By refusing to swear, he felt that he could bear witness to the value of truth in everyday life, as well as to God, who he associated with truth and the inner light.

By staying on the move and refusing to halt as normal, the APCs were difficult to target.

" In 1994, the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy offered a wider definition: " By analogy with racism and sexism, the improper stance of refusing respect to the lives, dignity, or needs of animals of other than the human species.

By refusing to cooperate with authorities, Castellano enhanced his reputation for mob loyalty.

By April, the Republic regime was in general disarray, with FANK troops refusing to fight and looting their own capital, and the CPNLAF advancing in many areas of the country.

By refusing to grant independence to its overseas territories in Africa, the Portuguese ruling regime of Estado Novo was criticized by most of the international community, and its leaders Salazar and Caetano were accused of being blind to the so-called " winds of change ".

By the time Hitchcock sold her contract to Universal and she was fired for refusing work on one of its television shows, Hedren's career had stalled after just two films.

By around 150 A. D. provincials had made up their minds that the Christians by refusing to worship the Gods were responsible for all manner of ills such as famine, plague and earthquakes and of practices such as cannibalism and black magic.

By refusing to ratify this treaty, the United States Senate has done a lot to undermine the arms control agenda that the international community, including Australia, has been working on.

By refusing to admit segregation existed in city schools and by declaring that children were the " pawns " of racial politics, she came to personify the discord that existed between some working class Irish-Americans and African-Americans.

By early July 1939, Bonnet grew increasingly irritated over what he regarded as British foot-dragging in the talks with the Soviets and Polish refusing to grant transit rights to the Red Army.

By refusing to leave the endangered city, he, like many other characters in the novel turns into an " unlikely hero " and " courageously serves his ' master ' and his country in ways unanticipated by his father, Beregond ".

He explained: " By refusing to place before our eyes Ty Cobb's haunted ferocity as a baseball player, it succeeds in making him look even worse than he was.

By 15: 00, all three masts had been brought down, obstructing the fire of the starboard battery, while De Winter was the only officer who remained uninjured, standing on his wrecked quarterdeck and still refusing to lower his colours.

By refusing battle, Leslie withstood a siege at Edinburgh and when the English were forced to retreat in August 1650 he pursued them down the east coast, eventually trapping 11, 000 English soldiers south of Dunbar with an army of 14, 000 Scottish.

By 1950, the Bird Commission awarded $ 1. 3 million in claims to 1, 434 Japanese Canadians ; however, it accepted only claims based on loss of property, refusing to compensate for wrongdoing in terms of civil rights, damages due to loss of earnings, disruption of education or other issues.

Sixth: By the military commandant of Anahuac advising and procuring servants to quit the service of their masters, and offering them protection ; causing them to labor for his benefits, and refusing to compensate them for the same.

By the end of 2004, and after refusing all Benfica's contract renewal proposals, Šokota was relegated to Benfica B, the club's reserve squad, where he eventually played for the rest of the 2004-05 season.

" By refusing to return evil for evil, by living in peace, sharing goods, and doing deeds of charity as opportunities arise, the church witnesses, says Yoder, to the fact that an alternative to a society based on violence or the threat of violence has been made possible by the life, death, resurrection and teachings of Jesus.

By banding together into " unions " and refusing to work, or “ striking ,” workers would halt production at a plant or in a mine, forcing management to meet their demands.

By refusing what he considered a disastrous order on Langner's part, Kasparek avoided becoming, like the officers who obeyed it, a victim of the Katyn massacres.

By contrast to the original series, Randall on this occasion is a far more moral individual, refusing to become involved with Jeannie after Marty's death despite being significantly tempted, and displaying little real interest in other women even when they make their attraction clear.

After refusing an offer to sing a song for A. R. Rahman's album Blue, Akhtar acted in, and produced his sister Zoya's directorial and written debut, Luck By Chance which had Hrithik Roshan and Konkona Sen Sharma in the lead roles.

By refusing to actually supply the magic to the spell, the power of life and the power of the underworld come together and strike the beast, driving it away for the time being.

By a vote of 338-320, the Bundestag voted to move the seat of government to Berlin.

By allowing parents and students to " vote with their feet ," they incentivize schools to increase accountability and school performance.

By a vote of 23 to 17, the senate voted to kill the motion by laying it on the table with every senator from states south of Missouri voting for the tabling.

By convention the serving Prime Minister is given first opportunity to reach agreements that will allow them to survive a vote of confidence in the House and continue to govern.

By 1829, 60 % of the state's free white males were ineligible to vote.

By this broader definition the two-round system is not the only form of run-off voting, and others include the exhaustive ballot and instant run-off voting ( also known as the alternative vote ).

By withdrawing candidates a political faction can avoid the " spoiler effect ", whereby a candidate " splits the vote " of its supporters.

By a vote of the House of Commons, a monument was erected in his honour in St Paul's Cathedral, Abercromby Square in Liverpool is named in his honour.

By vote of the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Sixth Sense was awarded the Nebula Award for Best Script during 1999.

By 1873, however, he had adapted his ideas to take account of the secret vote.

* April 12 – By a vote of 45 – 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.

* December 4 – By a vote of 65 – 7, the United States Senate approves the entry of the United States into the United Nations.

** United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72 – 35 ( with 32 abstentions ), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism.

By winning 523 electoral votes, Roosevelt received 98. 49 % of the electoral vote, the highest percentage since 1820.

By the summer Perot commanded a lead in the presidential race with thirty-nine percent of the vote.

By this estimate, 95 % of the population ( of roughly 13 million people, at the time ) remained with no vote, including all women.

By a majority of one member ( 29 – 28 ) the committee voted to certify Johnson's nomination, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher Frank W. Mayborn, who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee.

By 1851, at the second National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, the issue of women's right to vote had become a central tenet of the women's rights movement.

By the time Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency in 1980, fundamentalist preachers, like the prohibitionist ministers of the early 20th century, were organizing their congregations to vote for supportive candidates.

By the middle of the season, an emergency town meeting is called to vote on whether Dale should be dismissed.

By December 8, 2000, there had been multiple court decisions regarding the presidential election in Florida and on that date the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4-3 vote, ordered a statewide manual recount.

By 1990, exasperated by decades of the city not filing papers or following municipal procedures, the state of Florida ruled all of Islandia's elections illegal on the grounds that only land owners, as opposed to all residents, had been permitted to vote, in violation of voting-rights laws.

By December of 1854 this area that Dyer had been calling Pomfret was renamed Rushford after a vote during a Christmas dinner served at Dyer's home.

By November 25, 2008, the provisional vote counts had been tallied, and the name change won by 25 votes.