if you put the people all in the same uniform and that then they wouldn't disagree over what should be done.
On August 12, 1980 Wilson led investigators to at least three burial sites where he put pieces of Davee's body.
In addition, he recommended the acceptance of the main demand of US President Wilson to put the Imperial Government on a democratic footing, hoping for more favourable peace terms.
Spycatcher, Wright's subsequent account of the period when he and colleagues had, as he put it, " bugged and burgled our way across London ", revealed what had in effect been a planned coup against the then Labour government of Harold Wilson.
it also was started by Wilson Bredwart who came up with the idea that the government needed one source to put everything into effect.

Wilson and public
One legacy not drawn from the Group was anonymity, which came about due to AA wishing to avoid the publicity-seeking practices of the Oxford Group and to not promote, Wilson said, " erratic public characters who through broken anonymity might get drunk and destroy confidence in us.
By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.
Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).
This stems from Gould's long-running public debate with E. O. Wilson and other evolutionary biologists over human sociobiology and its descendant evolutionary psychology, which Gould and Richard Lewontin opposed, but which Dennett advocated, together with Dawkins and Steven Pinker.
Science 299: 1523-1524 ( concluding that evolutionary biology is not a religion in any sense but noting that several evolutionary biologists, such as Edward O. Wilson, in their roles as citizens concerned about getting the public to deal with reality, have made statements like " evolution is a myth that is now ready to take over Christianity ").
" In 1994, Kemp and Bennett opposed California ballot Proposition 187, a measure to bar illegal immigrants from obtaining public services, in direct opposition to first-term Republican California Governor Pete Wilson, one of its endorsers who was running for re-election.
Despite being on a public staircase, he is reported to have shouted ' You tell Harold Wilson he must bloody well come to see me ... and if he doesn't watch out, I won't join his bloody government ...
Wilson credited the British parliamentary sketch-writer Henry Lucy as his inspiration to enter public life.
Wilson also studied public administration, which he called " government in action ; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself ".
The Democrats lowered tariffs with the Underwood Tariff in 1913, though its effects were soon overwhelmed by the changes in trade caused by World War I. Wilson proved especially effective in mobilizing public opinion behind tariff changes by denouncing corporate lobbyists, addressing Congress in person in highly dramatic fashion, and staging an elaborate ceremony when he signed the bill into law.
Lyndon B. Johnson had indeed asked Wilson for some British forces for Vietnam, and when it was later suggested to Powell that Washington understood that the public reaction to Powell's allegations had made Wilson realise he would not have favourable public opinion and so could not go through with it, Powell responded: " The greatest service I have performed for my country, if that is so ".
" American sociologist James Q. Wilson encapsulated this argument as the Broken Window Theory, which asserts that relatively minor problems left unattended ( such as litter, graffiti, or public urination by homeless individuals ) send a subliminal message that disorder in general is being tolerated, and as a result, more serious crimes will end up being committed ( the analogy being that a broken window left unrepaired shows an image of general dilapidation ).
Although U. S. President Woodrow Wilson had insisted that the région was self-ruling by legal status, as its constitution had stated it was bound to the sole authority of the Kaiser and not to the German state, France tolerated no plebiscite, as granted by the League of Nations to some eastern German territories at this time, because Alsatians were considered by the French public as fellow Frenchmen liberated from German rule.
Brighton has a horse-racing course, Brighton Racecourse, with the unusual feature that when the full length of the course is to be used, some of the grass turf of the track has to be laid over the tar at the top of Wilson Avenue, a public road, which therefore has to be closed for the races.
In March 1919, President Wilson asked Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for his opinion on clemency for Debs but offered his own: " I doubt the wisdom and public effect of such an action.
Overall, Wilson is seen to have managed a number of difficult political issues with considerable tactical skill, including such potentially divisive issues for his party as the role of public ownership, British membership of the European Community, and the Vietnam War, in which he officially resisted US pressure to involve Britain and send British troops.
In one scene, Wilson was seen dismissing Longford from his cabinet in 1968, in part because of the adverse publicity the latter was receiving for his public campaign to support the Moors Murderer Myra Hindley.
However then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson rejected the proposal, feeling that it would appear to be an unacceptable restriction of the freedom of the public.
On December 26, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson had ordered that U. S. railroads be nationalized in the public interest.
Wilson gave public lectures to spread his message, but did not form any organisation or movement.

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