Since it was Galerius's army that would have been purged — Diocletian had left his in Egypt to quell continuing unrest — Antiochenes would understandably have believed Galerius to be its instigator.

Diocletian requested that the edict be pursued " without bloodshed ", against Galerius's demands that all those refusing to sacrifice be burned alive.

Galerius's sister gave birth to a son, Maximinus Daia, and Galerius's daughter by his first wife, Valeria Maximilla, married Maxentius, son of Maximian by his wife Eutropia ; Eutropia's first marriage ( to Afranius Hannibalianus ) had produced a daughter, Theodora, who became the second wife of Constantius Chlorus (" the Pale ") in 289 ( adopted by Maximian on March 1, 293 ).

Galerius's mother, Romula, was bitterly anti-Christian, for she had been a pagan priestess in Dacia, and loathed the Christians for avoiding her festivals.

The document seems only to have been promulgated in Galerius's provinces. Among all the other arrangements that we are always making for the benefit and utility of the state, we have heretofore wished to repair all things in accordance with the laws and public discipline of the Romans, and to ensure that even the Christians, who abandoned the practice of their ancestors, should return to good sense.

Certain early 20th-century historians have declared that Galerius's edict definitively nullified the old " legal formula " non licet esse Christianos, made Christianity a religio licita, " on a par with Judaism ", and secured Christians ' property, among other things.

Barnes notes that Galerius's legislation only brought to the East rights Christians already possessed in Italy and Africa.

Constantius Chlorus requests leave for his son Constantine I who remains at Galerius's court in Nicomedia, as a virtual hostage.

However, they are quoted at length in Lactantius ' On the Deaths of the Persecutors ( De mortibus persecutorum ), which gives the Latin text of both Galerius's Edict of Toleration as posted at Nicomedia on 30 April 311, and of Licinius's letter of toleration and restitution addressed to the governor of Bithynia, posted at Nicomedia on 13 June 313.

His version of the letter of Licinius must derive from a copy as posted up in Palestine ( probably at Caesarea ) in the late summer or early autumn of 313, but the origin of his copy of Galerius's Edict of 311 is unknown, since that does not seem to have been promulgated in Palestine.

After Galerius's death in 311, he was buried at Gamzigrad ( Felix Romuliana ) near Zajecar, Serbia.

The oracle's reply was read as an endorsement of Galerius's position, and a general persecution was called on February 24, 303.

Constantine and Licinius, Severus's successor, signed the " Edict of Milan " in 313, which offered a more comprehensive acceptance of Christianity than Galerius's edict had provided.

Constantine, against Galerius's will, succeeded his father on July 25, 306.

Galerius's words reinforce the Tetrarchy's theological basis for the persecution ; the acts did nothing more than attempt to enforce traditional civic and religious practices, even if the edicts themselves were thoroughly nontraditional.

Other late 20th-century historians, like Graeme Clark and David S. Potter, assert that, for all its hedging, Galerius's issuance of the edict was a landmark event in the histories of Christianity and the Roman empire.

Galerius's law was not effective for long in Maximinus's district.

Within seven months of Galerius's proclamation, Maximinus resumed persecution.

In The Elements of Style ( 1918 ), William Strunk concentrated on specific questions of usage — and the cultivation of good writing — with the recommendation " Make every word tell "; hence, the 17th principle of composition is the simple instruction: " Omit needless words.

Other sources claim that a high intake of fresh drinking water, separate and distinct from other sources of moisture, is necessary for good health — eight servings per day of 8 fluid ounces ( 1. 8 liters, or 0. 5 gallon ) is the amount recommended by many nutritionists, although there is no scientific evidence of health benefits for this recommendation.

Kelly never returned to the studio as an animator, but jobs adapting the studio's films Pinocchio and The Three Caballeros for Dell Comics — apparently the result of a recommendation from Walt Disney himself — led to a new ( and ultimately transitional ) career.

When Burns said: " The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a ' that "; when Sterne, in Tristram Shandy, said, " Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal, but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their own weight ," what did these writers do but adopt — adopt without improving — Manly's fine saying to Freeman, in the first act: " I weigh the man, not his title ; ' tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better or heavier "?

Marx and Engels, in setting out the strategy for future revolutions in The Communist Manifesto, included the provision that the property of émigrés should be confiscated and used to finance the revolution — a recommendation followed by the Bolsheviks seventy years later.

On October 16, 1925 — when the Murmansk Governorate Commission meeting initiated work on compiling the lists of the urban and rural localities — Murmansk, Alexandrovsk, and Kola were categorized as urban ; however, a recommendation was sent to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee ( VTsIK ) to demote the latter two to rural localities due to economic conditions, sparse population, low trade volume, lack of industrial enterprises and " general regression ".

The Slovaks found this recommendation — to deal with ethnic differences by eliminating them — all too typical of Prague's attitude toward them.

On May 13, 1861, on the recommendation of Russell, Queen Victoria issued a declaration of neutrality that served as recognition of Southern belligerency — a status that provided Confederate ships the same privileges in foreign ports that U. S. ships received.

* 19 September — The government of Gujarat under Chief Minister Suresh Chandra Mehta is sacked on recommendation of Prime Minister Gowda, and federal rule is imposed over the state.

When Nixon reshuffled his agency heads and made Schlesinger Secretary of Defense, Colby emerged as a natural candidate for DCI — apparently based on the recommendation that he was a professional who would not make waves.

With the appointment of the 21 year old Justus von Liebig in 1824 through the Grand Duchy — against the will of the university on the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt — a new era in the natural sciences began, not only in Giessen.

In the Northern Territory, which is not a state and does not have a Governor, but which is self-governing with its own legislature and executive, the role of the Crown is filled by an Administrator of the Northern Territory appointed by the Governor-General-in-Council — that is, the Governor-General acting on the formal advice of the Federal Executive Council — on the recommendation of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, in accordance with the provisions of the Northern Territory ( Self Government ) Act 1978 ( Cth ).

The War Department needed to train more skiers in the elite fighting ski corps and asked the American Ski Patrol Association to contact ski racing clubs, ski schools, and local patrol units, nationwide — each applicant had to supply three letters of recommendation.

The prince had offered, on Newton's recommendation, to cover the expense of printing Flamsteed's observations — especially his catalogue of the stars.

* Misguided analysis, such as its recommendation in 1980 to AT & T that cellular phones — admittedly then a tiny market — would be a niche market.

This policy has been criticized, as it makes state-awarded diplomas dependent on a private institution — despite the fact that it was not the private institution that set the 785 mark but a recommendation from the Commission des titres d ' ingénieur indicating a B2 + level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

The State Government accepted the recommendation in its Transport Plan, which proposed a two stage approach to building a $ 4. 5 billion Melbourne Metro tunnel — the first stage from Dynon to Domain, then the second from Domain to Caulfield.

* 216 BC: When Hannibal annihilated the Roman Legions at Cannae, the books were consulted, and on their recommendation, two Gauls and two Greeks were buried alive in the city's marketplace.

In 1850, Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company, at $ 2. 50 per week, following the recommendation of his uncle.

In 1756, on the recommendation of Samuel Foote, she became a member of the Drury Lane company, where she was overshadowed by Mrs Pritchard and Kitty Clive.

However, he soon became skeptical of this recommendation and stayed in Avignon supervising sick care, burials, and the pastoral care of the dying.

Based on that recommendation, a constitution was approved by Parliament in July 1991 and ratified by referendum in September ; it became effective on 1 October 1991.

Version 1. 2 became a W3C recommendation on June 24, 2003.

This recommendation ultimately became law with passage of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.

The most recent is Speech Synthesis Markup Language ( SSML ), which became a W3C recommendation in 2004.

After leaving Germany, he first settled in southern France, and then in Toledo, Spain, where he became rabbi on the recommendation of Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Adret ( RaShBA ).

Version 1. 2 of the proposed standard became a W3C recommendation on June 24, 2003.

This became a formal W3C recommendation in 2004.

By about age 24, he had gained distinction and carried with him a letter of recommendation from Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, ( who was also the King of Bohemia ) when he became a court poet and a an official historian to Philippa of Hainault, queen consort of Edward III of England.

Vivian Vance became a consideration on the recommendation of Lucy director Marc Daniels.

The two men became friends, and Klemperer became conductor at the German Opera in Prague in 1907 on Mahler's recommendation.

Despite a 1967 recommendation that MCI's application be approved, final authorization for MCI to begin operations was delayed until after H. Rex Lee became an FCC Commissioner in October 1968.

After the defeat of the royal cause he travelled in France and Italy, joined the exiled royal family in 1650, and in 1654 became official secretary to James on Charles's recommendation, who had already been attracted by his " pleasant and agreeable humour.

Mostly on the recommendation of Bessel, Encke became director of the new observatory and secretary of the Academy of Sciences.

In May 1997 Blair became Prime Minister and Falconer was made a life peer as Baron Falconer of Thoroton, of Thoroton in the County of Nottinghamshire ( he was the first peer created on Blair's recommendation ), and joined the government as Solicitor General.

OWL became a formal W3C recommendation on February 10, 2004 and the working group was disbanded on May 31, 2004.

OWL 2 became a W3C recommendation in October 2009.

After the war, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of 1st Army Corps at Aldershot Command, in succession to Buller, from 15 September 1902, and, having been given General Officer Commanding-in-Chief status at Aldershot on 1 June 1905 and promoted to full general on 12 February 1907, he became, on the recommendation of Esher, Inspector-General of the Army on 21 December 1907.

While neither submission directly became a W3C recommendation, they were considered key sources of inspiration for the W3C XML Processing Working Group.

Xiahou Lan, as a person who was proficient at laws, became a military judge under Zhao Yun's recommendation ; however, Zhao never kept Xiahou close.

Upon his recommendation it became a major source of hay and cattle fodder to British farmers in the mid 18th century.

Through Richard Bancroft's recommendation Morton was appointed one of the king's chaplains, and in 1606 became Dean of Gloucester, and, on the nomination of his former patron, Lord Eure, the lord president, member of the Council of the Marches.