Following the example of New Jersey, which enacted corporate-friendly laws at the end of the 19th century to attract businesses from New York, Delaware played the game of fiscal competition by adopting in 1899 a general incorporation act aimed at attracting more businesses.

Following their establishment and after extensive scouting, the label signed their first act, the newly-formed Belle and Sebastian, in August of 1996.

Following their second album, the Band embarked on their first tour as a headlining act.

Following Victorian practice, Benthall drastically shortened the last act.

Following the usage of, for example, John R. Searle, " speech act " is often meant to refer just to the same thing as the term illocutionary act, which John L. Austin had originally introduced in How to Do Things with Words ( published posthumously in 1962 ).

Following the expiration of the act in 1854 the land was no longer free but cost $ 1. 25 per acre ($ 3. 09 / hectare ) with a limit of — the same as most other unimproved government land.

Following debate of the act to create the Majlis Amanah Rakyat ( MARA ), the government founded an agency to preserve bumiputra interests.

Following this and two encounters as the opening act for the German leg of both DJ Bobo and Westlife's 2001 concert tours, No Angels embarked on their first own concert tour in October 2001.

Following the arrival of William of Orange in England King James removed to Ireland where he called a parliament in 1689, which passed a general act of attainder against the Protestants, and confiscated their estates, among whom was the earl of Cork.

Following the 101 California Street shootings, the 1993 Waco Siege, and other high-profile instances of violent crime, the act expanded federal law in several ways.

Following this, Donna realizes that Tad is dying and she must act.

Following Henry's decision to break with Rome in 1530 and establish himself as head of the Church of England, the title was revoked by Pope Paul III ( since Henry's act was regarded as an attack on " the Faith ") and Henry was excommunicated.

Following the act, during the Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944, the government backed African-American workers ' striking to gain positions formerly limited to white employees.

Following the November 1938 pogroms against Jews in Germany called Kristallnacht in which at least 91 Jews were killed and many synagogues and Jewish shops destroyed, the WJC issued a statement: " Though the Congress deplores the fatal shooting of an official of the German Embassy in Paris by a young Polish Jew of seventeen, it is obliged to protest energetically against the violent attacks in the German press against the whole of Judaism because of this act and, especially, to protest against the reprisals taken against the German Jews after the crime.

Following a parliamentary act in 1985 authorising the scheme, the system was built by SYPTE at a cost of £ 240 million, and opened in stages between 1994 and 1995.

Following discussion with all chapters, it was decided in late 1989 to create the National Space Society of Australia ( NSSA ) which could act as an umbrella organization under which all chapters could operate, providing for them a single identity in which to be recognized by, and through which resources, finances and administration could be pooled for the better operation of all chapters.

Following the album release date clash, Kiedis had Mr. Bungle removed from a series of summer festivals in Europe ; as the headlining act at the festivals, The Red Hot Chili Peppers had final word on the bands that would appear.

Following the 1889 act, the County of Edinburgh became Midlothian ( a name previously used unofficially ).

Following election of a Conservative government under Brian Mulroney in September 1984, in June 1985, after consultation with the provinces, new federal Health Minister Jake Epp wrote a letter to his provincial counterparts that clarified and interpreted the criteria points and other parts of the new act.

Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse, the Mahasabha was blamed chiefly for the heinous act and became deeply unpopular.

Following this success, they toured as an opening act for the Beach Boys in 1965.

Following two appearances on the show with their audition which had judges Pete Waterman and Louis Walsh not knowing what to say ( Waterman was later quoted as saying they were the worst act ever ), various record companies approached the Granada Press Office.

Following controversy over Native leaders ' discovery that the Smithsonian Institution held more than 18, 000 Indian remains, mostly in storage, the museum was established by an act of Congress in 1989, Public Law 101-185-the National Museum of the American Indian Act, as " a living memorial to Native Americans and their traditions ".

Following his election as pope, John spent a year in Bologna and then joined forces with Louis II of Anjou to march against Ladislaus.

Following a car crash, John revealed the details about the murders and how Fiz was not involved.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

Following the Battle of Brandywine, Wilmington was occupied by the British, and State President John McKinly was taken prisoner.

Following Allen's failed attempt on St. John, many of his men drifted away, presumably drawn by the needs of home and farm.

Following on from " the higher criticism " of the 19th century, Adolf von Harnack and Raymond E. Brown have questioned the gospel of John as a reliable source of information about the historical Jesus.

Following the work of Robert Bly in the Mythopoetic men's movement, John Rowan proposes the Horned God as a " Wild Man " be used as a fantasy image or ' sub-personality ' helpful to men in humanistic psychology, and escaping from ' narrow societal images of masculinity encompassing deference to women and paraphillia.

Following the election defeat of 2011, John Gormley announced his intention not to seek another term as Green Party leader.

Following Harrison, the marine timekeeper was reinvented yet again by John Arnold who while basing his design on Harrison's most important principles, at the same time simplified it enough for him to produce equally accurate but far less costly marine chronometers in quantity from around 1783.

Following the failed rebellion of his elder brothers between 1173 and 1174, however, John became Henry's favourite child.

" Following in 1959, John Beer described the complex nature of the poem: " Kubla Khan the poem is not a meaningless reverie, but a poem so packed with meaning as to render detailed elucidation extremely difficult.

Following his shooting, Pope John Paul II asked people to " pray for my brother ( Ağca ), whom I have sincerely forgiven.

* 1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.

Following the example of Charlemagne, the Frankish king who had been crowned Emperor in 800, Otto was crowned Emperor in 962 by Pope John XII in Rome.

Following his beatification, his sarcophagus was placed under the Altar of St. Sebastian in the basilica's Chapel of St. Sebastian, where it remained until 8 April 2011 when it was moved to make way for the remains of Blessed Pope John Paul II ( 1978 – 2005 ) to be relocated to the basilica from the grotto beneath St. Peter's in honor of his beatification and in order to make his resting place more accessible to the public.

Following the decline of the quill in the 1820s, following the introduction of the maintenance-free, mass produced steel dip nib by John Mitchell, knives were still manufactured but became known as desk knives, stationery knives or latterly as the name stuck ' pen ' knives.

Following the advice of George Washington, John Adams and others, in 1802 Jefferson and Congress agreed to authorize the funding and construction of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River in New York.

Following a series of post-Vatican II reforms, his feast day was changed and his name was added to the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1970 for celebration on 22 June jointly with St John Fisher, the only remaining bishop ( owing to the coincident natural deaths of eight aged bishops ) who, during the English Reformation, maintained, at the King's mercy, allegiance to the pope.

Following years of intermittent classes in the Salt Lake City Council House, the university began to be reestablished in 1867 under the direction of David O. Calder, who was followed by John R. Park in 1869.

Following the success of his double first, William travelled with his brother John on a Grand Tour of Europe, visiting Belgium, France, Germany and Italy.

Following Raft's departure, the studio gave Bogart the role of Roy Earl in the 1941 film High Sierra, which helped establish him as one of the studio's top stars ; following High Sierra, Bogart was also given a role in John Huston's successful 1941 remake of the studio's 1931 failure, The Maltese Falcon.

* July 13 – Following his refusal to take the oath of allegiance to Oliver Cromwell, English army leader John Lambert is ordered to resign his commissions.

Following the coronation of her daughter, Elizabeth, as queen, Anne was venerated as a martyr and heroine of the English Reformation, particularly through the works of John Foxe.

Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland John III Sobieski, a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austrian control by the Treaty of Carlowitz in 1699.

Following Otto II's death in 983, Theophanu, as her son Otto III's regent, would name John as Otto III's tutor.