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Countering Raytheon's proposed transatlantic tie-up, Boeing was added to the European team, to provide expertise on aircraft integration, risk management, lean manufacturing technology and marketing activities in selected markets.

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Countering a presentist interpretation are those who say this approach misses out on much of the original's value as a children's book and as a work of high fantasy in its own right, and that it disregards the book's influence on these genres.
Countering such works are one like Rawdat al-muhibbin wa-nuzhat al-mushtaqin or Meadow of Lovers and Diversion of the Infatuated by ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah who advises on how to separate love and lust and avoid sin.
The Special police were a branch of the Regular Police who are used for Restoring peace and stability if they have been heavily disturbed, Counter terrorism, Countering violent groups, and repressing riots ( especially in prisons ).
Countering the hypothesis of Ryan and Pitman are data collected prior to its publication by Ukrainian and Russian scientists including Valentina Yanko-Hombach, who claims that the water flow through the Bosporus repeatedly reversed direction over geological time depending on fluctuation in the levels of the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.
Countering this utopian view was Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges in his essay " The Origins of Property in Land ", and Frederic William Maitland who found it to be inconsistent with extant Anglo-Saxon documents from pre-Norman times.

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Countering the argument of a Celtic origin is the literary evidence that the Cimbri originally came from northern Jutland, an area with no Celtic placenames, instead only Germanic ones.
Countering the argument that the Cārvākas opposed all that was good in the Vedic tradition, Dale Riepe says, " It may be said from the available material that Cārvākas hold truth, integrity, consistency, and freedom of thought in the highest esteem.
Countering the public uproar over excessive executive pay ( including backdating stock options, golden parachutes for nonperformance, and extravagant retirement packages ), Welch stated that CEO compensation should continue to be dictated by the free market, without interference from government or other outside agencies.
Countering this, the plaintiff then read in evidence from Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries the definitions of potato, turnip, parsnip, cauliflower, cabbage, carrot and bean.

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Countering this view, Garrett Epps — a professor of law at the University of Baltimore — has stated that " In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the United States Supreme Court held that this guarantee birthright citizenship applies to children of foreigners present on American soil, even if their parents are not American citizens and indeed are not eligible to become U. S. citizens.
Countering the criticism, the trustees of the hospital confirmed their confidence in the staff and director, and presented extensive professional praise of the hospital and the procedures followed under the direction of Cotton, whom they considered a pioneer.

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Countering the misleading " discoveries " of pseudoarchaeology binds academic archaeologists in a quandary, described by Cornelius Holtorf as whether to strive to disprove alternative approaches in a " crusading " approach or to concentrate on better public understanding of the sciences involved ; Holtorf suggested a third, relativist and contextualised approach, in identifying the social and cultural needs that both scientific and alternative archaeologies address and in identifying the engagement with the material remains of the past in the present in terms of critical understanding and dialogue with " multiple pasts ", such as Barbara Bender explored for Stonehenge.

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Writing for the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, she concluded that " the so-called Beslan terrorists were agents of our own special forces – UBOP for Countering Extremism and FSB.

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Countering criticism by traditionalists, Whistler's supporters insisted that the painting was " an apparition with a spiritual content " and that it epitomized his theory that art should be concerned essentially with the arrangement of colors in harmony, not with a literal portrayal of the natural world.
Countering criticism by traditionalists, Whistler's supporters insisted that the painting was " an apparition with a spiritual content " and that it epitomized his theory that art should be concerned essentially with the arrangement of colors in harmony, not with a literal portrayal of the natural world.
Countering the response that the best way to ensure that progressive forces, not reactionary ones, dominate post-occupation Iraq would be for progressives to take the lead in fighting the occupation, Ketabchi argues that this is not possible due to the present situation in Iraq.

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In November 2001, in response to an Abu-Dhabi television broadcast depicting Ariel Sharon drinking the blood of Palestinian children, the Israeli government set up the " Coordinating Forum for Countering Antisemitism ," headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Rabbi Michael Melchior.

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Countering Terrorist Finance: The Central Bank of Sudan and its financial intelligence unit circulated to financial institutions a list of individuals and entities that have been included on the UN 1267 al-Qa ’ ida and Taliban sanctions committee's Consolidated List.

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* Countering the growing danger of the terrorist threat requires significantly stepping up U. S. efforts.

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Countering this, a few professionals including Michael Winner and Julian Fellowes supported the Government's decision.
Countering this trend, with the discovery and mining of silver deposits in Europe, Italy began the first tentative steps toward a large silver coinage with the introduction in 1472 of the lira tron in excess of six grams, a substantial increase over the, roughly, four-gram gros tournois of France.
Countering Terrorist Finance: Syria remained a source of concern regarding terrorist financing.
Countering a single Midgetman would require the Soviets to blanket an area around its last known position with warheads.
Countering this view, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Roe and others focused on what they believed were political allusions actually present in the poem, Roe arguing for a direct connection to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.
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In December 2010, the World Jewish Congress, together with several Israeli government ministries, convened a consultation entitled ‘ Building Partnerships and Synergies in Countering the Assault on Israel ’ s Legitimacy ’ in Jerusalem.
Countering this reasoning, the Centre and the BVP tried to re-establish a working parliament by cooperation with the National Socialists, since the three parties together had attained 53 % of the seats.
Battling Big Business: Countering Greenwash, Infiltration, and Other Forms of Corporate Bullying.
* Countering spying activities by foreign agents.
Joseph W. Ralston ( born November 4, 1943 ) is currently the United States Special Envoy for Countering the Kurdistan Workers Party ( PKK ) and holds senior positions in various defense related corporations.

Gould and Davis
In a review of The Mismeasure of Man, Bernard Davis, professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, said that Gould erected a straw man argument based upon incorrectly defined key terms — specifically reification — which Gould furthered with a " highly selective " presentation of statistical data, all motivated more by politics than by science.
Nonetheless, in 1994, Gould contradicted Davis by arguing that of twenty-four academic book reviews written by experts in psychology, fourteen approved, three were mixed opinions, and seven disapproved of the book.
Furthermore, Davis accused Gould of having misrepresented a study by Henry H. Goddard ( 1866 – 1957 ) about the intelligence of Jewish, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian immigrants to the U. S., wherein Gould reported Goddard's qualifying those people as " feeble-minded "; whereas, in the initial sentence of the study, Goddard said the study subjects were atypical members of their ethnic groups, who had been selected because of their suspected sub-normal intelligence.
Agassiz, Davis, Peirce, Benjamin Gould, and Senator Wilson met at Bache's house and " hurriedly wrote the bill incorporating the Academy, including in it the name of fifty incorporators ".
From the 1970s, these ideas were taken up by popular writers of second-wave feminism and expanded with the speculations of Margaret Murray on witchcraft, by the Goddess movement, and in feminist Wicca, as well as in works by Elizabeth Gould Davis, Riane Eisler, and Merlin Stone.
Members of the Board of Trustees are Janine Bauer ( 2013 ), Deborah Davis Ford ( 2015 ), Michael Goldberg ( 2013 ), Nancy Gould ( 2013 ), Howard Levison ( 2015 ) and Mark Rosner ( 2015 ).
The book reflects the rise of feminist theology in the 1970s to 1980s, along with authors such as Elizabeth Gould Davis, Riane Eisler and Marija Gimbutas.
He enjoyed a good return of form in the World Open, where he beat Steve Davis 3 – 1, Fergal O ' Brien 3 – 2, Liu Song 3 – 2, and Martin Gould 3-1 before losing against Ronnie O ' Sullivan 1 – 3.
Elizabeth Gould Davis argues that the breasts ( along with phalluses ) were revered by the women of Catal Huyuk as instruments of motherhood, but it was after what she describes as a patriarchal revolution – when men had appropriated both phallus worship and " the breast fetish " for themselves – that these organs " acquired the erotic significance with which they are now endowed ".
In addition to Bachofen, second-wave feminists who became interested in the history of religion also refer to the work of Helen Diner ( 1965 ) and M. Esther Harding ( 1935 ) Elizabeth Gould Davis ( 1971 ) and Merlin Stone ( 1976 ).
* Elizabeth Gould Davis ( 1910 – 1974 ), American librarian and feminist writer
The First Sex is a 1971 book by the American librarian Elizabeth Gould Davis, considered part of the second wave of feminism.
In the book, Gould Davis aimed to show that early human society consisted of matriarchal " queendoms " based around worship of the " Great Goddess ", and characterised by pacifism and democracy.
Gould Davis argued that the early matriarchal societies attained a high level of civilization, which was largely wiped out as a result of the " patriarchal revolution ".
These views of Gould Davis on a Great Goddess predominating in Neolithic Europe and the Near East are similar to those made by a number of writers in the early and mid 20th-century, including Eric Neumann, Merlin Stone, Marija Gimbutas, J. J. Bachofen, Walter Burket, James Mellart, Robert Briffault.
Although many of her views are considered unsupported by most anthropologists and archaeologists today, a number of writers have continued to develop the themes that Gould Davis originated.
In the first part of The First Sex, Gould Davis used evidence from archaeology and anthropology to support a theory of matriarchal prehistory.
Gould Davis said that the " loss of paradise " when the " Great Goddess " was replaced by a vengeful male deity is the theme of all surviving myth.
In " Anthropology Speaks ", Gould Davis focused on taboos, chiefly incest, and aimed to show how taboos against brother-sister relationships acted to protect women against violent men.
In this section of the book, Gould Davis examined how mythology and society changed as a result of a suggested violent conversion from matriarchy to patriarchy.
Gould Davis asserted that many tales in the Old Testament were actually rewritings of older stories, with goddesses changed to male actors, or a goddess raped or overthrown and her powers usurped by the new father deity.
Gould Davis discussed female circumcision as a means to protect the virginity of women and assure clear lines of paternity.

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