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Following the rejection of the appeal, the human rights group Amnesty International declared Khodorkovsky and Lebedev as " prisoners of conscience ," remarking in a statement that " Whatever the rights and wrongs of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev's first convictions there can no longer be any doubt that their second trial was deeply flawed and politically motivated.
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Following Kosygin's rejection Taraki requested aid from Leonid Brezhnev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet head of state, who warned Taraki that full Soviet intervention " would only play into the hands of our enemies – both yours and ours ".
Following mainstream Zionist rejection of that proposal, Weizmann was credited later with persuading Balfour, then the Foreign Minister, for British support to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the original Zionist demand.
Following the close rejection of membership in the 1972 referendum, his cabinet resigned.
* Following the rejection by Robert the Bruce ( crowned King of Scotland in 1306 ) of papal mediation between England and Scotland, Pope John XXII placed Scotland under interdict in 1317 or 1318 because of continuing Scots raids into England ; in 1328 the same Pope lifted the interdict in the light of the Treaty of Edinburgh – Northampton.
Following the rejection by Parliament of Lord Wrottesley's proposals to decimalise sterling in 1824 ( prompted by the introduction in 1795 of the decimal French franc ), little practical progress towards decimalisation was made for over a century, with the exception of the two-shilling silver florin ( worth 1 / 10 of a pound ) first issued in 1849.
Following the rejection by both sides of the Z-4 plan for reintegration, the RSK's end came in 1995, when Croatian forces gained control of SAO Western Slavonia in Operation Flash ( May ) followed by the biggest part of occupied Croatia in Operation Storm ( August ).
Following the more or less complete rejection of their Testimony, the apostles were led to set up congregations to look after those who had accepted them and had been excluded from their habitual places of worship and to install in them the forms of worship that they had been led to identify.
Following Peter Costello's rejection of the leadership of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, Abbott nominated for the position of party leader, along with Malcolm Turnbull and Brendan Nelson.
Following this rejection, the government announced it would create a 10m Euro compensation fund for military and civilian victims of its testing programme ; both those carried out in the 1960s and the Polynesian tests of 1990 – 1996.
Following the French and Dutch rejection of the treaty, Jack Straw announced on 6 June 2005, to the House of Commons, that the plans for the referendum in early 2006 had been shelved.
Following rejection of plans, in 2003, to sell Old Trafford, and move the club to a new purpose-built stadium in East Manchester, the focus was switched to upgrading the current ground.
Following the Revolution of 1911, other movements such as the May 4th Movement of 1919 advocated for modernization, iconoclasm, and a rejection of foreign influence and imperialism.
Following the rejection of the constitutional project on 30 November 1980 and having had his political rights restored on 29 June 1981, Sanguinetti headed the PC delegation in the political party negotiations with the army in order to allow a peaceful and ordered transition to democracy.
Following the rejection by the Greek Cypriot Community, four MPs ( Sillouris, Prodromou, Erotokritou, Taramoundas ) who had opposed the party line were expelled and a number of members willingly resigned.
Following the rejection of the 1909 budget, the House of Commons sought to establish its formal dominance over the House of Lords, who had broken convention in opposing the Bill.
Following the rejection by the Norwegian electorate ( 53. 5 % against ), Norway did not join.
Following her rejection for Scudda Hoo!
Following the rejection of the Constitution by voters in France and the Netherlands, the Czech government announced that the proposed referendum would not be held.
Following the rejection of the Constitution by voters in the French referendum of May 2005 and the Dutch referendum of June 2005, the planned Irish referendum was postponed indefinitely.
Following the rejection of the European Constitution by voters in France in May 2005 and in the Netherlands in June 2005, and the extension granted to the ratification deadline, José Sócrates announced on 17 June 2005 that the government would postpone the referendum.
Following a rejection from FIFA in 2005, the ZFA were removed from CAF and after much lobbying were reinstated as an associate member.
Following the rejection of his last appeal, Soblen jumped bail and flew to Israel.
Following Jones ' rejection, Garrard vetoed a bill that would have allowed the legislature to select the state's presidential and vice-presidential electors ; despite the fact that the law ran contrary to the state constitution, Garrard's veto further strained his relations with the Senate.
' Following Victor Turner in The Ritual Process, one may see such communitas as the product of ' anti-structure ... Anti-structure is anti-" structure ", ideological rejection of the idea of structure itself.
Following and appeal
Following the replacement of the Federal Court with the Supreme Court of India in January 1950, the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act 1949 came into effect, ending the right of appeal to the Privy Council.
Following the outbreak of the civil war and the ensuing collapse of the central government, Somalia's residents reverted to local forms of conflict resolution, either secular, traditional or Islamic law, with a provision for appeal of all sentences.
Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.
Following the BBC's Treasure Hunt appeal for missing material in 2002, several shows were recovered from off-air recordings made by listeners.
Following the return of Vittorio Emanuele of Naples to his native Italy in 2002, Tonino vowed an appeal to him, as heir to the House of Savoy, for recognition of the Tavolaran kingdom.
Following an appeal from his supporters who got 40, 000 signatures, in January 2007, Bové announced he would run in the 2007 French presidential election.
Following many changes which the kibbutzim over went through the years and following the appeal made to Israeli High Court of Justice by the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition in 2001 in which the state was required to redefine the exact definition of a kibbutz in order to define the rightful benefits which the kibbutzim members should be granted by law.
Following an appeal of this decision, the US Court of Appeals affirmed the transfer, judging, in January 1987, that UCIL was a " separate entity, owned, managed and operated exclusively by Indian citizens in India ".
Following an appeal on 26 May 2008, Mengistu was sentenced to death in absentia by Ethiopia's High Court, overturning his previous sentence of life imprisonment.
Following the successful appeal of their suspensions, Pearson and Quintal were assigned as crew members aboard another Air Canada flight.
Following the leadership of Neil Kinnock and John Smith, the party under the New Labour brand attempted to widen its electoral appeal and, by the 1997 general election, had made significant gains in the upper and middle classes.
Following an unsuccessful appeal, political debates, and international calls for clemency from high profile people and workers ' organizations, Hill was executed in November, 1915.
Following a 1998 appeal for a pardon on the part of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, President Bill Clinton pardoned Morison on January 20, 2001, the last day of his presidency, despite the CIA's opposition to the pardon.
Following this appeal, the Allies also beached their ships, and began to prepare to assault the camp.
Following the release on appeal of the defendants in the Oz trial, " an unmitigated disaster for the children of our country ", Whitehouse launched the Nationwide Petition for Public Decency in January 1972, which had gained 1. 35 million signatures by the time it was presented to Edward Heath in April 1973.
Following one of the other meanings of the word, Aristotle, in the Ars Rhetorica, gave logos a different technical definition as argument from reason, one of the three modes of persuasion ( the other two modes are pathos (), persuasion by means of emotional appeal: " putting the hearer into a certain frame of mind ", and ethos (), persuasion through convincing listeners of one's " moral character.
Following this, an appeal was made to the public for ₤ 80, 000 to pay for the construction of a new library, and the acquisition of books.
Following a public appeal that raised £ 37, 000, the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire opened on October 24, 1883, offering studies in Biology, Chemistry, English, French, German, Greek, History, Latin, Mathematics & Astronomy, Music, Welsh, Logic & Philosophy and Physics.
Following an appeal by Paksas supporters, the Constitutional Court of Lithuania ruled the amendment unconstitutional, holding instead that persons who had violated the constitution or failed to uphold their oaths of office could never again hold public offices that required an oath.
Following Judge Hawkins ' denial of the motions for new trial, attorney George W. Chamlee filed an appeal and was granted a stay of execution.
Following an appeal from Augustine, Pope Innocent I condemned Pelagius.
Following an appeal for funds by the Royal Air Force, the church was completely restored and was re-consecrated on 19 October 1958 to become the Central Church of the Royal Air Force.
Following an unsuccessful appeal, Christic was ordered to pay over $ 1 million in court costs for the defendants, effectively bankrupting the firm.
Following an appeal on the High Court case and new legislation included in the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006, the South Downs Inquiry report was published on 31 March 2006.
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