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accepted and appointment
Ulysses S. Grant, whom Johnson appointed as Stanton's interim successor, advised against the action, but accepted the temporary appointment when Johnson proceeded with Stanton's suspension in August.
Following her birth, Thomas de Pizan accepted an appointment to the court of Charles V of France, as the king ’ s astrologer, alchemist, and physician.
He then accepted an appointment to West Point in 1911.
Sapir, who had by then given up the hope to work at one of the few American research universities, accepted the appointment and moved to Ottawa.
Foodservice establishments of this category did not accept any different customers on walk-in basis, but instead, only accepted customers who came as a group and ordered banquets by appointment, and the banquets provided by foodservice establishments of this category often included most, if not all tables, at the site.
He accepted his appointment as one of Prussia's representatives at the Erfurt Parliament, an assembly of German states that met to discuss plans for union, but only in order to oppose that body's proposals more effectively.
Appointing Zafarullah Jamali as Prime minister in 2002, Musharraf accepted his resignation in 2004 and approved the appointment of Shaukat Aziz as Prime minister instead.
In 2006, General Myers accepted a part-time appointment as a Foundation Professor of Military History at Kansas State University.
Jenkins had wanted to become Foreign Secretary, but accepted an appointment as President of the European Commission ( succeeding François-Xavier Ortoli ) after Callaghan appointed Anthony Crosland to the Foreign Office.
Ali and his family were dismayed, but accepted the appointment for the sake of unity in the early Muslim community.
Jefferson accepted the appointment.
In 2010, former Republican Representative Virgil Goode ( VA-5 ), later the 2012 nominee for president, accepted an appointment to the National Executive Committee of the Constitution Party.
Although Taft had been opposed to the annexation of the islands, and had told McKinley his real ambition was to become a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, he reluctantly accepted the appointment.
( The following year White accepted Taft's appointment to head a delegation to the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires.
Turning down a possible appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, Chaffee accepted a Naval ROTC scholarship and in September 1953 enrolled at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Though only a third alternate for an appointment, through disciplined self-directed study and good fortune the future four-star admiral passed the entrance exam and was accepted.
That same month, Count Axel von Fersen returned from America, in order to secure a military appointment, and he was accepted into her private society.
He also accepted an appointment on the new Democratic Advisory Council, with other prominent Democrats.
Two resignations occurred in 2009 ; County Treasurer Barbara Thomas resigned and Presiding Commissioner Bill Ransdall accepted an appointment by Gov.
The Court of Augmentations retained lands and spiritual income sufficient to meet its continuing obligations to pay annual pensions ; but as pensioners died off, or as pensions were extinguished when their holders accepted a royal appointment of higher value, then surplus property became available each year for further disposal.
While serving in the private sector as a vice president for governmental relations with Citicorp ( 1985 – 93 ), McCall accepted an appointment to the New York City Board of Education, where he served as President of the Board from 1991 to 1993.
He accepted in 1680 the appointment of librarian to François-Chrétien de Lamoignon, advocate-general to the parlement of Paris.
After Iturbide accepted the crowd's offer of the throne, he went to the congress the next day to have his appointment confirmed.
The post of Chancellor of the Exchequer was offered to Palmerston, who accepted it, but this appointment was frustrated by some intrigue between the King and John Charles Herries.

accepted and general
More recent IUPAC recommendations now suggest the newer term " hydronium " be used in favor of the older accepted term " oxonium " to illustrate reaction mechanisms such as those defined in the Brønsted – Lowry and solvent system definitions more clearly, with the Arrhenius definition serving as a simple general outline of acid – base character.
The phrase definitely refers to a distillation of the common law into general and accepted legal principles.
The theory that they were defensive military structures is not accepted by many modern archaeologists ( see the ' general references ' below ), while the alternative notion that they were farmhouses is dismissed by some others.
Once the proposal is accepted by both the creditors and the Court, the debtor makes the payments to the Proposal Administrator each month ( or as otherwise stipulated in their proposal ), and the general creditors are prevented from taking any further legal or collection action.
There is no definite or clear way to define the total energy of the universe due to the most widely accepted theory of gravity, general relativity.
Under unspecific or impersonal coercion the conditional threats come from well-known and socially accepted general rules and – rather than any individual or sub-group – and are directed against anybody in the stated conditions, according to clearly stated principles of due process.
The term " physically based " indicates the use of physical models and approximations that are more general and widely accepted outside rendering.
The practice of smallpox inoculation was eventually accepted by the general population due to first-hand experiences and personal relationships.
A more analogous case is that of the screwball comedy, widely accepted by film historians as constituting a " genre ": the screwball is defined not by a fundamental attribute, but by a general disposition and a group of elements, some — but rarely and perhaps never all — of which are found in each of the genre's films.
Hayek visited Chile in the 1970s and 1980s during the Government Junta of general Augusto Pinochet and accepted being named Honorary Chairman of the Centro de Estudios Públicos, the think tank formed by the economists who transformed Chile into a free market economy.
The 1949 Principles of the International Phonetic Association recommends using 10px for advanced voiced velar plosives ( denoted by Latin small letter script G ) and 10px for regular ones where the two are contrasted, but this suggestion was never accepted by phoneticians in general, and today ⟨ 10px ⟩ is the symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with ⟨ 10px ⟩ acknowledged as an acceptable variant, and is more often used in printed materials.
This report was accepted by the Labour Party government of the time despite considerable opposition, but the Conservative Party won the June 1970 general election, and on a manifesto that committed them to a two-tier structure.
Carroll accepted Spearman's concept of general intelligence, for the most part, as a representation of the uppermost, third stratum.
He proposes that most commonly accepted social institutions — including the notion of State, property as a right, natural rights in general, and the very notion of society — were mere spooks in the mind.
Davis wanted to serve as a general in the Confederate States Army and not as the president, but accepted the role for which he had been chosen.
*** Michaelis – Menten kinetics, the widely accepted general model of enzyme kinetics
He submitted the paper to an Italian journal, which accepted it, but the general lack of interest in his theory at that early date caused him to switch to experimental physics.
These southern hostilities were ended by British mediation during Harold Wilson's era, and both sides accepted the award of the Indo-Pakistan Western Boundary Case Tribunal designated by the UN secretary general himself.
Caelestius refused to condemn these propositions, at the same time declaring in general that he accepted the doctrine expounded in the letters of Pope Innocent and making a confession of faith which was approved.
The approaches differ depending on which features of general relativity and quantum theory are accepted unchanged, and which features are modified.
Although the 1884 Bull of Pope Leo XIII Omnipotens Deus accepted the authenticity of the relics at Compostela, the Vatican remains uncommitted as to whether the relics are those of Saint James the Greater, while continuing to promote the more general benefits of pilgrimage to the site.
The intelligentsia in Russia had accepted the general phenomenon of evolution for several years before Darwin had published his theory, and scientists were quick to take it into account, although the Malthusian aspects were felt to be relatively unimportant.
In general, the rulers of the emirates accepted the British intervention, but in the case of boundary disputes between Abu Dhabi and Dubayy, and also between Dubayy and Sharjah, conflicting claims were not resolved until after the UAE became independent.
Most modern, accepted theories of cosmology are based on general relativity and, more specifically, the predicted Big Bang ; however, still more careful measurements are required to determine which theory is correct.

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