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In the late 1970s, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded on the basis of controversial acoustic evidence and an investigation into Oswald's and Ruby's alleged connections, that President Kennedy was " most likely killed as the result of a conspiracy ".

result and insisting
" On October 17, 1967, he told an audience in Cambridge that Johnson saw the war in Vietnam as his major legacy and, as a result, was insisting on victory at all costs, even in the face of public opposition.
In May 1846, a Committee recommended limiting the annual intake of members to 15 and insisting on scientific eminence ; this was implemented, with the result being that the Society now consists exclusively of scientific Fellows.
As a result of the coup, Yasmin stepped down, insisting that the king write a formal letter accepting his resignation.
In her way, Sophia stormed the funeral, insisting on her presence and simultaneously setting off a chain of events that would result in her regency.
As a result, Adolf Hitler was so convinced of the veracity of the bogus documents that he disagreed with Benito Mussolini that Sicily would be the most likely invasion point, insisting that any incursion against the island should be regarded as a feint.
After the final result, Miller refused to endorse McEwen and carried an unsuccessful legal challenge to the redistricting to the United States Supreme Court, insisting district lines should be drawn on a politically neutral basis.
In the first chapter of " The Devil Amongst the Lawyers ," an elderly reporter brags to a cub reporter about the power of the press, insisting that the circus owner was forced to hang the elephant as a result of his inflammatory newspaper articles.
The main street that runs through Luganville contains most of the commercial businesses and is very wide as a result of the American base commander insisting that 4 trucks could be driven along the road.
As a result of the affair, Alaska was on the national headlines, and President Taft was forced to send a message to Congress on February 2, 1912, insisting that they listen to Wickersham.
Even though Emil's enhanced intellect is a direct result of the retro-virus, Emil denies it, insisting that his genius is his own doing.

result and improve
Garden Fresh, the result of a mating of Better Self and Rosy Fingered, seems to improve with each start and appeared to win the St. Patrick's Day Purse with some speed in reserve.
As a result, ever since 1851 when the Senate restaurant opened in the new wing of the Capitol Building, the senators have never ceased to grumble about the food -- even while they opposed every move that might improve it.
The most effect has been shown by piracetam and amphetamine, which may increase cerebral plasticity and result in an increased capability to improve language function.
The animator can correct the result at any point, shifting keyframes back and forth to improve the timing and dynamics of a movement, or change an ' in between ' into an additional keyframe to further refine the movement.
In particular, he was regarded in the Romantic era as embodying the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy: Mary Shelley, for instance, gave The Modern Prometheus as the subtitle to her novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ).
As a result of its efforts to improve the region, the IDA has helped bring electricity to an additional 66 million Africans since 1997, helped build or restore 240, 000 kilometers of paved roads, and helped enroll an additional 15 million African children in school since 2002.
Dawkins writes that gene combinations which help an organism to survive and reproduce tend to also improve the gene's own chances of being passed on and, as a result, frequently " successful " genes will also be beneficial to the organism.
Dwindling profits and surging cost of production have made small villages economy in Bolivia extremely venerable and unstable ; as a result, unemployment rate sours and small business is on the verge of bankruptcy, which in return made government intervention very inefficient and deferred many governmental initiatives and attempts to improve the condition.
As a result of the prison's past troubles and reputation for violence, the state decided to make this change to improve the prisons status in the state.
The practical joke came as a result of Van Buren's vetoing a bill from Congress to improve the highway, a move which angered Western settlers.
In the context of accountability, integrity serves as a measure of willingness to adjust a value system to maintain or improve its consistency, when an expected result appears incongruent with observed outcome.
He has been employed by State authorities within the United States to improve the design of instruments for capital punishment as a result of which he has fulfilled execution equipment contracts with several states.
The proposed Fens Waterways Link, which aims to improve navigation from Lincoln to Cambridge may result in this section being upgraded, or a non-tidal link being created at Denver.
Political privacy may be more of a concern in the future as the capacities of persuasion technology improve, enabling pitches to be tailored to appeal to one's most fundamental personal beliefs-with or without human labour-making telemarketing scams easier, and making it extremely easy to slant opinion polls to get a desired result.
The mission of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of state and local governmental accounting and financial reporting that will result in useful information for users of financial reports and guide and educate the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of those financial reports.
The battle was the result of a British attempt to improve their position by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in the German defences to the west of the city of Caen.
* Federal Enterprise Architecture, a U. S. Government initiative to improve IT investment performance as a result of the Clinger-Cohen Act
In 1902, he realized that reversing the two rear elements of the Unar and returning to a cemented doublet would improve performance ; he named the result " Tessar ", from the Greek word τέσσερα ( téssera, four ) to indicate a four-element design.
Thus what one sees today is the result of a ' need ' driven learning to improve where each step has built on previous ideas and not something based upon a theoretical framework.
This is a common circumstance for resonators, where limiting the resistance of the inductor to improve Q and narrow the bandwidth is the desired result.
This is an especially important component when attempting to improve competitive positioning among a younger demographic, which tends to be Web oriented in their shopping and purchasing habits as a result of being highly connected and involved in social media in general.
Although research in a niche market may result in changing a product in order to improve differentiation, the changes themselves are not differentiation.
As a result nuclear chemistry greatly assists the understanding of medical treatments ( such as cancer radiotherapy ) and has enabled these treatments to improve.
Whereas in biology the competition of various organisms can result in the death of a species or organism, the kind of competition Spencer advocated is closer to the one used by economists, where competing individuals or firms improve the well being of the rest of society.
As a result in 1901, New York state passed a law called the New York State Tenement House Act to improve the conditions in tenements.

result and himself
The result was equal to the highest hopes cherished either by himself or by his friends.
As a result, it could be argued that there is a moral imperative for an agent to inform himself as much as possible about a situation before judging the appropriate course of action.
" 21: 2 In the New Jerusalem, God " will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God .." 21: 4 As a result, there is “ no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple .” Nor is there a need for the sun to give its light, “ for the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is its light.
As a result of their rearing, Kal-El grows up to think of himself as Clark Kent, completely unaware of his alien heritage until he was well into adulthood ( the fact that the Kents found him sometime just after the Cold War meant that the Kents assumed the rocket they found him in was from an Earth-based space program-possibly that of Communist Russia-and that Clark had superhuman abilities because he was either a metahuman or some kind of genetic experiment ).
Emperor Frederick II regained the city and the church by treaty in the 13th century, while he himself was under a ban of excommunication, leading to the curious result of the holiest church in Christianity being laid under interdict.
However, Tshisekedi maintained that the result of the election was illegitimate and said that he intended also to " swear himself in " as president.
The Dharma can be tested by practice and therefore he who follows it will see the result by himself through his own experience.
As a result of his reformatory activities, Erasmus found himself at odds with both the great parties.
However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.
As a result, he was ambivalent about his faith and dismissive of old world traditions from childhood, and as an adult he embraced Anglophilia to remove himself even further from his roots.
Probably as a result of their continuing feud, Palmerston declared himself against this Reform bill of 1852.
As a result, McGuinn ended up replacing three of Parsons ' lead vocals with his own singing on the finished album, a move that was still rankling Parsons as late as 1973, when he told Cameron Crowe in an interview that McGuinn " erased it and did the vocals himself and fucked it up.
Reynolds went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U. S. Exploring Expedition of 1838 – 1842, even though that venture was a result of his agitation.
A habeas corpus petition could be made by the prisoner himself or by a third party on his behalf and, as a result of the Habeas Corpus Acts, could be made regardless of whether the court was in session, by presenting the petition to a judge.
The Michigan Mental Health Code provides that a person " whose judgment is so impaired that he or she is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and whose continued behavior as the result of this mental illness can reasonably be expected, on the basis of competent clinical opinion, to result in significant physical harm to himself or herself or others " may be subjected to involuntary commitment, a provision paralleled in the laws of many other jurisdictions.
* the person has a mental illness and there is a substantial likelihood that, as a result of mental illness, the person will, in the near future, ( 1 ) cause serious physical harm to himself or others as evidenced by recent behavior causing, attempting, or threatening harm and other relevant information, if any
* the person has a mental illness and there is a substantial likelihood that, as a result of mental illness, the person will, in the near future, ( 2 ) suffer serious harm due to his lack of capacity to protect himself from harm or to provide for his basic human needs
If a fighter loses consciousness (" goes limp ") as a result of legal strikes, or does not immediately defend himself after a knockdown, he is declared knocked out.
Lex Luthor himself later marries Ardora of the planet Lexor and, in Action Comics # 544 ( June, 1983 ), first learns of his infant son by Ardora, Lex Luthor, Jr. A short time later, Lexor is destroyed and both Ardora and Lex, Jr. die as a direct result.
Others, including Dawkins himself, have argued that this usage of the term is the result of a misunderstanding of the original proposal.
This statement was probably the result of the complete ignorance of the chronicler, since 1018 Mieszko II was 28 years old and was already fully able to exercise the power by himself.
As a result, he has to deal with the deeply ingrained prejudice against mutants on his native world ( though he is not one himself ).
He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
In an alternate future, Worf had been reluctant to become involved with Troi and her subsequent death led to a rift between Riker and himself as a result.

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