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Portions of Denton County sit atop the Barnett Shale, a geological formation believed to contain large quantities of natural shale gas.
The district also sits on the Barnett Shale, which is believed to contain the largest quantity of natural gas in the state of Texas, and is home to approximately 683, 000 residents.
and the American government believed all Transformers were allied despite statements by their captives and humans who learned the truth ); they only survived by having their brain modules secretly removed by sympathetic government agent Walter Barnett.

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Barnett gets upset because Barbara Jean will have to perform in front of a large Walker advertisement, but has to go along with it because his wife's career will be harmed if he pulls her out of the show.
Deeply in debt, Tourgée could not afford to help but asked his friend Ferdinand L. Barnett if he could.
In Angelglass by David Barnett, Uriel meddles in Earth's affairs and is cast down to see if he can " improve " the course of history by personal intervention.
Instead of this, Barnett argues that Carl von Clausewitz's " Theory of War " as a continuation of politics still holds true, giving examples such as the Provisional IRA's campaign (" the classic contemporary demonstration of Clausewitzian principles in action ") and Yugoslavia (" where Nato has simply frozen a war which will certainly break out again if and when the intervention forces leave ").
Later that year Barnett returned to the subject, saying that the 80 day-long air campaign against Serbian forces demonstrated " that air power is a clumsy means of political coercion " and " that Bosnia should have served as a warning to us not to get entangled over Kosovo, and that if we did get entangled, we would finish up to our necks in trouble – which we have ".
After fellow military historian Sir John Keegan demanded to know why those who opposed the Iraq War wanted Saddam Hussein to remain in power, Barnett replied that " America, Britain, the Middle East and the wider world would be vastly better off in terms of peace and stability if Saddam were still gripping Iraq, and we were still gripping Saddam as we had been from 1991 to 2003 ".
The military historian Correlli Barnett has argued that if Britain alienated Italy, Italy " would be a potential enemy astride England's main line of imperial communication at a time when she was already under threat from two existing potential enemies at opposite ends of the line and Japan.
The Barnett formula would not be practical in a system of English regional assemblies, so if such a proposal were to be resurrected, a new system of financial allocation would have to be devised.
In contrast, if the Scottish Parliament was to use its tax-adjusting powers ( often referred to as the ' tartan tax '), the additional ( or reduced ) revenue would not be considered in any calculations by the Barnett formula of the block grant for Scotland.

Barnett and Western
The triple bottom line was adopted as a part of the State Sustainability Strategy, and accepted by the Government of Western Australia but its status was increasingly marginalised by subsequent premiers Alan Carpenter and Colin Barnett and is in doubt.
Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia, has dubbed the suburb " Australia's Monaco " due to its small size and concentration of wealth.
Spider is an impact structure, the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia, 18 km east of the Mount Barnett Roadhouse on the Gibb River Road.
* Woody Guthrie Woody Guthrie pages, which in turn rely on the liner notes for Bobby Barnett, American Heroes & Western Legends, Bear Family Records ( BCD 16 121 AH ), 1997
Colin James Barnett ( born 15 July 1950 ) is an Australian politician who is the 29th and current Premier of Western Australia in his role as leader of the Western Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Barnett was born in Nedlands, a suburb of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, and graduated from the University of Western Australia with an economics degree.
Barnett was sworn into office on 23 September 2008 by Ken Michael, the Governor of Western Australia at the time.
At the 2005 state election, Barnett proposed the construction of a canal from the rivers of the Kimberley Ranges in northern Western Australia to Perth to meet Perth's growing water supply problem.
Barnett had already been angered that Western Australia was given a decreased 7. 1 percent amount of the GST revenue ( lower than last year's revenue amount of 8. 1 percent ) while Western Australia is a state that will be heavily relied upon for the nation's economic growth due to its booming resource sector.
Colin Barnett the premier of the Government of Western Australia made the announcement saying his government was also backing a bid by Crown to increase its number of poker machines by 500, and the number of gaming tables by 130.
The Government of Western Australia is backing Crown's application to the state's Gaming and Wagering Commission, and the proposal has the personal support of WA premier Colin Barnett, who described the increase in gambling facilities " as natural growth ," and said it was " common sense " for the expansion as it was being made in line with the development of a new six-star hotel in the casino complex.

Barnett and Australia
Jim Barnett, who had worked for the World Championship Wrestling promotion in Australia, came to Atlanta in the 1970s during an internal struggle over the NWA Georgia territory.
In Australia, its first authorised production opened on 22 May 1886 at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, produced by J. C. Williamson, starring Frank Thornton, Nellie Stewart and Alice Barnett, conducted by Alfred Cellier, although unauthorised productions had appeared by 1879.
Established in April 1916 by Reverend C Benson Barnett, a returned missionary, with a mission to train people for Christian service in Australia and overseas.
* J. Woodhouse, P. Barnett, et al., Signs & Wonders and Evangelicals: a Response to the Teaching of John Wimber ( Homebush West, NSW, Australia: Lancer Books, 1987 ).
Barnett at the time led the only Liberal State Government in Australia, while all others states were led by Labor Governments.
Golden also wrestled in the early 1970s in Australia for Jim Barnett.
The carrot at the end of the 1936 season was selection for the MCC team to tour Australia and New Zealand in the 1936-37 season ; the side was picked in early August, and Gimblett was not named in it, the young opening batsmen selected being Fagg and Charles Barnett, who replaced Gimblett for the third and final Test match against India.
With Australia leading the series 1 – 0 going into the Fifth Test at The Oval, Barnett dropped Len Hutton and Maurice Leyland when both were on 40.
Barnett in New South Wales, Australia.

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Certainly nobody will predict that the next time the lawmakers come back together Barnett will be able to enjoy a re-enactment of the strange but successful `` honeymoon '' he had in the 1960 legislative session.
Barnett admitted that the regime had " sterm authoritarianism " and " little room for personal freedom ".
Barnett, in an earlier essay had pointed to a new development in this " endless war ":
Renteln thus bridges the gap between the anthropologist as scientist ( whom Steward and Barnett felt had nothing to offer debates on rights and morality ) and as private individual ( who has every right to make value judgements ).
Though Meredith was legally entitled to register, the Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, tried to block him by having the Legislature pass a law that “ prohibited any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school .” The law was directed at Meredith, who had been convicted of “ false voter registration .” Since passage of its 1890 constitution, the state had voter registration rules that effectively disfranchised black voters.
Barnett also gives the text of a document from 1769 in the records of the Gilead Lutheran Church " When it had pleased the Almighty and Merciful God in His goodness to plant the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this American part of the world also, and especially in the State of New York, during the reign of Queen Anna, and also in this neighborhood and district called Hosek Road, in Rensselaerwyck, Albany County, then more than twenty years ago, a small body of adherents of the above said Lutheran church, disposed to that end did build and erect a prayer and church House to the Honor of God, and for their convenience, upon that lot of ground which our most worthy Patroon generously gave to promote and perpetuate the service of God and for the better maintenance of our preacher, for which purpose he presented us with a Deed of Gift which We acknowledge with heartfelt thanks towards our Good Lord in Heaven, and that in addition He grants us all hereabouts by His grace that we through the permission of the Government are allowed to carry on our pure Lutheran Church service free and without hindrance.
While New York and the world were yet unfamiliar with the New York avant-garde by the late 1940s, most of the artists who have become household names today had their well established patron critics: Clement Greenberg advocated Jackson Pollock and the color field painters like Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb and Hans Hofmann.
It was followed by Fair Rosamond in 1837, and Farinelli in 1839, but Barnett never again achieved the success that he had enjoyed with The Mountain Sylph.
Barnett admitted that the regime had " sterm authoritarianism " and " little room for personal freedom ".
Elegant and witty, she was regarded by audiences as the epitome of the British aristocracy ( although her title actually came from the fact that her solicitor husband had been knighted ; the incorrect form Lady Isobel Barnett suggested she possessed a courtesy title, but she was not an aristocrat, nor had she married into the aristocracy ).
" Barnett said that Mississippi had the largest percent of African Americans because " they love our way of life here, and that way is segregation.
To much laughter from the audience members, he told of a plan in which Barnett had asked that U. S. marshals point their guns at him while Meredith attempted to enroll so that " a picture could be taken of the event.
By this time, Billy Currie and Dave Formula had also left the band ( though they received a " special thanks " credit on the album sleeve for their input ), leaving only Strange and Egan from the original line-up along with newer musicians Steve & Gary Barnacle and Andy Barnett.
Some scholars such as Paul Barnett hold that this indicates that Paul had some familiarity with the circumstances of the birth of Jesus, but that is not shared among scholars in general.
The military historian Correlli Barnett claimed Haldane had " all-round personal talents far exceeding those of his predecessors " as Secretary of State for War and was " a man of first-class intellect and wide education ".
Born in Alabama, Barnett had become the editor of the Chicago Conservator in 1878.
At least one of the stories printed in The Saturday Press led to a successful prosecution of a gangster called Big Mose Barnett who had intimidated a local dry cleaner by destroying his customers ' clothing.
When the Corcoran director James Harithas left, Barnett Newman had the sculpture removed in 1969.
Initially Court had announced that he would stay on as opposition leader, but had secretly negotiated a deal under which she would leave the Federal Parliament and factional opponent Colin Barnett would move to Canberra.
It was known that he was the Labour Party's third choice for the position: former Treasury Minister Joel Barnett had rejected an invitation, and former Defence Secretary Fred Mulley had been vetoed by the Conservative government.

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