Suit was brought and the Supreme Court held this political patronage practice unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment rights of low-level public employees in Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois, 497 U. S. 62 ( 1990 ).

First we might try to proceed as if X were finite.

Harold Jenkins criticised the idea of any direct personal satire as " unlikely " and " uncharacteristic of Shakespeare ", while G. R. Hibbard hypothesized that differences in names ( Corambis / Polonius: Montano / Raynoldo ) between the First Quarto and other editions might reflect a desire not to offend scholars at Oxford University.

They were noted in the First Grammatical Treatise, and otherwise might have remained unknown.

: a.: For example, writing in his introduction to Sun Tzu's Art of War, B. H. Liddell Hart stated that " Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars of this century if the influence of Clausewitz's monumental tome On War, which molded European military thought in the era preceding the First World War, had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu's exposition on The Art of War.

First, you might take possession of something which has never been possessed before.

First, it cut off the principal city from communicating with other cities where they might expect aid.

The First Doctor explained that if it were to land in the middle of the Indian Mutiny, it might take on the appearance of a howdah ( the carrier on the back of an elephant ).

During the submarine warfare phases of the First World War, the United States, fearing that the islands might be seized by Germany as a submarine base, again approached Denmark with a view to buying them.

This idea might have been one of the foundations of the religion clauses in the United States Constitution, and the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, although the language used by the founders is quite different.

Stevenson's failure to publicly launch his candidacy until the week of the convention meant that many liberal delegates who might have supported him were already pledged to Kennedy, and Stevenson — despite the energetic support of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — was unable to break their allegiance to JFK.

The fact that the first colonial governor, Charles Baley ( various spellings exist, including, but not limited to " Bailey "), was a Quaker might have been an important factor in the style of relations established between the company and its " trading partners ", Canada's First Nations.

It was also acknowledged that Louis XVIII's government might have made mistakes during the First Restoration.

First person narrators are often unreliable narrators since a narrator might be impaired such as Benjy in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury ), lie ( as in The Quiet American by Graham Greene, or The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe ), or manipulate his or her own memories intentionally or not ( as in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, or in Ken Keasey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ).

In RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd. ( 1986 ), the Canadian Supreme Court considered picketing of the kind the US First Amendment did not permit, as it was disruptive conduct ( though there was some speech involved that the First Amendment might otherwise protect ).

His father's namesake, and John Churchill's biographer and descendant, Sir Winston Churchill, asserted – " conditions at Ashe might well have aroused in his mind two prevailing impressions: First a hatred of poverty ... and secondly, the need of hiding thoughts and feelings from those to whom their expression would be repugnant.

The First Amendment did not protect speech encouraging insubordination, since, " when a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right.

Like Livy writes then, the First Samnite War might have started quite by accident.

In the United Kingdom, the term First Minister was once used interchangeably with Prime Minister, as in Winston Churchill's famous line: " I did not become His Majesty's First Minister so that I might oversee the liquidation of the British Empire!

Natsume attended the First Tokyo Middle School ( now Hibiya High School ), where he became enamored with Chinese literature, and fancied that he might someday become a writer.

While commanding the First Air Fleet, Nagumo oversaw the effective attack on Pearl Harbor, but he was later criticized for his failure to launch a third attack, which might have destroyed the fuel oil storage and repair facilities which would have rendered the most important American naval base in the Pacific useless, and the submarine base and intelligence station which were the main factors in Japan's defeat.

The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Roger Blackhouse, replied that Britain's continental commitment might not be a limited liability.

" " First and Main " might be more like " 1 Mike 1, what's your 10-20?

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

In response to a call for aid from Alexius, the First Crusade assembled at Constantinople in 1096, but declining to put itself under Byzantine command set out for Jerusalem on its own account.

First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury.

It was Shepherd who first used the English term " first aid for the injured " First aid training began to spread through the empire through organisations such as St. John, often starting, as in the UK, with high risk activities such as ports and railways.

* First aid kit, a collection of supplies and equipment for use in giving first aid

Zahir Shah provided aid, weapons and Afghan fighters to the Uighur and Kirghiz Muslim rebels who had established the First East Turkestan Republic.

The aid was not capable of saving the First East Turkestan Republic, as the Afghan, Uighur and Kirghiz forces were defeated in 1934 by the Chinese Muslim 36th Division ( National Revolutionary Army ) led by General Ma Zhancang at the Battle of Kashgar and Battle of Yarkand.

First, United States military aid was helping enhance the army's skills in counterinsurgency warfare.

First aid for scorpion stings is generally symptomatic.

Persons serving as Chirurgeons work under the " Good Samaritan " principal providing only first aid and either calling for Emergency Medical Services, or advising sick or injured persons to seek medical care on their own if they have injuries or illnesses that are beyond the scope of First Aid to treat.

With the aid of U. S. Army Colonel Leonard Wood, Roosevelt found volunteers from cowboys from the Western territories to Ivy League friends from New York, forming the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.

* First aid advice for head injuries from the British Red Cross

Overseas aid, however, bore a major brunt of the austerity measures introduced by the First Wilson Government in its last few years in office, with British aid as a percentage of GNP falling from 0. 53 % in 1964 to 0. 39 % in 1969.

First responders may be dispatched by the ambulance service, may be passers-by, citizen volunteers, or may be members of other agencies such as the police, fire department, or search and rescue who have some medical training — commonly CPR, basic first aid, and AED use.

Attempts by the Russian First Army to come to their aid were also far too late to help.

Those Elves who had survived the vicissitudes of the First Age begin a new kingdom in Eregion, and during the Second Age, the Elves of Eregion forge many magical rings, including 19 Rings of Power with the aid of Sauron.

With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. She sang before a crowd of more than 75, 000 people and a radio audience in the millions.

First aid consists of flushing the area thoroughly with water ; further treatment is aimed at relieving the local effects.

First Empress Catharine, though she refused to come to the aid of the Dutch, was very active in offering her services to mediate the dispute.