The government also strengthened a Fair Wages Resolution, with a clause that required all employers getting government contracts to recognise the rights of their workers to join trade unions.

These are also strengthened with internal bracing, and decorated with inlays and purfling.

At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.

The perception of historical unity is also strengthened by the fact that Greek has not split up into a group of separate, regional daughter languages, as happened with Latin.

Foreign powers, including France and Sweden, intervened in the conflict and strengthened those fighting Imperial power, but also seized considerable territory for themselves.

Other classifications used also include: ḥasan ( good ), which refers to an otherwise ṣaḥīḥ report suffering from minor deficiency, or a weak report strengthened due to numerous other corroborating reports ; and munkar ( denounced ) which is a report that is rejected due to the presence of an unreliable transmitter contradicting another more reliable narrator.

Thus, while Rabbi strengthened his ties with the wealthy, he also broadened his power base by becoming a more popular figurehead.

Justinian also strengthened the borders of the Empire from Africa to the East through the construction of fortifications, and ensured Constantinople of its water supply through construction of underground cisterns ( see Basilica Cistern ).

Tito's leading role in liberating Yugoslavia not only greatly strengthened his position in his party and among the Yugoslav people, but also caused him to be more insistent that Yugoslavia had more room to follow its own interests than other Bloc leaders who had more reasons ( and pressures ) to recognize Soviet efforts in helping them liberate their own countries from Axis control.

Dynastic ties were also strengthened with Tripoli, Antioch, and Armenia.

He also strengthened Lebanon's strategic position by expanding its territory, building forts as far away as Palmyra in Syria, and gaining control of Palestine.

Relations with foreign powers, especially with the West, have also been strengthened as Morocco has liberalized its economy and implemented major economic reforms.

Morocco's identity as an Arab Muslim state has also strengthened ties with the gulf countries as a result of 9 / 11 and the " war on terror ".

Methodist Churches in the United States have also strengthened ties with other denominations.

Further strengthened by the influx of migrants into his territory, Osman also moved eastward and seized Byzantine domains in the Black Sea region of Anatolia.

Gregory also strengthened papal authority in the churches of Britain and Ireland.

Heavy losses during the war also strengthened thoughts that Tsar Nicholas II was unfit to rule.

He also strengthened his key vassals by awarding them land and castles in Mikawa.

He established the " Yale System " of teaching, with few lectures and fewer exams, and strengthened the full-time faculty system ; he also created the graduate-level Yale School of Nursing and the Psychiatry Department, and built numerous new buildings.

It also changed business and sales processes, tightened internal controls, strengthened corporate governance standards, and established the a new training and development system.

Otto III also strengthened the Empire's relation with the Venetian Doge Pietro II Orseolo.

On 4 June, Javier Solana was appointed Secretary General of the Council and the strengthened High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy admitted the intervention in Kosovo-Solana was also seen by some as Europe's first Foreign Minister.

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck's reforms, however, although lessening the authority of the absolute monarchy, also curbed the traditional decentralization of political authority among regional leaders and strengthened the role of the central government in economic and social programs.

" He also notes that it strengthened his friendship with another outsider, Tennessee Williams, with whom he collaborated on numerous plays and films.

Jiang Qing's position also strengthened after Lin's flight.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

Every taxpayer is well aware of the vast size of our annual defense budget and most of our readers also realize that a large portion of these expenditures go for military electronics.

The military also had demanded pledges that there would be no changes in the laws passed by the junta and no leaders of the Menderes regime now in prison would be pardoned.

Pitcher Steve Barber joined the club one week ago after completing his hitch under the Army's accelerated wintertime military course, also at Fort Knox, Ky..

It also urged that the U.N. eject, and prevent the return of, all Belgian and other foreign military and political advisers ; ;

During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

He was also a military leader, and in 1046 he led an unsuccessful expedition against the Welsh.

She also alienated the army by extreme parsimony, and neither she nor her son were strong enough to impose military discipline.

The President also reassured many by his decisiveness in ordering the establishment of a military commission on May 1, 1865 to try the surviving conspirators involved in Lincoln's assassination.

The Assyrians were also innovative in military technology with the use of heavy cavalry, sappers, siege engines etc.

Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

This could be either the normal military dress, with a tunic to about the knees, armour breastplate and pteruges, but also often the specific dress of the bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, with a long tunic and the loros, a long gold and jewelled pallium restricted to the Imperial family and their closest guards.

Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.

second century ), also known as Aelian, was a Greek military writer who lived in Rome.

He also began the restoration of the military system.

Solo military jet demos, also known as tactical demo, feature one aircraft, usually a strike fighter or an advanced trainer.

* Tanner, Stephen ( 2002 ) Afghanistan: a military history from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Taliban Da Capo Press, New York, ISBN 0-306-81164-2, also available from NetLibrary

They are important in military engineering, and are also used to carry traffic while an old bridge is being rebuilt.

The Brazilian military has also four times intervened militarily to overthrow the Brazilian government.

Brazil is also committed to cooperation with other Portuguese-speaking nations through joint-collaborations with the rest of the Portuguese-speaking world, in several domains which include military cooperation, financial aid, and cultural exchange.

Some military and medical aid was also supplied to North Korea and North Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s.