* The Iris Robinson scandal in which First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson stepped aside for six weeks in January 2010 following revelations of his wife ’ s involvement in an extramarital affair, her attempted suicide and allegations that he had failed to properly declare details of loans she had procured for her lover to develop a business venture.

During the First World War Prime Minister Robert Borden attempted to form a coalition with the opposition Liberals to broaden support for controversial conscription legislation.

In the early twenties, Paramount attempted a hostile takeover, buying several of First National's member firms.

In the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905, Germany nearly came to blows with Britain and France when the latter attempted to establish a protectorate over Morocco.

* 1495 – First Italian War: Battle of Fornovo – Charles VIII defeats the Holy League, but ultimately ends his attempted conquest of Italy.

In Brazil, for example, trials by jury are applied in cases of voluntary crimes against life, such as First and Second-degree murders, forced abortion and instigation of suicide, even if only attempted.

In 2006 he then attempted to pass the First Employment Contract ( CPE ) through a vote by emergency procedure, but that it was met by students and unions ' protests.

First, because of restrictions in the post-war West German constitution, the army could not participate in the attempted rescue, as the German armed forces are not allowed to operate inside Germany during peacetime.

Journalist Andrew Cockburn reported in Britain's The First Post that Ekéus told him how former U. S. President Bill Clinton attempted to prevent Saddam Hussein's Iraq from being certified as free of weapons of mass destruction.

The actions Q took in sending the Enterprise D to System J-25 — and thus maintaining the time loop, are expanded upon in the Star Trek novels as being partially ( though indirectly ) the reason for the existence of the Mirror Universe, explaining that Zefram Cochrane attempted to warn Earth and the worlds that would become part of the Federation about the Borg after First Contact.

In arguing before the Supreme Court, Gitlow contended that " the statute as construed and applied by the trial court penalize the mere utterance, as such, of ' doctrine ' having no quality of incitement, without regard to the circumstances of its utterance or to the likelihood of the unlawful sequences " While acknowledging " liberty of expression ' is not absolute ,'" he maintained " it may be restrained ' only in instances where its exercise bears a causal relation with some substantive evil, consummated, attempted or likely '" As the statute took no account of the circumstances under which the offending literature was written, it violated the First Amendment.

First, the variable may be a non-economic variable: for example, if rainfall amount is hypothesized to affect the futures price y of some agricultural commodity, it is impossible that in fact the futures price affects rainfall amount ( provided that cloud seeding is never attempted ).

First, it attempted to regulate both indecency ( when available to children ) and obscenity in cyberspace.

In 1096, on the way to the First Crusade, Peter the Hermit led a mob of Crusaders that attempted to force the mass conversion of the Jews of Regensburg and killed all those who resisted.

In 1837 Augustus attempted to obtain an appointment for James to the United States Military Academy, but the vacancy for his congressional district had already been filled so James was appointed in 1838 by a relative, Reuben Chapman, who represented the First District of Alabama ( where Mary Longstreet lived ).

After the First World War the League of Nations was set up which attempted to limit and reduce arms.

However, the First Canadian Army did encounter resistance immediately west of the Seine and fighting occurred in the Forêt de la Londe as Allied troops attempted to cut off the escape across the river of parts of the German 7th Army in the closing phases of the Battle of Normandy.

Of the 86, 000 Communists who attempted to break out of Jiangxi with the First Red Army, only 36, 000 successfully escaped.

The Army Council attempted to remove the flash during the First World War citing the grounds that it would help the Germans identify which unit was facing them.

Louis XVIII attempted to strike up a correspondence with Napoleon Bonaparte ( now First Consul of France ) in 1800.

First, he attempted to shoot arrows at it, then he used his great club, and was eventually forced to strangle the beast.

* Luna 1 – 2 January 1959 – First lunar flyby ( attempted lunar impact?

* Mars 2 – 19 May 1971 – Mars orbiter and attempted lander ; First Mars impact

Therefore, a number of physicists attempted to make measurements of indirect first order effects of light speed variations ( see First order aether-drift experiments ).

In 2006 he then attempted to pass the First Employment Contract ( CPE ) through a vote by emergency procedure, but that it was met by students and unions ' protests.

First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

However, there are some Jews, particularly the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who do hold public readings of the Book of Job on the Tisha B ' Av fast ( a day of mourning over the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies ).

The Archimedes ' screw underpins modern hydroengineering, and his machines of war helped to hold back the armies of Rome in the First Punic War.

First, this was an intrinsically quantum mechanical result ; the identification did not hold in the realm of classical physics.

Another example would be the former Soviet Union where only members of the Communist Party were allowed to vote or hold office ; the French First Republic government under the Directory ; and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( only the nobility could vote ).

* To rebut the accusation of denying the catholicity and indefectibility of the Church, they say that, between the death of every Pope and the election of his successor, there is a sede vacante period during which there is no visible Head of the Church, and — while mainstream Catholics hold that, according to the dogmatic constitution Pastor aeternus of the First Vatican Council, which speaks of " perpetual successors " in the pontificate, there must be, apart from such transitory periods, a perpetual presence of the Bishop of Rome, not merely of his office — that the absence of a Pope has become a long-term feature of the Church's structure.

A 2011 paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard School of Public Health, “ The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year ,” utilized Oregon ’ s 2008 decision to hold a randomized lottery for the provision of Medicaid insurance in order to measure the impact of health insurance on an individual ’ s health and well-being.

By the end of the First Punic War, a fourth magistrate entitled to hold imperium appears, the praetor qui inter peregrinos ius dicit (" the praetor who administers justice among foreigners ").

In a 1992 lawsuit brought by Jews for Jesus against the JCRCNY, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the efforts of the JCRCNY urging Jewish organizations not to patronize a New York country club because it allowed Jews for Jesus to hold its annual convention on its premises were not protected as an exercise of the JCRC's First Amendment rights.

Dordrecht around 1565, by Jacob van DeventerIn 1572, four years into the Dutch Revolt, representatives of all the cities of Holland, with the exception of Amsterdam, as well as the Watergeuzen, represented by William II de la Marck, gathered in Dordrecht to hold the Eerste Vrije Statenvergadering (" First Assembly of the Free States "), also known as the Unie van Dordrecht (" Union of Dordrecht ").

These records of the First International Polar Year offer a rare glimpse of the circumpolar Arctic environment as it existed in the past and hold the potential to improve our understanding of historical climate variability and environmental change in the Arctic.

The Stations of the Cross, ordered from Stuflesser, spent the First World War in the hold of a German freighter impounded at Genoa.

* Christine Reynolds — First woman to hold a post in the Tennessee Cabinet, Commissioner of Public Welfare under Governor Frank G. Clement 1953-1959

The First World War put Rimet's and FIFA's plans on hold.

*‘ First man to die for the flag we now hold high was a black man ’ is a line from Stevie Wonder ’ s song Black Man

First they seized the Tifata hills overlooking Capua, and, having left a strong force to hold them, marched into the plain between the hills and Capua.

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" First the Dominant Minority attempts to hold by force — against all right and reason — a position of inherited privilege which it has ceased to merit ; and then the Proletariat repays injustice with resentment, fear with hate, and violence with violence when it executes its acts of secession.

First, we hold people responsible for their actions because we know from historical experience that this is an effective means to make people behave in a socially acceptable way.

* Former First Lady Nancy Reagan's support for stem-cell research, upon learning of the possibilities that it may hold for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, which her husband, former President Ronald Reagan developed in later years.

Two officers, Captain Silas Soule and Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, commanding companies D and K, respectively, of the First Colorado Cavalry, refused to follow Chivington's order and told their men to hold fire.

Following the SNP's victory in the 2011 election, which gave the party an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Alex Salmond stated his desire to hold a referendum " in the second half of the parliament " which would place it in 2014 or 2015.

In late 1774, the First Continental Congress sent letters to Montreal denouncing the Quebec Act for being undemocratic and for promoting Catholicism by allowing Catholics to hold civil service positions and reinstating the tithe.

First go and be reconciled to your brother ; then come and offer your gift .” Matthew 5: 23-24 ( NIV ) “ And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins .” Mark 11: 25 ( NIV ) “ But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.