Exercising the right to self-government granted by the constitution, the " nationalities and regions " have been constituted as 17 autonomous communities and 2 autonomous cities.

Immediately following the event, there were mixed feelings among the intelligentsia about whether such vengeance had been appropriate — many agreed that, given their master's last wishes, the forty-seven had done the right thing, but were undecided about whether such a vengeful wish was proper.

According to traditional customs of blood vengeance prevalent in Albania at the time, Verlaci had the right to kill Zog.

Clifford seems unconcerned with Henry's ability to lead the country, and his desire for personal vengeance seems to outweigh any sense he has of aiding the House of Lancaster because he believes it to be the right thing to do.

Claiming right of vengeance, Worf challenges Duras to a duel, and kills him, resulting in Gowron's ascension to the Chancellorship.

In ancient Homeric Greece, the practice of personal vengeance against wrongdoers was considered natural and customary: " Embedded in the Greek morality of retaliation is the right of vendetta.

Through his many connections, he is eventually released and swears vengeance on Rally ( and eventually gets killed in his pursuit, right after confessing his love for Rally ).

The right hand panel is believed to show God wreaking vengeance for these sins in a hellscape.

Hoping to enact vengeance upon those who mocked him, and to do what was right in the end, he would stay behind.

The Cities of Refuge were towns in the Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of manslaughter could claim the right of asylum ; outside of these cities, blood vengeance against such perpetrators was allowed by law.

After a brief battle, Worf killed Gowron ; by right he was proclaimed the new chancellor of the Klingon High Council.

They seem to feel that because they fought on the right side during the Civil War, and won, they have earned the right merely to deplore what is going on in the South, without taking any responsibility for it ; ;

The artists fought the response through letter writing and four years later succeeded in gaining the right to complete the murals.

* Ex-guardsmen of the Nicaraguan National Guard and other right wing figures who had fought for Nicaragua's ex-dictator Somoza – these later were especially found in the military wing of the FDN.

" Throughout the Revolution, women such as Pauline Léon and her Society of Revolutionary Republican Women fought for the right to bear arms, used armed force and rioted.

The Macedonian cavalry fought in wedge formation and was stationed on the far right ; after these broke through the enemy lines they were followed by the hypaspists, elite infantrymen who served as the king's bodyguard, and then the phalanx proper.

Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.

Sikhs have always being eager exponents of interfaith dialogue and will not only accept the right of other to practise their faith but have in the past fought and laid down their lives to protect this right for others.

Today, retirement with a pension is considered a right of the worker in many societies, and hard ideological, social, cultural and political battles have been fought over whether this is a right.

The American Equal Rights Association ( AERA ), which had originally fought for both blacks ’ and women ’ s right to suffrage, voted to support the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, granting suffrage to black men, but not women.

Fighters vied for the right to declare their ladies ( only men fought at the first event ) " fairest ", later called the " Queen of Love and Beauty ".

Teenagers assumed their right to a sexual life with whomever they pleased, and bathers fought to be topless or nude at beaches.

* 82 BC – Commanded the victorious right wing of Sulla's army at the Colline Gate, the decisive battle of the civil war, fought Kalends of November

The right flank of this penetration was covered by the survivors of the 2nd Rangers ’ A and B companies, who had independently fought their way to the top between 08: 00 and 08: 30.

Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I and his supporters, the Cavaliers ( Royalists ), who claimed absolute power and the divine right of kings.

The match with Ketchel was originally thought to have been an exhibition, and in fact it was fought by both men that way, until the 12th round, when Ketchel threw a right to Johnson's head, knocking him down.

They fought over who had the right to go first and Oedipus killed Laius in self-defense, unwittingly fulfilling part of the prophecy.

Additionally, during the taping of their first LP Brian fought for, and won, the right to be in charge of the production-though his first acknowledged liner notes production credit did not come until the band's third album Surfer Girl, in 1963.

A small population of unsophisticated peoples observed, often right in front of their dwellings, the largest war ever fought between technologically advanced countries.

His doctoral dissertation LaGuardia in Congress was a study of Fiorello LaGuardia's congressional career, and it depicted representing " the conscience of the twenties " as LaGuardia fought for public power, the right to strike, and the redistribution of wealth by taxation.

Since its dealings with the 1993 GATT free trade negotiations, France has fought for what it calls the exception culturelle, meaning the right to subsidize or treat favorably domestic cultural production and to limit or control foreign cultural products ( as seen in public funding for French cinema or the lower VAT accorded to books ).

Insisting on his right to abandon his peerage, Benn fought to retain his seat in a by-election caused by his succession on 4 May 1961.

In November, 1917, one of his outstanding students and later a noted philosophy professor in his own right, Adolf Reinach, was killed in the war while serving in Flanders.

When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.

Jody persuades Fergus to make sure his girlfriend, Dil, will be all right after Jody has been killed.

Later that year, two militia commanders killed civilians while fighting for the right to sodomize a young boy.

Booth was killed instantly, while Seigmann and Browning suffered serious injuries, including in Browning's case a shattered right leg and the loss of his front teeth.

In her anger, Anita, who is in tears, tells the Jets that Bernardo was right about them, and then claims that Chino has killed Maria in jealousy.

Although there is an indication in Targum Lamentations that " Zechariah son of Iddo " was killed in the Temple ,< ref > Targum on Lam 2: 20: " Is it right to kill priest and prophet in the Temple of the Lord, as when you killed Zechariah son of Iddo, the High Priest and faithful prophet in the Temple of the Lord on the Day of Atonement because he told you not to do evil before the Lord?

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

Although the botulinum toxin is destroyed by thorough cooking over the course of a few minutes, the spore itself is not killed by the temperatures reached with normal sea-level-pressure boiling, leaving it free to grow and again produce the toxin when conditions are right.

A figure in the panel of the Bayeux Tapestry with the inscription " Harold Rex Interfectus Est " ( Harold the King is killed ) is depicted gripping an arrow that has struck his eye, but some historians have questioned whether this man is intended to be Harold, or if Harold is intended as the next figure lying to the right almost prone, being mutilated beneath a horse's hooves.

The aircraft immediately began taking fire, and the right door minigunner, Sergeant Phillip Svitak, was killed by small arms fire.

For example, a platoon of soldiers in combat can be thought of as a distinct group, since individual members are willing to risk their lives for the survival of the group, and therefore the group can be conceived as having a " right " which is superior to that of any individual member ; for example, a soldier who disobeys an officer can be punished, perhaps even killed, for a breach of obedience.

Frollo asks the king to remove Esmeralda's right to sanctuary so she can no longer seek shelter in the church and will be taken from the church and killed.

Caesar is deemed an intuitive philosopher who is always right when he goes with his gut, for instance when he says he fears Cassius as a threat to him before he is killed, his intuition is correct.

Machine-gun nests in the undamaged sections of the German line pinned down, wounded or killed much of the 4th Canadian Division's right flank.

The sabotage was arranged by Myrtilus, a servant of the king who was killed by Pelops for one of three reasons: because he had been promised the right to take Hippodamia's virginity, which Pelops retracted, because he attempted to rape her or because Pelops did not wish to share the credit for the victory.

In one telling it was Philoctetes that killed Paris, he fired four times, the first arrow went wide, the second struck his bow hand, the third hit him in the right eye, the fourth hit him in the heel, there was no need of a fifth shot.

After intense fighting, the Spartan right flank began to give way under the impetus of the mass of Thebans, and Cleombrotus was killed.

When Althaea's brothers, “ thinking scorn that a woman should get the prize in the face of men, took the skin from her, alleging that it belonged to them by right of birth if Meleager did not choose to take it ,” Meleager flew into a rage and killed both of his uncles.

In Greek mythology, Phereclus, son of Tecton, was the shipbuilder who constructed the boat that Paris used to kidnap Helen., Meriones targeted him and killed him by ramming a spear into his right buttock.

Finally he killed Fergus Dubdétach himself, and when the attendant confirmed he'd got the right man, Lugaid killed him and collapsed from exhaustion and loss of blood.